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

There ara l5,OOO signs rOr hsoHI Up AZ
New York.
mrha Reantiful Blue Danube" is muddy,
yellow fraud.
The snire of the new Boston cathedral will
be 500 feet high.
Cincinnati divorce suit. Lady insists in
sleeping in her corsets.
Kansas is going to abolish the striped
uniform hitherto worn by convicts
There is a crusty old fellow who, when
asked for a chew of tobacco, says; "Beggars
must no be chewsers."
It is probable that the church and state
will be separated in Chill next year. Which
means that it will be formal and emily
affair.
Prescott, Arizona, enjoyed rain storm OF
81 hours. about the middle of November,
during which the 1all is estliha'ou az @"
even six inches.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans falls on the 9Th
of February. Notwithstanding the political
troubles. Il viii be the most brilliant festival
ever seen in the city.
Edward Alfred Warren, of the British
Museum has just died. Although only So,
he had been 20 years in the museum, en-
ployed on the catalogue.
According tothe American Register, the
actual number of American residents in
Paris is less than 5000, although it is often
stated that they number 10000 and 1900.
The death of Eugene Renduel, one of the
most notable Partisan publishers. is re-
ported The friends of Victor Hugo say
that Renduel realized 2OO,OOO francs py
ssNotre Dame de Paris" alone-a very large
amount in that day for one work.
Henry Irving, the new Hamlet, who Is
exciting London, Is to come over in the
esrlv fall of 1875, under "Papa" Bateman's
management, and Barry Sullivan. another
noted tragedian of England, will have con-
temporaneous engagement at Booths.
The trouble among the faculty of Dickin-
son College, in Pennsylyania,iha been set
tied by decree of the court ousting Charles
J. Little from the chair of philosophy and
English literature and assigning the chair
of mathematics to j. A. Lippincott.
A whaling captain reports that sperm
whalers have been more than usually sue
cessful during the present season, especially
in the north Atlantic, one bark having taken
$50 barrels when only 10 weeks from home
"a catch unparalleled in the annals OF whal-
ing.
Prof. Emanuel Hernandez Vienna, first
introduced postal cards. They were used in
England, Germany and..Switzerland in 1870,
in Belgium and Denmark in 1871, and in
Norway, Russia and the United States In
1S72-73. In some foreign countries card is
attached on which an answer may De re-
turned.
Two brave ladies living on the opposite
side of Lake Roland, Maryland, from the
scene of the late railroad disaster, witnessed
the fall of the bridge from their residence.
Without hesitation they jumped into little
skiff, padded rapidly across and rescued
three men and a boy who were in danger of
drowning. Their names could not be ascer-
tanned.
King Kalakaua has received an invitation
to visit Westboro', Mass. The extending of
the invitation was prompted by the fact that
an old resident, Mrs. D. Chamberlain, was
one of the original band of missionaries to
the Sandwich Islands when the natives were
savages. Mrs. Chamberlain, now IS years
old, still retains her mental faculties TO re-
markable degree, and speaks the Hawaiian
tongue fluentlY.
Many religious people think it is nces-
sary to deceive children. An English
teacher relates this story to show that the
little ones ought to be deceived: ga little
girl was once asking her older sister about
heaven. DO they play in heaven?' she
inquired. No. they do not play there
What do they do?' 'They sing and are
good Are there no toys there?' NO, not
any No dolls, nor balls, nor Noah's
arks?' 'Ob, mop Then said the little one
Il shall take my dolly and go to hell"
Speaking of Sara L. Jewett, the Area
-diansays: ''She looks like lady. Her de-
pertinent is unexceptionable. Her gestures
are like Csesar's wife, Her voice is like the
Tyre of Hermes. Her clothes are like a
seven fold hallelujah. By no possible
means can this taanscendent Jewett get out
of her platitudinousness. Nature walled
her about with Jewett, and il was vain for
her TO attempt to climb over and escape
from herself"
The artists are beginning to move upon
Congress. Two of Bierstadt's pictures-the
-"Discovery Of the Hudson" and Rocky
Mountain landscape-are hung in the hall
of the House of Representatives, and a
proposition is pending to buy them. 1t is
also proposed that the United States shall
buy Carpenters painting of the ''Signing of
the Proclamation of Emancipation" but he
is said to ask So, 900 tor it, and the library
committee are willing to recommend only
$4,000.
The Rev. Il. K. Beecher was in Hornells-
vile, ". Y, one day last week and stopped
at the principal hotel in the place, where
nothing struck him so much as the peculiar
dialect spoken by the pretty waiter girls.
Said one of them to the reverend gentle
man: 'Bifstek hammerlamchops?" Not
long after she renewed the conversation by
remarxing: "Teerecofy?" and as she de-
1. parted CALCULATED, DISADVANTAGES" Mr..
Beecber preserved the sounds and wants
to know what it all meant. His varied lin
guistic attainments are unequal to solving
the mystery.
Doubt having been expressed in Ohio as to
the result of the Christian woman's tenn
perance crusade in that state the leaders of
the movement wrote to theinternal revenue
collectors to obtain an official report of the