The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-09-22
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Iowa.
Il consider Mrs. Tilton,' SAYS DIR. Mar,
Walker, "a disgrace to my SEX"
Ellen Il. Miller, of Philadelphia, has lef
by her will s13,5OO to several Presbyterian
societies.
Grace Greenwood writes that she has
lamed her wrist while chopping wood OF
her Colorado estate.
Nary Jane Hallowell owns the best baby
IN Connecticut, according to the verdict oi
the Baby Show Committee.
Efforts are still being made to elect Miss
Elizabeth A. Peabody and Miss Abbie w
May members of the school board oi
Boston.
The illustrated London News announces
donation out of the royal county funds OF
800 to the widow of the late Mr.. Howard
Siaunton, the eminent chess player and
-Sbaksperean scholar.
Bulwer, in one of his early novels, writ
Ing oflove, says: "Perhaps it would be bet
ter il we could get rid of it altogether Life
would go on smoother and happier without
It Friendship is the wine of existence, but
love is the edram-drinking."
The newest thing in fans is of ostrich
feathers so arranged as to form square,
Ia the center is a small mirror, surrounded
by imitation pearls. The feathers are OF
every color, but the entirely black fans ap-
pear to be the most fashionable.
Nine. Bszsine is superstitious, like all
Mexican women, and has given necklace
amber beads, which she wore at the time
The evasion of her husband to her little
daughter She is sure that, under the cir
cunstances, it will bring the child coed
luck.
At the dress reform convention, at Paines-
ville, Mrs. Vibbert came to the frcnt and
said that she stood there radical for
- dress and asinner before God, ,"for, five years
aSo, gave up my short dress to keep peace
with my friends, aud from that day have
not dared TO pray"
The experiment of admitting women to
the franchise, and even to the exercise of
still more important political functions, is
about to be tried in the canton of Schwyz
one of the smallest and also one of the most
Oitramontane division of the Swiss confed-
Sration.
Mrs. Lindsay,a benevolent Christian lady,
has collected money and books for the Jewish
school at Tsngiers. She has seen the sad situ-
alton of the Jewish children in that African
c1ty, pitied them, and concluded to assist
them. Her efforts have been crowned with
good success.
4 committee of the city council of Chicago
has rendered Gen. Shaler, former president
OF the New York City fire department, the
office of chief of the Chicago fire department.
It is stated on good authority that Shaler !
mas accepted, and is to assume the Office on |
cSae lst of January next.
Monsieur Bilboquet ("peintre academi- |
cien"(-"I tell you, sare, zat--ze secret OF all |
true art is lost, and Eat painting is zing of |
re past. Zere are not more zan zree men |
living who are worry of ze name of painterln
His patron and admirer-"Yes yes. And |
who are the three men, Monster Bilboquet?" |
Monster BilbOquet-"Vell, / am one of |
zem. have forgotten ze names of re two |
Ozers!'-Punch.
There recently died in Belgium lady of
fortune, named Madame Monsieur, who had
singular mania for the boarding of articles
OF dress. After her death an examination |
of her effects revealed an unusual state of |
things. There were mountains OF dress
goods uncut, and bearing the tradesman's |
price labels, besides hundreds of bonnets.
dresses made up, cloaks. shawls, and various |
specimens of the modiste's art It is be-
lieved that the sale of this accumulation of |
goods will realize something like $40, 900.
called at Msgruder's the other morning
on my way down town, and as 1 know them
well, 1 entered the side door without knock
ing. ] was shocked to find Mr. Magruder
PROSTATE on the floor, while Mrs. Magruder |
sat on his chest, and rumbled among his |
hair as she bumped his head on the boards, |
and scolded him vigorously. They rose
when came in, and Magruder. as he wiped |
the blood from his nose, tried to pretend it /
was only joke. But Mrs. Magruder inter-
rUpbed him: "Joke? Joke? / should think |
not, was giving him a dressing down.
he wanted to have family prayers before
breakfast, and 1 was determined to have
them afterward, and as he threw the Bible at |
me, and hit Mary Jane with the hymn book. |
i soused down on him. If / can't rule this |
house, I'll know why. Pick up them scrip |
tures and have prayers! You hear me, |
Magruder? It's more trouble regulatin' the |
piety of this family than runnin' saw
mill. Mary Jane, give your pa that hymn |
book" left before the exercises began
\ stranger, about as broad through the
shoulders as a table, says the Detroit Free
Press. was eating a free lunch in Randolph
street saloon yesterday, when three roughs
came in. They seemed to take an antipathy
Co the stranger at first sight, and it wasn't
long before one Of them said he could lick
any man that ever wore red hair. The
stranger glanced over that way but said
nothing. "And l can whip any man with
wart on his nose," said the second. The
stranger chewed away at his crackers as if
he didn't hear, and the third man said: ssI'm
iust aching to knock the head off of some
country galoot." Even that didn't move
the stranger, and finally one of the trio
walked over to his table, and looked at him
IN contempt, and deliberately spat on the
strangers boot. He waited to drink the last
OF bis beer, and then got up, gave himself a
shake, and he knocked the roughs down one
zfter the other, striking with both fists and
striking awful blows. He waited for them
TO get up, and as they dropped into chairs to
analyze their feelings he quietly remarked:
How do you like it as far as you've gone?'
they hadn'ta word to say and he walked
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