The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

orally considered close listed miser, and
about the last man who would have been
suspected of benevolent act, inasmuch as
\ he was never known TO treat friend. He
lived meanly denying himself every luxury,
/ dining at the cheapest restaurants, on one
dish generally, and an expenditure of 25
i cents covered the expenses of the dinner.
Reese was German Jew, and although a
strictly honest man in all his business tran
/ sactlons. his proverbial closeness was by
word. i remember on one occasion sitting
at the same table with him at restaurant
taking lunch. and having good appetite or
dered dish that attracted his attention.
! Michael eyed it with some interest, and I'm
ally inquired what it was and how much
| it cost. When I told him, he said, dat
| looks goot, but can't afford 90 shents for
one DISH How can you afford to spend so
much money on your dinner They tell
story on Michael which Is said TO be true
that one of his acquaintance one day chaffed
him about his proverbial closeness, which
| irritated him. and be replied: II tell you
what I'll do. I'll go down on the end OF dis
wharf and throw $50 pieces into the bay
with you, and see who holdsout delongest."
The gentleman, who was bit OF wag, &C
cepted, and down to the wharf they went
Come now, Michael, go ahead" A $50 coin
whizzed in the air and dropped well out in
the bay. Michael says: "Come now, IL ish
your turn" The gentleman, instead OF
throwing his, turned arosnd and sauntered
up the wharf, remarking Michael l have
changed my mind 1 believe l won throw any
$50 pieces into the bay to-day" Michael
looked aghast. He saw that he was victim
lied, and threateningly shaking his cane at
the gentleman, said: "Ahl gets even with
you. Shoost wait. Some day you wants to
borrow money of me; den you pay back dat
$40" And yet this man, who had pinched
himself and denied himself the actual neces-
viz IF Ub m ed
of benevolent deed, has left requests to
benevolent institutions to the amount OF
over $500, 600, besides legacies to those about
him who served him faithfully. 1t only
goes to show that there is good in almost
every man, and how much injustice we may
do in our estimate of a mans character
when we Judge him by his outward acts.
Our hearts warm toward him now that we
know him as he was His estate will prob
ably foot rsp nearly $6.OO0,000 IN value, all
of which, less nearly s., 000, 900 that he had
given away, he left to his relatives, emitting
none.
Having had fair opportunity of judging
of our great agitator, Denis Kearney, what
do you think of him? What arrant nonsense
and bosh it is for man Of General Buffers
intelligence and judgment to pretend to see
in him 1.-THE makins'' of great man. The
telegraph tells us that the general was great
ly Impressed" with his interview with Kear-
ney. How he must ehuckle over such gush.
Kearney is an instance of what newspapers
will do for a man. Nothing but their notice
of him ever would have brought him before
the people, and he never would have been
heard of by his own efforts, for individual
capacity he has not nor talent of any sort
or kind He had Just shrewdneSs enough to
see that it was much easier to start a move
ment that only needed leader to bring to
his standard all the lazy, discontinued COM
munistic element, interspersed with fair
share of the honest, but intensely stupid,
class who are ever ready to believe they have
a chronic grievance for which capital is re-
sponsible, and that other men who happen
to be better off than themselves are their
natural enemies OF course, General Butler
will make use of Kearney If he can, but it
is mighty poor material for even politician
to accept. Denny will soon find his level,
for there it nothing in him.
California has been particularly healthy
this summer, and especially San Francisco.
We have no sunstrokes here, although there
have been two or three cases in the interior
which were pronounced to be so, but there
is no authentic proof OF it. When people
get out of sorts here, they go down to Santa
Barbara where they shoot and fish and enjoy
the luxures of the Arlington, splendid
hotel, kept by the jolliest of landlords and
the best of fellows, George I. Bromley, well
known here as a humorist, a gentleman of
education, pleasant manners, in fact the
likes Bromley, and his assuming charge of
the Arlington insures its success
To all invalids who are looking for a salu-
brious place to pass the coming winter, we
say come out here and go down the coast to
Santa Barbara. The climate Is lovely, the
hotel excellent, the fare unexceptionable,
and the charges moderate-about SIS per
week-and they will get more for their
money than they ever got In their lives.
Santa Barbara is no humbug, and | am not
interested with Bromley in the hotel, nor in
any steamship lines. My advice is therefore
perfectly disinterested
Senator Sharon gives a grand reception to-
night at his country seat at Belmont, for
merly the country residence of w. c. Raj
ston. which many eastern people will re-
member from having been invited to his
hospitable board. Fifteen hundred invita-
tons have been issued, and a tram of cars
placed at the service of the guests. On their
arrival at the station, lit is 20 miles from
town. so four horse teams will be in waiting
to take guests to the house, about half mile
from the depot. The young people enjoy
these trips, for the girls are proverbially
sleepy on the return. and are apt to lean
heavily on the shoulders of their escorts, and
1T is astonishing with what self sacrificing
spirit young man will support a matter of
125 pounds of blooming young lady the en-
tire distance, when he would think it per-
fectly impossible to endure the fatigue of
bringing home a two pound bundle for his
sister from down town.