The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

DR. MARY WALKER threatens to join the
Democratic party.
A NEW YORK grocer the other day dis
played a sign, Take One," in front of his
store, referring to q litter of kittens in
wicker basket.
w. B. TATE, philanthropic bachelor, of
Tennessee, has divided fifth of his fortune
of $1O0,OOO between forty needy confederate
veterans of that State.
You cannot grind q hand-organ in the
streets of Jersey City until you have paid
license fee of S., and even then the grind
ing must cease between q p. M. and A. M.
THERE are in the treasury vaults at
Washington pretty nearly pint of dia-
monds and other precious stones that were
presented to various Presidents by admir-
ing friends ..-s~-
lola is said to be Ike best-paid novelist
in France. Mr.. Humphry Ward has just
been offered 5000 for story of $1,000
words, and John Strange Winter refused
an offer of $4,000 for her next novelette,.
SENATOR HIsCOCK, who is really very
handsome man, is not looking well this
summer. His face is pale, his cheeks are q
are dark circles. There is nothing the mat
ter with him, however, except lassitude
caused by the weather
TENNYsON succeeded Wordsworth, in
1850, as laureate of England. The endow
ments of the office come under the second
class on the civil list. and are small, but the
duties are purely nominal, an occasional
ode on the occasion of a royal wedding,
birth or death, being all that is required of
him.
the erudlte bibliophile. in the Eternal City
The pretty American traveller wanted a
copy of Max O'Rells book on the United
glOwered through his spectacles moment,
and replied, with noble scorn: "Gott in
Himmel, Mees. Marcus Aurelius vos neffer
in der Unided Shtates."
WILLIAM VAN Fps, the wealthest citizen
of South Dakota, was always a rolling
stone. He learned the printers trade when
boy, and was afterward in various kinds
of business in many different Western
towns. In 1871 he located in Sioux Falls,
dent. besides being identified with many
important business enterprises elsewhere.
QUEER to tell, President Harrison doesn't
tan. That is to say, he doesn't take tan,
| for, in the active sense of the verb 'tan,o
he tans lots of patriots. The whlte-skinned
HOosler now at the head of affairs doesn't
| show sunburn like the ordinary man, who
will redden up for you in single DAVIS
| stay by the sea- Harrison has been in the
| open air great deal this summer, but
there isn't so much as speck of brown on
Mrs. JOHN SHERWOOD, of New York, au-
thor of the novel entitled "a Transplanted
Rose" and of the book ON etiquette. en-
titled Manners and Social Usages.n has
been decorated with the insignia of Officer
Il n Ann A0v., l.
French Minister of Public instruction ON
persons who have distinguished themselves
in literary pursuits. 1t is said to be the
first time that this decoration has ever
been conferred upon an American woman.
THIS weeks Catholic Times records q lit
tie romantic incident in connection with
Cardinal Manning. The other day a Wis
itor called at the Cardinals house and pre-
sented a bouquet of roses grown in the
garden OF the rectOry which the Cardinal
minister of the Established Church. With
his own hands the Cardinal arranged the
| roses in vase, which he then placed on
the altar of his private chapel.
ADMIRAL PoRfERs orderly when the
feet was before Forts Philip and Jackson,
below New Orleans, j. M. Crippin, is now
| sailing Lewis Miller's steam yacht on
Chautauqua lake, and says of General
Buffers accusation of cOwardice on the Adj
mirafs part: Il was on the bridge with him
constantly for many months, and rang the
bell which telegraphed all his orders to the
| engine-rOOm My own recOllections and
the notes of my dairy both show that
General Butler has no ground for his
| charges"
A MYSTERIOUS libel suit involving the
good name of Mrs. Adam II. Newcombe, is
about to be sprung on the long-suffering
public of New York. In the summer of 1885
book was printed descriptive of outdoor
life at Lake George. In this book. as it is
claimed. Mrs Newcombe was ibeled under
the name of Mrs. Jansen" By means of a
cryptogram the fictitious Mrs. j. was made
to take off" the real Mrs. N, and all who
knew her laughed at her, and subsequently
"cut her." The damage is figured out al
S25. 900.
A DREssY young man went to a secluded
portion of the Rutter Grove shore, at Scran.
ton, for moonlight bath in the river, a few
nights ago. His ecstatic splashing caught
the attention of a tramp who softly di.
vested himself of his seedy attire, ROBBED
himself in the swimmers garments, which
CHANGED to tit him admirably, and then
vanished from the mOonlit scene. When
the swimmer came out he was speechless
for a minute, and, having no other re-
course he put on the tatters and stole
homeward through cornfields and across
barb-wire fences.
THE Johnstown disaster swept away Miss
Angie Facklers wedding trousseau and hel
house, but spared her to be married to Ed
ward Levy, wealthy Omaha man, tt
whom she has been engaged twenty five
years quarter of Gentry ago Levy wen,
West to make his fortune and having &C
complished his purpose in the past few
years, he arranged with his promised brid.
to meet her in Philadelphia June /, and
marry her She ss did not Of, appear on her wed
ding day. ana Ior nearly week no tidingl
she was safe. and her marriage has now
taken place.
THE Maharajah of Singapore. who is now
in Paris, is astonishing even that bias,
city. His coaches. attendants, costume,
and expenditure are based on such seal.
of elegance that he seems to have the
wealth of the East at his disposal He fal
outshines the Shah Of Persia. who has MOI
] impressed Europe with his elegance this