The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-03
FOR THE FAIR.

The governor OF Iowa has appointed
woman to act as chaplain ofthe Ansmosa
penitentiary.
hidden by her physician to return to the
stage for at least three months.
The queen of Madagascar. collects her
duties in liquors in kind, and empties the
government share into the ocean.
The Senate of the University Of Prague,
the capital of Bohemia, has prohibited the
attendance OF women at the lectures.
One of the ladies in waiting on the queen
of Greece is TO be married, and her trous-
seau, which has been ordered In Paris, is
to cost $500 goo.
Anna Whitney has contributed stat
uettes of Roma and Charles Sumner to the
Centennial-the only contributions in
modelling yet received.
Mrs. Sarah Bonney, of Sterling, Mass.
has shot and stuffed % choice birds Of all
varieties. and will send them to the Cen
tennial mounted on an imitation of q
laurel branch.
Mrs. Harriet Beechsr Stowe has got a
tame crocodile that will stand up on its
tail and stone oranges out of a tree. She
has named il Shesrman because it occ2-
sionally goes of on tears.
Kansas, unable to compete with her sis
ter states in the matter of girls with small
feet, comes proudly forward with Cloud
county lass whose foot measures eleven
and three-q 1srters inches.
Mrs. Sartors is TO pass the next season
In London, and will be present at court.
Being the wife of British subject, the
IL fros hot oh ha rarcSAutcH q q
an Englishwomsn.
A lady had her dress trimmed with bu-
giles before gcing to ball. Her little
daughter wanted to know If the bugles
wsuld blow when she danced. ooh, no"
said the mother, "paps will do hat when
he sees the BILL"
Her name is Brown, she lives in Wor-
cester, and has Just CO npleted, for the
Centennial, of course, what she calls "her
cheff doover" IL is picture of Hsgsr
and Isbmsel, worked on canvas with
worsted.-New York Sun.
The editor of the Charleston Is. C.)
News has caught and locked up in bis
wood house. for exhibition at the Center
NAL, colorec woman one hundred ard
fifty years old, and who has a living
daughter aged one hundred and ten yesrs.
Katie Amber, the little girl whom Queen
Victoria spoke to at the London Hospital,
because she thought she would get we'll if
the qeeen would only go and speak to her,
has been discharged from the institution
perfectly cured of her wounds, serious
burns.
The New York ladies who are endeavor
ing to secure for shop women the priyi
lege of sitting down when their duties do
not require them to stand, propose 20 CO.
force their requests by phtroniZing only
those shop keepers who comply with IL.
The grsud-niece OF Plus TX. was re-
Gently married by the civil form at Sins-
gaglia, the native place OF the pope. The
religious ceremony was performed after
ward in the Vatican. This is accepted as
proof that the peps approves civil matri-
mony before the religious ceremony.
Fanny Lear has been creating scandal
In Italy by love affair with Count Mira
hori, natural son of Victor Emanuel,
and married man. She has been ordered
out of the country, and has gone to Mu-
Mich. The friends of the eccentric king of
Bavaria are already beginning to tremble
for his safety.
A French writer reasons that the
progress OF civilization, if it diminishes
the oppression OF woman, will result In
a proportionste diminution of her social
influence. Civilization, he claims, is
steadily narrowing the domain of ssnt.-
menL 70 enlarge that of interest. All that
reason gains passion must lose, and in
proportion as the role of sciences increases,
that of love must diminish.
Two Council Bluffs (Is.) girls, school
mates, who were swfully "swsshed" over
each other, as they gay at Vassar, in gush
of affection went before a justice OF the
peace, last week, and demanded that he
should unite them in marriage, that being
the only way, they said, in which they
might be indissolubly joined for life. They
left in tears when informed that no such
ceremony could be performed in their case.
They put bevy OF good looking ladies
into q school meeting st Bennington, VT,
recently at which. some disturbance YVES
expected from the boisterous element of
the district. The result, however, was
cross between an old-fashioned town me
ing and a Methodist love feast. In gush-
Ing speech one of the speakers OF the Ioughs
declared that be never felt 50 near heaven
in lbs life.
The Londoners, at their spelling bees
try to Gle ave to the old English dictionaries
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