The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-05
GENERAL NOTES.

VENETIAN glass manufacturer Is making q
great success OF ladies' glass bonnets.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is said to have received s21 :
900 from the sale OF his book about the confeder-
scy.
GENERAL LoSGsTREET has induced 800 Germans
and Swiss to form a colony near his home-Gains-
Vile. Georgia.
THE men who invented roller skates sleep in
unmarked graves, and yet they furnished 10000
patients per year for the doctors.
az NOTICE that my brother was sold at auction
in New York the other day for 5000. We come
high but they must have us.''-St. Julien.
As high as IS per cent. of some Of the cotton
/ shipped to England of late has been dead loss
or account Of sand and dirt thrown 10 to increase
weight
A LOUISVILLE bill collector called upon o
debtor, as he says. S2i times before he got his
money. Perseverance viii saw tree down with
a hair-pin.
THE friends of Edwin Booth intead to give him
a farewell dinner In New York before he sails IN
May TO complete his Interrupted professional en-
gagements in Europe.
BISHOP KEENE, OF the Catholic Diocese If Rich
mond, Va. 1t Is stated. can no longer re d or
write, owing to the condition of his eyes, d is
threatened with blindness.
JOHN MILLER bought planning mill ct Dunkirx.
o., month ago. He LOST finger the inst week
two fingers the second, aud a whole hand the
third. rhe mill is now for sale.
JAMES NUTrAII, who died at Bradford, Eng.
T, Gently, st the age of 1O2 years. terved In the
Royal Navy when young and was present at the
battle of Trafalgar. He died in the Poor House.
II is contended that Mr.. Crews dislike to in
ficting capital punishment is increasing crime in
France. In January there were ffty-three muir.
ders and they are being kept up at brisk rate.
SENATOR MA9oNE's brilliant black eyes and his
tiny feet are the most distinctive gTaces The eyes
restless and piercing. aud the little feet are
always clad In pair OF the finest and neatest Of
snocs.
HIR. TESEYsoN's invitation to his friends to
to drink about sixty times in the coune Of his re-
cent patriotic ballad is not calculated 10 prove
bis Standing with the Nrs. R. b. Hayes Temper
auce society.
AN cid man and his wife died lately at ST. Bar
thelemy-le-Pin, France. at the same hour of the
same Gay. They were born on the same day aud
in the same parish. and had PASSED singularly
easy and prosperous life.
LIE recent appointment OF Ut. JOnn L. Fergus
sou Assistant Superintendent of the Colored
Central Lunatic Asylum, of Richmond. is the fri
nstasce of the app )intment Of a colored man to
prominent Office in Virginia.
The Venetian Society of Public Works has
asked the authority Of the Italian Government 10
make Surveys Tor project of railroad communi-
cation between Sicily aud the main land by
MEANS Of tunnel beneath the Straits OF Messina.
WHEN ia Japan. Cyrus w. Field visited the
house OF japanese merchant, and to afford some
idea Of the elegance Of the entertainment, he re-
lates that the the tea was made in his presence ia
golden tea-kettle. Healso says that the Japan
csc taste In art Is exquisite.
THEY tell Of man out West who was putting
blast in a well. and 1t went of pTeoaturely and
blew him out into an apple tree about fifty feet
away. In a moment he recovered himself and
remarAing. THE Lord knows better than l do