The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-30
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
yIE COLLINS has the govt.

WILKIE COLLINS has the govt.
Mr.. HAYES visits Boston the nth of June.
GILBERT, of England, has written new
play for Sothern.
C1RcUsEs in Texas must pay $500 taxes for
each performance.
Boston will have no display of fireworks on
the fourth of July.
THE untaxed church property of New York
city amounts to slS7 100000
WAGNER, the composer, is ready to die. His
autobiography is finished up to date.
"THE Honorable Sons of Honor" is the name
of a coIored society of Petersburg, Virginia.
WAsHBURNE is urged by his friends to write
a book. If he does his enemies will chuckle.
Mr.. MOODY and the Y. NJ. C. A. of Boston
are not in as intimate fraternal union as
could be desired.
A SONNET to Victor Hugo, published in the
June number of the Nineteenth Century, is
Tennyson's latest work.
THE Irish Catholics sent the pope between
100000 and sl25,OOO as their jubilee gift, while
the English members of the church gave but
s73,S5O.
IT Is SAID that Ben Butler is going to Colo
RADIO to live. The people prayed to be rid of
grasshcppers, sand a worse plague has'come
upon them"
A PALMETTO tree, sent from Charleston, will
be planted over the graves of Confederate sol
diers in Calvary cemetery, New York. The
ceremony Will take place Decoration day.
THE marquis of Lorne is engaged upon
new metricaI version of the Psalms of David.
Popular hymn tunes will be used for this, and
various metres will be employed to give great
er variety.
THE benevolent association of Savannah,
Georgia, has prepared gold medal to be given
to each OF the kind hearted persons who last
summer came to the relief of the yellow fever
sufferers in that city.
In recognition of O'Leary's triumph in de-
feating Weston in the great English walking
match recently, the Irish members of parlia-
ment presented him with a silver service, and
Mr. Madison, of Liverpool, with diamond
ring.
THE queen of England has not forgiven
Charles Dickens for not acting with his anna
teur company before the court some years ago.
She takes her revenge after his death by de-
Ginning to assist the printers Of Portsmouth,
England, in the erection of a statue to the
memory of the great writer.
THE appointment of General E. b. Tyler as
postmaster NJ Baltimore was made by Mr..
Hayes by the direct appeal of prominent
Ohio poll ician. General Tyler was formerly
from Ohio, but has been in Baltimore for
twelve years. Hayes's ''old friends" are more
numerous than Grants relatives.
SUITABLE grounds are to be prepared in Bos-
ton, where boys will be free to play, practice
gymnastics, or learn various games new TO the
youth of this country. Thus parents will feel
that while their children at perfect liberty
to enjoy themselves with their companions
they ure not exposed to the dangers nor vices
of the street.
A YOUNG man of New Bedford, when apply
ing for a life insurance policy, fearing that the
death of his parents of consumption might
be a bar to success, put down the cause OF his
fathers death as delirium tremens, and of his
mothers as lxieptomania. That young mans
family has made him see snakes, and steal
Car ride out Of town; and worse than all, the
secretary of the company. knowing the true
causes, wrote him in answer that it was feared
that both diseases had descended to the child.
That crushed him.