The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-06
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

DhGAhT OHAls
THEOPHILE LANDREAU, the d~iscOverer of
the immense beds of guano in Peru. is liv-
ing IN comparative poverty In Lima.
Mr.. SURGEONS admirers in London are
disturbed by q rumor that he is seriously
contemplating retirement from the pulpit.
A SMALL picture was lately sold at the
Hotel Drouot. in Paris, for q hundred
francs, which. on being verified as his work
by NJ. Meissonier, was immediately resold
for $4,000 francs.
KING OTTO, of Bavaria, is in q very bad
way. He is alternately the victim of vio-
lent excitement and fits of Inconsistencies
lasting for hours, and sometimes he refuses
to take any food.
EBEN E. RExFORD. writer of "Silver
Threads Among the Gold" who begins to
show some of them in his beard, gets 81, 500
a year from the Ladies' Home Journal for q
column a month on flowers.
AFTER destroying a very large number of
letters. Mr.. Gladstone has selected 60. 600 for
preservation, and has built for them a fire.
proof room. When his biographer comes to
overhaul them, he will find his work half
done in advance.
ONE of the best portraits of George Eliot
now in existence is to be found in Geneva.
Az Poiutiu8 Wdo CACCutCO Ny 0A Ala
whose family she lived during her student
days in Geneva, and by that family it was
presented to the public in the later period
of her fame.
THE address of Miss Sallie A. Moore, of
Philadelphia. before the last convention Of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union in
Cleveland, is said to be the first instance in
modern times of q Roman Catholic woman
making a public address in the presence OF
bishop and priests.
ONE hundred thousand volumes were last
year added to seventy-fve college libraries
in the United States. helargest accession
was that of 1900 volumes to the Harvard
library. The libraries of Columbia, Cor
nell, Boston University, Yale. and Prince
ton also received large additions.
MRS. p. M. KENDALL, of Cambridge.
Mass, will probably write the biography
of her sister. Maria Mitchell, the famous
astronomer. Miss Mitchell, it is said, left
ing letters from the Herschels, Humboldt,
Hawthorne and other celebrated men and
IN
Mrs. MARY B. G. EDDY. head of the
christian science" movement. announces
the closing of her metaphysical college"
in Boston, because SO many have applied
for admission (16O), all of whom insist on
being taught by her personally, that she
cannot possible meet the demand upon her
time n attention.
THE Condo dEu, the husband of the
Princess Imperial of Brazil, said in q
speech at Pernambuc0, recently, that the
imperial family desired only the prosperity
of Brazil, n that when the people signi-
fed by their votes that their presence re-
tarded the progress of the country, they
would retire. This was in reply to certain
recent Republican manifestoes.
THE late Miss Amy Levy, the novelist,
began publishing at sixteen years of age,
and when she died exhausted at twenty
seven she had become a volumlnous writer.
Had she been content to publish an occa-
siOnal work, wrought with the care of an
artist, she might have made substantial adj
ditiOns to the literary wealth of the English
tongue, and would probably have lived to
enjoy her fame in old age.
THE chaperons of Paris have struck.
Cases are on record where as much as fif-
teen hours of consecutive duty has been
the lot of a chaperouing mother, and the
natural result is a revolt. The affair is
being conducted in q ladylike manner and
it is hoped will pass over quietly. The
plan of campaign is for ladies with daugh-
ters to gently but firmly land over their
Watchdog duties to their husbands.
THE conviction of Tom O'Connor, jr., at
Meridian, Tex, in q murder case is some
what remarkable. O'Connor killed q man
named John Dee eighteen years ago. He
escaped and went to New Orleans. He
heard of his fathers death and instructed
an ATTORNEY to bring suit for $4,000, his
share of the estate. The fling of the suit
led to his arrest. The court sentenced him
to ~ninety-nine years imprisonment.
THE Temple of Heaven. in Pekin, which
has just been burned, was one of the most
notable shrines in the East. 1t was ninety
nine feet high, with a roof in three di-
visions one above the other. The tiles
were of fine blue porcelain, giving the
building a very beautiful appearance. The
great altar was the center of numerous cir
cular terraces surrounding the structure.
In this temple the Emperor was accustomed
to pray for rain and for relief from famine
and for good harvests.
The good people of Norwalk, Conn.,, have
broken out again on the subject of statu-
airy. A few days ago. Mr.. Selleck. a justice
of the peace, purchased a large marble Ve-
nus of Medici. which he placed on his front
lawn. Shortly after he had located it he
found that during the night some one had
taken pity on poor Venus and covered her
with a red flannel petticOat and q plaid
to rave been painted red n green. Mr..
Selleck has been obliged to build a fence
around it.
PAMPHLET has just been published in
Paris in which 1t is attempted to show that
the first INVENTOR of the photograph was
not Mr.. Edison. but q Frenchman. the late
NJ. Charles CrOs. On April 80, 1877, he sent
to the Academy of Sciences, as the minutes
of that body are said to show. q sealed let
ter, the contents of which may be found in
the transactions of the Academy of Dec. 3
of the same year, when it was read at the
authors request. The communication was
the description of an apparatus for regis
tering and reproducing sounds by means of
a ~sounding-plate, q needle and a cylinder.
DIR. j. FORSTER. professor of hygiene at
the University of Amsterdam, publishes in
the Tijdschrift voor Genees Kunde an
article on the effect of salt ON the germs of
contagious diseases. He says it is custom
airy In many places to save the meat of
tuberculous cattle and sell it as innocnous
after keeping it in salt water two or three
weeks. But his Investigations have shown
that the effect of salt on different species
of microbes is not the same. Cholera
microbes, for instance. seem to be killed
by it in q few hours, whereas typhoid-fever
germs were found to be still active, and
capable of communicating the disease after
several weeks and even months of INNER
sion in brine.
WITHIN a stones throw of each other, on
Capitol Hill. says the Washington Capital.
reside two men noted in the history of this