The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CAPTAIN SHAW, the Chief of the London Fire
Brigade. has to Chicago for some of the FIRE
appliances which he saw in that city.
| BILL has been introduced in the Kansas Leg
islature providing FOR Board of Text Book Com
missioner and q uniform system OF text books IN
the public schools.
| HOWARD KING writes to the New Yerk Evening
Post from Pars that there is less popular interes
ia Prince Napoleon manifesto than IA Sarah
sernhard's bankruptcy.
LONDON Truth: 1.-THE masher Gin Arnerica) Il
the man who, in the Romsny or gypsy Language
has the 'mashava' or fetching eye. TIE mash Il
the maiden who quails under the wicked orb"
ANOTHER glutton has been heard from. HI
halls FROM Massachusetts and signs his name Oil
yer SWEET. His boast is that he viii eat pot o
beans daily for thirty days, on wager OF $780,
Mr.. RICHARD SMITH. JE.. son of Richard Smith o
the Cincinnati commercial Gszstte, has been ap
pointed Northwestern Agent OF the Western Asso
ciated Press, with headquarters at ST. Paul
MINI.
| THz London Times discovers a striking coin
cidence in the fact that the twenty fifth grand.
| child OF Queen Victoria was borr ut a few day.
before the occurrence OF the silver wedding o.
her eldest daughter the Crown Princess of Ger
many.
OLIVER BRIDGES, who died in Csstine, Me-. q
few days. at the age of n.uty years. served
through the War OF 1872. His father went through
the Revolution, from Bunker Hill 10 Yorktown,
/ and his four sons were Union soldiers, from Bull
Run to Appomattox.
THE practical joker evidently is abroad in
| Prince Edwards Island. Recently, while a
Il hoFv, hald dnar and win
dows Of the hall were nailed up from the outside.
and the audience had to climb out through the
j second-story windows.
EDWARD BETS, the only Republican member
| of the Delaware Legislature. is treated very
eourteously by his colleagues He is Chairman Of
the Committees of Finance, and Cities and Towns
| and q member on the Committees on Elections,
Claims Printing and Education.
LAST year Mr. Window sold his home in Wi
mona, MIMI, to help pay for his Washington resi-
dence. His friends warned him against IL, as 1t
tended toward fostering the feeling that he was q
citizen of Washington rather than of Minnesota,
and only went to Minnesota about election times.
FREEMAN II. MORSE who was member OF the
Twenty-eighth Congress-1sis-45-and who, with
Hannibal Hamlin, is the oldest ex-member from
Maine, is now living In Liverpool, Eng, at which
place he has made his home since the expiration
of his term as Consul at that place many years
ago.
GENERAL SHERMAN is very unwilling TO have
the cost of the Signal Service Bureau charged to
the Army. He said the other day: "You might
as well charge the expenses of q match factory to
the Army. The so-called Signal Corps do nothing
anyway but talk about the weather. What has
the weather to do with the Army?"
THE Conciergerie, swhere Prince Napoleon was
confined, has twice served as Prison for mem
bers of his family. Prince Napoleon, afterward
emperor, was shut up there ~ 1910 when he was
awaiting his trial before the Chamber of Peers for
his Boulogne expedition; and Prince Pierre
Bonsparte was detained there in 1870 after his
msnslsughter of Victor Noir.
IN the late campaign the foes OF Senator Win
dom produced photographs of his house at WASH
ington. and circulated the pictures among the
cabins of Minnesota to show how extravsgantly
this servant of the people was going it. This had
funny sequel the other day. when the Senator
received from the photographer who made the
pictures a heavy bill for doing the work.
A LAW student had just been admitted to the
Boston Bar, and had opened an Office for practice,
when the death of his father left him $50 600. He
was III buCu nhStc 70 get AhQ bpeIQ the money
that he left the Office without stopping TO lock the
door. abandoning his fine library and furniture to
his creditors. He wasted his fortune wantonly
that 1t only lasted year Now be Is pointed out
| at Lewiston, Me-. broken-dowD drunkard, living
on the charity of: old acquaintance.
AHUMAN curiosity exists in Mt Nebo, Lebanon
County. Pennsylvania. named Peter Vending
He Is fortyeight years of age. never had any hair
or teeth, and is almost destitute OF the sense Of
smell or taste. His skin has pores or perspir-
| atory glands. When at work his body gets in
tensely hot and the only means OF sssusglng the
heat is to throw water over him. He has never
been sick In any sense.
JUST before the late Prussian Prince Charles ex-
pired. the Emperor entered the ROOM and the
doctor, approaching the bed of the seni-uncon-
scious Prince announced. His Majesty the En-.
peror." Hearing these words, the dying man
made final effort, raised his right hand, and
family exclaimed: "Es lebe hoehl" Q.ong May
| he live.) These were his last words, and he then
quietly expired. with his hand in that of the EN-
press. The Emperor, who was deeply moved,
knelt at the bedside.
ADVICE given by "a practical old father 10 his
son, just setting out for Paris: my son, never
possess yourself Of the property of another; 1t is
wrong to do so. and besides, you have ample
means Of your own Never conceal the truth; it
does not pay. Do not Cypress the feeble, but, at
the same time there is nc necessity for interior
ing in their behalf; you would only make enc
mics of both sides. And endesvor never to have
any enemies. or, which comes to the same thing,
any friends. Good byi Bless you'll"
REPRESENTATIVE TERRILL, of Middlefeld,
Conn.,, submitted bill to the Legislature recent
ly proposing plan for advising the farmers Of
that State of the daily weather bulletins from
washington. It Is based On the fact that nearly
all towns have steam mills within their borders.
There Is to be series OF FIVE different signals, TO
be sounded by mill whistles at a certain hour:
information as received from Washington to be
sent to the mill from the telegraph Office. The
State is to pay the telegraphing bills. and the
towns the charges OF the mill owners.
| DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES writes 20 the
manager of Philadelphia Lecture Course: "I
must resist the temptations you offer me. They
great. 1t is true, and If willing 10 enter
| the field as lecturer / should accept them ut
once. But have taken total abstinence from the
lecture field for my motto, and have to write two
more begging off letters Immediately after this
| find that my work must be done In my library.
and expect certainly during the present year.
and very probably al ways. TO use my pen and not
\ ny vocal organs"
| MADAME NILSSON travels like a queen. Mr..