The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06
ALL SORTS.

Winnie keam's bust OF David Davis is said
to resemble the Cardiff giant.
1t now requires IS months to obtain
divorce in Georgia. The suit has to pass
through three terms of the court.
Matilda Joslyn Gage doesn't know whether
Mrs. Swisshelm is Judas or Sapphira
The question should be referred to a COM
mission.
DR.. Peabody, of Harvard college, recon-
mends the students to read the Bible more
and slop novels less, if they would have q
good English style.
Monsignor Chatard, of the American col
lege, at Rome, has collected $4,000 for the
college during his tour of few months
throughout the United States.
Texas this year made over zoo 600 bales of
cotton, from which will be obtained S40,OO0,-
GOO pounds of seed. This seed converted into
oil would bring over $14, OOO, 600.
The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, meets in Atlanta,
Ca, in May next Tie conference will en-
brace about 800 clerical and lay delegates
1t will be a very important session, as be
sides the general routine business, several
new bishops will be elected. -~
The tribe of Chlckasaws maintained 2s
schools last year, in which were taught 715
pupils The five tribes in Indian territory
have 181 school houses. in which are main
tanned IL boarding and16S day schools employ
ing 1876 teachers, whoinstructed 5, 400 pupils
OF the population of &C. 715, there can read
$1,000. They spent on the schools last year
$1S7,775.
a New York murderer sealed his own
doom when arrested some years ago, by re-
marking. 80, hanging's played out, any
hnu a md n al in, Inv nhxv
Boston murderer, who said to his captors
recently: II suppose people outside think
Pm brute and ready to kill ut any time,
but | will be real good in prison, and in a
few years those tender chaps with q soft
spot in their heads Will get me out"
Miss Emma StebbiDs has nearly completed
her life of Charlotte Cushman aud the book
will soon be in the publishers hands. Miss
Stebbins was the intimate companion and
trusted coDfdant of the great actress, and
the memorial will be looked for with inter-
est. A movement has been lately started to
erect a monument to Miss Cushman over her
grave in Mount Auburn, Mr.. John T. Ray
mOnd offering a subscription of $500 as be-
ginning, and there is good reason TO believe
that her many admirers, in and out of the
profession, Will be glad TO unite in so well
deserved tribute.
A correspondent of the New York Even
ing Post, writing from Boston, says: The
churches here are feeling the financial pres
sure deeply. Several of the churches are
heavily in debt, and 10 pay the interest and
incidentals, and the pastors salary, is more
than they can do. Their revenues have de-
clined greatly. The pew rents are the main
reliance, and these have fallen off to great
extent. Some fail to pay their pew rents,
and others give up their pews altogether.
: Some of the churches must unite if
the times continue as they are, or they will
be obliged to discontinue their services" @
Robert Laird Collier, of Boston, has been
preaching on the drama. He SAYS that 'Of
all people. Americans are the most unskiled
in pleasure. This we inherit from the Eng
lish, WHO take all pleasure solemnly. A
wholesome man has time 70 play as we'll as
a time to work. No man is symmetrical and
healthful who does not at times give himself
over TO play and recreation. The drama
should be the means of intellectual recrea-
ton. And, moreover, IL ought TO be morally
elevating. The best and purest sentiments
heard by thousands are those they hear
spoken upon the stage, and 1 have never
known such sentiments pass unapplauded |
by the crowd
A correspondent says George Eliots home |
life is very charming one. Sne exercises |
an active supervision and develops most |
management and exquisite |
taste in every detail of the household In |
she is very slow and methodical, |
writing not more than from 40 to 90 lines I
a day. When a book is completed she Is in |
such a state of nervous exhaustion that her /
husband takes her to I'aly or southern |
France to recuperate. While writing she |
must be scrupulously arranged as to person. |
while every detail of her surroundings must |
be in harmonious place. Her information |
is encyclopaedia in it's extent and as exact as |
the sciences. She belongs to materialistic |
school of thought.
What the witty Mrs. Trench once said of |
Nine. DeStael-that she is "cOnsolIngly |
apply to George Eliot, with the |
however, that her plain features |
are so sanctified by her expression that she /
becomes a very beautiful woman. She is |
sensitive in regard to her appear
ance and certain phases of her life. She has
been offered fabulous sums by London pho
tographers if she would sit for her picture,
but she has always refused. So far as know
there is not picture of her in existence.
she goes little or none in society, but has |
weekly receptions to which only a certain /
class is admitted. She may be often seen at |
the classical maiinees, given every Saturday !