The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-27
ALL SORTS.

curly nalr ana deep, 1ull cneSt.
The Atheneum announces the discovery
OF Charles Lambs lost Poetry for Chill
dren.n
The Yale class of 1874 will give the cup for
the class boy 10 the son of A. B. Nevin, of
Pittsfeld, Mass.
The fountain that Lolita gave to San Fran
cisco is popularity patronized during the phe
nomenal scorch.
The Galveston News thinks the next cen.
sHs will show larger increase in population
and production in Texas than in any other
state.
The cook of the Carleton club, London,
has recovered $125 damages from a newspa-
per which intinated that his dinners spoiled
digestion.
John Mccullough, in replying from the
stage to a congratulatory address, said: ''For
what you say of my gentlemanly deport-
ment thank you"
Nicholas Fish, the eldest son of ex-Secre-
tary Hamilton Fish, has been promoted from
the position of secretary of legation at Ber-
lin to be charge affaires at Berne, Switzer-
land.
Mr.. Rignold, the actor, did not abscond
from New York, reported, to avoid the
payment of his debts. He went to Montreal
to fill an engagement under the management
of MIR. Strakosch.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat firmly be-
lieves that the day has come for West Point
to be abolished as an antiquated, costly, ex-
elusive, insufficient and unrepublican sys-
tenn, or to be liberalized and brought down
TO modern times.
Burlington Hawkeye: Not long ago they
had Sunday-school picnic down at the
Cascade, and the two senior deacons threw a
couple of lemons and pint of sugar in the
creek, and charged strangers five cents every
time they took a drink.
Francis d. Moulton paid 1926 in a check
to Sherman as final settlement of the costs
in the late trial. Sherman turned it over
to Mrs. Tilton as a gift. She endorsed her
name on it and had it cashed. When, in
the course of events, it returned to Moulton,
he was profane for brief period.
II am surprised, deacon" said the pastor,
''to learn that you of all men should have
been seen at that wicked Aimee perform
ance." well, you see, sir, | got a dead
head ticket. and thought it my duty to go
and keep somebody else out of seat who
might have been harmed by the exhibition"
Hon. Alexander H. H Stuart has pub
lished in Virginia paper long address to
his constituents reviewing the political
events of the past half century, expressing
his views on the present condition of affairs,
and announcing his final retirement from
public life.
A current report that Harvard college in
tends to admit women is entirely incorrect.
The Boston Advertiser says: "The question
of the admission of women to Harvard col
lege has never been considered by the au-
thorities, and is not one of the changes to be
expected in this generation"
Herr Rubinstein need not have turned up
his nose so haughtily at the offer of 10 gum
cas- made him by Queen Victoria's equerry.
1t seems that her majesty had previously
dered two magnificent china vases for his
house in Russia. After his performance last
year at Windsor Castle the queen sent to
Herr Rubinstein a very fine set of pearl
studs.
The wife of minister at Waterman, New
York, is charged with dishonesty and fraud
in business relations, ballot box stuffiing at
Christmas festival, keeping a vicious and
unchaste girl in the family against her hus
bands will, organizing with the aid of the
girl a conspiracy to injure and defame her
husband, and sustaining indecent and inn
moral relations with two men.
The English people continue to be uneasy
about John Brown, "Her Majestys body
servant" One wrathful correspondent
writes: 81 was in Braemar last week and
saw the following edifying sight: The Earl
of March trudging along the road to fish for
salmon; John Brown, driven by one turnkey
and attended by another along the same
road also bent upon salmon fishing. This is
| the sort of thing simple Majesty encourages
on the upper reaches of the Dee"
| Truthful Tommy says that the other
1 day a lady was deploring the death of an
| quaintance with one of the latter's most in
| innate friends. During the course of their
conversation the son of the deceased gentle
man entered the room. and conversation
became general. On his departure, how
ever, free and personal comment was passed
| upon him. Said lady No. 3: THAT boy has
got his mothers eyes" Yes" subscribed
No. reHectiyely, land I noticed that he
had got his fathers umbrella" This re-
| markable desert ption has stuck 20 him ever
since, and he is known as 1.-The boy with his
mothers eyes and his fathers umbrella"
A lady of Springfield, Mass, several years
ago heard a famous singer give the familiar
song of Rory O'More," the first two lines
of which are: ~
ait was Rory O'More courted Kathleen o.
He was bold as hawk, and she soft as the
| dawn"
Much delighted, she went home and sang it
from memory, never having seen the music.
] and il is said that for seven years she sang
the second line, He poulticed heart. and
she swallowed it down." before she discov-
cred her mistake.
Dead dogs are really an odd kind of mer-
chandise; yet there is firm IN San Francisco
which purchases at so cents each the dogs
slaughtered AZ the city pound. The skins
are removed and sold TO the tanners. the