The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17
NEWS n GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP. -
"a splendid ear but a very poor voice." as
the n-grinder said to the donkey.
Patti is to sing in Paris for the benefit of
the Alsace-Lorraine fund. The performance
is under the patronage of Mime. MacMahon,
and the tickets are selling at only IS each.
The Georgetown, (Ky.) Times notes the
fact that Robert James, now deceased, the
father of the notorious James brothers of
Missouri, was a graduate of Georgetown
College in the class of 1913. He was a ma
tive of Logan county. 1au.
The marriage is of Mr.. F. G
Burnand, author of Happy Thoughts, " to
Miss Rosiua Roscoe, sister of his late wife.
As this fact was not allowable by the laws
of England, he emigrated to Switzerland to
l~egalize the ceremony. -4
Fourteen years have passed since 1 first
saw Patti, looking in her short dress aud
braided tresses, like a nice little girl about
II years of sge.v says a Paris correspondent.
"She looks some six years older now, that is
TO ssy,just eighteen!"
Sidney Smith said that every public man
should be provided with a foolometer-that
il, the acquaintance of two or three regular
fools, on whom he could try his measures,
and Judge OF the effect they were likely to
produce ON public opinion. M
During a recent professional visit made by
Bret Harte to Atlanta, Georgia, be was en-
tertained socially at dinner by the directors
of the association before whom he had lee
Cured. The prominent members of the bar
and press were present, and many clever
speeches were made.
A Washington special to the New York
Herald says: The sale of cadetships is one
of the matters to be investigated at the com
ing session of Congress. Congressman Sto-
well, of the 4th Virginia district, is charged
with receiving $1,000 for the last appoint
ment made by him to West Point"
Mrs. Gen. Rawlins, who died the other
day at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, was
a Miss Hurlburt, of Danbury, Conn.,, and
was a teacher in the Southwest, and Gen.
Rawlins became acquainted with her at
Vicksburg at the time of Grants campaign
In that vicinity. She was not far from 40
years old.
DIR. Hilgendorf, a German, now in Japan,
has oundi in his studies of Japanese crania
that the cheek bone, instead of being a sin
gle structure, is frequently divided by a
Stature into two distinct clements. DR.. Hill
gendOrf considers this so characteristic that
he has called the additional bone the os ia
ponicum.
Baron SchwarZ-Senborn, who was direc-
tor general of the Vienna exposition, says
that the preparations for our centennial ex-
hibition are at least six months further in
advance than those at Vienna, at a CORES
bonding time before the date for opening.
They ought to be all of that, unless we de-
sire to repeat the failure at Vienna.-N. Y.
Tribune. - ~f.Ier rsf
The last letter ever written by Gen.
"Stonewell" Jackson is in the possession of
the Southern Historical Society. 1t was adj
dressed to Gen. Lee under date of Nav 2
1853, and reads as follows: GENERAL 4: The
enemy has made a stand at Chancellnr's.
which is about two miles from Chancellor
Vile. Ih"pe as soon as practicable to at
tack. i trust that an ever kind Providence
viii bless us with success"
v. T. Malott, during lis western health
seeking tour, passed over the Colorado Gen.
trail road, which is twenty-one miles in
length, built among the rocks and lodges.
The road is known TO be the crookedest line
ever built. At but three places is the track
straight, and then only for a distance OF three
hundred fee. The legislature granted the
company a charter as a joke, oeyer expect
ing 1t would be built, yeti has proved a
profitable investment to the builders.
Edwin Booths debts amount to 100000.
There is a mortgage on his assigned estate
OF Sf75,OOO. His theater cost $1,000, 900, half
OF which Mr.. Booth paid out of his accu-
mulated property. The theater is assessed
as S500,000, and rents, with rooms and
stores, pay interest on 5000, 900, The
bGilding has been advertised for sale at
auction, but the sale has been postponed.
the mortgages believing that they will gain
by delay.
The bronze statue of the late Gen. John
A. Rawlins, authorized by the late Con-
gress, which has been placed in position in
the square bearing his NAME, on 4 street,
Washington, was unveiled last Thursday
noon by the committee having it in charge
saS appointed by the late Congress, con-
81. ting of Gen. o.. f.. Babeock, Edward
CArk, architect of the capitol extension.
and A. r. Spofford, librarian to Congress.
Thel Q were no ceremonies whatever.
The venerable Pho Mono was so charmed
with {. ne specimens of American engraving
contain. cd In the illustrations in picturesque
America, " that Cardinal Antonelli, by his
order. wr, Dte to the Messrs. Appleton. OF
New York, to express the p~ontif's grati6ca-
ton, and a ccompanied the letter with q
beautiful siIN 'sr medal, bearing on one side
the profile of the pope, and on the other an
interior view o. the Basilic2 OF Santa Maria
Maggiore. The medal, which is of solid
silver and two inches i'm diameter, is ex-
uuisifeIy executed. IL bear the date of 1874.
and English engrav 'ers have declared it to be
superior to any work Of o. @ kind ever pro-
duced in their country. It IS Enclosed in a
rich case of silk scarle; velvet, bearing the
papsl arms.