The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-06
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Edna Dean Proctor has sued Francis ID
Moulton for libel, laying her damages at
100000
No young man is proof against gunl
drop when she holds il between her teeth
and invites him to take bite.
Saws John Paul, "'Tis very hard to be a
good Christian when one has weak diges-
ton, and / sometimes fancy that change oil
stomach would benefit the morbid sinner al
most as much as change OF heart.
young woman at Trenton, who was
sleeping with her feet hanging out of the
chamber window. was struck by tightening
and almost torn to pieces. The OF her Tren-
ton women have taken their feet in.
The Hon. 5. J. Tilden, the democratic can
didate for governor of New York, is at
present in receipt of probably larger fees as
lawyer than any other lawyer in New
York City, except Charles O'Conor and
David Dudley Field.
Mr.. C. III. Phelps, of Washington. swan
the Hellespont August %. Two gentlemen
followed in a boat. In a direct line the
width of the river is about mile, but the
rapiditv of the current greatly increases the
distance that must necessarily be swum to
get over.
When a man has just been yanked out in
to the backyard by his wife and had the
door slammed into his face, he can't take up
position in the middle of the grass-plot,
with boot in one hand and shaving brush
in the other, and personate Ajax defying
the tightening to any great extent.
Dr. Edward III. Clarke's new book, "The
Building of Brain" is nearly ready for
publication by James r. Osgood q Co. 1t
is not at all in the nature of reply to the
criticisms evoked by his famous Sex in
Education" but reiteraLes very briefly and
forcibly the essential ideas of that work,
while discussing the topics which his i'm
portant theme suggests.
Jerome Bonaparte, the second son of the
deceased American nephew of the first Ma
poleon. has been recently admitted to the
bar at Baltimore. and his rst plea is pro-
nounced to be an admirable effort. He is
described as a fine-looking young man of
grave aspect, with an admirably formed
head and a face full Of intellectual express
sion.
a. Olkey Hall, of New York, is all this:
a lawyer. poet, politician, an orator, a
Journalist, al essayist, jurist, play
wright, pere de famille, phrenologist,
a psychologist, a novelist, an inter-
viewer, n pedestrian, an equestrian, an
Episcopalian, an eDistOlarian, philosopher,
theologau, a transceudant Dsrwinian,
s2urniapd and a scholar.
hear that Mr.. Hepworth Dixon has ar
ranged to turn an honest penny during his
visit to the United States. He has con-
traced to write a weekly letter from Amer
lea. which is to be manifolded and sent to
some twenty-five Of our PROVINCIAL journals,
each of which 8 TO pay .wo guineas tor the
manuscript. Thus Mr.. Dixon will gel about
fifty guiBeSs n weak for perhaps an hours
labor. His second son is to 90 out with him
to act as his secretary and to do the mani
fOlding.-London Letter.
The statue of Lincoln, for the new Lincoln
monument at Springfield, H., which has
stood completed at the Ames works in
Springfield, Mass, for about two years, is at
last boxed up, and only awaiting the arrival
of a special car, which is to convey it west
ward The weight of the statue, with the
box in which it is 10 be shipped, Is {. 800
pounds. The Ames Company expect, in case
the models arrive promptly. to complete the
entire Lincoln monument in from three to
four years. l
E. NJ. Schroif, of Bombay, India, a fire
worshiper, and the first of his race chat has
visited this country, is at Boston, exanlin-
ing the public schools, with view to intro
duce institutions like them in his own coun-
try. lie IL a graduate of the English uni
Versity at Bombay, and speaks English
fluenty. He is correspondent OF the Bom-
bay Times during his stay in America He
adheres tcnsciously to the doctrines OF
| IorOaster, and is not at all favOrably i'm
pressed with the operations OF the Christian
missionaries in India.
Widow Jones' husband died far away
from home, and it took so long for his re-
mains to reach her that the reiict had quite
recovered from her grief, and was giving a
largo lunch party when the body finally ar
rived. A wagon drove up to the door, and
large box was handed out. Curiosity ran
high among the ladies at the window, and
with one accord they exclaimed, why,
Mrs. Jones, what can that be-" Up went
Mrs. Jones' eyeglasses, aud after glance
she coolly said, ''Weii, it must be old Jones
\ come home. Charles, run down and open
the door for your father"
The date OF the great social event of the
season in Chicsgo has at last been definitely
settled. The marriage of Fred. Grant, son
of bin excellency, the president, and Miss
Honore, the second daughter of III. III
Honore, Esq. OF this city. will take place on
the 10Th of October. There has been allu-
sios,s- to this match in the papers from time
TO time but they have all been lacking in
definiteness Tor the reason hat the day has
ust been fixed. The marriage will take
place at Kentwood, at the house of Potter
Palmer, the husband of the elder Miss
Honore. The list of bridesmaids has not
vet been fully made out, but among them
IS Miss Dunlevy, OF Chicago. The other
names will be announced at a future day
Chicago Tribune.