The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
BREAKPAST-TABLE CHAT.


NJ RENAN has contempt for popular gov
eminent. ITO unclaimed. universal suf-
frage." he says. II prefer the most disso-
lutte court and the most mediocre mon
ARCH"
Mrs. NJ. PORTER is little, business-like
woman, who is post trader at Fort Hua-
chuca, in Arizona. She has made it pay.
travels alone great distances and is afraid
of nothing.
AT the sale of Mrs. Jameson's collection
of colonial and revolutionary documents
in Boston, a day or two ago, the signatures
of Ethan Allen. John Quincy Adams and
Benedict Arnold brought $25 each. A
proclamation for Thanksgiving Day issued
by President Washington was sold for S1O9.
THE widow of Marshal Prim, Donna
Francisco Aguero, has just died at Madrid
after three years suffering. Since her hus-
bands assassination she has lived in the
strictest retirement. and during the last
three years her reason had given way under
grief and disappointment at the murderers
of her husband not having been brought to
justice.
A FEW days ago New York journal
stated in personal note that lat his coun-
try home Mr.. John Wanamaker was said to
have the finest lot of rhodOdendrons in
exchange asserted that "at his country
home Mr.. John Wanamaker was said to
have the finest lot of rhinOcerOses in Penn
sylvania."
ROMAN newspaper, La Riforma. speak
ing of General Di Cesnola, says: 1T was he
who sent to Grant and Lincoln the strategic
plan for the capture of Richmond. the most
formidable stronghold of the rebellion, and
by the adoption of General Cesnola's plan
of al off fiua
days" This is American history as she is
written in Italy.
THERE has been a revival of religion at
Moberly, Mo-, and among the conversions
was that of a man who had been very
hard case. When he went forward in the
church to make profession of his faith he
surprised the parsOn and people by handing
to the former a bottle half full of whisky
and slung-shot. He said that he proposed
to renOunce all his evils.
1t is reported that the Emperor of Aus
tria, whose health has been affected very
seriously by the shock of his sons death,
will soon seek rest and distraction from
anxiety in Oreign travel under the strictest
incognito. He is expected to visit the
Queen-regent of Spain and the Prince of
Wales, who was Rudolph's most intimate
friend, but no official notice of his presence
will be taken.
GENERAL SHERMAN recently said, in dis
cussing the subject of death with his friend
General SlOcum: II am a coward in the
face of pain. and / cannot bear to think of
the physical sensations that may attend
my death-the choking in the throat the
paralysis here, the torture there; hut, that
aside, i think of death as though it were
sleep and rest, and l have no feeling what
ever of dread of the hereafter"
A LITTLE pamphlet is circulating in Wash
ington setting forth the claims of Theodore
r. Timby. a native of New York. but for
many years Washington resident, to the
credit of having first invented the revolv-
ing-turret war vessel. His patent was is
sued Sept. 30, 1862. He says he got his idea
William, in New York harbOr. In 1S41 he
exhibited model of a revolving iron bat
terry to the Washington authorities.
Ii came out in breach-of-prOmise case
the other day, tried before the Lord Chief
jnstice at Oxford, England, that the en-
gagement ring had been changed because
it contained an opal, and opals are consid-
cred unlucky. 1t does not appear what
more prOpitiOus stone was substituted, but
| the talisman did not work, for the wooing
end. unless f2OO, which the Jury gave the
plaintiff. is considered by her an ample So
latium for all her griefs.
THE Witness, of Belfast, Ireland, is au-
| thOrity for the statement that DR.. McCOsh
| is expected to be present at the next Gen
eral Assembly of the Free Church of Scot
land. DR.. McCosh is the most prominent
| survivor of the disruption ministers of 1915,
and it is said that his chief motive in re-
| visiting the country now is to bear witness
| to the significance of this movement. DR..
McCosh recently announced, however, that
he had made his last visit to Scotland, and
was now content to pass his remaining DAVIS
| in the town of the college to which his best
efforts have been so long given.
SOME years ago Secretary Rusk bought a
choice hog of an eloquent divine of Madi-
son, Wis, but, as the animal proved to be
unsOund, he made the clergyman take it
back. Some time time afterward the cler-
gyman was preaching a sermon on the
| prophet Jeremiah, during the delivery of
which he asked in solemn tones: Now.
then. my hearers what did jeremiah dof''
In the congregation was an old fellow
| somewhat the worse for liquor who knew
of the incident related, and when the cler-
gyman paused, apparently. for a reply, he
shouted: He made We take back the hog,
| cOnsarn ye."
EDITOR FRANK PIxLEY, of the San Fran
| drawing of Labouchere, editor of the Lon.
QOn WHO Is an E0SuSuman WIN q
| French name: HE is garrulous as a hen.
In Parliament he talks and in his journal
| he writes upon every possible topic-news,
politics, foreign diplomacy. society gossip,
social scandals are all material In the pot
au feu' which he keeps constantly boiling.
When his prejudices draw the red-herring
across the trail of narrative it is as impos-
| sible for him to follow the scent of truth as
| for a blind dog, with a nose stuffed with
Limberger cheese, to follow the trail of the
| fOx.n
A NUMBER of years ago the late John
Ericsson was invited to hear Ole Bull play
the violin. The inventor replied that he
had no time for such frivolty; that he had
no ear for music, and that his habits could
| not be changed. However, Bull was
| brought to Ericsson's workshop, and the
| two men talked while the inventor kept on
| at his task. After a time the violinist took
| up his instrument and began to play.
Ericsson paused, dropped his tools and
| listened spell-bOund to the enhancing
sounds. he acknowledged that something
| had been wanting in his life. and that he
had found it at last. After that he showed
| great fondness for music.
| PRINCE KRAPoTKINE. according to the
Star, of London, is gentle in manner and
| appearance, and half an hours conversa-
ton is sufficient to reveal to even dull
| eye the depths of honest adherence to opin.
| ions which lie underneath. He is rather
| small, and a very thin and delicate-lookine
| man. He has a long beard; the head il
completely bald, and his sufferings in