The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02
GENERAL NOTES.

SINCE his nomination, General Garfeld,has paid
out sSOs.24 for postage stamps.
Mr. JOHN G.. WHITTIER has been invited to
write an ode TO be sung at the Yorktown Centen-
NAL celebration.
| "wUS LUSG' is the somewhat startling name
of ''moon-eyed leper' who is engaged in the
laundry business in New York
Ex-GovERSoR SEYMOUR is slowly recovering
from his recent illness. and is staying with his
sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling. in Utica.
AMONG the social events OF the week at Elkhart,
Ind, was the celebration of the sixtythird ami
versary of their wedding by Mr.. and Mrs. Jarvis
Clark.
wESDELL PHILLIPS wonders why an insane
child at hospital must be put under the care Of
person chosen from the crowd of those who are
willing to work for s. or 81 a week.
THE remains OF Fernando Wood will be buried
| in Trinity Cemetery New York, in the family lot
where both HIS father and mother are buried.
Mr.. Wood himself selected the spot.
NOTHING, says the Boston Herald, disturbs
Hayes temperamental optimism. Whatever is,
is all right. Whatever happens or does not hap
pen, he sits on the stile and cOntinuestO smile.
Mrs. STOREY has painted q portrait of the veneer
able Wilbur T.. owner OF the Chicago Times
and it Is now the property of the Chicago Press
Club and bears the label, The Old. Old Storey"
An exchange says Mr.. Storey is one of the hand
soonest men in the West
WHEN Tom Corwin. il is related, was in the
height of his popularity young man approached
him, asking him what he should do, what course
pursue to become like Corwin. The response
was brief and sad: Young man. be serious. If
had been serious / might have been President,
but now am nobody but Corwin."
Mr.. wendell PHILLIPS has appeared in Boston
as the advocate and champion of Ireland. He de-
clared that Gladstone's position was to-day like
that of a crazy playing with powder in an
arsenal This is the reason" said Mr.. Phillips,
why call the present condition OF affairs Ire
lands triumph and England's surrender"
MRS MARY OREN. BaltimOre's centenarian, is
now at the point OF death. Mrs. Orem is los years
old. She was the daughter of Robert Peake.
British soldier, who deserted from the British
army during the Revolution and joined that of
General Washington. Mrs. Orem has twenty five
grandchildren and fifty-one eat-grand-children.
THE Cleveland Herald regrets that shakespeare
was not an Ohio man, for then the world would
have known all about him. The Boston Adver-
tiser replies that. in that event. he would doubt
less nave nd0 a FcOcrul anu We
should have had no plays.
Or General Garfield Private Dalzell remarks that
he is silent as a tombstone in regard TO his plans.
He salutes all visitors cordially and unatfectedly.
''In you go. feeling coy and as much at home
you would at any other farmers house. That
is his manner Of salutation but after you talk an
hour and go away and come to think Of il, you
have heard nothing worth repeating
YOUNG Me- PRESTON POWERS. the son OF Hiram
Powers was a sculptor from babyhood. lie used
to play about his fathers studio and dabble in
the clay. He modelled small figures, and one day
made a madonna. For this man paid his father
a dollar and the small artist had it for pocket
money. Young Mr.. Powers is now engaged upon
figure of maud Muller"
Mr.. ROBERT BURDErTE, OF the Burlington Hawk
eye, was showed up in the interior the other day.
and telegraphed 10 the town where he was to
lecture that he was coming and not to begin till
he got there. as he wanted to hear the whole
lecture. Arriving about $3.50 o'clock p. m, he
found the audience singing college songs and
waiting patiently. As he walked in the audience
arose and struck mp Eve won't go home till
morning" To this he responded that if he had
known that he wouldn't have been in such
hurry.
MILBURS the blind preacher, says that Carlyle
in a conversation. foretold the downfall of Louis
Napoleon. whom he likened TO an opera singer
whose Opera House was soon 10 be blasted by
earthquake of God. Carlyle. in 1862 told Mil
burn that although in revising his works he
found he had changed his opinions, he knew that
he had been true TO himself. He claimed that he
had thrown many handful of Greek fire into
the camp of sham and folly. Last year Carlyle
spoke of the snuff of doubt with which sceptics
and socalled leaders OF thought were trying 20
sneeze God out of the universe. Milburn makes
Carlyle a warm. firm believer in God.
SENATOR ZEBULOS b. VANCE gave lecture in
Baltimore the other evening on the Hebrew race,
in which he heartily praised the scattered Ma
ton" Only one Jew, he said had ever come
under his notice while Governor of North Caro-
lima a criminal, and him he pardoned but,
he added, he had seen many whom he thought
hanging would improve. Senator Vance also told
humorous story of a cane stolen from him which
had been presented to him by the Hebrew young
men Of Wilmington, N. c. 1t bore his name and
appropriate inscription. A Hebrew pawn
broker came across il and returned Ii TO him,
making him. however pay every cent that had
been advanced on IT. with INTEREST," this sally the
Hebrew audience burst into a roar Of laughter
and applause.