The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-22
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

Town TOPICS: Why was Adam expelled from
the garden of Eden2 Small boy Qrish)-He
couldn't pay the rent
THE Empress of Brazil is outspoken in her
| denuncatfon of the slaughter of birds for the
| manufacture offeather trimmings.
| ONE OF the grandest ice bridges that has ever
| been seen at Niagara Falls has been forming the
past few days over the Niagara river.
| EXCHANGE: Now, my DEAR" said the teach
er, what is money! The little girl answered,
after a moments reflection, cit is the thing you
| forget with"
BosToN Globe: Every body knew that New York
| was wicked city, but few thought it SO bad
place as it's new Mayor makes it out in his to-be-
continued-in- our mex. messages.
| NANCY HENAKER of Laynesville, Ky, owns
mule that came from Virginia, and though
| over sixty years old, the animal is earning it's
| living under the saddle and before buggy.
MINNEAPoLIs Tribune: In view of recent
| event down at Kansas City, the Tribune will
treat Col Henry e. Dxey with distinguished
consideration and respect during his brief So
journ in our beautiful city.
LIFE "How is that feud between Colonel
Blood and Major Bluegrass getting ont Are
thing is happily ended" '.Pm glad to hear
that" Eyes, they killed each other"
PHILADELPHIA North American: In Chppe-
wa Falls, Wis. the temperature is lower than
the deepest cellars. In this city the price of
coal is higher than the loftlest houses It is to
be hoped that these extremes won't meet.
ALMOST every scrap Of personal property left
by the mad King Ludwig has been sent to the
auctioneers table at Munich. His Lohengrin
and Tannhauser costumes have been purchased
by Vienna opera singer. who will wear them
the stage.
TIE literary man who writes only dozen
so books'in a lifetime ought to be ashamed Of
himself. Look at the Trollope family: Anthony
wrote one hundred books. Adolphus fifty, their
mother one hundred and fifteen, and Mrs. Theo-
dosia Trollope ten.
LORD ESTER. the English judge. cut short an
barrister who was the other DAY fighting los
ing battle with great persistence, by saying:
1.-The object of reply, Mr.. Blank, is to enable
counsel to repudiate the nonsense he has talked
in his opening but you 60 on repeating it.
THE Rev. DR.. E. p. Goodwin has recently
completed the twentieth year of his pastorate
of the First Congregational Church of Chicago.
Only two ministers have been settled in that
Reformed Episcopal Church, and the Rev. DIR.
Locke. of Grace Episcopal Church
SEyENTY-NINE years ago on Thursday Edgar
Allen Poe was born. On the beautiful bronze
and marble memorial to him, set up in the
poets corner of the New York museum of art
genius, unhappy in his life. wretched in his
death. but in his fame he is immortal.
SURPRISING stories of Mrs. Susanna Salter,
the mayor of Argenta. Kan. are being told.
Since she donned the robes OF Office saloons have
been closed alright, and all gaming, including
billiards, utterly suppressed. She has not yet
begun war on the hustle, however. and mas taken
no stand against the Mother Hubbard.
IN Breslau, Germany. chimney fftyfour
feet in height has bean constructed entirely of
solid blocks of paper firmly compressed together,
the blocks being placed carefully one on the top
of the other and joined together with specias
cement The chimney is non-infammable. and.
by the nature of the material. quite secure from
lightning.
EUsToN STATION, in London. England. 10
lighted by a new light which is believed TO pos
sess many advantages Ordinary coal gas. mixed
in about the proportion of one to eight OF COM
mon air, is supplied under the usual gas service
pressure to burners over which are placed caps
of platinum wire gauze- The mixture when
lighted burns without flame around the cap,
which is raised TO a brilliant white heat by the
combustion. The light is perfectly steady, there
being flame. and Is not affected by wind or