The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-06
BREAKFAST-TABLE TALK.

his food usually with a spoon or his fingers
directly from the little kettle in which it is
cooked.
THE only two members of the Congress of
1889 now living are NJ. H. Watterson, father
of Henry Watterson, and p. F. Thomas, of
Maryland.
\ RECENT re ports state that the Hon. VIM.
II. Barnum is not yet able to see even init
mate friends, and the prospects for his res
toration to health are not encouraging.
THE man who made the first photograph
ever produced in the United States Franz
George Schneider, is still living in Philadel-
phia, hale and hearty, at the age of eighty
six.
The Queen of Portugal has mustache
and is proud of it. The great ladies of her
court are initiating the Queen, and mus
taches are to be the newest female fad, it is
said.
OsMAN DIGNA, the lieutenant of the
Mahdi in Egypt, is by birth Frenchman.
His name was Vinet before he abjured it
and his religion to marry one of the late
Mahdi's numerous daughters.
SIR FRANCIS PLUNKETr, now the repre-
sentative of Great Britain at Stockholm, is
spoken of seriously as successor to ex-Min-
lister West, at Washington. He Is described
as a courteous and sOciable gentleman, who
made positive success In Japan.
MILE. DUMAS, president of the Associa-
ton of Protestant Ladies for Visiting the
Women's Prison of Lazare, Paris, is ninety
six years old. When she was eightytwO
years of age she learned Spanish, in order
to converse with prisoner who spoke no
other tongue.
LONDON LIFE says that Lord Sackville
is in Paris, and besieged by journalists. A
orf 1iffla Erapob ,noi1 with moot CON
and a quick eye, answers the door. "Mon-
sieur," says she, "has had quite enough of
journalists in America; he hopes never to
see any more of ces messieurs."
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has given
up his contemplated trip to South America.
He has found difficulties both on domestic
and political grounds in the way of any
long absence from England; but he will go
abroad shortly in search of some warm
weather before Parliament resumes next
February.
A SOUTH German newspaper illustrates
| the sad consequences of bad punctuation as
| follows: after him came Lord Salisbury
ON his head, a white hat on his feet, large
but well-blacked boots on his brow, a dark
cloud in his hand, the unavoidable walking
stick in his eyes, threatening look in
| gloomy silence"
AT the dinner given at Christ's College,
Cambridge, to celebrate the completion of
| the ninth edition of the Encyclopedias
| Britannica Mr. Adam Black made the
| statement that 1.-The authors corrections of
| their proofs had amounted to what was
| equivalent to the getting-up of the twenty
four quartO volumes twice over"
ARTHUR II. ROWE, of Gloucester, Mass,
| still a young man, has notable reputation
| as life-saver. He has stopped sixty runa-
| life-bOat crew. He was one OF crew that,
| in terrible sea, went to the rescue of
wrecked vessel on Coffin's beach, a few
| weeks ago, and saved all on board, includ-
| ing lady passenger.
THE students of Oberlin have petitiOned
| for democratic form of college govern
ment, of the students, by the students and
! for the students. The faculty will not
| grant the petition, but have concluded to
| tryia consultation system. Each class Sc
lects. three of its members who are to con-
| fer with a committee of the faculty on col
| lege regulations but these committees
| have no power of legislation or arbitration
| and it is probable that on this account it
will not enlist the sympathy of the students.
Mr.. A. M. NELSON and Miss Sallie Hart
stood up in church, at Culpepper, Va, the
| other evening" and over their heads was an
arch of evergreens and flowers. Just as the
| minister began, the evergreens caught fire
and began to. blaze iercely. The bride
| turned pale, but the groom whispered to
| minister went on with the ceremony and
/ the two were made one under an arch of
| fire. Then they marched deliberately down
the aisle, and the wedding guests went to
| work to put out the fire.
THE Princess Mathilde, who has gathered
around her all the Bonapartist and literary
nOtabilities of Paris at her Sunday evening
receptions for many years, is debarred by
| failing health from resuming them on their
wOnted brilliant footing this winter. She
| tations will be limited to old and intimate
friends belonging for the most part to the
world of art and letters. The doctors dis
| approve of her stirring out of doors in the
| ton in favor of NJ. Edmond de GOncOurt
who is particularly valued friend.
On the 22d of this month the Rev. DR..
John w. Scott, of Washington, father-in-
law of President-elect Harrison, will be
eighty-nine years of age. His physician
| tells him that he has the vitality of an
| ordinary man of seventy, and ought to
| complete his century of life if he takes care
of himself. His grandfather, John Scott,
| was quartermaSter-ge general of Pennsylvania
| troops during the revolution, and had a
brother, Matthew Scott, who was at the
| time captain in Kentucky regiment.
| Matthew Scott was an ancestor of Mrs.
| Rutherford b. Hayes, and after him the
| younger son of ex-President Hayes is
named.
| A YOUNG man of Meriden, Conn.,, Wright
by name and action, had very merry
| Christmas. In the afternoon, ON his way to
the skating pond, he saw two young women
| on the trestle at the head of the pond right
| in front of a coming locomotive. They saw
| it coming, but were helpless from fright.
| Young Wright ran forward, pushed them
| both off of the trestle to the bank, and just
managed to get out of the way himself.
| Then he had his skate. Returning home in
the dusk, he heard a cry of distress from
| another pond, andrunning there, found two
| children in the water. He saved these lives
also, and thus closed probably the most sue
| cessful Christmas of his life.
Mr.. GEORGE w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia,
is said to have entertained more famous
people in his hospitable home than any
other private citizen Of America. Kings,
| and princes, and mobiles without number,
have slept under his roof, not to mention
| Presidents, and generals, and an endless
number of men of letters and others. Mr..
| Childs entertains in royal fashion, and
country place he puts everything at their
disposal. He makes no demands upon their
| time but his time is theirs and they are
| permitted to 90 and come as they please. to
| have their breakfast and luncheon when
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