The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
Mr. MARSH, the American minister at Rome
has an art collection worth 100000.
SEvENTY-FIvE HUNDRED children, of one
year old and under, died In New York last
year.
DIR. JOHN HALL says in Mr.. Bonner's Ledger
that he never received more than 500 in one
wedding fee,
II Is proposed to erect at Annapolis the
monument to the memory of Baron De Kalb
that was authorized by Congress in 1850.
WILLIAM W. Aston, who has rent.ron Of
10000 houses in New York City and an income
New York Senate. He shows a studious devo-
ton TO business.
THE Louisville Sunday Argus says that the
proprlety and availability of Mr.. w. H.
English, OF Indiana, as a candidate on the
National ticket, is now being recognized all
over the country.
THE first iron works In America were erect
ed In 1919, at place called Falling creek
branch of the James river, not far from James
town. the first settlement of the Virginia col
ony, 81 miles from the sea.
Mrs. I. ADoLPHUs TRoLLoPE, the clever nov
elist, is quoted by Miss Brewster as exciaim-
ing: "Have you any ugly women in the Unit
ed States? For surely only beautiful ones
come to Europe from your country"
W. PRICE, a young boy living In Orange,
while playing with some comrades, was
kicked in the mouth by one of them. a toof n
was knocked out and down his throat, (. om
which he choked to death in few Minutes.
a LITTLE boy In Troy, fatally ill wIt.n scarlet
fever was told the doctors opini',n that he
must die, and replied: "Well, thi s world does
not amount to much anyway. 4 am going up,
and up where am going ca,a look down and
see this world not bigger tn an pins head"
Mr.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON gave, this
week, his hundreth lee cure before the Concord
Lyceum. The Springfield Republican says
tnat Mr.. Emerson'S health is firm, his spirit
cheerful and seleno. He sees few visitors,
writes little, reads much and revises those OF
his papers neeer yet printed.
TIE experiment OF connecting the Dart
mouth college church by telephones with
residences in the village and at Norwich, has
I proved very successful. The services of the
/ church are heard with great distiDctness. How
would il do 10 establish a similar connection
! between the students dormitory rooms and
the presidents study and Bedroom
THE fact that a steam-engine rs being erect
ed in -four mill In Jerusalem is a startling
announcement, but it is an evidence OF the
progress of civilization. The "infidels'' who
have thus introduced modern inventions TO
the "holy" city are a nrm of Wurtemburg col
onists, who, with the characteristic en- er-
prise Of the Teutonic race, are doing all the
Oriental powers win let them to make the
historic and old world cities march with the
times.
ONE of ships crew lately in Africa, having
become intoxicated, lay down to sleep, while
his companions were making examinations
/ in the neighborhood. The latter, nearing an
cutlery where they had left the inebriate, has
/ tened thither, and found that he had been at
tackled by myriads of large white ants, that
( were devouring him alive. Selling him by
the arms and legs they dashed him into a
stream near by, and then waded into 1t them
selves. The ants were got rid OF, but the I'M
4 fortunate man died.
THE Atlanta Constitution denies that the
/ Democrats Of the South are hostile to Tilden,
and declares that, while individuals may have
their personal preferences, they are for and
will support the nemlnee of the National con-
vention, whoever be may be, without a why
or wherefore. II says that "our people per-
ceive that the main difficulty lies In electing
the Democratic candidate and installing him
in the White House, rather than In any
choice between aspirants, particularly when
there seems TO be an abundance of good ma
terial"
MR.. GEORGE w. CBRTIs, of Harper's Weekly
is decidedly of opinion that it would be mex.
pedient, however lawful, Tor the present New
York Legislature to change the method of
choosing presidential electors. He goes still
further, and maintains that the assumption
OF power by the Legislature which was not
contemplated when 1t was elected, would be
startling" These views do honor TO his good
sense, fairness and patriotism, and we can
only regret that Mr.. Curtis has so little infiu-
ence with those men who determine the
policy and shape the course of his party in
New YORK.
NOT every one can identity himself ms clear
ly a Dutchman of whom we have read re-
Gently. Having seen in the morning papers
an account OF an accident in which he had
himself been killed. and after which he had
been carried to the morgne, he had long
gument In his own mind and seems to have
more than half convinced himself that some
Thing dreadful had happened In spite of his
apparent health and good spirits. He hastened
20 the Morgue and there, sure enough, was a
dead body. Even then he was a little uncer-
tain whether he or another man had been
killed, and Immediately began a close exami-
nation. The clothes OF the dead man were
very like his own, and SO was the complexion
and the general cast of countenance. The poor
Dutehman was in perfect despair, and began
to feel that bs had after ALL been really killed.