The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20

to Gravesend. On jumping from the car
rage he remarked that Eff he had known
he could have made the journey in so short
time he would have walked a-foot"
A Paris grocer offers for sale small bits of
macaroni, for use in soup, which are stamped
with the image OF Napoleon III. instead of,
as ordinarily, with the letters OF the alpha
bet. When the macaroni swels, the fea-
lures enlarge until the nose moustache and
profile of the late emperor stand out in
relief.
Inc Adrlatico describes beautiful statue
which is to be raised to Titan this year. the
4OOth anniversary of his birth, in the little
town OF Piove di Galore, his BIRTHPLACE
The head looks toward the house where he
was born, on the walls of which tradition
says that his earliest efforts appeared.
Miss Thackeray, the novelist, is about to
be married, and the London ouidnuncs of
the press are making themselves hypocritic.
ally unhappy over the fact that her intended
husband Is many years her junior. This is
announcer proof, we suppose, of the extreme
care with which personalities are ercIndeS
from British Journalism.
A traveller in Italy cautions intending
tourists against bringing any baggage which
does not close perfectly. If there be the
slightest suspicion that sny one might by
possibility get the point of finger into the
package, the traveller has to lug it into the
carriage with him. / am in this way cursed
with leather bag and hat box. of which /
now hate the very sight
For want of appropriations the work has
stopped upon the public buildings in Phila-
delphia, and +. s. Gross, of Lee. Massachu-
setts, who has contract to furnish marble
ior tnelr construction, will have to stop
work In his quarry. About 100 men will be
thrown n or11 NIL, - Il
much larger number at Philadelphia.
The Prince of Wales has always wished to
DE known as follower in the footsteps of
his father as the patron of international ex-
hloitlons, and be is taking more than usual
interest in the approaching one at Paris.
Twice he has visited the site in the Champ
de Mars, and since his return to London he
has personally busted himself to obtain an
adequate representation of British art next
year in the worlds show.
Count Gleiken, the London papers tell ms
has completed his statue of Alfred the
Great, executed for the birthplace of that
great ruler. 1t is of Sicilian marble, and
eight feet in height, a fine bold figure. in
the cross gartered hose of the time, holding
an axe in one hand and charter in the
other. The pose is good, and the folds of
the cloak give more variety to the back view
than statues sometimes exhibit.
An Australian firm who have been in the
habit of dealing exclusively with Sheffield
and birmingham hardware dealers are now
purchasing goods to the amount of $l50.OOO
yearly in this country A writer in Eng
land makes the following prediction:
American wooden or willow ware, corn
brooms. and even a certain class of paper.
are cheaper and better than any produced
here. In 10 years it will be no longer a
question of competition."
A marked change is coming over India in
the matter of manufactures; that is, the old
indigenous industries are in many places
gradually dying out, first through the COM
petition OF English looms and latterly
through the introduction of machinery into
India itself The delicate-handed natives.
however, are represented as conforming to
the altered circumstances in this respect.
and show great readiness and aptitude for
mechanical work.
Mrs. Hicks. of New York, who is now re-
siding at Claridge's hotel in London has !
introduced in London society what Truth
fondly calls the American custom" of Civ
ing receptions by day in rooms shut up from
the sunlight and illuminated with candles
The custom appears to hit the British fancy,
for We are told that the guests at these par
ties are to be counted by hundreds. On
their arrival at the hotel they are asked to :
hand over their cards. and then they are
ushered into suite of rooms from which all
daylight is carefully excluded.
A new beauty. says Truth, has appeared
upon the horizon of London. She is from
the Channel Islands, aud is the daughter Of
the dean of ST. Heliers. Mr. Millais was the
troubadour who first told nations that she
was beautiful by Offering to paint her por-
trait. Society" has gone mad over herr
The other day, at party, she was positively
mobbed, add more than one duchess has
climbed upon a chair to gaze upon her. +
Since the advent of this beautiful heIress all .
former social lions waste their dewdrops on
the desert air, and vainly roar; no one pays
more attention TO them than il they were
common puppy dogs.
An English correspondent thus discourses
of the late Due de Rovigo's fluent but faulty
English: I'm telling me how the Duchess
of Orleans felt about the visit of Louis Ma
poleon and Eugene to Windsor, he said,
She is the most disgusting woman that
know, unless your Queen Victoria Ny
loyal sentiments were on the point of ex-<
ploding, when the Due added, Both ladies'
the day the visitors came from France
break tasted together, and sat weeping for
some time after The Queens eyes were
most dresdfully scalded when she went to
see the emperor and his wife. Mon cher,
you have no idea of how disgusting she waslT
The accomplished duke meant how dis
ousted ~