The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-17
CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
SECRETARY scHURz is spoken of as Minister to
Austria.
JENNY LIND is now sixty years old. She gave
her first concert in this country just thirty years
ago.
SENATOR CHAFFEE has presented his son-in-
law, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., 100000 Government
| bonds.
DENIS KEARNEY has bid long farewell to pub
lie life. Who'll be the next man to use powerful
profanity?
THE cultured way to speak of burlesque act
ress' dress is to say that the skirts are very de
collete at the bottom.
CHAMPAGNE-coLoRED satins are made still more
delicate in tone by being worked with flowers in
silver. The effect is very sparkling.
THE property of Mr.. Victor Newcomb, the re-
firing President of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, is estimated at s6OOO,OOO
A PoErEss asks: Have You lived the songs you
sing lover II he sings I'VE won't go home till
morning" no doubt he has lived at least one of
them.
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD has ordered a Christmas
dinner at Shanghai, and expects to make New
| Francisco on the 18th instant.
A PROFESSOR lecturing on psychology said: All
phenomena are sensations. For instance. that
leaf appears green 20 me. In other words. have
sensation of greenness within me-" OF course.
no harm was meant, but still the class would
laugh
IT is suggested by the Springfield Mass Union
as a fit and graceful thing that President-elect
IL ID 4,
kins, of Williams College should be asked to
| oficiate as chaplain at the inaugural ceremony
| next March,
YOUNG LADY.-"Very changeable weather, Mr.
| Virgins, isn't it?' Mrs. wiggins-'Ees, miss it
be. Fust 'ot, yer see then cold, then 'ot ag'in;
but it's blessin, COS II the weather wasn't a
| little variable there wouldn't be no variety in
| some folk. "-LOndon Fun.
VICTOR HUGO says that in his opinion his best
work is LES Chatiments," because it has pun
ished one crime and will prevent its recurrence
The venerable author is in good health, and in
his evening dress with his white silk handker-
chief loosely arranged around his neck instead of
| tie, and his white hair and beard glstening
about his his fine face, he is very handsome and
picturesque old gentleman.
THE Princess of Wales, it is said, not only de-
signs her own costumes but cuts them out her
self. At Marlborough House is kept a staff of
needlewomen always employed. and not even NJ
Worth himself can turn out better specimens for
taste and fit The absence among the West End
shops of the customary legend. "Milliner to H.
R. H., the Princess OF Wales" "Dressmaker to II,
! r. H. etc. is very noticeable.
DR.. BRUNToN in the Contemporary Review
states that the late Lord Derby, when translating
| Homer. was accustomed to cal branded cherries.
| One man will eat figs while composing a leading
article; another will suck chocolate cremes; 9TH
ers viii smoke cigarettes. and others will sip
brandy and water. BY these means they stimu-
late the lingual and buccal branches of the fifth
nerve, and thus rehexly excite their brains.
| IT was at a late quarterly meeting of Seventh
| Day Baptist Churches in Wisconsin that two
clergymen were to present papers on the same
| day, and the question of precedence having
arisen, Mr.. A. sprang to his feet and said: IT
think Brother B. ought to have the best place on
the programme; he is an older than l am,
| and, besides is full of his subject" When the
audience remembered that Brother BIS subject
| was 1.-The Devil" cheerful smile seemed to
beam around the assembly.
GOVERNOR CoLQUIrT OF Georgia, has received
silver watch, accompanied by letter, professedly
from one of gang of pickpockets which infested
| Atlanta during the recent Fair. The letter said
that they had met with the greatest success, cap
turing so many watches that they had no use for
the one accompanying the letter and had decided
/ to present it TO the Governor as memento of the
police arrangements of the Gate City, which en-
abled them to ply their avocations without fear
| Of arrest.
FORMERLY the Inquisition exercised a censor
ship over art matters in Italy. In 1873 Paul
Geronese. was examined for taking undue liberties
with sacred personages in composition of the
Last Supper. Among the questions put were
those: "what is st. Peter doing?" Ahswer-"He
| l. carving the lamb" And the one next one to
him?' Holding the plate to receive what st.
Peter may give him.. And the thirdT' HE is
picking his teeth with fork" For this pictorial
breach of good manners the artist was repri-
handed and compelled to alter the obnoxious
| detail.
| THE patriot has been out until a. m. the pre-
vious evening, marching under the'torches of the
| Free and his youthful had gone down to see
the procession 1t is at the breakfast table. Pa
says the youthful son, internptng the parents
glowing desert ,tion of the parade and Honorable
! Mr. Howler's speech: ''Pa, what was that place
where the procession stopped and you all went In
and stood by long counter, and you hit Mr..
| Brown on the head with glass mug7" The meal
was concluded in profound silence, and afterward
! the parent took the lad out and fertilized him
with a top-dressing of shingles, insomuch that he
lost al interest in politics. n.S .t.-