The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


PRISCE BISMARCK is soon to be in London.
THE postmaster at New Orleans is brother
in-law of Ben Butler.
DoRE's last picture, the "Serpent in the Will
derness," is six hundred feet long. IT.
THERE were five sunstrokes in New York
last Friday. One of them was fatal.
HAYES has been invited to attend the exer-
cises of Decoration day at Chattanooga.
THE nephew and namesake of David Iiv-
ingstone, the celebrated explorer, lives in San
Francisco. Hf.a
1T is said that the amount of money invest
ed in submarine telegsaphy is little over
snOOOO.OOO.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON is to leave for
England this week, and viii remain there
four months.
In some of the southern states, but especially
in Alabama, the farmers are blowing up their
cotton and sowing corn.
GENERAL GRANT told Philadelphia lady
that he would return to the United States as
soon as he grew tired of Europe.
A FEW days ago lady In Eastville found a
diamond ring in a bag of coffee. There were
five stones of large size in the cluster set.
GAIL HAMILTON is getting ready for 1880, and
If women have their rights IL win not be jim
Blaine for president, but Blaine's cousin-in-
law, Gail herself. ~"
THE Washington monument viii probably
be taken down, as the engineers say that It's
foundations are not strong enough to allow
the shaft to be raised any higher.
THE change in the French cabinet has much
displeased the German government, as it is
feared that the French Catholic party will
control the resources and movements Of the
nation.
THE fugitive slave Simms who has been
talked about so much Is in Washington, an
applicant for any office the government has at
its disposal, from a consulshlp to a janitors
position.
A WRITER in the Scientific American dis
cusses the scheme of converting the desert of
Sahara into sea. 1t could be accomplished,
according to his calculation, in about hun
dred years.
Now we shall have reports from the musical
Samsons. A Philadelphia pianist recently
played forty-six compositions, requiring six
hours consecutive work violinist in Bos-
ton expects to eclipse this time soon. .-..-
AN ENGLISH lady, most accomplished and
estll1.able wife and mother, and also en-
thusiastic ''horse-woman," has declared that
side saddles are ridiculous and uncomfortable,
and that hereafter she win ride "masculine
fashion" Hs-rs 8h
A PENSION of 1915 per annum has been grant
ed by Queen Victoria to each Of the three
Misses Defoe, The lineal descendants Of the au-
thor of "Robinson Crusoe." Public charity
had been asked for them a short time since by
a London benevolent society. I.f
A NEGRO Whitewater and local preacher
has asked permits sion TO preach to the police
men Of New York. The chief said he would
abide by the decision OF the men; but at last
accounts they had not made up their minds
They have heard too much of whitewashing.'
AT auction sales OF pictures by well known
ar lists prices are lower than a month ago, and
the bidding Is light. Eight hundred and
twenty-five dollars was the largest sum given
In New York at a sale of Moran's pictures
many Of which had been held at twice that
amount Mt private sale.