The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-25
NOTES AND OPINIONS,

STURGEON has the govt. Charity suggests it |
is inherited.
Mrs. SWAP edits Kentucky paper. She is
great FOR exchange.
"a CHURCH debt paying epidemic" is the |
latest from California. May the disease spread. |
For WENDELL PHILLIPS to marry Anna |
Dickinson is the latest idea of retributive JUS
tice.
CALEB CUSHING is II years old, but on his |
return from Spain will resume the practice |
of law.
GAN encyclopedia of Methodism" is the title
of the book which Bishop Simpson is pre-
pairing.
LOUISVILLE has a musical prodigy in a girl
of ten years, the daughter of Basil Duke,
Morgan's celebrated lieutenant,
TALMAGE says three-fourths of the inhabi-
tants of heaven will be women. He needn't
judge heaven by the census of Massachusetts
DANIEL DERoNDA again. 1t is now claimed
that the picture of that persons mother is a
graphic description of Disraelis grandmother.
TwEED's confession, with supplementary
declarations and remarks, is to be republished
with some official marks OF reliability and
truth.
LoMBARBY. Italy, has just suffered great loss
by terrific storm which injured all the crops,
especially silk The loss is calculated at sew
eral millions.
LAURA ID. FAIR mas filed petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of s2l 1884 and assets less
than a thousand. Her creditors will no longer
claim her fair.
ALL fruit, excepting peaches, will this year
ha nh, Oh IL L. ~
WI tn the peach crop and we shall have to con-
sele ourselves with berries and apples.
THE Chinese are rarely ever received as
| guests of a social equal, and yet the Japs are
| treated everywhere with the most marked at
tention. Why is the distinction made?
STRAWBERRIES are to be worn on bonnets
| this sumMer, and saucers of ice cream will
rest on the chignon. and lemonade and straws
decorate the polonaise drapery. Is that it?
THE star mill of Vallejo, California, is thought
| to be the largest flour mill in the world. 1t
turns out l,4OO barrels Of flour a day, much of
which Is taken to China, Japan and Australia.
MARY CLEMMER says the members Of the
| cabinet are noted for immense ears, mouths
| and noses. These more noticeable when
| the amount of brains and conscience is con-
sidered.
| SoLDENE's name in respectable private life
is Mrs. Powell Really, Mrs. Powell ought to
be ashamed of Soldene. 1t is no wonder she
does not allow her to her name on her
| programmes.
BOB INGERsoLL wants a foreign appoint
| ment. Probably Hayes could him an
envoy TO Satan skingdom, as he is eminently
| fitted both by nature and education FOR the
place and climate.
"LAME AS A RABBLE," was what a western
| lady sent for to New York publishing house,
| supplemepting her request by the informa-
ton that she had heard shat Victor Hugo
| was good writer"
THERE is nothing as sensitive as bakers
loaves of bread. Let the price of flour rise a
penny TO a thousand barrels, and every loaf
baked in the land will shrink down, down,
iull two ounces. Singular.
Now Mrs. Gaines has won her suit she will
probably die and the fight will begin again,
her heirs engaged In an internecine war. That
is generally the way. The excitement of the
| contest over, death ends the scene.
| Mr.. AND MRS. HAYES are for total abstinence
as long as only common folks are around, but
when grand duke or a prince happens to
drop in to dinner the bottle and glasses are set
| like toadyism.
THE Cincinnati colored baby show went out
| in utter darkness, and the indignation of fond
papas and mammas gave deeper tint to
cheek and brow. The babies, OIL they ought
| TO thank their stars for the trial from which
| they have been preserved.
DIR. GROUSE, one of the most eminent physi-
| clans of Syracuse, New York, last week in a
| fit of temporary insanity threw himself from
| a window and was dashed to pieces on the
pavement. He had been subject to epileptic
fits, the result of an injury to his head some
years ago.
| GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN writes that his
'Phychology has evolved into Demonology,' -
and that once more he is going ito say good
| by to journalism and the public stage for
| ever" If he could only evolve demonolgy
into truth telling, and stay out Of public sight
and hearing 1t would be blessed thingfor the
| country.
| THE st. Louis fire depart had loaned some OF
| their ladders to a painter, consequently the
night of the Southern hotel fire they were
minus part Of the Skinner truck. Now the
people blaming the chief for this act of
| foolishness and have instructed him hereafter
10 keep all necessary ladders, buckets, ropes,
| ETC., ready for use at a moments notice.
CARDINAL MANNING is one of the most rig
orous disciplinarians in all Europe, and dur
| ing lent was so abstemious in his living that
he is still suffering the effects of the protracted
fast He never allows anything to be urged as
an excuse for his taking more rest, or having
more indulgence than any member of his do
cese, although his health is far from good.