The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28

decessors.
For Il years Dr. Julius schmidt, of Athens,
has been at work upon an immense map OF
the moon, which shows S2,s56 craters and
ring-like formations on the lunar surfaces and
SS riffs and clefts.
GOVERNOR SMITH, of Maine, is a biggeriman
than Governor Davis is. Smith weighs $50
and Davis only 40. The Republicans had bet
ter see that their man is kept at asafe distance
from the big Fusionist.
MR.. j. c. FLooD has just bestowed a pleasant
little amount of pin-mOney upon his
daughter, Miss Jennie Flood. He has regis
tered 2 100000 in United States bonds in her
name. This gift provides for her an income
of a $4,000 a year.
Miss JOSEPHINE HARPER, daughter of +. W.
Harper, Jr., is the author of the charming
story, "a Night on the Tete Noire," In Har-
per's Magazine for November. She sent the
manuscript anonymously, and it WAS accepted
and paid for unbeknown to her father.
TIL Peoria National Democrat expresses
the opinion that the United States Supreme
Court is a s-uperannuated body. Judge Clifford
is past 76, Swayne is past rs, Strong has turned
20. and Bradley is turned 6S. Hunt is par
alytic, with little hope of recovery. They all
ought to be retired, and younger and more
vigorous blood and brains infused into the
court.
CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH Z. JOHNSTON, of Vir-
ginia, and General Sherman ale like Damon
and Pythias. Once In a while they can be
seen riding out together airing themselves. A
Washington correspondent says: They seem
to have a great admiration for each other, and
they compliment each other on the mastery
lodging each did in the Georgia campaign.
1T is said that the great pencil manufacturer,
Faber, who began business in Nuremberg
about 20 years ago with a capital of $3.50 has
decided to commemorate this event by setting
aside c5,000, the interest of which, at 5 per
cent, e25O, is to be annually given, under di-
rection OF trustees, to some poor and worthy
young man who is about TO start In business,
and ia, presumably, a native of Nuremberg.
THERE is a student of natural history at
Chico, CAL, who believes that the deer of
Butte county know what day the game law
goes into effect. He has gravely read a paper
before the California Academy of Sciences, in
which he asserts that they stay on the foot
hills every year until November 2, and then,
knowing that on and after that date it is I'M
lawful to shoot them, go boldly down into the
inhabited valleys.
SECRETARY THOMPSON says that he saw
Andrew Jackson at the time of his Inaugural
ton as president. my father, who intro.
duced me" says the secretary, "told me then
that L was getting on the other political side
already. Instead of lecturing me, as | sup
posed he would, Jackson put his hand on my
head and said: Whatever your politics. think
always Tor yourself, ana let conscience be your
inYariable guide"
CARDINAL MANNING, speaking at a temper
snce meeting at Liverpool the other day, said
that in Manchester, Liverpool and London
the Teetotal League of the Cross numbered
$1,000 of the soberest men In England. Drunk
enness was affecting England's factory hands
to sucIi an extent, he said, that Americans
who had visited England TO study the labor
question declared that the factory labor of
America was more efficient than that of Eng
land in consequence of intemperance among
the English factory operatives.
THOMAS ADDS EMMETT. a granddaughter of
the famous Robert Emmett, who was tried for
high treason against the English Government
and put to death, died in Carmel, N. Y, on
MONDAY. Mr.. Emmett was g prominent civil
engineer and had charge Of many important
State surveys. He was especially proud of one
relic of the Emmett family-a large emerald
ring, which was used as a seal by the United
Irishmen in 1893. At one time the English
Government offered a reward of $500 for its
possession-but they failed To obtain even a
clue to its owner.
JUDGE J. u. GEORGE, United States senator
elect for Mississippi, is about So years of age.
and is in the full vlgor of health and man
hood. He has Tor years stood among the fore
most lawyers Of his state, and IN 1873 he was
chosen chief justice of the supreme court Of
Mississippi. He is conservative in his poIiti-
cal ideas, and on questions OF national import
agrees with Senator Lamar. For some yeaE
before the war he was reporter OF the supreme
court, and he has written several law books
that are OF andar authority in his and AT
Joining States.
CHARLEs DICKENS once wrote to Sir John
Bennett q letter which has just been pub.
lished Cor the first time in the London Daily
News. It runs thus: "My Dear Sir-Since my
hall clock was sent to your establishment to
be cleaned 1t has gone las, indeed, II always
has perfectly well, but has struck the hours
with great reluctance; and, after enduring in
ternal agonies of a most distressing nature, it
has now ceased striking altogether. Though
a happy release for the clock, this is not con-
venient to the household. If YOU can send
down any confidential person with whom the
clock can confer, 1 think It may have some
thing on its works that it would be glad to
make a clean breast of. Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens" SIR John Bennett replied,
giving good hope Of the clocks perfect restora-
ton.
al BELIEVE In a Providence" said Victor
Hugo to a company gathered around him in
his red salon in the Rue de Clichy, because L
am q Providence myself Some one asked
for an explanation of this curious riddle. The
venerable poet replied: "We caught a mouse
yesterday evening. Its death sentence was
pronounced, when my little granddaughter,
Jeanne, with eyes glistening with tears,
begged for the life OF the gray prisoner. Her
mother hesitated whether to listen to the dear
little advocate or not, and in her doubt said,
Grandfather shall decide So they came to
me. For a moment 1 held the power of life
and death over the diminutive creature, and
1 thought the Heavenly Providence may find
Itself in my situation when the fate of a being
OF higher order is to be determined. Natural
ly l set the mouse free, for when "a mar un-
fire role of Providence on a small