The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-08

associate with the impecunious cOuntesses and
barOnnesses in which that society abOunds.
When this social test becomes generally under
stood we can imagine that the fathers of all
American girls in German pensions will prove
to be the daughters of wholesale merchants
only.
A YOUNG lady, evidently impressed with the
idea that she knows all about it. says "If fell
low is desperately in love with girl, and is per
sistent in his efforts to win her; he is to gain
his suit. WidOwers understand this point, and
know exactly how to make love and propose,
and you will observe they are always success
full"
ARKANSAS Traveller: "Why do you mutter
that way when you readl" asked man of an
old negro who sat mumbIing over a newspaper.
How ought L read, sah2' "Why, read without
moving your lips" what good would dat
sorter readin' do me, fur | couldn't heah it?
When reads wanster read so kin heah what
Use readn' bout"
PROFESSOR RITTER, of Geneva, has been trac-
Ing the geDeaogy of Madame de Stael, and
finds that her father, NJ. Necker, was not, is
sometimes claimed, of English or Irish decent
He came of family long settled at Custrin,
Prussia. and his own father was induced to go
to Geneva by George I, of England, to open
school for English boys.
QUEER forgery arises from postage-stamp
collecting in England. Forgeries of rare stamps
are made on envelopes. An ordinary postage
stamp is affixed to the envelope, which is mailed
to q confederate. Thus the stamp and forged
envelope receive an official date and effacng
mark, and after the ordinary postage stamp is
removed they sold for q high price.
THE first number of the American Journalist,
an illustrated monthly magazine, with r. P.
Vnrl bot u, a.
signed to be the organ of the professional jour
nalists of the country. The number contains
directory of the editorial stats of the leading
newspapers of the United States and Canada
The Journalist reveals Clara Bellies identity,
WHO'S Mrs. Lord wife of the managing editor
of the New York Sun.
LONDON WORLD: SIT is America its spic-and
span new institutions, its leviathan hotels, its
enormous railroads. and its bigness generally
which suit the taste of this practical age
America is the quarter of the globe after which
the Tancred of to-day instinctively yearns; his
Mecca is Chicago or Frisco, and the eyes which
would see in Gethsemane merely group of I'M
comely olives would be transported with delight
by the forests of California or the bacon curing
factories which are the pride Of the improvised
capitals Of the far West"
BEN: PERLEY PooRE relates the folio wing an
ecdote of Judge Black: 'Black was very absent
minded. Once, when he was coming to Wash
ington, Mrs Black said to him: Il want you to
promise me that you will put on a clean shirt
every morning, ard have put six into your
trunk. Please do, and don't let me see in Wash
ington papers illusions TO your dirty linen.
The Judge promised, left, and in q week re-
turned. After speaking to his wife he went into
his office, where he was absorbed in study
ing a case. After while In came Mrs. Black
why, Judge she said, what have you done
with all the shirts you took to Washington
Done with the shirtsP exclaimed the Judge, alb
stractedly. Yes, the Shirts said the matron.
%! replied the Judge, why, I put on clean
one every morning, as promised you would
Yes, Judge, but what did you do with those you
took off you have not brought a single one
back The truth just then flashed on the Judges
mind. and an examination disclosed the fact
that the old gentleman had put on a clean shirt
every morning over those which he already
wore"
THE Empress Engenie is rather an interesting
figure at the Hotel Westminster, at Carlsbad.
She occupies a suite of six on the first
floor. Her meals are supplied from the restau
rant at the Konigsvilla, opposite the hotel She
always appears in deep mourning, and is usually
accompanied by DR.. Evans, OF Paris, and by
Nine. LebretOn. The Empress, like other poor
mortals, was troubled with dyspepsia. At Carls-
bad she began her "cure" by taking the waters
of the Schlossbrunnen, but she changed to the
Muehlbrunnen. Her visit has excited the great
est possible interest, and crowds of people wait
outside the hotel, and all down the Schlossberg,
every morning, Ill order to catch glimpse of
her. The Empress lives in the greatest secluston.
but she has received Lord Ampthill and Senior
Canovas del Castillo, both of whom are staying
at Carlsbad for the waters; and she has given an
audience to the burgomaster, who received spe-
cal orders from the government that every pos
sible attention was to be paid to her. Which is
all as it should be, for she always deserved such
kindness better than her husband deserved his
crown.
J. B. MCCULLAGH, of the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, whose health has been the subject of
much newspaper comment extended the fol-
lowing greeting to q visitor in New York few
dayssince: "You the first man who has
been here whose face was not yard long. The
most amusing-uo, it has ceased to be amusing
the most wearlsome thing meet with nova
days is the mournful aspect OF my friends who
come here to see me. OF course 1t shows that
they have the best sort of regard for me- and all
that, but respectfully submit that it is not
pleasant to pass for hopeless invalid when one
is nothing of the sort. don't anything so
astonishing in the fact that 1 have been ILL.,
Good heavens! Can't be under the
weather without feeling that everybody is look
ing out for his funeral? What is there so very
striking about my condition of healtb2 1 am
not confined to my room. 1 have been on my
feet all the time, and get round to my meals
with good deal of regularity. You would al
most think was the only man i'll the world who
had ever known what it was to be out o. sorts.
There is nothing the matter with me now"
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.