The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

Emperor Williams physical strength re.
turns but slowly
The London Figaro thinks Clara Morris
should play Cleopatra.
A man was fined lately in London for in
sisting on riding on the platform of the street
car instead. of going inside.
A .I'pure white swallow has been OBJ
served in Hartford, and the New Haven
Register suspects it was gin.
Thaddeus Stevens made provision in his
will for the founding of an asylum for the
insane Preparations are NOW in progress to
carry out his plan.
A Miss Flamme is said to be an eligible
spinster with fortune at Easton, Pa. She
will require Flamme-beau before she can
light the torch of Hymen.
Boston Corbett, who shot the assassin
Booth, and never tried to make money out
of the honor, has left Camden, n. j., and
settled on a claim in Nevada.
Miss Dana's contribution TO Scribner's
Monthly, dIscoursing on the school days-of
the late Queen Mercedes, has been translat.
ed into French and appears in Figaro.
The famous portraits of Daniel Webster
and Lord Ashburton, by Healy, in posses
sion of.the Webster family, are for sale, the
Webster homestead.
A California coroner returned this verdict
for man who had been killed by a circular
saw: An upright man, good citizen and
model Christian, but not up on the man.
agement of circular saws"
"What would you say if you should see
the Indians coming right down upon you
now" asks an Oregon paper. Haven't
given the question much thought, but strikes
ms we would say, excuse my back. Army
and Navy Journal
Edwin Booth played a banjo when he was
a boy. There are no traditions concerning
the childhood of Lawrence Barrett though
it is supposed he was a boy once, stood on
his head, and walked like living human
being before he thought of becoming Ham
let.
Lord Lorne will have salary of so, 900
year, and his wife has $50, 900, and besides
the "markiss" has comfortable fortune of
his own; So taking it all in all, the young
couple may manage to get along in the
wilds of Canada by the exercise of reasona-
bic economy.
1t isn't paying the girls board that scares
the young men out of the matrimonial
market; it's simply the dread of housekeep-
ing in the future. with an additional burden
in the shape of handsome hired girl to sup
port, without any adequate return for the
investment.
Nilsson, they say, will be shortly installed
as grand mistress of the ancient charitable
masonic order of The Eastern STAR" COM
posed chiefly of ladies of rank and disiinc-
ton whose male relatives belong to the fra
ternity, and who devote themselves to works
of mercy and charity.
Thackeray, when speaking about fame,
would frequently tell the following anec-
dote: when at dinner in St Louis, one
day, he heard one waiter say to another DO
you know who that tsp No. was the
answer. That is the celebrated Mr. Thack-
cray What's he done? Blessed if 1
know was the reply"
Prince Alfred is once more to be made
father, and the occasion is to be improved to
show the good feeling existing between
England and Russia. Queen Victoria will be
present and meet the car, while the Ouch
ess of Edinburg with the full assent of her
own family" has commanded the services
of an English accoucheur.
Lake Tahoe, a favorite summer resort of
Californlans, is one of the wonders of the
world. Here you have sea OF pure fresh
water, 1900 feet deep, cold as snow and bluer
than the sky, resting in a vast mountain
basin elevated more than 5000 feet among
the crests of the Sierra. All around it rise
mountain slopes, clothed with fragrant for
ests of pine, fir and cedar.