The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-16
GENERAL NOTES.

That was given her years agone;
Then she murmured -HAhl why Is this,
When came through the street alone|
GENERAL NOTES.
Courbet, the great French artist whose
latest picture, 'The Venus of the Peroquet,"
has startled the critics, is the son of hum |
BILE French farmer, and has long lived at the |
little village of Ornans, in the department
of Doubs. 500 Ola ltlIf -
A Mr.. Parks, of Alton, ILL.,, has suggested
the erection of a monument TO Elijah Love-
Joy, at a cost of S1O0, 600. Only small stone,
erected by private citizen not a friend OF
the abolition cause, but an admirer, marks
Lovejoy's grave. .r e f. b. H8ff ID. lile
Six women burglars broke into an unoc-
cupied house in Brooklyn lately and carpets
and furniture valued at $500 carried away.
A portion OF the property has been recoy.
cred and the women have been arrested and
are held for trial.
A st. Paul exchange notes the arrival In
that city of a party of English missionary
teachers. Among them was the bishop of
Athabasca and wife. Athabasca IS about
seven hundred miles from Fort Garry, and
its mission stations are widely scattered
over Prince Ruperts Land. . m -.g
A hill composed almost entirely of pure
sulphur, with only fifteen per cent. Of i'm
purities, has been discovered 900 miles west
of Omaha The introduction of sulphur in
to commerce will break the Sicilian monop-
DIV, which for centuries mas been Hour
ishiug source of revenue to tnst island.
A correspondent of the st. Paul Press
writing from Martin county in that state
saws that many fields in that section which
a few weeks ago gave promise of good
promise are now as bare OF vegetation as
though they were never seeded. The grass
hoppers are yet only half grown, and II the
present dry weather continues little grain
can be raised in the regions desolated by
these pests
By return just issued we learn that the
area of London consists OF l22 square miles.
The river Thames is crossed by IL bridges;
the average daily supply of wateris 4,269
metric tons, and the annual rsteable valu-
able property is e20, 100000 sterling. Last
year the number OF births was l2l.000 in
So weeks, or 2, 2S5 weekly; and, as the deaths
&c, 1854, or AS weekly, the excess OF births
over deaths was A, 400, or $50 weekly.
A short time ago q professional gambler
went into a faro bank In Chicago to have an
engagement with the "tiger." He COM
menced playing, lost, won, lost again. con-
tinued losing; and finally at the end of so
hours he Quit the engagement out of pocket
the game was unbroken. The gambler
never slept for a moment, never stopped to
eat meal, but carried the whole tremendous
enterprise through without rest, cessation or
refreshment. g..
The wines of Senator Sumner have Just
been sold, consisting of about 425 bottles of
agreat variety of brands. In exceptional cases
only they brought fancy prices. Seven
bottles of old Romance Burgundy, highly
priced by Nr. Sumner, brought 81 a bottle.
One bottle Of JOhannesberger cabinet from
the cellars of Prince Metternich, 1862, was
sold for S12. The auctioneer said he learned
from credible source it was Mr.. Sumner s
special admiration, and that whenever be
went into his wine cellar, which was per
haps once year. he had this identical bottle
hunted up, and always remarked, he in
tended 20 have il opened on some occasion
when lie had particular friends to dine with
him. l.
The latest scandal in Chicago is to the
effect that one of the respectable young ex-
quisites of that highly moral city fell in love
with a popular young actress, Miss Eliza
O'Conner, and put her in marble fronted
house. furnished luxuriously, and lived
with her. Finally, Eliza brought matters TO
crisis by warning him, Couch by name,
that unless he should marry her, she should
accept fine position offered her by Man.
ager Stuart, of the Now York Park Thester
in New York who was then looking for a
rival TO Clara Morris. They were soon mar
ried by a magistrate and went on wed
ding trip. The blow is a severe one to Ira
COUGHS family, which has belonged to
Chicago since 1888, and James Couch, his
father, has declared their partnership dis
solved g
A letter from San Francisco gives the true
history of the poem entitled 'sBinley and
49, which has been going the rounds of the
newspaper press as a poem Of Bret Hsrte's
1t seems to have had its origin in dispute
which arose between the editor of the "Open
letter. in San Francisco, and some literary
friends, the former asserting that poem
written in the style of any well known poet
no matter how absurd, would be copied cleal
to the Atlantic seaboard. Accordingly the
poem was written in the 'Open Letter" as 9
contribution by Bret Harte. The result was
as expected, the poem was copied far and
wide as genuine, and even found place In
Frank Leslie's magazine and was illustrated
by Matt. Morgan. The publication of such 9
literary fraud had two results: First, that
OF proving how much the acceptance o.
matter depends upon the name it bears; and
secondly, that the discriminating and crit
zeal powers of the average American edi
TOR are not OF the highest order.