The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


A committee of three have been appointed
in Toledo to make the necessary prepare
tions for starting a school of design, as the
beginning of university of arts and trades.
There are few sights more inspiring than
the spectacle of small boy shooting along
an alley way with about four feet of bull
dog fastened to his trousers, and floating in
the breeze behind him.
There is a story from Paris of dog that
has been sleeping ever since the 18th OF last
America. The American dog not only stays
awake himself, but keeps every other living
thing awake.
1t is thought that colored Cadet Baker will
be dismissed from the naval academy for in
capacity to improve, at the next semi annual
examination, which begins on the 18th inst.
His standing in studies is extremely low.
The Nevada legislature has been called
the Legislature Mining Company, organ
lied to sink shaft on the Sharon lead;
shares at $4,000" 1t cost the distinguished
bonanzist just $500, 900 to get to the Senate.
Shsrin' terms like these pay all around.
The Courier-Journal is authority for the
charge that Kalakaua hadn't been in Chi
cago more than an hour and half before
several of his new acquaintance wanted to
KNOW ii ne QO tttbtlC SO1lCehAHE
for them in the way of quieting "that
mortgage"
The Milwaukee Sentinel having intimated
that the Courier-JournaI man secures shirts
from his neighbours clothes line, the little
talker of the G. ]. salty responds: "As the
Sentinel itsely is satisfied with one shirt
month il never feels that soul consuming
yearning for clean one which makes a
clothes-line attractive to the most of us.'
After Detroit man has sat in street car
eight minutes TO get past the switch, he
opens the front door and shouts: "Sir, are
you the driver of this ere carr" The driver
has to own up, and the man continues:
'Well, sir, want to tell you that / could
make a better road than this out of two
clothes pins and a brickP
Having heard his daughter remark, ooh,
your nose is as cold as an iceberg" Boston
father Just stepped out into tina parlor, but
finding the daughter at one end of the sofa
and the young man az the other end very
quiet, he concluded that his hearing was
not reliable in his old age, so he retired and
said nothing.
A Berlin correspondent refers thus to our
minister at that court: Mr.. and Mrs. Ban
croft Davis have been absent some time in
Paris, in order to attend the wedding of a
relative of Mrs. Davis, a Miss King, who
married Mr.. Waddington, minister of in
struction, and who replaces Guizot in the
French Assembly. Upon their return Mrs.
Davis was quite iii with diphtheria, but is
now better, aud has issued cards for her
first reception. The invitations are entirely
different from Mr.. Bancroft's, and much
more American and home like.
The Reading (Pa.) Times thus refers to
the death of local giant: On Wednesday
morning Mr.. William Kupp, aged q years,
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throughout that section for his remarkable
weight, died suddenly. Mr.. Kupp was a
wonderfully framed man, weighed 450
pounds, and some idea of his immense size
may be gathered from the tacs that the calf
of his right leg measured 20 inches in cir
cumference. He was feet inches in
height, and was, without doubt, the heaviest
man in the United States. He was said to
have been singularly handsome man, and
his unusual size did not seem to detract
from his personal loneliness.
1t is stated by the publishers CT DIR. John
w. Draper thai the works of 70 living au-
thor, or any pest or novelist, living or dead
have been translated into so many Ian
guages, or have so many readers, as his. The
treatise On the "Intellectual Development o.
Europe" hes appeared in English, French
German, italian, and Russian; while the
Conflict OF Science and Religion"-his las
contribution to literature-was published
simultaneously in America, England, France
Spain, Germany, Italy, and Russia. i
might be added to this statement, that ther,
is perhaps no author, living or dead, abOu
the value of whose works there are suCl
conflicting opinions He is pronounced. OF
the one hand, man of vast aud profound
learning, whose testimony on any subjec
Is to be accepted as conclusive authority
and, on the other hand, he is said to be
literary charlatan, superficial and untrust
worthy. One fact is certain: his reputatior
stands higher in Europe than in his owl
country.