The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Laura Fair is going 20 emigrste to Japan
Delaware has sold 900 900 quarts of straw
berries in three weeks.
The adventists have postponed the emu OF
the world until Jan. 1, ,9Ol.
Kitty Blanchard, once rather a well-known
actress. is now playing an engagement as
cook in a Chicago hotel.
RALPH Waldo Emerson wears ladies' hose,
which he fAstens, according to the latest
style, with garter above the knees
Nafragansett is not feeling well this sea-
son. Nobody has inquired about rooms,
and only avery few families have arrived.
A Cincinnati boarding school girl while in
dulging with her companions in the amuse-
ment of kicking at mark the other day
dislocated her thigh joint.
Dubuque makes call for all the poets in
the country to assemble in that city on the
Ist of August and hold a grand reunion.
But where will the Dubuque people go?
The Duke of Argyll is an intense Presby-
terrain. He delights to take his visitors to
the summit of a high hill and remark, "You
can see from this point 120 Presbyterian
churches"
1t is not generally Known that st. Peters
covers a larger space than the Colosseum,
and that its outer walls are OF about the
same height as the walls of this famous am
phitheatre of Vespasian.
New Orleans has adopted the plan long
pursued in London and Paris, and the street
car companies are obliged to refuse trans
portation to a greater number OF passengers
than can be accommodated with seats.
Fon Gu Lac husbands have organized a
crusade, and go about praying with miliin-
ers, begging them not to deal out to their
wives and daughters the intoxicating spring
bonnet and the ravishing pork-pie hat with
ribbons on a side dish.
Admiral Pamfilow, who died recently in
st. Petersburg, was one of the most promi-
nent Russian defenders of SebastapoI. Since
1924 he had been connected with the Russian
navy. After the Crimean war he was ap-
pointed Governor ofSveaborg.
The Hartford people think Mark Twain is
embodying good deal of his humor in the
house he is building on Pennington avenue,
in that city. 1t is of brick, and is curiously
broken up by verandss, balconies, etc. 1t
will cost, unfurnished, over 100000.
p. Nackerstein, Esq, high-caste Hindoo
and an indigo planter of note, from Delhi,
Hindostan, is among the late arrivals at the
Grand Pacific. Chicago. He is en- route to
England. He reports business as much
overdone in his country, and the indigo
trade at a standstill.
A thieves and outlaws paradise has just
been established at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains just in the Canadian Dominion
It is reported to number five hundred men,
and a number of women and children. The
inmates are outlaws who have escaped from
United States justice.
The Oldest Catholic priest in North Amer
lea is now stationed at st. Johns church,
Frederick, Md, the Rev. John McElroy, S.
j. He Is s. years old, and was ordained by
Archbishop Carol sixty years ago. He
some time since became blind, but by an
operation his sight was restored.
Some newspaper has started the story
that ten feet underground, at Sodus, n. Y,
large frog has been found which is sup
posed to be Geo years old. His eye-sight
is not 50 good as when he sang in the prime
val ponds in years ago, and his long separa-
ton from his family has told on him some
what, but he is still vigorous and vOiceful.
Miss Alice Castyrene, the pretty girl-rider,
who was supposed to have been fatally in
jured in hurdle-race at the Hippodrome,
New York, is pronounced out of danger.
She recovered her senses before the night
was over, and recognized the friends about
her. Fortunately. the fall while it discolored
her face, inflicted no permanent disfigure-
ment
Somebody has been summing up the fate
of kings and emperors as follows: Out OF
$50 emperors or kings, over 81 nations, 229
were dethroned, Ga abdicated, 20 committed
suicide, IL went mad, 100 died on the battle.
field, l23 were made prisoners, % were pro-
nounced martyrs and saints, Isl were as
sasinated, 62 were poisoned, and los sem
fenced to death. Total, 963.
There is in the canton of Obwalden, Swift
erlsnd, a law making it penal for minors to
indulge In smoking. The "patrisrchs, !" 9TH
srwise called the government of the canton
of Obwalden, noticing a shocking increase
in the pernicious use of tobacco and snuff
by minors generally, have republished an
that due punishment will be melted out to
offe1ders.
A correspondent asserts that the reason of
Rubinstein's absence from England is, first,
the want of a valuable engagement; and,
secondly, the sickening adulation of his So
called friends. RuOinstein delights in war,
and nothing gives him greater pleasure than
destroying pianos, to revenge himself against
the c<{<Ic6-s The harder the critics thump at
him, 51e harder does Rubinstein thump at
his rIau0, Triangular duel which is kept
UP 70 the benefit of all parties concerned.