The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-19
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEUo AM UOoOlIs
Miss Moore, of Trenton, n. J.. is so op
posed to intemperance that the sight of an
apple gives her commissions.
The Detroit Tribune furnishes the best
"head line" of the season in calling the
Intercollegiate literary contest ~ Skull
Race"
ley" said the window pane. "And /
see, too" said the small boy as he scratched
a peck-hole through the frost with his
thumb nail.
woman at Lancaster Ohio, ian a needle
into her breast u years ago and failed to
have IL extracted. A few days since it came
out Of her foot.
the circulating library at Memphis con-
sists Of a dictionary, two novels, Parton's
Life of Aaron Burr and one of George Fran
els Trains lectures.
The editor of the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald
and Mail refers to the Louisville Courier
Journal as the best newspaper south of the
Ohio, cor any other stream of the same mag
Eitude"
1.-THE Ugly Girl Papers" is a new publica-
ton by Harper Brothers, and lis title will
excite the curiosity to know what right an
ugly girl has to publish her wise and foolish
sayings.
Two hundred and forty three persons per-
ished on the lakes this year, against 22l in
1878, and PIG in 1872 The estimated damage
to property foots up s3,O3l, 600 against 1876
coo in 1873
The New Jersey authorities are thinking
about arresting the lady managers of church
fairs where lotteries have been run during
the past month. They are all liable under
the state laws.
With 10000 needlewomen in Paris earn
Inc an avera0a n vyO cante hOur uybo -
TO wonder at the ''laxity of morals among
the poor" or that the Morgue is crowded
like the public parks.
Gustav Dore was paid, in the beginning OF
his popularity, $500 each for the drawings
made as illustrations of Tennyson's 'Tdyls. :"
The original drawings, eighteen in number,
were lately sold tor 500.
A Detroit lady compostor has succeeded
in catching husband in the person of q
Detroit editor. Detroit female compositors
appear to have quite reputation for "set-
ting caps."-BroOklyn Argus.
Count Joannes says that the New York
Tribune building will stand ''untiI an In
dian president of this republic shall gaze in
wonder at the void space and rugged rocks
OF the dried up Falls of Niagara"
Art education is making great progress in
England, If we can Judge from the number
Of art schools, of which tbere were 2,1OO in
1871, with 403, 461 pupils, and in 1878 of 26l,-
400, while the works OF art offered for exhi-
bition had increased from 102, 467 to Isl, 6S3
DR.. McCosh, president of Princeton Col
lege, thinks that it does not necessarily fol
low that the youth who carr write a two min
utes' speech aud deliver il trippingly on thu
stage will turn out TO be an orator. st the
bar, in the pulpit Senate. Protest No.
against the Age of Cab!
Lloyd, the famous map man, has just in
vented way of getting a relief plate from
steel so as to print Lloyd's map of Amer
ican oontinent-showing from ocean Il
ocean-on one entire sheet of bank note pa
per, 40x50 inches large, on a lightning press
colored, sized and vanished for the wall 81
as to stand washing and mailing anywher
in.the world for 25 cents, or unvarnishe1
tor 10 cents.
The LIE Roy IN. " Gazette tells of some
thing which most people would regard a
miraculous: Katharine Mccall, of Gale
donna, sister of John G. and Laura Mccall
81 the age of % years-up to which tim
she coDversed like other people-all at ono
ceased to speak, and for AZ years has nc
spoken a word, until Sunday, December q
when her speech returned, and she now cor
verses moderately, but distinctly. No RED
son is given or known why this wonderfy
recovery of a wOmaE'S speech after so man
years Of pantomimic life.
The Rev. W. w. Chase, pastor of the Lead
ing Methodist Church In Fond du La
Wis, in a sermon on a recent Sunday, su
prises bis congregation by declaring th'