The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-13

to his real work and stick to it until midnight
or even until daybreak. Lawyers say that Mr.
Conkling has latterly been making about sl00, 900
3 year.
THE two cleverest and mosthghly educated
women in Europe are said to be the Empress
Victoria % Germany and the Qneen of Italy.
The Empress Victoria is said to be brilliant
conversationalist, bat is not witty as Queen
Margherita. The former. however. is possessed
of q knowledge OF scientific subjects most re-
markable for woman She is able to converse
learnecly with such men Virchow and Won
Helmholz, and her comprehension of her hus-
bands case has awakened wonder among his
physicians.
THE wife of Thomas Power OConnor. NJ. p,
now considered one of the American beauties ia
London, has had . more checkered life than
most women Of her age. She was married three
times before she thirty. At one time she
acted as copyist in one of the departments in
Washington, was then clerk in the postafice in
New York, soubrerte at the Union-square Thea
ter, reporter for a newspaper, and lastly WAS
reader for the Harpers. She Is bright. vivAcous
and pretty-a trio of attractions well calculated
TO make her popular.
THE late Louisa NJ. Alcott was not an admirer
of the Rev Henry Ward Beecher. She shared her
fathers feelings toward him. and expressed them
in the following words. written in a letter to
friend. not great while before her death: II
very much regret that l cannot comply with
your request, but as / neither respected nor adj
mired Mr. Beecher cannot, as an honest WON
an, say anything eulogistc regarding him.
Sympathy for those who loved him is all that I
could offer. since death should set the seal of
silence upon lips that cannot praise"
WHILE Emperor Frederick. then the Crown
Prince. was at San Reno, he was much amused
at tn efforts of journalists to obtain
garding his condition On the first day which
his larynx were examined, after tracheoromy
had been performed. he turned 20 Sir Morell
Mackenzie ana said good-naturedly: ''Sir Morell,
will you please close the blinds of the window
which faces the Hotel de la Mediterraree, or
am sure that the young lady journalists will see
down my throat and send off account of it
before the examination is over
JUST as Omaha justice of the peace was
preparing to marry a couple the other day. the
brides mother rushed in aud ordered him to
stop. He stopped. (which way do the cracks
in this floor run Judge7" she asked. The Squire
said he didn't know; but as she seemed anxious
to ascertain he ripped up corner of the carpet.
and found that they ran at right angles with the
feet of the young couple as they stood waiting
to be married. The3- were changed around so
as to stand with the cracks The mother gave
sigh of relief and the ceremony proceeded.
A CORRESPONDENT of The Writer suggests
that the g1mmed stickers. that make so much
trouble for counters of ballots on election nights
are useful in many ways around writer's
desk. They come, readv-gummed, in boxes of
50O, and they are not expensive. They serve
TO mend neatly torn sheet Of paper, or to join
two pieces of copy whera there is not enough
margin to allow the use of paste They ara
handy to use as labels for drawers. envelopes.
pigeon-holes and boxes. They may in
haps their best and least obvious use is to paste
a word or line of closely written copy
that you want to change. The gummed slip af-
fords clean, white surface. on which the word
or sentence may be neatly written
SENATOR CULLoM has four-year- old grand
daughter who is sometimes terrible but always
charming. For example. the other day some
POLITICAL callers came in at dinner-time. The
ladies of the household waited patiently for a
time for them to go and let the Senator come to
the diuing-room But whom their patience gave
out they sent the little one in as an ambassador.
She reached the door and saw a room full OF
She hesitated few moments. until there
was slight break in the conversation, and
then in an abashed but reproving tone said:
Grandpa, tea is getting cold" The Senator
looked around, good deal amused, and then,
TO lei himself and his friends down easy,
piled pleasantly: "Tottie, guess you're getting
hungry2' Eyes," said the little one. quite posi-
lively, Il am and mamma is getting hungry.
too" The political conference broke up right
off.
PRESIDENT McCosH is exceeding regular and
methodical in his affairs, especially in those
which pertain to his literary and scholastic life.
ST always work ten hours day." said he TO
friend, ..and that is the work of an average man.
In vacations 1 am never wholly idle, put gener-
erallv do from two to FIVE hours of solid work in
writing or thinking. When engaged in writing
q book [ walk five miles each day, thinking
much, of course while walking. When l was
student the famous Dr. Chalmers, of Scotland,
delivered a lecture to us on 'Systematized Work,
Rest and Exercise I never forgot his advice.
and credit much of my success to following
his sound maxims." The venerable philosopher
is at present deeply interested in the building of
cozy little cottage on the top of Princeton Hill
which will be the homo of himself and his wife
when he has laid aside the active demands of
the Princeton presidency.