The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-24
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
John T. Foster, the hero of the Blaine
letter, has been chosen clerk of the New
jersey assembly.
George ID. Lord has been appointed d.
rector in the Rochester Driving Park Asso-
citation. BE has the reputation OF being
very driving fellow, anyhow.
DR.. Holland and Miss Glider have dram
atized the Doctors novel OF "Sevenoskes,'
and it will probably be produced next
spring, John T. Raymond taking the part /
OF Jim FontOn.
There's man over il Brooklyn who has
read every line of the proceedings in the |
Plymouth scandal, even including Mr.. Van /
Colts last letter. Efforts are being made TO |
induce him TO appear st the Centennial.
A photographer says that at eighteen q
girl will sit twelve times for a photograph,
and then be dissatisfied. At forty the same
person Will sit once aud take the picture,
even If the artist points out three or four
detects.
The original portrait in oil of Sir Walter
Raleigh is in possession OF Gen. Norton, of
the Centennial bureau of revenue. 1t is a
medallion, representing the life size, and,
for a picture nearly three hundred years
Old, it is exceptionally W ell preserved.
Male Shakerdom is SD AIKEN to its toVnda-
ton Just now.on the que stion of beard or no
beard, the ladies, of coarse, taking no &C
tive part in the discu .sion. Thus far the
beard party Is ahsad, al I'd the "Jeff Davis"
or "under- chin" whiskC,r is now the fashion
in the community.
The Western alumni of Dartmouth College
held reunion at the Crane Pacific Hotel
in Chicago last THU tsdsy. The Tribune
says: The meeting W as unexpectedly large
and enthusiastic. TIE learned professions
and the different de partments of business
were well represented.
The proprietor.ef a. hotel ct Dunkirk fell
dead the other morning just after charging
a traveller So for two meals and lodging. II
the Centennial hotel-keepers don't profit by
this warning, tbs undertaking business is
going to Ee good 10 Philadelphia next year.
St. Louis Re publican.
Mr.. Msples.pn, the husband of Mime.
Titiens, arrived ia New York Friday last,
without al opera company, and determined
that Madame hail not sing in opera unless
he first inspectis the company andts satisfied
with it. Poor Titiens, she, too, is told she
shall and she shGn't; so nice a voice rs she
has, too.
Chicago is happy. A sweet smile of salts
faction went ri piping over sn.audIence COM
posed of that city's principal sinners, and
Elolr eyes Detk&u6 BQuQBcQ Wild LEAFS o.
gratitude whe n Moncure Doorway told
Them that Their WASN'T any such person as
the devil. The, burden of life had been lifted
from their souls.
The London papers are complaining that
the holl y-trees in the New Forest were
stripped of their foliage by thieves at Christ
mas tims for the purpose of decorating
churches. The statement reminds one OF
the old Ii sdy Of whom Fielding tells, who
uf11o x<alr- <rfT 1<Dfo frv
the religl on In them.
How 10th the little busy B.
(P0 u. mean BELIEF
Inn prove each shining hair &c see
If she can catch swell!
How skinfurly she plaits each dress,
How neatly folds her pads,
And lets q curl few down her back
To tempt as artless ladsi
President William s. Clark, of the Agri.
cultural College at Amherst, has been given
years leave of absence to go to Jepan for
the establishment OF au.agricultural college
there on the same plan with the Msssachu-
sets institution. The fact that the Japanese
want President Clark to start them on the
road to scientific agriculture is compliment
airy to the Massachusetts, college and its
energetic president.
McCoeh thinks that the battle he has lstely
EO0<as - IAnCoSSu OFoI VIC soCrob eOcleClee
should find place in the history OF our
colleges, as that other battle of Princeton
OF ninety-nine years ago has done in our
country. He also thinks that the grand
work of the Centennial year, In which we
are entered, should be the utter destruction
of those rings, which are at present the dis
grace and threaten the ruin of our country.
TIE Salt Lake Tribune thinks this will do:
"You'r bishop-one Of them legislator fell
lers what's putin on airs at City Hall ?''
qusrried the bootblack yesterday, as be sur
veyed two small mountains used for propel-
ling what seemed to be q man. "Afore we
make bargain. sposen you go over to the
surveyor generals office; he'll triaugulate
'em, then bring your field notes down here
an I'll contract TO shine EN- by the acre-ef
you'll agree to furnish the ladder"
Edward L. Kenyon, who committed sui
eide at Hartford, on Friday, was one of the
largest real estate owners in the city, own
ing large estates both in the city and neigh
boring towns, and the cause of his derange-
ment was the recent depression in real
estate. by which he was largely afflicted
pecuniarily, and the indorsing of consider
able paper for OF hers. He was SO years old
and leaves a wife and five children, one of
whom, Eugene L. Kenyon, is first select
man Of Hartford.