The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

G0oDNOUGH, a married teacher of California,
has eloped with Miss Goodspeed also teach
er. What's in a nance
MADAME REsTELL in her will made separ-
ate clause to bequeath her "bibles and bible
stands" to her granddaughter.
CHICAGO has WHOLESALE boot and shoe as
sociation," organized for the mutual benefit
and protection of the wholesale dealers.
THE school affairs of ST. Louis and Chicago
are still in a muddle, and there seems no way
to harmonic the great expenses with the ex-
hausted treasures.
IN New York chorus singers get about SIS
week, if they are of fair voices. Tenors range
higher, as they are more important and more
difficult TO command.
a LEwIsTowN, Pennsylvania, colony, num-
bering 700 persons, has gone to California. A
large amount of money and much household
goods were taken along.
WITH mis- proceeds of the "Danites" Mckee
Rankin has bought one of the Thousand Is
lands in the st. Lawrence river. tie will
make this his summer residence.
IN the Russian art collection sent to the
Paris exposition all military subjects have
been vigorously excluded. 1t is not polite to
insult even an enemy in his own house.
CORRESPONDENTS from Rome have just got to
the funeral Of Pic Mono, and Leo XIII. has
been at work economizing for ever so long,
and the letter writers seem never to have
found ii out.
SEA bean jewelry is very pretty, and exceed
ingly fashionable. The beans are of deep
cherry red, with a dividing line of black. They
can be polished to perfection, and wear well.
a Baltimore jewelry firm lately sent to Gal
weston for two bushels of these beans.
The REV. MR.. JASPER, of Richmond, Va, is
soon to start featuring tour. The people
of Lancaster. Penn, irrespective of color, have
invited him to ventilate his views on astrono.
my I'm that city. He is going to state his case,
and defy contradiction on Bible grounds.
CHICAGO pedestrians want the able bodied
men daily sent to the workhouse to be put on
the streets TO clear off the mud. In this way
they can at least be made to earn the food they
eat and save the already bankrupt city the adj
ditional expense for labor in the street depart
ment.
A TRAMP lately stopped at st. Peter, Mime
sofa, who has been on the road for 80 years.
He started on his walk when he was 24, and
he has never stayed more than month in
any one place. He has been in every part of
the civilized world, has never been arrested or
in disgrace.
A KENTUCKY farmer, desiring that his fam
lily should keep up with the march of mind
and matter, buys a regular supply of reading
matter each year, consulting the varied tastes
of every member before doing SO. He devotes
/ the yearly product of one acre of his farm to
effect this end.
TILE body of the Baron James de Rothschild
rests in the Jews quarter of Pere La Chaise at
Paris. The letter r I'm high relief is carved
/ upon the noble monument. Each Jew who
visits the place casts pebble on the ground of
the Enclosure, and consequently the place is
/ literally covered with rocks.
A MEMBER of the British house of commons
moved that an establishment of state theater
of Shakesperean dramas would be eminenty
/ expedient in the interests of public culture,
/ and would form the only suitable recognition,
long since due from the English speaking
races, to the genius of Shakespeare.
| EDISON, the inventor, Is 81 years DID, is worth
/ Sl5OO0O, and has an annual income increasing
/ ten fold every year. He has been to school
but little in his life, but is clear reasoner and
never INDUCES In guess work. He is tireless,
indefatigable, modest, and believes in his own
ability to take care of his own affairs.
In accordance with a wish of Mrs. Bcnner's,
expressed almost upon her death bed, no flow
ers were sent by friends to the house or to the
grave during the funeral ceremonies Mrs.
Bonner shrank with morbid sensitiveness
from anything like display over the dead, and
was careful to interdict any at her own fu
neral.
In Maine last year there were five hundred
divorces granted, one TO every twelve marTi-
ages. Maine has the loosest divorce laws of
any state in the Union. Justices of the SUI
preme court have authority to decree divorce
in any case where they may be persuaded at
an exparte hearing that 1t would be soon
duciye to domestic harmony"