The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-24
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. COrvart, of Dawson county, Ga.
with thirteen children growing up, recently
presented her husband with triplets.
You need waste no more pity on Josie
Mansfield. She is selling necklaces for
$4,000, diamond rings for s., 900, and owns
three race horses.
The granddaughters of Mr.. Seth P.
Staples, the founder of the Yale Law School,
have presented that institution with a por
trait of their grandfather.
Chicago ladies are said to be the best
poker-players. They are thus compli-
mented by the man of the Inter Ocean, and
he certainly has an empty pocket to show
for it.
The lady who shot woman for being
familiar with her husband, in Philadelphia
the other day, was born in Boston and
brought up in Chicago. 1t is the bringing
up that tells.
Miss Julia Pesse is going to Constantine
pie missionary. Green Peasei Half OF
the women who 60 on such missions are put
under the ground before they have a chance
to do much in the converting way.
Mrs. Williams, of Detroit, after nine years
as an invalid. prayed suddenly tor health
and was Immediately cured. WASH it case
of prayer, faith, or absence of doctor? We
-
A lively girl had bashful lover, whose
name was Lock. She got out of patience
with him at last, ard in her anger declared
that Shakespeare bad not said half as many
mean things as he ought to about Shy Lock.
Mrs. Susan Mahutt. of Tuscsrora town
ship, Perry county, Pennsylvania, claims to
be 1O5 years of age, aud she can % read dime
novels without spectacles''-though we
never saw dime novel wear spectacles.-
Chicago Times. $3.50 rrs stf fl
1t was not only delicstely witty of old
Mime. Rothschild to reply to her physician,
when he told her that all his skill could moi
make her young agaln-"No, doctor, don't
ask to be made young again; I only ask &c
continue to grow old"-it was wise. The
stately old Hebrew dame touched just upon
the point on which modern life, partly be-
cause of the great advance in medical SCI
snce within the last halfor three quarters oi
q century, differs from life in past ages.-N
Z. Times.
A woman-not very young but very
pretty-ssys the st. Louis Republican, g
New York belle, who, through series of i'll
fortunes, became dependent upon her rels.
tives and friends, was two years since in
Spain with some ladies who had invited hei
10 60 TO Europe with them: and there she
became acquainted with an attache of the
English consulate, in the town where they
we're spending some weeks. The ladies left
! aer in foreign country, without means to
1return to her native land. She told her
story to the young diplomat. He loved her.
proposed to her, and they became engaged
but he sent her home, as he could not
then marry her. She had faith in
him, and months rolled by, the poor girl
having retired to live upon the charity oi
some relatives in Central New York. At
last the diplomat came, bringing magnif-
cent gifts from his relatives among the high
Pest of the English nobility, to his bride he
had been in South America, and from there
home during this cruel waiting to get leave
df absence. They were here but few days
: che sending no cards to her CT divant frieads
they hurried away 10 spend the honeymoon
in Paris. A friend just from Paris tells how
the heroine of this little story is to remain
there, her husband having become connected
with the English embassy in that city, and
that Mrs. G.. is the American belle and the
pet of Lord Lyons's elegant establishments
Lord Lyons is a bachelor, and Mrs. G plays
the part of hostess to his guests.