The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-30
CLIPPINGS.

the last month Hf
TIE late General Upton fred the first cannon
At the first Bull Run.
HAHosE seems to be "sdgger'' man than Davis,
although he weighs only about 100 pounds
VIZ very much fear that to a poke bonnet you
will haye 10 come whether it suits your style OF
beauty or not.
TN wears ego the total export of grain from all
ayts of the United States was ~ H. 39S bushels;
last year it amounted to 22s, $50. s47 bushels.
SENATOR CAMERON is going to California In
special car accompanied by Mrs. Cameron ana
party of friends. They will probably leave WASH
ington this week.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's two elder sons are SAID
to be pestered for their Influence TO the extent
of forty letters day by former schoolmates
who want positions.
AN old Judge of forty years experience Is cred
tied with saying: II don't know which does the
most harm, enemies with the worst intentions
or friends with the best"
WHEN fellow goes with his fancee to purchase
her bridal VEIL and she selects one that Is durable
and won't sooil at one wearing, 1t someho" casts
gloom over him.-Boston Post.
THE wife of Secretary Window is the daughter
OF Congregational clergyman in Massachusetts,.
In her youth Sne NdS u IcaChOA ~ N-ANf $500 -
now teaches her own children
TIE Springfield Republican thinks the Inter
national Exposition should be put of till 1882.
Iats see that will be the four hundredth ami
yersarysof something or other, will 1t not!
GENERAL GRANT who has been given an income
of $4,000 year. says he can not to give the time
necessary to the Presidency OF the New 1orA
Worlds Fair. Poor man!-Boston Transcript
THERE are 10. 600 opium eaters in st. Louis and
15O0O in Chicago And SO ST. Louis Is mao
because she has not as many as Chicago. HOW
ever. she gets even by claiming more drunxaros
EX-SENATOR GORDON, of Georgia, it is said'is
getting ready 70 build railroad from Columbus,
Miss. through the great coal fields of Northern
Alabama 70 Atlanta. This is better than politics.
Mr.. HAYES has sent $3.50 to John NJ. Unglaub,
the engineer who had charge of the train on
which he was going home on the 5th inst,
and which collided with another at Severn Sta
ten.
MARYLAND furnishes 7S.5l5 Republican voters,
OF whom $1,000 are colOred. But out of all the
Federal Offices In Maryland the colored folks have
but ten. This is one way of drawing the color
line.
Ex-SECRETARY THOMPSON says that he thinks
Washington the most beautiful city in the world,
Indiana he will certainly select Washington as
residence
The mother had cut her little daughters hair
60 make bangs" Surveying her own work, she
said: Bessie, yesterday you looked as if you
had no sense. To-day you look as If your mother
had none"
SECRETARY AND MRS. WINDOW have three chill
dren-a son. who is in New Hampshire pre-
oil
who is in her teens, and another daughter,
child of seven years.
TIE Cleveland Hearald prints the startling
headline, Seven Hundred Thousand Ohio
Hogs" Now we do insist upon civil service
nm, and no fooling Hayes nepotism was sim
ply scandalous.-BOston Post.
SECRETARY AND MRS KIRKwooD are assisted in
their hospitable duties by an adopted daughter.
Miss Rachel Kirkwood. Miss Abigail Dodge. better
known as Gail Hamilton, and Miss Alice Blaine
aid Mrs Blaine in receiving her guests.
GREAT many persons trouble themselves a
great deal about the nature of the wine served at
the wedding feast of Cana And they couldn't
for the life of them tell what their own modern
wines they swallow trustingly are made of.
Mrs J. w. MAcKEY gave in Paris, the other
evening the most magnificent ball Of the season.
For she dancing she furnished not only the best
band 10 be had. but group of singers who sang
the wsltzes, giving marvellous spirit of fasci-
nation to the dance.
CERTAIN amount of opposition is a great help
to man. Kites rise against and not with the
wind Even head wind is better than none
No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a
dead scalm. Let no man wax pale. therefore,
because of opposItion.-John Neal.
THERE is a pleasant coincidence recorded in
Washington that just 100 years ago our first Secre
tary of War was appointed and that that Secretary,
like the present one. bore the name of Lincoln"
General Benjamin Linceln's portrait hangs upon
the walls of the Department, and Robert Lin
coins is 70 be placed beside it,
A LADY contributor to the New York Evening
Post writes: IF there is to be any dirt In the
house, said the best hOusekeeper ever knew,
let it be where can see it; letit lie on the parlor
tables and chairs, rather than be allowed to re
main under the beds and in corners, where it will
be rich soil for the development and growth of
germs and disease"
COUNTRY editor had just finished able and
lengthy editorial on the Physical Degeneracy Of
Woman" when robust female entered the
ONCE with a csrtwhip one hand and copy of
his paper in the other. AS the editor threw open
a window and was about to spring out. the wo-
man modestly said she had brought the lost
whip advertised in yesterdays paper, and she
wanted the fifty cents reward offered"
Two young clergymen were disputing so loudly
on a knotty point of theology that they awoke a
big dog that had been sleeping on the hearth be-
fore the fire, whereupon he began to bark furi-
ously. An old preacher, who had been quietly
apping his tea while the disputants were talking.
gave the dog kick, exclaiming: Hold your
tongue. you silly brute! You know no more
about il than they do"
HAYES has written TO a friend in Washington
speaking OF his many pleasant recollections of
that city, and of his friends there. The portrait
of Mrs Hayes, now in the White House. is said to
be idealIzed into radiant beauty. The velvet
dress of pale maroon is quantity cut in square
necked fashion. The right haEd holds loosely,
not bouquet, but two or three Marshal Neil
roses half blown and the left hand lifts the
sweeping train of velvet.
MALONE has two and daughter old
enough to take their places in society at the Cap
ital, and his wife, very accomplished woman,
who Is the exact contrast to her diminutive bus-
band physically, weighing over 200 pounds, was
the daughter of Mr.. Butler. formerly Treasurer OF
Virginia and Is said to have been a beauty in her
day. Senator Malone Is by all odds the most
.arcput-f~ and uoficea hla man IN the Senate and