The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
GENERAL NOTES.

sENAroR-E1xcr HALE. of Maine. attended
school taught by Congressman Dunnel, OF Min
nesota-
A KAN of South Coventry Conn.,. has buried
two wives and been married twice within eleven
months.
II you can approve of yourselflit makes but
little difference whether the world approves of
you not.
SECRETARY GoYF thinks that it will require
$500 to defray the expenses of unwilling the
Fsrragut Statue.
MRS. GENERAL FAIRcHuD. the wife Of the
United States Minister at Madrid win shortly ar
rive IN Paris for a sojourn of some weeks
MRs. GARFIELD says that the General is obsti-
nate when anybody undertakes to drive him.
And It is quite probably that Mrs. Garfield knows.
ABRAHAM L. DIcKsTEIS. of Heringen. Limburg,
Germany Is psdsgogue who is still teaching
school at 1oi years of age. at salary of $50 per
snnum.
SENATOR EUGESE HALF Is described as having
picturesque face, the contour of which is Roman,
and a full beard. matching the dark gray brown
eyes
TIE remains Of Thomas Carlyle were conveyed
from London on Thursday last. by railway. to
Dumfries, for burial by the side Of his wife in the
HaldingtOn Cathedral.
GENERAL SHERMAN was sixty-one years old on
Tuesday. He says he has no thought of retiring
next April, as he will not be eligible for retire
ment for another year.
TIE man who rcvenges every wrong that is
done him has no time for anything else. If you
make your life success you can afford to let the
dogs bark you go BY.
Ms HAYES has record Of the White House
entertainments under her rule in the shape Of
large album, containing diagrams at dinner par
ties, names Of guests etc.
Mr. CANNON, Delegate in Congress from Utah,
Eas recently asked how many wives he really had,
when he replied: Enough to keep me from med
ding with other mems wives
Mr.. W. F. sTohEY. proprietor of the Chicego
Times is said to have avOwed his belief in Spirit
ualisrn, and to have stated that he is 'in con-
slant connection with the spirit world"
Ex-GovERSOR WAsuBURS of Wisconsin, who
has been suffering from stroke of paralysis, is
gradually improving. 1t is expected he will leave
Lacrosse, Wis. for Minnesota in week or ten
days.
The report that President Hayes draws hi
salary in advance not having been denied, the
Cincinnati Commercial pertinently asks, "Does he
doubt Of the solvency of the concern he is at work
forT"
POPE LEo will be seventy-one in March next.
lie has gained flesh since he became Pope but is
very pale, and the white robes he wears make
him look still paler. lie Ill recently. bat is
said 70 be now quite recovered.
~ An an independent voter, and 1 can't
support you until I've seen your PLATFORM" she
aid. as he finished proposing. couple OF hours
later il dawned upon the young mans mind that
she wanted to know the amount Of his salary.
BIN BUTLER has been some time In New York, |
attended by nobody but his clients. He has
almost absolutely faded out OF notice, his polit
ical Judgment having carried him hither and
thither, and signs OF old age prominent in
him.
SECRETARY SHERMAN is mentioned being
kind TO poor and struggling people. having once
been poor himself and though he is a childless
man. he Is very fond OF and very good TO little
children.
MONROE said to Sparks, at East Bernard, Tex:
Come over 70 my house tomorrow to dinner; |
but don't bring your brother Frank. for l viii
shoot him if you do" Frank defantly went,
however, and got shot Immediately entering
the house.
Mr. SAMUEL. ]. TILDES has contributed 500
toward the expenses of n. Payson Weston, the
pedestrian who is going TO London to contest for
the Ashley belt. Weston borrowed several hun
dred dollars from Horace Greeley. He has a mag
nedc smile.
TIE new Senator Van wyck. of Nebraska has
lived IN that State only eight years, but bought
the land near Nebraska City, whereon lie now
hives more than twenty years ago, intending then
70 some day become Nebraskian. He has a
beautiful home and fine farm.
Mr. WILLIAM f. CHASDLKE has presented to
the New Hampshire Historical Society pocket |
knife which was carried by President Lincoln on
the night Of his assassination. It is six baded,
pearl-handled knife, with blade broken, and
has Mr.. LincOlons name engraved on the handle. !
Mr. JOHN BRIGHT seems to be discouraged with !
the state of agriculture in England, and the i'm
penetrability of the farmers Il have preached 70
farmers for nearly forty years" he says. with
but little result American competition may
speak 20 them and 70 our landlord class with more
effect
PROFESSOR BLAcKIE, in a Sunday evening lee
ture to a Glasgow audience, explained what
amusements he thought proper for Sunday.
Large dinner parties he would eschew, but he
would allow such games as cricket, croquet,
lawn-tennis, billiards, cards. backgammon and
chess.
doUST Won MoLTKE is man Of nerve still, in
spite Of his venerable years. When the building
Of the General staff, In Berlin. wherein he lives
was burning, the other evening, he calmly quilted
his rubber Of whist, attended TO the removal OF
or1cial papers, and then went placidly to look at
The conhegration.
GENERAL GRANT lie fast smashing up the old
tradition that an ex-President Ia bound 70 live
dignihed, do-nothing sort of life. With the
Worlds Fair and a Mexican railroad on bis
hands, and the Nicaragua Canal project TO look
after, he Is about rs busy and useful a citizen AS
the country can show.
SAY. boy, say7" exclaimed hot-looking man
with a valve, what is the quickest way to get TO
the earsl" "Run." yelled the boy; and tho hot
looking man was 30 pleased with the information
that II he could have got near enough to the boy
he would have given him something
that he would have remembered.
The late Henry Wilson is quoted By Mr.. z L.
White as saying that until he was twenty-one
years old he never had dollar in money TO spend
for anything During his whole apprenticeship
his master never gave him q penny but once !;
then he presented the boy with three cents, and