The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-30

King George OF Greece receives INC
smallest salary of any European sovereign
-$200.OOO year
Joel Chandler Harris has never seen
play acted The only time he has visited
theater has been TO >hear reaolng py
James Whitcomb Riley
At the imperial court of Austria the chef
of Emperor Francis Joseph estimates that
of $3.50 600 expended on the tables every
year the unused represents about SlOV,OVo
John Philip Sousa, the composer, is con-
templating devoting himself exclusively to
the higher planes of music and has already,
during his seaside vacation, composed
portion of grand opera.
William Dean Howells. asked when he
found time to apply himself TO literature,
replied, II did so before I really had the
time. AS boy was perpetually initiating
the great authors to the neglect OF the
duties generally expected OF boy.
Before Frederick S. Church began to
study art he was a soldier in the civil war
and an express messenger. He recently de-
clared that he would be perfectly happy
could he paint but one picture a year and
destroy that if, when nnished. ne ola not
approve of it.
Colonel Albert A. Pope, the millionaire
bicycle manufacturer. first saw bicycle in
Philadelphia at the Centennial exposition
of 1876 He was fascinated by the machine
and spent several days in studying Its
foundations of his great fortune.
Herbert Spencer is now living in strict
seclusion at Brighton, the state of his health
being such that his replies limited to
letters Of immediate personal concern. A
friend inquiring to the health of Mr.
lowing reply: Thanks for your inquiry.
am about up to par, and not without hope
of rising above 1t presently.-H. 5.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale says that when
he brought home his first report from the
famous Boston Latin School it showed that
he stood only nine In class of fifteen.
Probably the other boys are brighter than
you," said his mother. God made them
So and you cannot help that; But the re-
port says you among the boys who be-
have we'll That you can see to, and that is
all / care about"
A returned engineer tells this of General
Funston: Before Caloocan many of our
scouts were killed, and we could not find
several officers. among whom Funston
AS We searched the field with lights some
body shouted, General Funston. are you
alive or dead?' Neither muttered a voice
at my feet. I'm sleeping And he was. He
had not had any rest for "a long time and
1t than he expected.
The Paris correspondent of London
Truth says that General Gallifet had He
brew ancestry and adds: 1.-THE last Hebrew
of his line baptized in the reign of
Louis ALL. Tie was cnrlStene0 LOUIS Gdlll-
fectus; or, Louis made "a Frenchmap. This
was corrupted into Gallifet. The descend
ants of the convert purchased high financial
and judicial posts in Provence. l dare say
they married Christian wives. But the old
er a race the greater its pertinacity."
The German Emperor recently made the
discovery that there was something he did
not know. The Empress and her children
had been staying on the Tegeransee. in
Bavaria and while there the young princes
L., L.
a peasant the art of producing the peculiar
call of the Tyrolese, known as the yodel.
When the Emperor afterward joined them
he at cnce decided that such an opportunity
of acquiring a new art must not be lost,
and, ienIing for the old forester, said to
him: You must teach me the only thing
l do not know, and that is the yodel.'
To give. God thanks when brief. oblivious
nights
The tranquil eve and blithesome morning
Easy as lark-song that. But how. when
smites
The mace of sorrow. stings the malice
All. unbelieving heart!
To give God thanks in words-this is not
But incense of the spirit-to distil
From hour to hour the cassia and the nard
OF fragrant life, his praises TO fulfil?
Alas. inconstant will!
Katharine Lee Bates.
There is no deeper grief than loneliness.
Cur sharpest anguish at the death of friends
Is loneliness. Our agony of heart
When love has gone from us. is loneliness,
The crying of little child at night
In the big dark is crowding loneliness
Slow death of woman on a Kansas farm:
The ache of those who think beyond their
time;
Pain unassuaged of isolated lives
All this is loneliness
Charlotte Perkins Stetson