The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-21

manage to win the relentinc favor of God; pro-
vided, that am allowed to talk to him in
French. Therefore, trust that French will be
the language OF eternity. If 1t 10 not am
lost.
A PATENT outside Democratic paper in In
diana SAYS that the Republican party he's the
mumps Well. even IL this were so. the Demo
cratic party is worse off. for il has the mug
wumps
DONALD q. MITCHELL author Of sReveries of
a Bachelor" has, in his later career, walked the
floor with ton teething babies. His rcveries
under those circumstances have never been pub
lished
GENERAL LoNcsrREEr has. ut Gainesville,
Ca, an old fashioned mansion and farm of
100 acres. His farming 10 chiefly confined to
grape culture There some iron and sulphur
eprings on tho property. and prosperous hotel
has been established
In has been = lone.debated question. .'who
reads an American booklp Professor Gilmore,
In lecture Co tho Columbia atndents, answers
that all nations must read them. The Dutch
must read Motley or GO ignorapt tho Spanish
must turn TO Prescott for the history OF their
country. and tho French must know Parkman.
Dm OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES hHs been
obliged to give up his habit of answering per-
sonally all letters addressed to him. A printed
note which opens as follows IL now frequently
received by his correspondence "Dr Holmes
regrets that impaired eyesight and the large de-
mands made upon his time by distant and un.
known friends obige him to contract his hith-
erto extended correspondence and TO avail him
self of an assistant In writing
PROBABLY the most expensive opera cloak
worn this winter belongs to Miss Letter, who 10
equally at homo in New York and Washington,
and who In heiress To $40. 000. 600. Her cloak 10
In white moire plush. brocaded in silver, out
lined with silver cord, and trimmed with white
goats fur. Its value does not depend, however,
on the material make, but on the jeweed
clasps which are ranked at high figures. being
in antique gold set with large pearls.
MORE than $4,000 has, it is stated been al
ready collected for a present to Alexandra,
Princess of Wales, for her silver wedding. No
donbtEa handsome sum will be realized before
the ann iversary arrives. OF all the doubtful
and uncertain members of the English royal
family. Alexandra alone seems to hold the un-
equivocai regard of the people. She seems to
be amply endowed with those negative virtues
that apt to endear themselves TO nation Jas
they do to family.
THE late Eugene Labiche wrote so many plays
that he found it impossible to keep account of
them. One day manager called on him and
asked for permission to produce certain piece
of his. Labche denied that he had writ
ten such piece whereupon the manager proved
that he the author by showing him the
play. Labiche tod him he might produce the
play on condition that he did not send him any
thing for it. his for this strange request
being that, inasmuch he had not recognized
his production, he had no claims on 1t.
THE Rev. Dr. Leonard w. Bacon has been
vigorously assa;ling the faith cure. at Water
bury, Conn., and the Rev. DR.. S. FL. Plat has
entered the lists in it's defence. These gentle
men are doctors of medicine IS we'll as OF dlvln-
Ity. and SO will be able to conduct particularly
interesting controversy. DR.. Platt was many
years marvelously cured by faith, as he be-
leves. of most serious and apparently 1r-
reme jiable lameness, and has ever since been q
stron advocate of healing by faith and prayer.
Ex-PREsIDENT McCosH OF Princeton College,
is now devoting himself to literary work. He is
at work on a volume to be entitled First or
Fundamental Principles. +" which he thinks will
be the most enduring of his achievements in
philosophy. An effort is being made to have
him write book of personal memoirs. giving
anecdotes of his experiences in Scotland Ire
land and America. and pen pictures OF the fam
Gus people he has known. 1t is probable that
the next few years will see much that is enter
ebrated educator.
THERE were recently sold in Paris for trifing
prices "a Sonnet on Happiness" written at
Madeeburg in 1918 by the great Carnot. grand
father of the President of the Republic; an auto
graph letter of Marshal Grouchy, in which he
announces that he has ansmlited to a friend a
biography of hilhself containing authentic doc
umentS relative to the battle of Waterloo, which
ne hoped would ''enable just and impartial
opinions to be formed respecting his conduct
in 1876" and two letters from the Inflated Mar
shall Ney in one Of which he narrates the cir
cumstances of his arrest, while in the other he
explains his position before Waterloo.
FEAR
A tirnid pain came tapping at 1ife's door;
Nor stalwart thief could make me tremble more:
For, in far distance where could not see.
A longed-for Joy was travelling to me-
charlotte Fiske Bates in March Lippincott's.