The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
CURRENT NOTES.

THE War Department is seriously considering
the exDediency OF Increasing the standing Army
so as to have as many soldiers as there Pay
masters.
MRS. LANGTRY told ST. Louis reporter tha
she was twenty-five years Of age. some people, Il
will be remembered. are born ON the Goth o.
February.
COLONEL NICHOLAS SMITH, who married one o.
Horace GIeeley's daughters. is in Washington
seeking a diplomatic appointment. he would
like to be sent to Italy.
HENRY WILLARD. the Northern Pacific million
aire, ran away from his fathers home in Ger
many while boy. and landed at Castle Garden
with no friends and but little money.
ACARP pond in Shenandoah County, Va. has
in il thousands OF carp from six to eight pounds
down to those of last summers Matching. The
pound was stocked only tive years ago.
"THE Adamless Eden," a new light opera. writ
ten by Saville Clarke for women only, and now
running successfully at the Opera ComiqOe in
London, will be presented in New York about
April IS.
JOHN T. RAYMOND matched silver dollars in the
cafe of Delmonico, in New York. the other night
until he had won over SIS. Then he matched the
lot against two-and-H.half gold piece and lost
Then he swore.
| The greater part OF a cargo of sound cocoanutE
shipped from the West Indies were found, upon
arrival at Philadelphia. to be worthless. Rat
had gnawed out the eyes, drank the milk and
thus ruined the meat of the nut
WEBSTER sued Taylor, in Chicago. for alternating
his wife's affections. and was elated when the
| foreman of the Jury said: I'VE fad for the
plaintiff" but eouespOndlngly depressed by the
rest of the verdict. land award one cent dam
sges."
THE S75, 900 won by Miss Livingstone against
Mr.. Fleming, OF New York, having been pro-
nOunced the heaviest verdict gained for breach
of promise. ST. LOUIS paper recalls one of $780,.
600 given to Miss KGrstrong against tie million
aire Shaw, OF that city, years ago.
MISS DELLA McWHARTER. formerly an enter
prising Iowa milliner, is now farming extensively
in Dakota. She homesteaded a quarter section,
to which she added another quarter, making hall
q section all under the pillow. She superinterds
personally all the work and transacts all the
business,
DEsEAELI was au actor. HIS great speeches were
all carefully aud laboriously prepared. but in
their delivery he would hesitate with evident
pcIpie4ANf aSlA CAOOoAub phtAhC NOAh1
to express his meaning. and then with burst Of
relief utter it, just he had prepared it for utter
Gnce perhaps two weeks before
THE home of Robert Toombs is close by the
spot of his birth. at Washington, Ga, and he hes
never lived permanently elsewhere. FIFTY
years ago." he said recently, 81 brought my wife
to this house, bride. and here we have lived all
these years. We have been blessed more than
the most and thank God for It."
DIR. ScHLIENANN ha received permission from
the Hellenic Government to make excavations on
the northwest Of Athens, near the old Academy,
" here those who fell in war were buried, and
where the grave OF Pericles is supposed tn be.
After exhsustng these regions the learned Doctor
intends to transfer his labors 10 the island oil
Crete.
c. VANDERBILT left a large estate, but it i:
not probable that his New York debts will be
paid. There is not property enough to do 1t. The
bulk of the estate consists OF d large sum of sew
eral hundred thousand dollars which he had the
income Of during life, and which he could viii
away. But It seems this money Is not liatle fol-
any OF his debts, and 50. although Mr.. Vanderbilt
leaves his friends hundreds of thousands, he
leaves his creditors. as usual, IN the lurch.
Mr. AND Mrs. LAKE fell into IntemDerate hab
its in Providence, lost their social position and
sank so low as to be frequently arrested for drunk
enness. The man at length conquered his appe
tie aud lived soberly for several months. The
woman determined to do likewise, but one night
she declared she could stand total abstinence nc
longer, and started Off on a spree, regardless OF
her husbands protest. Next morning she was
foul frozen to death In the road, with al
empty bottle IN her grip.
L'AsrRoNoMIE says that the little cannon of an
t,Que pattern in the Palais Rogale, which is Gus
temarily fred at midday through a snn-glsss con-
eentrating the suns rays. has done the same dutJ
through all the various changes of Government
in two centuries In Lsrd's Journey from Psril
to st. Cloud" (I75lj, he makes his young touris
set his watch by it. 1t stands at the point fixed
by Richelieu the year before his death as the
boundary between the Manor of ST. Honore and
that of the Archbishop.
ACCORDING 10 q comprehensive statistical re
turn lately published in Germany. there are in
Europe ninety-two cities with moro that 100. 00t
inhabitants, out of which four capitals show
each over million population, as follows: Lon
don, ss22 44O; Paris, 2225,9O; Berlin. LIPS. no.
Out of the ninety-two cities and towns referred
| to- England claims 26. Germany 16. Italy II,
France 10 and Russia s. The Others are divided
among the smaller States. There were in the
United States in 1880 twenty cities having 100 00C
inhabitants and upward.
THE collection Of papers relating 10 Benjamin
Franklin, which Henry Stevens has been mskiog
/ for many years in London, and which has been
purchased by the United States is said by cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
to be invaluable. Some OF the manuscripts were
found in a tailor's shop, where they had remained
seventeen years. One was cut INTO pattern foi
a sleeve. and another was crossed with the figure;
of a customers measurements. The papers have
been carefully mounted and bound In sixty vol
umes. The most curious and valuable is the
original OF the petition OF the Continental Con
gress to the King, Endorsed by its presiding officer
Henry Middleton. and NAKED as having passed
through Franklin's hands on October &c. IVA
Another gem is the earliest autograph of Frank
lin. the manuscript OF his Articles of Belief and
Acts of Religion" dated l72s. There is letter
by franklin to Cadwallader Golden. earnestly ad
vising MIN to marry. and giving many reasons
why man is likely TO become worthless aud un