The Indiana State sentinel., 1878-01-16

A charity ball in st. Louis recently netted
$7.000-an instance of good management
worthy of notice.
The Croton aqueduct. in New York, is the
largest in the world. Its length is 40L miles,
and its cost ST., ,500,0 900.
Good Kate Claxton! She gave each of the
Ii members Of her company in Baltimore a
package of bon bons, containing a 10-dollar
gold piece.
The mayor of Philadelphia refused, on the
3lst, to license any variety theaters for 1878.
He said that he would abide by the decision
of the courts, and if this should be adverse
he would close them all up.
James Crawley, newly landed American
mechanic, who said that he had last worked
at New Haven, has been arrested at London
for breaking into dwelling house and, when
discovered, murderously assaultiDg the sery-
ants with Jimmy"
The superintendent of schools in Emmett
county, Ia, is out in a letter of advice to his
schoolma ans, in which he says: "Remem-
Der that your time belongs to the district,
and leave at home your novels, love letters
and needle work." The superintendent is
a married man.
The chaplain of the Portland prison, Eng
land, has encountered a prisoner who listens
respectfully to exhortatlons and says that he
''can not afford to lose the benefits of fifteen
years apprenticeship to his trade of thiev-
ing. imprisonment this philosopher re-
CARDS as "a period of depression"
DIR. Mary Putnam jacob, who received the
Boylston medical prize at Cambrdge-the
judges being under the impression that they
were giving it to man-is honored by re-
ception in Boston. The Boylston prize was
good enough in its way, but the Boston
reception settles definitely her intellectual
status.
Mr.. Preston Powers, son of the late Hiram
Powers. the sculptor, is succeeding admirably
in his fathers profession. He is now in
Florence, Italy, engaged upon statue of the
late Hon. Jacob Collamer, of Vermont. He
is said to bear striking resemblance to his
father, and when working in his studio, ar
rayed in cap and blouse, the likeness is very
decided. His love for his profession is ab-
sorbing. and during the 10 years of his art
istic life he has filed his studio with numer-
Gus excellent works.
A question of the rights of opera goers has
Just been decided in Paris A man bought
four orchestra stalls, expecting to see
Capoul. That night Capoul had cold and
appeared not. The ticket money was de-
manded back and refused. A law suit fol-
lowed, and the ticket buyer was sustained.
The case was appealed, and the civil tribunal
has Just decided that there was not any en-
gagement made with the buyer that Capoul
should play on the night in question, and
that the manager fulfilled his contract by
placing the four stalls at the disposal of the
former.
Mercedes, future queen of Spain, will be
one of the most beautiful sovereigns in Eu-
rope. She is a very pretty young woman of
the pure Spanish type, with very black eyes
receives from the duke de Montpensier, her
father, dowry of S., ,00O, 900, great quantity
of diamonds and magnificent trousseau.
Her sister, the countess de Paris, has sent
wedding gift of beautiful suit of jewels.
The young king gives his bride loads of jew
els and his portrait set in brilliants; and the
pope sends a wedding ring which he has
blessed and rose in diamonds.