The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-03
GENERAL NOTES.

Nashville, Tenn.
HERBERT SPENCER will make his tour IN the
United states as free from publicly as possible.
Mr. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, authur of ''Uncle
Remus," is writing story Of old slave life at the
South.
CLARA BROOKS, little girl of eleven years,
jumped the rope 200 times last Monday az Cincin-
natl, and is now dead.
THE British Parliament has a BILL drawn in the
interest of good rum, which prohibits the sale OF
spirits less than one year old.
Miss VIRGINIA CAMERON, the Second daughter
of the Senator. is engaged to marry 1t is reported
Lieutenant Rodgers. son of Admiral Rodgers.
THE daughter Of the late Commodore Maury,
who assisted in the compilation OF his we'll known
geographical series, is school teacher in Rich
mond Va.
CAROLINE g.. daughter of Mayor Grace. of New
York City. died on Friday last. She was recover
ing from an attack of scarlet fever, when pneu-
monia set In.
THE Trustees of the Wesleyan Female College,
al Wilmington. Del. have decided TO discontinue
the institution and return their charter to the
Methodist Conference.
| PRINCE BISMARCK received more than 500 birth
day congratulations by post and telegraph this
year. He has written TO a newspaper to say that
he is deeply touched by these signs of resi- and
affection.
| THE four Senators who caused Malone so much
trouble in the Virginia Senate have been ph ito
graphed in group known as the big Four" II
is said that the demand for the picture is great
that it can with difficulty be supplied.
WHEN Secretary Folger 'calls'' for $50, 900, Ooo
he must hold pretty flush hand" CThe fore
going reached this Office on postal card, and Il
is all Greek to US. 1t is probably quotation
from g work Oh Finance. )-NorristOwn Herald.
CHAMPION prohibitionist-Mr Brown wants
to punish the liquor drinker as well as the liquor
seller. Fogg says he will go step tevond Mr..
Brown. He wants the liquor itself punished, and
he is willing to punish all he can get of it.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
LEO XIII. has sent the palm which he carried
on Palm Sunday to Cardinal McCabe, the Arch
bishop of Dublin. This gift is always considered
a very special mark of the Pontif7s favor. The
palm is one OF unusual beauty and has as its cen
trail ornament portrait Of Leo the Great.
CHENG TsAo JU, the present Chinese Ambassa-
dor to the United States. Spain and Peru.
is a rather corpulent man, of medium height sp-
parently about fifty years old, aud wears large
spectacles. His queue, which reaches almost to
the ground. is slightly streaked with gray, bun
his thin, dropping mustache is as black as JET.
The engineer Of train on the Cheshire Rail
road, in Massachusetts,. was astounded on turning
a curve TO see the track end suddenly at the base
of great rock. A quick pull at the lever barely
averted disaster. A solid section of hill had
rolled down, making an obstruction which will
require a week of blasting to remove. In the
meantime the rails are laid round it.
COLONEL Boz INGERsoLL in his estimate OF the
character of Rev. DR.. Talmage was lacking some
what in shrewdness. The latter is sharp, keen,
Lvoluble. loud and presumptuous; and whileshe
few esteem him a fat and a bore, the many
are likely TO regard his noise as wisdom. It is
useless to protest against Talnage Fourth Of July
firecrackers or mothers who take babies to con-
certs.-New York Herald.
1T may surprise some persons TO be told that the
seat of learning in the United States having the
largest income is the University of Michigan,
which has $500. 600 year at its disposal Harvard
comes next. while Yale and Columbia are close
| together In properly Ssqueathed by private in
dividuals Harvard leads all the rest OF course, its
entire endowment practically coming fro n that
\ source.
A WRITER in Land and Water describes an at
tempt made in 1870 on q grand scale, at the in
stance of the Khedive. to plant mulberry trees in
the Daira, with view to the creation of a great
silk culture in Egypt. Everything favored it, but
after few. years the 10000 trees imported were
neglected and then destroyed. mo matter" says
the writer, what # is that the Turk builds or
plants. he never repairs or nourishes It,"
ERNEST LoNGFELLow, the poets artist son.
painted portraits of his father, George Washing
ton, Greene and Charles Sumner. which are re
markable in themselves in their grouping and
from the associations of the lifelong intimacy be
tween these three friends. They hang in the hall
of the old homestead, between the dining room
and library by the stairway over which Mr..
Longfellow passed every night to his room.
JOIN sHRIvER was the excessively jealous lover
of 1.-The Cross. Of Philadelphia. One evening
she went to the minstrels with another fellow,
and John sat moodily in her paylor until she re-
turned when he furiousiy upbraided her. She
retOrted that she would never marry him. That
was intended TO quiet him, but 1t had the oppo-
site effect. he shot her and himself. II they get
well, and John is not sent TO prison, they will ne
sweethearts again, for the girl promises never to
go to a show with anybody else, and he admits
that he acted too hastily.
Mr.. LoNeFELLow. in September, 1880, tefd James
Grant Wilson that OF ali his poetieal writings he
preferred "Evangeline," and in letter addressed
| TO General Wilson. in 1857 the poet writes: You
are wrong in supposing 'Eyangeline' to have been
suggested By the Neutral French of Mrs. Will
JAMS The story was told TO me-thst is, the bare
outline of it-by a friend of Hawthorne, who had
been urging him to write tale on the subject. /
said TO Hawthorne: I wish you would give it to
| me for a poem He did 50 Immediately, not
seeming to care about it nor desiring 10 write On
the theme
| THE safe in Macon Office bad a combination
lock, and the Numbers were known only TO the
two members of the firm; yet money stolen
from it frequently. ana the lock showed no signs
of having been picked or forced. 1t was clear
that the THIEF unlocked the safe in the regular
way, and to solve the mystery watch was kept
one night. While all was dark the men heard
somebody SO to the safe, turn the knob. and opeT
the door. They fred in that direction, and a vel
proved that the culprit was hit Then they lit thu
4 gas, and found that he was negro bootblack
only thirteen, who had frequented the Office. HI
had learned the combination, not by seeing th'
figures. for he could not tell one from another
but by watching and remembering the motion