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

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
In one shoe factory in Lynn are thirty divorced
wives.
PATTI is forty-eight and, for a wonder, isn't
ashamed of It, either.
NINE. MoDJEsKA writes to a Cincinnati editor
that the proper spelling of her maiden name is
Modrzejewska.
TEE Oldest member of the British Cabinet is
Mr. Gladstone. who is seventy-three, and the
youngest Sir Charles Dixie who is thirty nine.
THE population of Dakota Territory has
doubled in two years, and now reaches 800, GEO.
The amount of taxable property is $4,000, 900.
PEW In Grace Church, New York. costs more
per year than a comfortable dwelling, and there
is neither basement upstairs or bay window to it.
IT will astonish nobody to learn that Vincent.
the ascending Alabama Treasurer, was known
as IAN amateur of some pretensions as poker
player"
A BOSTON man has ten shares of telephone stock
which he took reluctantly In lieu of SIS owed
him by boarder. be is feeling more contented
over ii now.
FANNY DAVENPORT has secured for 1000 the
right to play in America in Ssrdou's Fedora"
Miss Davenport is at present in Florence, and will
come to America in May.
A CINCINNATI doctor, who has been conspicu-
GUS member of the Society for Preventing Cruelty
to Animals. has been sent to the Work House for
| beating his wife and family.
BISMARCK, whom many people sthink is the
greatest man of the age, was born on April fools
day. Let the victims of such accidents over
which they have no control take comfort.
JOSH BILLINGS was in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, a
few day ago, visiting his mother, who is ninety
two years Of age. He has delivered twenty-five
lectures this winter and has almost finished his
| course for the season.
Mr.. SAMUEL ]. MEDILL, managing editor OF the
Chicago Tribune. who on his recent visit to Las
Vegas for the good of his health suffered relapse,
is now slowly improving. He is staying at his
fatherin-laws home at Quincy, Ill.
THE New York Courts have decided that when
fat man on a street car lurches against lean
woman and breaks her arm the Company is to be
| held for damages. Otherwise the fat man is not
responsible for his acts and has no business on a
car.
THE agitation for closing all workshops on SUM-
day is becoming stronger in Berlin. A petition
signed By 5000 people has been presented to the
handiwork may be closed by law on Sundays and
holidays.
A CINCINNATI man who suddenly got rich in a
hog speculation has read somewhere that every
family, the richest and the proudest. has skele-
ton in its closet, aud now he's skirmishing round
to buy q skeleton, as his wife aud daughters want
to be In style.
THE Washington Post says that elegant
supper was given at Wizards Hotel Tuesday
night by the New York Sportsman to the news
paper correspondents at the Capital. There were
nineteen courses In the menu and a different
wine 10 each course.
THERE are now livingin San Francisco. within a
few blocks of each other, five generations of one
family. The great-greatgrandfather is seventy
one years of age; the great-grandmother ifty-six
the grandmother. thirty-eight; her son, twenty
one, and his baby daughter, six months. They
have been photographed in a group.
WOMAN who came East In the same Car with
Senator Tabor says that he wears velvet night
cap, exquisitely embroidered, and a night shirt
trimmed with the most costly point lace and
ruffles. And some Of her inquisitive sisters are
just mean enough to ask how she found out.
A CONVICT in a Georgia railroad car slipped off
the handouts and jumped headforemost through
a window, exactly like the hsrlequin's feat in
the pantomine; but 1t was supposed that he
would be killed by the fall. However, he was
seen to stagger to his feet, stand a minute as
though dazed. and then dash off toward the
woods.
AN extremely afecdonate husband andswife at
Larrabee, Ga, do not mean to be separated in
death. They have had coffin made wide enough
for two and grave dug to hold it. Their plan is
that when one dies the other shall Immediately
commit suicide, so that their bodies may be
buried at the same time, while their souls stimuli
taneously enter eternity.
SOMEBODY tells the story of the late venerable
President Pond, of the Bangor Theological Semi
nary that on one occasion he delivered an almost
interminable harangue in opposition to Darwin
ism winding up with the question: "If we are
monkeys. where are our tailsf" One of his tired
auditors responded: I'VE have sat ON them so
long that they are all worn off,
IN reminiscent mood Maine paper says:
Everybody remembers what an ungainly thing
the first rubber-shoe was And what an art it
was to putthe the thing onl Turning it half in
side out you thrust your toe into Its interior and
then with tug and a jerk you pulled the heel In
place, and were inside shoe that chung to you
tighter than q brother"
HOLMAN HUNTS great picture of 1.-THE Flight
Into Egypt" has been irretrievably ruined by the
stretching of the Syrian canvas on which 1t was
painted. He was forced touse Syrian canvas after
waiting six months in vain for canvas ordered
from England. Thus the labor of years has been
lost, but with characteristic energy he has
already set to work to reproduce it on a new
canvas.
CONGRESSMAN KENSA, of West Virginia, who
viii enter the Senate next fall as the youngest
member of that body, tells good story at his own
expense of the days when he was out on circuit
practieIng law. In the hotel OF a town where he
was an entire stranger, but where he was to argue
case next day, an old gentieman-one of
group of loungers in the waiting -room-accosted
him with: els this Mr.. Kenna?" 1T is" was the
reply. 81 knew you father WELL" then said the
old man. "He was very handsome. bright. in
telligentlooking man, and he was as bright
and intelligent as he looked He was q man of
talent, and there was none smarter OF better
looking In the country" Then he added. after
q careful gaze at the young lawyer: "But it Is