The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14

methodical way OF living, and Is rather cold,
though always courteous, to people outside OF
his immediate circle of friends. His political
Influence in the State is strongest in his own
county of Newcastle. The other two counties
are dominated by the Saulsburys, who are not
| particularly friendly to him.
UNITED STATES senator says that he
| would not give fig for a girl who could not
answer these question:: How long must
hen set before chickens are hatched@ How
lying does turkey set before Matching a
broodg How old must chickens be before
they are ii to broiI9 At what age msy young
pigs be roasted?" He has trained his daughter
on these points, and is proud to say that she
can pass the examination successfully.
ST. PATRICK's ball, which closed the Dublin
castle season, was great success. The lord
lieutenant with the lady msyoress, the
Duchess of MISUNDERSTANDING bunch of
shamrocks presented to her by her Limerick
sub-committee-with the chamberlain, Mr.
Lambart, and Lady Randolph Churchill with
the lord mayer, opened the ball by tripping
] country dance together down st. Patrick's to
/ the strains Of the Irish national air.
CHARLES c. Frost, learned shoemaker, has
just died at Brattleborough, VT. at The age of
"a years. He began to take morning walks
through the fields on account Of his i'll health
and so became interested in botany. He sent
| to London for a standard work on botany, and
when he found that the work was In Latin he
bought a Latin grammar and began the study
of that ancient tongue. de mastered Latin
French and German, and received the degree
OF A. NJ. from Dartmouth and Middlebury Col
leges. In botany he was a leading authority.
TIE nineteenth annual meeting in connec-
| xrft la for
Dogs was held recently In London, Colonel
Burdette in the chair. The report stated that
during the past year the Institution had found
homes for upward of $3.50 dogs, being SOS
more than I'm the previous year. New COM
partments had recently been made at the
home for additional accommodation, at a cost
altogether OF about $500, all of which had been
paid for by the balance from last year, except
200.
JOSEPH X. EMMETT, the former negro min
strel. aud now the prosperous actor of German
American character, has accumulated large
fortune within few years. He has bought
place on the Hudson, near Albany, and begun
the erection of a magnificent residence. There
Is large music room, furnished with an i'm
mense orchestrion; the parlor is modelled after
that of an English manor, with timbered roof;
every room in the main story is an octagon,
with bay window and balcony. A feature of
the grounds will be big windmill of the
Butch sort, which will pump water for pic
turesque cascade.
THE widow of once prominent tobacco
mist of Petersburg, Va, has just received a
check for between 500 and 500, under cireum-
stances somewhat remarkable. About 45 years
ago, while her husband was in business, he
sold some tobacco to a merchant in Bremen,
who subsequently failed and died without set
thing his Indebtedness. a son of that mer-
chant, Mr.. III. LamOtle, recently advertised
that he would pay all claims against his
fathers estate, and through Messrs. Bonner,
Osterioot Il Co., of Richmond, sent the full
amount of his fathers indebtedness to the
Petersburg merchant.
THE Empress Eugenies famous pearl neck
lace is now the property of one of the richest
women in Europe, Countess Henckel. The
empress had the pearls sold In London. One
of her ladies, accompanied by two friends OF
the imperial widow, carried them to an Eng
lish jeweler who bought them and disposed of
them to the Countess Henckel for S6O, 900 francs
This lady had some OF the pearls less beautiful
than the others removed, and added two
other rows; one, which came from the jewels
sold by the queen of Naples, the other from
great Spanish parsonage. At present the suit
of pearls belonging to the countess, earrings
and brooch included, is worth 100000 or 100000
francs. 1t is said to be the finest set of pearls
in the world.
THE English newspapers refer humorously
to ian alliance of beer and Bibles, bricks
and mortar" There is a great brewer at War
rington, Sir Gilbert Greenal, who, on one side
of one of his public houses, has built school,
and on the other side church. Somebody
quotes as apropos of this queer contiguity the
old couplet: "Wherever God erects a house of
prayer, the devil builds chapel there" This
Tory brewer, they say, has taken contract
for both. But this is not so good as the ancient
quatrain written upon a church. the vaults OF
which were let for the storage of strong drink
Upon the door OF this miscellaneous edi6ce
some wag wrote: There's spirit above and
a spirit below, A spirit of joy and spirit of
woe; The spirit above is the spirit divine
And the spirit below Is the spirit of wine.''
THE Improvement of noses has become an
art in this city, If a correspondent OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer is to be believed. IA lady
ofmy acquaintance" the writer says, twas
given by nature nose that was hat-a sort
OF pug, with wide nOstrils. Meeting her q few
days ago, did not at first recognize her. She
was immensely improved. asked the cause.
Cant you see? she asked. 1 scrutinizsd her
face. Yes exclaimed; it's your nose, end
1t has grown out Well, never! VIVA a-d
it?' Her nose stood out to proper Length,
and was as shapely as could have been DE-
sired. 'Ive got an extensor In it,, she said
but You mustn't tell What's extensorr
"A metal lining, or form, which wear in my
nose to give 1t good shape. III show 1t 10
you when we get home She did show it to
me. 1t was simply two forms of silver, colored
red on the inner surface, to be pressed up into
the nostrils. They effsctually lifted the end
of the nose out from the face. aud were not
uncomfortable or discoverable." These
articles further declared to be an article
of common manufacture by fashionable den
tists
THE Georgia Republicans seem to have had
quite rumpus In a little convention held at
Atlanta on Thursday. A special from Atlanta
OF that date says: In the Republican conven- .
tlon, held here to- day, to select six delegates
TO the State convention on the 2lst, row &C.