The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22
PERSONALITIES.
Conkling uses pint of perfume every

Conkling uses pint of perfume every
week.
Virtuous motto of both parties in congress:
1t is wrong for the other side to ilibuster.
keep off the grass" is believed by the
Utica Observer to be an anti-Fenian iDjunc-
ton prohibiting the wearing of the green
Conkling's home organ" calls him "the
purest, noblest, ablest and most patriotic, as
ne is the most prominent of American
statesmen"
1t is suggestive fact that the white house
fraud has not single upholder in the New
York daily press-unless it be the Evening
Post, which just now amounts to very little,
politically.
Robert Bonner, the Ledger man of New
York has put 81, 600, 600 into advertisements
during his lifetime, and to every dollar thus
expended has taken in So making his
present fortune S10,000,000.
Amy fellow whose name ends with an off
or can make it rhyme with cough" is as big
a man nowadays as old Grant He is gener-
ally an agent of the Russian government,
who is travelling for pleasure.
1t cost the late VIM NJ. Tweed his life in
surance policy when he made his hurried
trip to Spain. He had paid S., 900 on the
policy, but forgot to ask the company if be
might roam on the high seas.
A southern paper, alluding to Ben Buffers
recent language in the house of representa-
tives about hanging traitors says that Butler
himself lis an outlaw by solem act of the
confederate authorities, never yet repeal
ed"
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat thinks it
would be a good plan to have the state
political conventions name the candidates
for United States senators, in preference TO
leaving the nominations TO legislative eau
cuses.
Washington Post: There were not so many
Hayes democrats in the house as the fraudu-
lent administration seems TO have counted
on. Perhaps Mr.. Hayes has been making
1 entries mt random in his note book Thus
far he seems to be able To depend on only
two.
'The Florida sensation is all played OUT
doesn't amount to as much as Mrs. Til
toms confession''-"there is absolutely
nothing To it''-all of which reminds the
Hartford Times OF the boy who went ID the
! pantry 10 get cookey and came back with
his hair on end, exclaiming, Mamma, l
amt afraid of rats''
1 The New York Times expects to astonish
the country with the statement that we are
/ shipping beer 10 Germany. That will not
surprise anybody, in view of the we'll known
/ fact that for many years we have been ship
ping negroes to Africa, and a much better
article than that country ever raised. An
other thing must be remembered in this
connection; we have lately sent Bayard Tay-
( lor to Germany.
The foe of American social life is in the
tendency to luxury and effeminancy among
the well-tO-do young women of our cities
and large towns. They do not realize how
+ this dreadful mania for expensive pleasure
and life of alternate idleness and amuse-
Z ment is destroying their health, aboIishing
/ true marriage, feeding the flame of gross sem
+ suality and lntemperance among young men
and sacdening the hopes of the best parents
in the land. Some of them will never know
/ it IN this world. Thousands of good hearted
I young girls are sacrificed every year, when
a little wise and loving guidance could save
| them.
Chicago Times: Conkling has planted a
small stlletto in the neighborhood of Mr..
/ HAYES fifth rio. 1t produces a flesh wound
! only, and may be all the more irritating for
! that very reason. When TIE president re-
stored Benz amin p. Runkle to the rank of
major in the army thus placing him i'm the
/ way of receiving some fourteen years arrears
\ of pay Senator Conkling introduced a reso-
luton of inquiry. He has not permitted
tise matter 10 slumber, and the committee is
DOW ready 10 report that the president was
Unauthorized by law to make such restOra-
ton. The officer claimed that the findings
of the court-msrtal which dismissed him
\ from the service were not regularly APPROX
/ ed by President Grant, but the committee
I holds that verbal approval of the finding.of
a court-Insrtial through the secretsry of war
Is a. 'effec ave as written approval.