The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-12
CURRENT NOTES.

Mr.. TESNYsoS has just recovered from his first
attack of govt
R. H. sroDDARD. the poet. is literary editor Of
the New York Mail and Express.
Mr.. PAUL II. HAYNE, the Southern poet. has
recovered from his recent severe illness.
THE late Earl of Wilton left his widow &c 900 a
year, and the present Earl 100000 year.
Mr. JOHN HAY, poet and diplomatic has be-
reaved Cleveland and gone to please Washington.
EX-SENATOR CoSKLING has been invited to
address the students Of the Virginia Agricultural
College at the next commencement
THE Memphis Appeal (Dem.) believes that
There is at present no serious impediment to
the future union of the Democratic party in
Tennessee"
1T is said that Mr.. Hewitt has had to give his
personal check for over 81 600 to secure the print
ing cf his tariff speech to meet the requests for it
that have come to him.
THE Bonham Messenger says whisky must CO.
Whisky need not so as long as there are so many
people who willing to pay for the privilege Of
carrying it.-Texas Siftings.
MINISTER SARGENT, who has taken passage by
the Red Star steamship Rhynland, will oe accom-
panied to Germany in May by Mrs. Sargent and
his two accomplished daughters.
DR.. BRowS-SEoUARD has $50 guinea-pigs at the
College of France. upon which he is making ex-
periments in regard 10 changes of the eye. ball.
which come to pass through careful interbreed-
ing.
THE Boston Journal (Rep.) says that lit is a
question whether It might not be well for the
Government TO begin again the printing of frae-
tanal currency. 10 circulate, not as a substitute
for silver coin but along with IL, and redeemab.e
in it."
THE wife of the Chinese Minister will remain In
Washington while he goes to present his creden-
tials at the Spanish Court. Once In a while she
appears at a window or takes drive. Those who
have seen her on these occasions report her to be
beautiful.
GENERAL HURLBUT some time ago had prepared
a complete account from his own recollections of
the leading events of the battle of Shiloh but pru
Dental reasons prevented its publication. He
was a division commander in the battle, and
sharply criticises the COmmander-in-Chief.
How ARE you getting along?" asked widow
of her late husband, who appeared to her at mid
night as ghost. Ghost: VERY well, indeed
much better than during my twenty years mar
ried life on earth" Widow (deghted): "Then
you are in Heaven" "Oh, no."-Fliegende Blat-
ter.
THERE have been several notable conversions
from Reputation in Tennessee within the past
year. Henry R. Gibson, author of the bill to set
tie the debt at 5O-4. is now in favor of the 100
settlement. The editor of the Knoxville CTenn.)
Chronicle rep has undergone a similar change
of opinion.
1T is said that William Dowd has offered Gov
ernor Hoyt of Pennsylvania the position of al.
torney for the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad
Company, of which he is President, at a salary of
$500 year; that the Governor has accepted the
tender and will make his home In New York at
the expiration of his term.
DOZEN years ago Mr.. Longfellow wrote to a
young student who had asked him for q rule
which might serve as a guide in writing: at Is
difficult TO give advice, even when we know per-
sons and positions. With strangers il is impossi-
bic. can only say, in general terms: Be your
SELF work out your own individuality"
Mr.. MALONE WIRELESS, of New Orleans. has re-
Gently invented very ingenious machine for re-
porting, by which he claims he is able to report
over 200 words minute. He has so arranged the
language that any combination of sounds can be
instantaneously produced by the mathematical
permutations represented on the instrument
MEMBER of the Canadian Parliament, who has
worn flowing silver locks and beard, entered the
House the other day with the ornaments dyed
jet black. So great was the change that few of
the members knew him, and one who did rose
and moved writ for new election In North
Perth, where an honorable colleague had dyed.
DURING a recent performance at a Theater in
Lille, France, cry was suddenly raised, aud
man was seen falling from one of the upper gal
eries, and, after turning two summersaults in the
air, alighting In the pit. He fortunately dropped
into the space between two benches and into
portion of the pit which was not yet occupied by
FL ectltors, so that none were hurt Still more re-
markable is the fact that he sustained no visible
injury, aud was able TO walk to his home.
THE Globe. the negro organ of New York City,
says: I'VE do not consider ourselves aliens in
any respect. We consider that we have as good
right TO enjoy the benefits OF the Federal COM
pact as any white man born here. We base our
rights upon the part took in the first war with
Great Britain. the part we took in the second war
with Great Britain in 1872, and the part we took
in the late Civil War. There can be no possible
comparison drawn between the colored citizens
Of the Omitted States and the alien citizens of