The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-08-05
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Miss Kate Field has arrived in England.
There is a horrid rumor of the restoration
of crinoline.
Lawn fetes are a favorite social amuse'
ment now in northern Ohio.
ssCream whlte'' has been finally adopted as
the color of the new postal card.
Really. now, ought not the girls to get
some clothes to wear over those dresses?
We are told nothing was made in vain;
but how about fashionable girl? Is she
not maiden vain?
Miss Evans latest novel is written in
"orioinal Greek" At least, il seems so to
the ordinary English reader.
The convenient polonaise has not become
pssse. Tt is still popular, and especially
when the front is arranged with tablier
and jacket.
NJ. Alexander Dumas, having met with
very decided success in the presentation of
his comedy sDemi Monde" at the Thester
Francsis, is now engaged in writing new
comedy for the stage.
Rents have fallen in Newport. George
Francis Trains house, which once rented for
$4,000, nows brings but 81 500; and it is feared
that its owner will be driven to return to
meat diet and epigrams.
In a recently published Gazetteer is the
following erratum: "For 'Dutchman' read
DIR. Adams.'" This is almost equal to the
well-known erratum in q country paper:
"For alum water read 'slma mater"
A little girl reading the History of Eng
land with her mother, and coming to the
statement that Henry i. never laughed ate
the death of his son, looked up and said
"What did he do when he was tickled?"
Howard Kingsbury swallowed morphine
in Bangor, Me-, and carefully laid himself
out on a bed, with his hands crossed over
his br sast so as to make a good looking
corpse; but the physicians disarraDged him
in using stomach pump.
pstent-outside country paper comes to
us without line of original matter, expect
an acknowledgment of q string of ish from
a neighbor. That editor evidently takes
warning from the fate of Robert Dale
OWENS over-taxed brsin.-MilwaukeaN News.
It is sad to see such q lack of reverence as
is evinced in the following from the Detroit
Free Press: "Those four Baltimore ba bies
are ali dead, and their mother wipes her
weeping eyes and sorrowfully exclalms:
'Tsin't likely I'll ever be mother to another
such cr0wdp"
woman will reach up and pull at win
dow sash for few seconds quite good ma
turedIy, but when 1t doesn't come down.
and she turns around and sees her husband
looking comfortably on, she mentally asks
herself, "Is civilization a fsilure?" and
wades for him.
Plans have been prepared for new edifct
about to be erected by Messers. r. L. Il A
Stuart, in Princeton n. J., and presented ss
gifs to the theological seminary at thai
place. The building will be brown stone
three stories high, surmounted by tower
and will cost $100, 600.
No two sides of any human face are pre-
cIsely alike. 1t is the same with every
limb; no pair of limbs are fashioned alike
One hand is almost always larger than tht
other so with the foot, the leg and the arm
But the greatest of all marvels is this: never
were two human faces alike.
Four statues had been placed on the towe
of the City Hall in Buffalo. Liberty
keeps a sharp lookout over the Niass-s
river, Justice looks across the city, "Agri
culture" scans the wagons OF the farmer
bringing their fruits to market, while f'Com
merce" has an eye 10 the lake.
Cheating is not confined to any psrticula
race. In a package of opium that has no
been opened since it LETT the shores of tn
LevaDt, received at drug store in Alex
andria, Va, there was found a collection O
old bullets and rocks, which had been pal,
for at the rate OF So Is pound.
Poor womeni When they wear loose
ample skirts, everybody condemns thei
extravagsuce. Now that the pretty AM
graceful tie-bsck skirt comes in, the news
papers call it indecent. Why, it's tn
prettiest thing in the way of dress sine
Eve left Eden, and what's the use of howl
ing about itf
Scan you write good financial article?
said boss editor to L ew man. ''Oh, yes
that is my strong hold on the press" sal
tbs new man, and he immediately sat dow
and dss he'd OF written promise to pay
small amount Of money. This be sigDe
and handed in for inspection. The hos
said that, as he was running a conservativ
paper, he was not prepared to endorse al
the steauger had written, but that il be W1ul.
go and prepare carefully written obituar
notice of himself, be would Pnbllsh it wit
great plsasurc.-Exebange.
If you acre hotel clerk in La Crosse, AN,
died, this iA the way you'd get written up
"How mucir better all the old guests of til
Eewhall would feel il they knew that ol
their arrival on, the 'otber Shore when the,
registered their names in the great book, T.
take permanent quarters in the Newhall o
the celestial regiCns, that y Cd Grecnmal
would stand behind the codnter, with {
quill pen from an angels wing behind hi
ear, with his old familiar smile, and that h
would give them No. 22i,, with hct and colt
water. and tell them to make themselves a
home"