The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-08
GENERAL NOTES.

MINISTER sLRGENr will not sail until May
CHINESE doctor has hung out his sign in Lon
don.
MANY Lutheran immigrants are settling In A
kansas.
THOMAS HUGHES still believes in the Rugby
colony.
TIE ratable value of London is just twice that
Of Ireland.
Mrs. BREWSTER Is already the most popular OF
the Cabinet Ladies.
JOHN G. WHITTIER has sent q check for $50 to
the Eaverhilf relief fund.
SENATOR BEowS, Of Georgia, was twenty years
of age before he could read.
PREPARATIONS are making in New York for the
dog show which opens in April.
CLIF-ToMANIA-The appropriation of other pa
pers' raphs.-Funny Folks.
SENATOR BAYAED refuses 10 believe that Pres,-
dent Arthur should receive compliments.
A BILL is before the Rhode Island House Of
Representatives to define and punish bribery at
elections.
EX-GovEEYoE HORATIo SEYMOUR is almost wei
again, as a recent long letter on the canal ques-
ton would indicate
SPECIMENS of the most improved American
agricultural implements have been sent for by
the Sultan of Turkey.
THE WATERFOWL broken bank was managed by
the best people, with the best regulations. Ever
know bank that wasn't?
IN proportion to population, Italy has, strange
10 say more shoemakers that any other country
III Europe. Sweden has the fewest.
THE President of the French Republic has
gained a prize In the lottery OF the Society for
the Protection of Infants ia Rouen.
Az effort Is being made in Wisconsin to fix the
legal rate of interest at per cent. The bill has
passed the Senate, and Is now before the AS
sembly.
ONE hundred thousand inhabitants of the new
Chinese Kuldjs Territory have expressed wish
to the Russian Government 10 settle in Russian
territory.
Rev. JOSEPH Cook has been delivering his dis
courses in Bombay, but according to the Indian
Spectator has not brought about anything like a
religious revolution"
AwoNAN just walked with an infant child from
Philadelphia to Chicago. AS there out
stan ing bets on her. aud no gate money, she had
to go to the work house.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and General Grant will both
be at Long Brnch this year. II will be handy for
Chester. this having man about him who has
had eight years experience.
SOFA once belonging to Washington and now
in possession OF the Union League Of Philadel.
phia is to be presented by the League to the city
for preservation IN Independence Hall.
THE attempt to pass law through the wiscon-
I f-h has N
doubtedly failed. Its prospects were ruined by
the indiscreet zeal of some Of its friends.
Miss DICK EMS. the daughter of the novelist hes
spent the past year in compiling a Charles Dick
ems Birthday Book" Her sister Kate Mrs Peru
gini, has furnished several illustrations.
A CHINANAN would rather fly kite than go on
a drunk. tear down doors and hump baI tender.
And yet some people regard the Chinese the
intellectual equal Of the white man.-Boston
Post.
III proposed to observe the 22d of March a
we.mar. the fiftieth anniversary Of the death OF
Goethe. The vault of the Grand Dukes, In which
the poet lies Will be opened aud wreaths placed
on the coffin.
II reports arr u be trusted, allthe Cor gressmen
from Indiana have before hem the pleasant pros
pect of denomination without struggle. Their
re-eleetion is another aud more important CUES
ton. however.
Mr. TooLE opens his new Theater in London
with two most venerable pieces, Paul Pry' and
Domestic Economy" but then in England the
public only wants Mr.. Toole, aud cares little
about the vehicle.
1T is qaite probable that the widow of President
Polk will be granted pension by Congress She
is said 10 be In very needy circumstances. and tn
Committee to whom the matter referred /.
inclined 70 consider her case favorably.
GENERAL GEORGE MCDONALD is in his ninety
eighth year. aud entered the service in 1905. He
fought in the war OF 1912. and three time:
wounded at Waterloo. Admiral Robert Loney. o.
the British Navy. entered the service In 1897.
SENATOR HoAR. OF Massachusetts, is man with
respectable white side whiskers. His style 4
lucid smooth and classical. II is entirely with
out color or warmth, and when he becomes m