The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02

Ss"n'S oouSu AAVn NSh IOIk lOI Quincy,
New South Wales.
Three children under eight years old left
home in Brooklyn Friday noon TO gather
chips, and have disappeared.
A Nebraska paper says that tree planting
has become mania among the people of
that state. There is method in that mad
ness.
The latest style of parasol. -.
the New York Herald nv ho y" ba isdrn rom
ing ginger snap on the end of a E5itting
needle. VIZ Gnu Vi Aii'0ng
One millinery store in Boston has OBJ
tanned enviable notoriety by the fact that
o. young women clerks have been married
from 1T within seven years.
There is new thing on the carpet with
the English nobility. When guests come to
dinner they are served by the ladies of the
house. This has an economical look.
The ST. Louis Journal has discovered that
the gallant heroes who saved so many lives
at the burning of the Southern hotel are
much more numerous now than thew were
on the night of the fire.
large number of applications have been
made at both the Russian and Turkish con-
sulates in New York for the enlistment of
soldiers, which have been refused, there be-
ing no authority to do so.
1t is proposed to hold convention of the
aeronauts of the United States, in Philadel-
phia, in July, for mutual aid and instruc-
ton, and the exhibition of the various i'm
proved balloons. air ships, etc.
Miss Adelaide Nelson, at her benefit in
San Francisco recently. wore in her hair a
diamond weighing 81 karats, the largest ever
worn on any stage in the United States.
1t is set in frosted gold leaves and valued at
$4,000.
Sometimes when man is to be hung for
outrage and murder churchy women send
him beautiful bouquets, while the grave of
the poor child and the home of the heart
broken parents are left unadorned. What
humbugs We humans sometimes arei
The coroner's jury in the case of the burn
ing of the Southern hotel in St. Louis. was
evidently afraid of hurting somebody's feel
lngs. IL therefore neglected to get at the
facts; it didn't learn as much as the live
newspaper man knew twelve hours after the
fire.
Professor George Coleman, of Philadel-
phia has built a balloon 50 feet high and so
feet in diameter, which is to be inflated with
hot air from furnace located in the basket.
After experimental trips, he promises to
make one across the Atlantic, starting from
Cape May in July.
The recent Claghorn sale of pictures in
New York was a notable event in the art
world. and yielded a pretty pile of money,
but it falls into insignificance compared
with the auction of Baron Grants collection
at London last week, which fetched the pro-
digious sum of S750,0O0.
Ladies in pinned back skirts suffered great
ly last summer from heat, but for the COM
ing season the new styles of dress, the Bre-
tonne costume and the princesse robe and
polonaise, demand free, flowing outlines
THESE styles are properly displayed by the
fashionable wire panier skirts.
Baron Grants pictures which have been
under the hammer in London during the
past week, brought altogether 600, 900. They
are said to have cost him much more than
this, having been bought with more liberal
ity than knowledge. Two days sale of the
Oppenheim pictures in Paris realized 925,-
900 francs.
At the laying of the foundation of the
Shakespeare Memorial theater at Stratford-on-
Avon last week there was gorgeous display
of patriotism on the part of John Bull. The
old house popularity supposed to be the poets
birthplace was swathed in bunting, and, &C
cording to the correspondents. looked ridic-
ulOus
Congressman Page, of California, a states
man who is supposed to have a large
amount Of horse sense, because he has de-
voted large portion of his life to keeping
livery stable, thinks Packard and Chamber
lain were fairly elected, yet he is non-com-
initial on the direct question, What do you
think of the presidents policy?'
he sells 900 three-cent stamps daily. He
SAYS: Towns grow here like mushrooms,
and every one seems to think the location of
the post Office is going to do immense things.
have never been in a mining camp before,
but from my observation L am inclined to
think this is a very rich country. Real es-
tate fuctuates considerably. Lots which
sold for 5000 on my arrival two weeks ago
sold for 81 200 yesterday"
Ex-Governor Henderson, of Texas, is an
old man and a paralytic. His daughter was
out riding with him about ten days ago near
Galveston; they lost their route and finally
found themselves in wilderness at night,
their horse worn out with fatigue and the
ex-governor scarcely able to walk at all
One night they passed in the carriage and
another under a tree, the daughter in
the day time searching for some way out OF
the wood. At last on the third day, Sun
day in the forenoon, she heard COW bell
ring. Passing up creek she found negro
cottage and an old man showed them the
path to a sawmill. where they met party
of l3 persons who were looking for them.
Yesterday morning, when the mistress of
an Edmund street residence proposed that
one of the hired help polish the front wir-
dows, Sarah replied that she couldn't posi-
bly, think of it. The lady demanded an ex-
PLANTATION, and the girl said; I'D have been
willing enough month ago but you seemy
Johnny is now driving a car on this line and
he'd see me-" Suppose he should?' quer-
led the lady Il wouldn't have him for the
world, ma am, for he has been here two or