The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-29
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

MIS-. Louise - BOlul W
Europe for a year.
The Bank of California has been reor-
ganizsd under the new code.
Mark Twain will go to Europe in the
spring and be, in sense, abroad again.
The latest from the Kelly motor is to the
effect that 1t will be ready for a demonstra-
ton by spring.
Two Americans have bought and will
exhibit the stone sarcophsgus in which it
was intended TO bury Guibord.
Jean Ipgelcw lives in the aristocratic
Ksnsington gardens quarter, but in a plain
and quiet way, and Is very accessible to
Americans.
'The spirits Of unjust men, made imper-
fectly," is the irreverent way ia which the
Sc. Louis Globe Democrat talks of the
CROOKED" article.
The largess polished plate ever exhibited
was the work OF the Thames Plate Glass
Company OF England, measuring 10 feet 3
inches long, anc 10 f5et inches wide.
II ladies OF the period are as just as they
are beautiful, they will contribute some
thing toward monument for King Csnute.
He was tie person who originally ordered
the tide back.
Plymouth Church has $50 more female
than male members. And somewhere in
Brooklyn sre go men who'd better join.
Women can be trusted alone Of course, but
we're all mortal.
France and Italy are negotiating a new
treaty of commerce through their respective
representatives A. Paris. The duties and
distractions are to oe lessened In accord
auce with free trade principles.
In 1855 the Paris omnibusses carried
10000 coo passengers; in 1860, - 600 900; in
1867, exhibition year. III. 900, 900; in 1869,
$4,000, 900; in 1871. rs 900 coo; in 1872, Ill,
00O, 200; and in 1874 over 100000 900.
An effective cement for fastening paper
tickets to tin goods is said to consist in a
solution OF gum to which amonia has been
added. Glue with which a small quantity
of glycerine has been mixed is another good
cement.
"a seal-skin vest, every button of which
contained a solitaire diamond" was what
Is said to have onoe prompted Commissioner
Douglas to advise Supervisor Mcdonald "to
dress more like white man and a
Christian"
The late Duke OF Modena, who was an
Austrian srchduke and extremely wealthy,
furnished much of the sinews of war to Don
Carries. His death and the consequent
stoppsge OF relnitIances have occasIoped
quite a stampede in the Carlist camp.
A committee has been formed at Florence
for the purpose of celebrating, next May
the centenary OF Christofori, tho inventor
of the piano. The principal feature of the
celebration will be in irrational concerts on
large scale. The AbSe L.sz. has promised
to play.
Capt. Eads expresses himself as icing
satisfied at the progress of the work on the
Mississippi jetties. The financial resources
of the ietty company are now all that could
be desired, and the completion of the work
which IL has under; AIKEN seems TO be a mere
question of time.
Ire story of Vice President Wilson'S
birth in gipsey-csmp has been, as might
have been expected, sushoratitigely denied
His great-grest-grsnd-fathe was an English
emisTant. Jeremiah s. Goliath, an uncle
OF the vice president, vouehes for his descent
from English stock,
Col Joyce has at last been detailed Il
daty. He has been appointed to the pos:
ton recently occupied by the United States
prisoner of color that was removed Il
Leayenworth, so much against his will
placed In charge of Cell Hall No. 1-old @,
bulldog whore the darkies are confined. IL il
the colonel's duty TO see that the hall is ep
In proper order.-Jefferson City Journal.
The organ grinders, according to the Elk
aminer, killed John Leach, and they yer,
nearly made an end OF Mr.. Holman Hunt
he probably would not have escaped will
his lite IL he had not taken refuge in tn,
East. We know one literary man who ha
been hunted by them from square TO square
finding no rest till be sought quiet hsrbo
and an anchorage in one of the inns. Mr.
Joaquin Miller is perha ps the only writer o
modern times who does not find organ
grinders insufferable. He not only tolerste
them, but asserts that they are the only rer
reeentatives OF the old troubadours, and cul
tivates them accordingly.
The crew of the English ship Pauline, OF
the coast OF Brazil, report having seen
huge sea serpent engaged in a deadly com
bat with a sperm whale, according to on
account two, and to another five animal
of the same species looking on, which wa
not very like the sperm whale, that ANNA
being the most, almost the only eangerou
species OF his kind. According to the &C
count OF toe Paultne's crew, the serpen
had two coils of its body around the whale
full sizsd one, ran about with il for SOM
time and then suddenly dived and disap
peared with it's prey into the ocean dept 3
The other whales. which had been n n
resting much emotion, hmm dately fled
finding, OF oouIse that they could be of u,
further service. An English chaplain a
Zanzibar sends to one of She London illus
trated papers a drawing of. the combat de
signed for aud approved by the crew of tn
Pauline, in which the serpent is Representa-,
as raising its head above its coils some ii e,
feet. It made, we are further told, twt
visits to the ship afterwsrd, once comiDj
very close to her and raising itself sixt'
feet out OF the water 10 menaciDg manner