The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Eighteen thousand, one hundred snd
dorty-four Cinnamon came to California last
year.
Bees are dying out in the Kentucky blue
grass region. Never heard of blue grass
bees before. o.sl
Lord Rosebery, the young Scotch peer
who visited this country short time ago,
made SIS cocoon the British turf last year.
"Maudie" is what they call St Louis
young lady. Her lover sings. "Come into
the garden, Maudie, but put on your arctic
shoes"
An act has been introduced in the Penn
-sylvanis legislature to protect minors,
learning useful trades, against the tyranny
of unions.
Professor Seelye, of Massachusetts,, takes
the ground that in the states the Indians
should be banded over to the care of the
state governments.
The Chicago Tribune says that q million
Americans eat with their knives. Yes, and
there is another million who would be glad
to eat with anything.
To use the language of NJ. Marcel, quoted
by Herbert Spencer, "what the learner dis
covers by mental exercise is better known
than what is told him."
Jones, of Nevada, the statesman, thinks
that silver bars should represent theemount
of money in circulation. Yet if Jones did
not take home his $40 every Saturday night
and did not put it inlo tea cup in the shape
OF a silver bar he wouldn't feel like being
knocked around with broomstick.
Webster Citv, says a Burlington paper,
rejoices in a local novelist, who is publish
ing her earliest efforts in the local papers.
aElfda, behold the mune." "The mune,
nae lord?" SAY, mune; wherefore doestest
thou echoest me?" "Good, me lord, echo
est nobody" "Then, thank Heaven, we
are saved"
The Hon. James Knox, Ii. d., of Knox
vile, Knox county, ILL.,, has given $4,000 to
Hamilton College to be used for completing
the Maynard proiessorship of law, history,
civil polity, and political economy. Judge
Knox gave the college $4,000 three years
ago for the endowment and increase of the
Knox Hall OF Natural History.
A young husband in Little Falls, n. Y,
planned to scare his wife. with whom he had
-quarzelled. He went into the wood-shed,
fired off gun, arranged himself on the
ground as a bogus corpse, and waited for
her to come out and faint at sight of him.
She didn't come, however, and he was COM
PEELED TO sneak into the house and hear her
say, II didn't scare worth cent, did II"
The New York Herald says: ga woman
correspondent, who gets, her chicken salad
for nothing in Washington society, writes. in
payment therefor, that Mrs. Babcock is very
petite in stature and attractive in appear
ance, rot through her prettiness of features,
but from her dark skin and eyes being set
OH TO striking advantage by Der hair, which
is soft and gray, like tsndrils OF Spanish
moss"
UPseu county, Georgia, claims the johann
pion ceRtennialist. He is a negro named
CnarlessDubignon. is l25 years old, risky
lad vigorous. He was captured in Africa
by Spanish slave traders, about century
ago, aud was taken to Spain, where he lived
in slavery for many years, aud didn't know
Gen. Washington. He joined the Baptist
church lGst week, and washed away a GEN.
tury and quarters load OF sins in Flint
river.
A. colored female reviTsMst, Amanda
Smith, is,attrscting large audiences at Will
mingtoD, Del. A correspondent writes:
q" Her expeditions of the Bible are so plain
and simple, and yet so clear and forcible,
that all who hear her are moved by them,
while her personal experiences are such that
they can not fail OF interest and INSTRUCTION"
This event marks moral revolution in
Delaware where the whites have never been
Too tractable TO negro teaching.
Frederick II. Brydges, tbs gentleman coz
cen ned in the nOiorions Canadian elopement
hastreturned TO his home et Pk9aixville.
Pa. He is saie to be the heco of the hour.
"The majority of the male population do
o not approve has cOnducE, but declare him
60 be atrump, nevertheless His con duct -
writes a correspondent, "is considered
thoroughly English in its characteristics. !"
We should like to know what . che majority
of the female population think about it.
The Pacific Methodist recommends the fol-
lowing preamble aRd resolution to the con-
sheraton ofMethodist EpiscopalesnfereEce:
"Wherezs, Gilbert haven has told so much
that il zntrue about the South, and has
/, gone into such costa cies over mulatt0 beau
les, and has dabbled so much in politics
IL ct he has become unacceptable; therefore.
RI solved, That he be requested to desist
fro o the exercise Ofhis episcopal Office until
there is thorough reform in his morals"
10 IN Quincy Adams attempted ten times
when he was q boy to read Milton's para
disc L .ost, ;" and be gives in his Memoirs an
in:erss ting account Of his experiences: 81
was N ortified, even TO the shedding OF
solitary tears, that / could not even con-
ceive VIII at It was that my father and
mother so much admired in that book, and
vet was shamed to ask them for an ex-
Dlauatlon. i smoked tobacco and read
Milton at the same time and from the same
motive-to filld out what was the reconcile
charm in them that gave my father so much
Measure After making myself sick four or
I've times with smoking mastered that &C.
complisbm61t. But 1 did not master Milton.
i was nearly 80 when 1 first read Paradise
Lost with delight and astonishment."