The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-03

took from her packet purse full of gold and flung
it in his face. saying she was afraid the King
had not paid him sufficient for his recent services
THE intelligence comes from New Orleans that
the Alice Oates Company has gone to pieces in
that toWr, but this is no startling novelty.
MGR CAPEL intends to deliver lecture upon
journalists What an interviewer he would make
The most taciturn and the crabbiest must yield to
eous conversation.
THE sceptics who saw nothing but an advertising
dodge in the report about Kate Claxton'S stolen
diamonds will, perhaps, have his doubts re-
moved by the announcement that she has COM
meneed suit for them against the proprietor OF the
hotel in which she stopped.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY viii reach home from
Europe next month. and will at once begin work
on the third volume of her history lof woman
suffrage. Susan does not intend to get left. There
is no woman suffrage yet to speak Of but history
of it in three volumes do no harm.
WILL CARLTON, the popular ballad writer, who
succeeds better than most poets in touching the
to- do young clergyman on a vacation. He is six
feet TAIL quite slender. has an aGuiline nose and
blue eyes. and although his face is youthful, his
hair is slightly gray.
PAUL sIRAUDrS, confectioner and playwright, is
dead at the age OF seventy-two years. He was one
the authors of the libretGo OF la File de Madam
Angoi." He wrote in all eighty plays and opera
librettos. He was in childhood a playmate of the
son of Napoleon l., and one OF the brightest wits
and practical iokers in Paris.
WHEN II. Ward Beecher was in the act of step
ping into carriage in front of the Coliseum, in
Oakland, CAL where he had been lecturing, a lady
made quick advance upon him, and seizing him
by The hand, detained him until she had impressed
a large, loud, warm kiss upon his mouth. The de-
lighted spectators shouted vigorous approval.
Mr.. CHRISTOPHER MANN. a farmer living near
Independence, Mo-, celebrated on the 10th, what
the family and neighbors believed to be his Tooth
birthday. lie was at one time comrade OF
Daniel Boone. Seventeen Of his twentysix children
are living the oldest is seventytwo years old. He
has forty grandchildren. fourteen great-grand-
children. ana five great-greatgrandchildren
TENNYsoN the poet laureate is quite feeble and
interesting A gentleman who saw him on re-
cent excursion says that he had to be assisted when
he moved about He wore an Inverness cloak,
opened collar Unbuttoned waistcoat and a broad
brmmed billycock hat. While on the steamer he
kept a green-colored volume open on his knees.
from which it is surmised, he drawing inspira-
tion for the new poem on the late ]. Brown.
ABOUT two miles north of Grand Lodge, Mich, in
the heart of large old forest lives eccentric but
happy fellow named Dick Luke. His daily labors
devoted to the interest OF coal mine. which ex-
tends 500 feet into the side of hill. and wherein,
by the aid of the Pickering rays of lard oil lamp.
Dick Luke has for ten years past crouched on his
side and back and slowly picked the treasures
from the storehouse of mother earth. The tunnel
is only about three feet in diameter. and Dicks
companions are his long clay pipe and piek-ax.
About one and one-half tons Of coal per day are
extracted from Dicks one-man power mine, which
is sold at the mine for $3.50 per ton.