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

style be is without faults. He is as cool as iced
vinegar.
President ARTHUR keeps the hours Of hard
working journalist-up until or 3 in the morn
Ing: but he takes longer for his dinner, until 10
and when it is over he swallows glass of hpolli-
naris with his cigar.
GENERAL JoBS c. FREMONT has petltioned the
House to allow him something for Bird Island. in
san Francisco harbor. which he says heurchased
when Governor Of California, and Of which the
Government has since taken possession.
The Hoosac tunnel cost fourteen times the orig
inal estimates. This Is a handy fact TO be re-
membered, now that Congress is asked to half cut
the isthmus. or put railroad over it. or q canal
70 help Baltimore. or another to aid Chicago.
IT has been known for some time that Governor
ST. John, Of Kansas, desired a reelection, and the
formal announcement is now made that he viii
teek denomination. This will offer an oppor-
tunity to test the popularity OF the temperance
law of that State.
A COUSIN of Senator Logan has been nominated
as Minister to Chill Scouting parties are going
carefully over the lower part Of Illinois, and it is
thought that at least one member of the family
who is not in Office viii be discovered before Con-
gress adjourns. Chicago Tribune.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR wore black undressed kid
gloves at the memorial services. His Cabinet
varied from lavender on Secretary Folger through
various shades, including tan colored, which Ben
Brewster carried caught In the clip of crush hat,
to black worn by Frelinghuysen and Lincoln.
II REMEMBER" says the celebrated Wesley
hearing my father say 10 my mother: How
could you have the patience TO tell that block
ssid she, If had told him but nineteen times
should have lost all my labor Glasgow Eve
ming Times
POETRY is very aged in New England now. Its
Emerson, Whittier. aud Oliver Wendell Holmes
have all long passed their three score and ten
Longfellow is about the youngest of them. There
are no young poets In Yankee land now fit to
strike the harp that the aged bards could once
awake to immortal strains.
BEILE BOYD. the Confederate SPY. who died re-
Gently at-Flymouth, England, is living at Corsi-
cana Texas. in easy circumstances. She is also
living in garrett in Baltimore, where she makes
scanty living by needle work, SO the papers say.
Belle is beating her Confederate record OF being
in Two places at Onoe.-Texas Sifiings.
THE Supreme Court OF the United States was
not created and ought not to be used a restorer
of broken political fortunes. There have been
ambitious Judges before this time; but 10 Justice
of the Supreme Court ever yet accepted sp-
pointment to it with view to something beyond
and outside OF it.-Boston Advertiser (Rep)
THE municipal election in Portland, Me-, which
is always looked 10 as indicating the DRIFT of po-
litical opinion in the State, takes place to-day.
The Independents and Greenbsckers. have nom
mated a Republican, and his nomination has
been Endorsed by the Democrats The Repub-
licans are making an energetic canvass for their
own ticket
REV. DR.. JOSEPH PARKER. who divides with
Rev. c. II. Spurgeon the distinction Of being the
most popular preacher in London, is ffty-two
years old. He is n man OF powerful physical
structure and is fond of athletic sports. In social
conversation he eondenses what he has to say
into as few words possible but In the pulpit he
expresses his thoughts more freely.
GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN, of Maine,
says that the statement regarding his assuming
important trusts in Florida and still retaining the
Presidency of Bowdoin College. is incorrect. Ii
he accepts the former he will resign the latter bur
he is engaged at present in securing additional
equipments FOR tie College. and will continue t.
do so at all events until this is achieved.
umphs in the West. He will sail for England oil
the 3lst OF May, and during the summer and
autumn Will play in London and the Provinces.
After these engagements he proposes to crafty
an ambition which he has long cherished. to APP
pear in round of his principal characters in the
chief cities Of Germany, supported by German
cast
SOME Alsatian gypsies buried one of their dead
q few weeks ago after this wise: The body was
covered with garment having two pockets, and
into each pocket was placed 2Of in money. On
the right side was bottle of wine, and on the
left a package OF beans. further bean was
placed in the dead PERSONS mouth. Until re
moved to the cemetery wax tapers were burned
around the coffin.
A PATH CURE" is described in the British
Medical Journal. An ignorant and superstitiOus
English woman. troubled with palsy in the lower
extremiues, was taken to n French HOspitsl;ior
treatment. The consultation over her case beirg
entirely Ia the French language. she imagined
the words to be intended a sort of Incarnation.
At all events the doctors were soon afterward
greatly surprised to see her moving around the
room perfectly cured.
THE last trip of the Cunard steamship servia TO
Liverpool is said to have been the fastest across
the Atlantic yet accomplished. The apparent
time of the passage is seven days, twelve hours,
thirly-nine minutes, and the actual time OF the
passage from Sandy Hook seven days. seven
hours. forty-one minutes. This is by several mill
utes the shortest passage on record, notwithstand
ing that the Cunsrd route is by ninety miles
longer than that taken by most of the other iRes.
On several days the Servia had easterly winds.
THE Washington Star says that the hours for
visiting and evening parties are gradually grow
ing later and later In that city. President Arthur
rarely sits down TO dinner before s. even when he
has no specially invited company. The invita-
tions ne has issued for dinner named half past :
as the hour instead of z the fashionable time for
formal dinners given there for some years. The
guests have not assembled at many evening par
ties this year until after 10 O'Clock, and ii has
been IL before the rooms were well filed.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.