The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-12
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Offenbach looks like German, and hates
himself for it. He is intensely French III
feeling.
The next edition of Tennyson Is to be an
notated with explanations of all the obscure
passages.
Marian Harland, successful writer Of
interconvertible 65 cook-books aud novels,
has an income OF 5000 per anIon from her
trashy writings.
Lucy Larcom, the well known magazine
writer, has accepted the position OF teacher
in priva,e school in BUstou. Literature is
not a paying profession.
Prof. Hseckel says thss the value of pub
LEGATIONS in scientific institutes is in inverse
ratio TO the magnitude of buildings and the
splendor of volumes. Hseckel must have
been in dng-house when he made this
cynical oil observation.
Yale is discreet. Her crews in six. cared
shells have heretofore shown q remarka de
aptitude for finding the IA end of faces at or
months of training. Captain Cook makes
sure OF rear position by Withdrawing En-
tirely from the association.
Mrs. Martha Bradshaw, witness agsins.
Mr.. Beecher, has been excluded from the
South Congregational Church, of Brooklyn,
to which she brought letter from Plymouth
OnuI~ vi tuo kIOuuu lndb GcI udlu0 Was
uDpleasantly connected with the great trial.
A feeling of compassion restraints the
Boston Globe from giving the name of the
paper that announced that Miss Fowler
would play Nell in Wills play of "Nell
Gwynne," aud Overwhelmingly and by
accident got an IL into the name of the
character right where it would do the most
hurt.
The New York Sun says. Theodore Til
ton has gained Fl fteen pounds, reclaimed his
paintings from chattel mortgage, reprinted
his house and paid all his pressing debts
since re began to lecture. He is to spend
most of the time until June lecturing in the
East. Next summer he is to finish his
novel.
The Herald obtains the gratifying infoi-
nation by cable from London that the sup
posed female gorilla in the Geological Gar
dens at Dresden. just before she died, recog-
nized her relation ship to Director Schoepf,
and kissed him tenderly thrice. The direc-
Tor was visibly affected, and became OAR
whist from that moment.
The Cincinnati Commercial profanely re-
marks: wendell Phillips says, you can't
make a license law loose enough. but what
I'll strsDgle every grog-shop in Boston, If
you'll make me superintendent of police
NNOAdoAA iuos VI FduIS6 Is TO nave OU,UUU
descendants OF the Puritan Fathers vainly
bowling for whisky straight"
Owing to curious accident, the Able
Moigno, OF Paris, has been led to protest
against the introduction OF the little red toy
balloons, with which the American children
are also familiar. It appears that cabman
In Paris was very severely burned about the
head and eyes by an explosion insdvert-
emily caused by reaching into his vehicle
and placing the end OF lighted cigar near
to one of THESE balloons, which had been left
there by a child.
Lady Burdstt-Coutts has undertaken a
hopeless crusade against class OF toys
which childish instinct, especially boyish
instincts. crave, and which, amid the ever
changing fashions now In plsythings, never
go out of vogue. Sue would taboo, in fact,
all mimic soldiers and cannonry, since they
teach boys the love of fighting; all squeak
ing pigs. and barking dogs, and believing
cows, since these nOurish ia the bOyish
breast that cruelty to animals which phi
lanthropic societies are so constantly and
painfully laboring to diminish.