The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-30
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP. 0
The average annual expenditure OF mem
bers of the senior class at Yale college is
placed at 81, l33, a sum which once would
2 have put a student through the whole
course. all
tits announced that the two branches of the
Presbyterian church in Canada, the one an
off-shoot of the Established church of Scot
land. the other the Free church, or, as it
has been known of late years, the Canada
Presbyterian, have agreed upon basis OF
union. rroI- -rto IstH
Secretary Bristow continues his reorgani-
cation of the treasury department. Chiefs
OF divisions, who are being placed in subor-
e dinate positions to heads of bureaus, and be-
ing cut down in salary from S3,0OOto 81, 500,
where they were before the system under
Richardson came in, are rushing about the
"a halls of Congress almost frantic at the loss
OF so excellent perquisite.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has appro-
priated 100000 tor the Jefferson Medical
College, CT Philadelphia, to be used tor the
erectiouof hospital for the medical and
surgical treatment of sick and manned per
sons OF the state, on condition that the col
1ege double the amount. The alumni have
subscribed $4,000, and the trustees have is
suedan appeal for the remainder ,.i-
The oldest Catholic priest in North Amer
lea is now stationed at ST. Johns Church.
Frederick, Nd, the Rev. John McElroy, S.
J. He was ordained by Archbishop Carroll
sixty years ago. and has consequently spent
hall century in the ministry. He is now
ninety eight years old, and although bowed
down with the weight OF three generations,
vet has sufficient strength to celebrate mass
and assist at the service OF the church.
The Directory of New York is just out and
it show only small comparative increase OF
names, being only about I,iOO, while the
previous year there was an increase of IL ,00O
names This is accounted for by the panic
OF last September, and by the fact that the
increase Of the previous year was owing
mainly TO the annexation of Winchester.
Among the names John Smith, of course
hold his old supremacy. $500
- The college paper published. at the Micbi-
gan University by male students speaks OF
the feminine undergraduates in the follow
s ing complimentary way: ''They pertinaci-
ously keep their health and strength in q
way that IS aegravating, and they persist in
evincing an alility for close and continued
mental labor which. to the ordinary estima-
tor OF woman's brain power, seems like pure
wilfulness.n - l.Ai -t.iA ~
= In her course from Honolulu to Yoke
hama, taking soundings for the submarine
e cable, the steamer Tuscarora halted at Port
Lloyd, Peele Island. She was the first man.
of.war which had entered the narbor fol
seventeen years. The island has sixty-fvs
Inhabitants, who do not know to what
country they owe allegiance, as both Japar
and England claim the island. For years
until his death, which occurred two month:
ago, Mr.. Savary, a fOlmer citizen of MaSsa
chusetts. was governor. He is succeeded by
Thomas Webb, another American.
There is one Quaker milliner in New
York, and she rarely has her hands full,
large majority of the women Friends EN-
ploying neither mantua maker nor milIiner
Quaker woman's suit, exclusive of he
turs, costs, for either summer or winter
about $40. Her winter garb, tor instance
includes a shawl from Manchester, Eng
land, So; her inside shawl OF dress silk, 81
a gown ofIrish popln, $50; shoulder shawl
s.. spun silk; a bonnet So; a dress cal
of queens blonde, 80 cents; AleXand re XII
gloves, one button, 81 49, shoes, Away
buskins, 81 80; umbrella. 81 or s.. Quake
garments have no flounces or tucks.
+, A correspondent writing from Londo
says: Some years since Mrs. Mowatt wrot
home that titled ladies in London had thei
feet and legs modelled, and these model
were kept as ornaments on their ORA wing
room tables, and sold in the shops Thi
seemed SO incredible 10 American ears, tina
one Of the leading magazine writers of Tia
country, in an editorial, called in ouestiO
the statement. This produced a letter froT
an artistin London we'll known TO the ed
itOr, in which he vouched for the truth of j
He had given Mrs. MowatT the Information
He mentioned several instances, one in pal
tieular, where an artist he knew had take
the cast of the foot and leg of a titled lad
for dIawing-room ornament. BE furthe
added: sit was not at all an extraordinar
occurrence. or one likely to excite surpris
or remark" s.-t
The Spectator says: Some curious statist
cal returns have been prepared rs to the rel:
tive prevalence of the practice of suicide j
the different European armies. Suicide az
pears TO be three times as prevalent in OF
army as in the male population of the san
age engaged in ordinary occupations; in tt
Belgian army, again, it is One-tOurth pa
more common than own; and in I'll
French army one-third part more common
in the Prusslan army it is not quite twice
common as in our own, and in the Austr
Hungarian army more than twice as con
mon. These figures mean, we suppos
first, that our army, in which there Is I
CONSUMPTION, suffers less in this way ths
armies where the service is enforced; mex
that our troops have the kind of physiql
least liable to oppressive melancholy; an
lastly, perhaps, that the military respons
bilities thrown upon them are less WeariI
than in other armies.