The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-23
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William Ashmead Bartlett.
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That's what we call an improper fraction.
IT is asserted that since Beecher said there
would be a great deal of good society la hell as
well a. Heaven. Edwards Pierrepont and Cyrus
W. Field have got they don't care much which
place they go.
YOUNG lady was caressing a pretty spaniel
and murmuring: Il do love a nice dogi' "Ahr'
sighed dandy, standing near, Il would were
dog" Never mind" retorted the young lady
sharply; you'll grow
II is rumored that Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton.
formerly United States Minister to Russia Is
seeking the place on the Supreme Court Bench
which is likely to be made vacant soon by the re-
tirement of Judge Hunt.
Mr. NESSoR is skilled only in the signs of
the weather, but in geology and ornithOlogy. lie
is now busy with work on the birds of Can
ada" He is a stout man, about thirty-five years
old, with fair hair, weather-beaten countenance
and modest and agreeable manners
THE oak frame in which Mrs. Hayes White
House portrait is to be placed is being carved by
the Cincinnati lady artists with representations
OF oak-leaves. acorns. grapes, lilies. suniowers
and hawthorn. The frame itself is the contribu-
ton of few prominent ladies of Cincinnati.
Mr.. PETER COOPER on his ninetieth birthday.
slept until the morning had nearly passed. and
when he arose ate as hearty breakfast as he ever
did in his life. Many old friends called at his
house during the day. In the evening the pupils
of the Cooper Institute gave him reception.
| A G. BRADLEY writes to the Pail Mall Gazette
that the old State of Virginia may now be fairly
said to be booming booming, too in a quiet,
respectable. and substantial manner that makes
little n1ise STIR but for that very is all
the frmsr and the more likely to be permanent.
Hon S. d. HASTINGS. for eight years Treasurer
of Wisconsin, is going TO New Zealand, at the in
vitation of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
that Province, to engage in temperance work and
assist in extending the order Mr.. Hastings is the
reputed founder of the order in Australia and
Kew Zealand.
REV. Dr. WITHROw, OF Boston, and formerly
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in this
CITY, has no faith in Mother Shipton bases no cal
culation on the perihelia of the planets, has no
confidence in the dread Of forebodings of the ia
mac Professor. but he does agree with the great
students of Scriptural prophecy that we are near
| the end of the world.
Mr. CHARLES O'CoSoR, the eminent Counselor
was interviewed at his home on the Island OF
Nantucket. the other day. upon the Irish cues
ton. He said that the Irish cutlery against
British oppression undoubtedly was warranted,
but that Americans have not time to interfere;
that we have enough to do ''in checking the
growth of governmental evils at home"
SINGULAR case has just been decided in a St
Louis Court. An elderly lady of that CITY who
had promised to bequeath $1,000 to a Church,
was persuaded by her clergyman and others to
give the Church 81. 600 instead but afterward re-
GREETED il and sued 10 recover. The Judge held
that she had been improperly influenced by her
spiritual adviser. and decreed judgment agains
the Church for $1,000.
EMILY PFEIFFER sends to the Spectator a poem
entitled Learn of the Dog the gist of which is:
Learn of the dog to live. il thou would'st find
His peace in death; for him the silent spheres
Keep theirlong watch unchallenged overhead;
Know as he knows; love as he loves his kind
Unweave the web of human tolls and tears;
Die like dog when thought and love are
dead"
THIS is the way that the Philadelphia Times
tells it: Governor Porter Of Indiana, visited the
State Senate Chamber in indianapolis the other
day. and, because he could not find a seat turned
angriy to the doorkeeper with: why don't you
bring me a chair, sir?' The doorkeeper, who
knew Porter very well. stared at him for mo-
ment and then said. in voice that was heard all
over the Chamber: Who is that id little red
headed cuss asking for ehair?'"
FERNANDO woop was Member of the Congress
which appropriated $4,000 il aid OF Professor
Morses experimental telegraph line between
Washington and Baltimore. Mr.. Wood voted for
the appropriation, and was. in consequence, de-
feated in his next for Congress by the intel
lgent voters of his District who couldn't tolerate
on such a chimerical project that of transmit
ting intelligence upon wires strung upon poles.
SENATOR BLAINE is recovering from his attack
of rheumatism, but he is still forced to stay in
doors. 1t is said that he may not take his seat in
the Senate again, inasmuch as he intends to leave
it anyway before the 4th of March. According to
his present intention, he will resign next week
This will give the Maine Legislature the required
ten days notice of an existing vacancy, and viii
afford the opportunity TO elect his succeSSor-Mr
Frye-in time to enable him to take his seat very
soon after March f.
| THIRTY years ago James Boyle left Ireland for
Australia with his wife and one child. leaving
another child, Mary. with her grandfather. He
was very successful on the gold fields, and in
vested his money to great advantage His wife
and child died in Australia. Mary married man
named Glen, and moved 10 America, where she
has been living In a poor part of Philadelphia. By
the miscarriage of letters incidental her NOV
ing at the same time her father they lost trace
of each other. and each thought the other dead.
She finds herself. after life of hard struggle
worth million Of dollars.
| GENERAL GARFIELD Is now being bothered by
the persons who making arrangements for
the Inauguration Apropos of this the Washing
ton Republican relates an anecdote Of Mr.. Lin
coin. The Inauguration Committee submitted
two programmes, and asked the President-elect
which he preferred. Mr.. Lincoln threw one leg
over the back of his chair and replied follows:
when was practicing law in Illinois client of
mine, peculiar sort OF fellow, was brought be
/ fore the Court, and the Judge asked him: DO
you swear affirm? Mr.. Judge, my client
replied, I don't care a damn which,
| CALAMITY LAPHAM is the name of a man
who lives in Ottumwa, Iowa. He acquired his
unhappy sobriquet from the numerous acct
dents of which he has been the victim. He was
shot dozen or more times during the War was
run over by caisson, and went to the bottom
of the Mississippi River with transport sunk
at the siege of Yicksburg. Since the war he has
had the cholera, smallpox, yellow feve-, been
bitten by a snake struck by lightning. and had
three ribs broken by falling wall during an
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