The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-17
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Every old maid can boast of two beaux,
but they are elbows.
The Wyoming women won't allow cir
cuses to be held in the evening.
Carlotta Patti has been offered e75, 900 to
sing il Calcutta tor three months.
Richmond ladies treated their New Year
callers to peanut cake and buttermilk."
A Milwaukee woman wants divorce be-
cause her husband doesn't give her money
enough to dress nicely.
The ladies of Baltimore are said to dress
more elegantly this season than has been
known before for decade.
The Princess of Wales and all her little
chicks are nesting in the old house at home.
in Denmark, these Holidays.
And now comes young lady from Cor
nell University and takes the first prize for
. Greek in the intercollegiate literary con
fest.
The wife of one of the newly fedged con-
gressmen told visitor the other day that
she didn't mind having a room in the fourth
story in her hotel at Washington, as she
went up and down in the ventilatOr.
It is now proposed to offer the Centennial
1aureste's post to Mrs. Sarah ]. Hale, the
author of our native poem beginning
"Mary had little ram whose feas were
white as snow."-New York Graphic.
Mrs. Joyce wants Brlstow to give her a
position in the treasury department. She
says she has right to this, as the secretary
has deprived her of the means of support by
driving her husband to the penitentiary.
Mrs. Marie Anioinette Tibald, formerly
Eiss Hay, of Richmond, Virginia, died in
San Francisco, October 20, at the age of
eighty-fve. She was favorite OF President
MsdisOn's wife, and was married in the
White House.
The members of the Fitch Avenue Thea
ter company, travelling in 1exas, changed
themselves into a concert troupe, in Calves
ton, for one Sunday evening. Sarah Jewett,
Nav NuneZ, Owen EdWcect, aud James M.
Harde sang, and there were Rotations by
others
Murray, the murderer who was hanged at
Pittsburg, died an infidel. resisting the ef-
forts OF ministers of various denominations
TO the last. His gallows companion became
Roman Catholic and joined in the endeavor
to convert him, but ne died declaring his
disbelief in religion.
The sight of a woman driving a cab at
racted the notice of the police in Glasgow,
and the regular driver was found inside the
vehicle, dead. The woman had gone on a
spree with companion, and had given the
man so much liquor that he had passed
NUN lncOhoAOAAAbJ W NOoLus
F.W. Clapp, of the Massachusetts, legisla.
ture, has refused a railroad pass. SCI be-
1ieve," he says, "that no member of the legis-
lature can receive favOrs OF this kind con-
sistently with his duty to his constituents
and the respect which he owes to himself y
Four other members have also returned
passes, but there are 275 to hear from.
In the Milan cemetery pavilion has been
put up for the cremation of bodies, which
being placed on an altar, are subjected to
the action of two hundred gas burners
giving heat of 900 degrees. Thus, body
Is consumed to ashes IN an hour. On Jan
uary Is, Chevalier Albert Keller is to be
burnt, the preparations having been made
by direction of his will.
The inducements held out to young men
ON the railways, the police force and
in skilled industry have become so great in
England that the war Office are at their wits
ends where to find eligible recruits for the
army. Even in the favorite corps of house
hold troops, the infantry of the guards, the
inferiority OF the recruits enllsting is greatly
complained of.
Kissaxe, an Indian chief believed to hsv.
been 100 years old, died recently in Wash
ington Territory. He belonged to the
Cowlitz tribe, which has dwindled, in q
years, from about thousand persons u
thirty-three, whisky and smallpox having
mainly done the work. His tribe was Ions
ago converted TO the Roman Catholic faith
but he although of exemplary habits AND
ready to help the priests, would not join the
church until 1872. de was buried IN sui
of fine black broad cloth, which he bac
owned 80 years and worn on great occasions