The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

f- NEWS AND GOSSIP. &
MI Hammerton wrote his "Inteliectuai
Life" twice, burning up the first copy be-
cause he was dissatisfied with it. and then
writing it over again.
Mr.. Mark Firth, of England, who recently
built and endowed block Of aFmshouses at
a cost of upwards of G40 900. has purchased
the Page hall estate situated near Sheffield,
for 10, $50. 1.f
At the German Catholic Convention in
Rochester, the bishop Of that city made
attack on the public school system declar-
ing il 10 bea Protestant system and melting
the Caholics against 1t.
The world is said to De moving. Some OF
the old Congregational churches In New
England are revising and modifying their
creed 50 as te be in accordance with the pro-
gress of present religious thought.
Mrs. Elizabeth S. French. of the Philadel
phia League, states that the number of
women now actively engaged in The move
nent in that city fOots up q. 1878. The labors
of this great army have closed between
three and four hundred saloons, and pledged
20 saloon-keepers and 2lS bar tenders.
a. the state convention of Uniyersalists,
in Wisconsin, resolution was adopted Up
ing the traffic in intoxicating LIQUORS as a
beverage, as contrary to christian morality,
injurious to the church OF Christ. and hurt
full to ali the best interests of the human
family.
There is society in BrOoklyn-Mrs Or.
Theodore Cuyler, D. D., president-tor put
ting down corsets, carriers, high heeled shoes,
false hair waterfalls monster bonnets
rouge, hair dye, and other feminine vanities.
II is said to have the world, the flesh and the
devil against it,
The agricultural committee will not meet
again this session, neither will it be called
up07 for report. The most important mat
ter which the committee has worked hard
upon. aud will lose, is the cattle-transit bill
Animals will therefore continue to be sub
iect whIie in transit on the cars TO the old
law.
The Medina Gazette says, that a circus ex-
hioited At West Salem short time since,
and among the attractions Of the day was the
old game OF three card monte, and one ply
stefan lost $24, one church men Der lost $50,
one gray haired father lost $50, and one
shYewd farmer lost $40.
A new crusade has been commenced in
New York by some of the newspapers OF
tha. city. 1t is proposed TO embsrrsss, if
who are chronic ''smileIs" between acts, or
who, in other words, find it necessary to
leave tleir ladies', whom they may thus dis
honor "a an escort, for the purpose OF going
down stairs to gel q drink.
There Is now in the Corcoran Art Gallery
at Washington, a new painting, by Thomas
Moran. It is called the "Chasm OF the Co
Iorado," and is q view of q portion of the
Grand Gorge of the Colorado river, which
was first explored and mapped. few years
since, by Major j. W. Powell. The scene
lies in Northern Arizona, about 400 miles
south of Salt Lake City. The painting is OF
the same size as the Yellowstone picture at
the capitol.
Hans Christian Andersen pays America
this compliment. He says: Only the orig
iual editions of my books have brought me
anything. For what little property have
must thank my little Danish nation exclu-
sively. The Americans are commonly called
eoystous, selfish and know not what, and
yet the only compensation L have ever re
ceived from a foreigner has cOms TO me from
an American publisher. l have never either
seen or known the man, and he sent me a
short time ago, of his OWN accord, eight hun
dred Danish Tix-dollars
The trustees of the Boston Public Library
have forbidden the circulation of Marie
Howlsnd's book, Paps's Own Girl, on the
ground that il is coarse; so Marie has writ
ten them an open letter, charging that this
is not their real reason, but they are afraid
of the reform principles IL advocates The
object ~ the book is T" to give expression to
the legal and social disabilities Of women,
and, further, to the outrageous injustice ol
our industrial system, by which the pro
ducers of wealth are so robbed OF IL that the
army Of psupers Il yearly increasing. 7, r.,
According to French veterinary surgeon
simple method of preventing flies from an
moving horses consists In painting the insidt
ofthe ears, or any other part especially
troubled. with few drops of empyreumati'
oil Of juniper. 1t is said that the odor o
this substance is uncomfortable to flies, ant
that they will keep at distance from th'
parts so arointed II this treatment should
accomplish the alleged results it may, DER
haps, be applicable in repeiling mCseuitoe
nom the facrs and bands of tourists ant
sportsmen when passing through woods o
meadows.
John Mshouy, better known as the Amer
can Jack sheppard" has written q lette
extoIIing the conduct of the state peniten
tiG!r at Joliet, III. He says: "There is on
good thug in this prison, and that is, Their
is no tavoritism allowed. Saint and SHINE
are treated alike. II convict gets an cas-
Job It is because he deserves it, and not Of
account OF dollars and cents, or his sOcia
standing IN society before he became a criLni
nal IT Tweed Ingers0ll. Stokes, or an
other If hose hig b-tOned Tasoals, were ii
thsS oenitentisry they would have to turl