The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-29
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Washington gossips say that Mrs.
Carl Schurz will be missed there more than
her husband.
America has one doctor to every 500 in
habitants. Who wonders that Americans
are a sickly people?
An Ohio canal boat has been named Henry
Ward Beecher, and it's cargo is always fur
nished with bill ofparticulars.
The latest "heir" story is that one Michael
Hogan, of West Troy, has fallen heir to an
estate valued az S5,0J0OOO IN Pennsylvania
The Shaughrsun is the greatest financial
success OF all Boucicault's plays. In the
first four weeks S4S,473 so were taken at the
box office.
The spiritualists predict the election, in
1876. of Thurman of Ohio, as president and
of Jerry Black as vice president of the
United States.
The Western Union mas opened at Alma,
Col, the highest regular telegraph station
in the world, 10, 800 feet, or nearly two miles
above sea level.
The postal card factory has sent out about
100000 cards this quarter, and about
100000 are in store. The presses are
now running until midnight Springfield
Union.
Minneapolis, Mimi, has just witnessed the
inception of a new journalistic venture in the
shape of daily paper printed on postal
card. This miniature sheet bears the name
of the "Post Baby"
Hsrper's Weekly has taken up the recent
proposal, made by some pseudo-economists
in New York, to reduce the public expendi-
ture OF that city by lowering the salaries of
teachers in the city schools.
The Quebec Gazette, the oldest paper re-
tanning its name and published without in
terruption on the continent, has just been
sold to the proprietor of the Morning Chron-
icle, Quebec 1t was established in I764.
In materialiprosperity Columbus, Ga, has
advanced more rapidly than any city in the
South. She now runs $4,000 cotton and 500
wooden spindles. All the capital employed
is southern. In addition she has large foun-
dries and machine shops.
At the explosion in Paris priest showed
great heroism, going into the fire to help
wounded persons out. He was badly burned,
and when the surgeons were attending to
his hurts reporter a-ked for his name. He
said, write Only-a priest"
The Golden Age says of the Rev. Mr..
rockingham: "He is unique both in the
character of his thought and his style of adj
dress, and in larger and better place than
his congregation now occupy would have
twice his present following"
Denmark is losing her great writers, curl
ously, in exact chronological order; Grundt-
ing, born 1873, died 1872; soon after died
Boedtcher, born 1898, and now Thiel dies,
who was born in 1875. 1t can't be very COM
Portable to be the Nestor of Danish poets.
Apropos of the government telegraph
scheme, the Providence Journal says that
the next thing in order is demand that the
government should conduct the newspapers
as a" legitimate" branch of the education
of the people.
When three masked men rode up to
Missouri cabin and wanted to know if they
could see George jackson for about
minute, George rose from behind a log,
laid out two with his shot gun, and yelled
to the third that he'd call at his Office next
day.
A merchant in New York subscribed lib
orally to the honor of the poet Bryant, sup
posing that he was subscribing for the
benefit of the minstrel of that name. On
learning his mistake, he withdrew his sub
scription. There is no accounting for taste.
st. Louis Globe.
The Syracuse STANDARD" says that an i'm
itation bronze of Christ on the Cross after
Michael Angeles famous work in the
Cathedral of Milan, Italy, by a Mr.. Otto, is
now on exhibition at Shakespeare Hail. in
that city. 1t is considered by art critics who
have seen the original as a faithful copy.
Western Reserve, Antioch, Baldwin of
Berea, Ohio, of Athens, Buchtel, of Akron
Wittenberg, of Springfield, and Oberlin col
leges have united in the movement for
State intercollegiate Evolutionary contest,
which is to take place at Akron. Buchtel
College has selected lady as contestant.
To the women, Butler writes: my stand
on woman suffrage defeated me;" to Con-
gress he says: my bold stand on the
finance question defeated me:" but to him.
self he remarks, in the still hours of the
voiceless night: 81 can not tell-a lie-I did
it with my little spoons. "-Cincinnsti
Times.
Three conventions OF the supporters OF
the religious amendment to the constitution
are to be held in the West, one TOR Illinois
and the adjacent 81 ates on January 81 and %
one for Kansas and the adjoining states.
February 10 and IL; another for Ohio early
in March.
The fog was so thick in Troy early the
other morning that the Times soiemnIy
AYERS one could not distinguish policeman
from bitching post across the street, if he
didn't know that hitching posts never snore
Hasn't the Times lived long enough in Troy