The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-24

When Charlotte Cushman played Mrs.
Hsller in a Southern city, many years ago,
she was horror-struck in the last act at be-
the stage as her children. The audience
did not manifest emotions either OF de- |
rision or displeasure.
The Emperor of Brazil Is going to Vsssar |
College while on bis American tour, which |
leads the Burlington Hawk-Eye to remark |
that they are going to have him there on
fiap-jack day, so that his imperial majesty |
will understand why 1t is that America has
so little flour for expectation.
Babcock, they say, has gone secretly to
Vermont with mis- council to see Miles, now
in the state penitentisry, and get some
kind of an affidavit out OF him 70 suit his
side regarding the safe burglary. And
Harrington, they further say, will be in
duced to come back from Canada, and tell
all he knows.
Commodore Vsnierbiltis birthday, the
9th of May, will be observed as an annual
holiday by the officers and students OF
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennes-
see, To add interest TO the occasion prize
for oratory, to be competed for on that day
and called the Founders Prize, has been
established.
A committee of the Mississippi Lsgisls-
ture has reported that the debt of the state
on the first of last January was So S4l, 162,
and the available assets S709,55S. The
value of tire taxable property of the state
is: Real estate, S95, So. 497; personal
| estate, SIS, 539, 555, making a total OF
| Sl3l, 4l2,052.
Miss Dickinson lost one OF her most
valuable diamonds from its setting during
her performance at the Globe Theater in
Boston, Monday night. but it was found
afterward. The four dresses she wore Oh
the occasian were made in New York, and
cost $4,000. besides the ornaments. The
sale OF seats amounted to S2O4S.
Campbell, United States marshal for the
Northern district OF Illinois, has refunded
to Miss Sweet a fraction more than 81, leo,
being the sum she paid to him for Blake
/ ley, as the consideration for her eppoInt-
ment to the pension agency in Chicago.
The black-msiler of this female office
holder ought to be removed.
The infirmities of sge are diminishing
the respect which Brigham Young once
used to compel from the members of his
household. Now he can stand on the thrts-
hold of his bedroom door two or three
hours every morning, holleTiug to some of
MS wives, auQ sLll1 nave 10 20 Ddch anu
button his shirt with string.
ole Bull has lust returned from most
successful tour in Egypt, where, according
to promise made to the king of Sweden
and Norway, he played on the top of the
pyramid Cneops on his last birthday, Feb
rnary 5. Having accomplished this he tel
egrsphed to the king, who answered II :
mediately: thar k you for your telegr N
| oxl fOio in oil
Here is bit of characteristic news from
Genoa paper: Miss Anna Dickinson,
who, u year ago, caused the condemnation
of an English colonel for improper gal
lantries in a railway car, wishing TO profE
by the notoriety thus gained, went to
| America to lecture, and efterward EN-
braciDg the dramatic career, is about to
make her debut in America.
A flash of lightning was seen TO strike q
flock of wild geese at st. Louis the other
: day, and one of them fell to the ground
On being picked up the goose was found
to have a SCARED and burned hole ex-
tending from the back down through the
body, there being no question but that toe
electric bolt pa sed through the flying
bird. The feathers were somewhat singed
A wsg, who had wrapped piece o.
cloth having the word Centennial" on il
: around an egg and then boiled it so ths
the word appeared plainly on the shell
sadly deceived Portland, (Ct.) farmer
who took 1t out of nest where 1t had beer
placed, and exhibited 1t at the office of
I, local newspaper as wonderful manifes.
tation of the mems intimate knowledge o
(; the history of the United States.
! An Eastern paper having had consider2
BILE to say about "raising chickens b,
hand" the Galveston News responds
u Such information is not needed at tn
: South. The whole colored population
know how to do it, and an enterprisini
freedman can raise more pullets In sin
i gle night, on his way home from prayer
a meeting, than that Eastern editor coul'
l. raise in q year with all his science.
g The Cincinnati Enquirer speaks of tn
"insane rawlings of the hslf-demented edi
= tor of the Louisville Hypothetical by
. phen," and slludes to him as a "pool
= drunken, rambling drsb." "His capacity,
further remarks the Euquirer, "for 10y
n bIackguardism is fully equal to his abilit
- to cheat at cards and get drunk at the ex
70 pense of other people," II somebod
p doesn't make an hypothecated hyphen {
IL somebody else, the type of Southern chiy
airy has sadly degenerated.
y Hans Christian Andersen, in describin
q his poor home-s room only large enoug
10 to hold the bed, the shoemsker's bench o
which his father earned his bread, and th
no few rude articles OF turniture-speak
n with pleasure of his mothers garden-if
deserved the name. He says: "By NEAR
y of ladder 1t was possible to get out o
- the roof (of the house), where, in the gu
ters between it and the neighbours hous
there stood a great chest filled with sol
~ my mothers sole garden, and where 81
r. grew her vegetables" Who has less fsci
r ity for a garden than that?
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