The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-07
CURRENT NOTES.

Tribune explains why: patti has been singing
there"
If the Ice Palace was erected by professions
ice-men, how in the world is the city of Montrea
ever going to pay for it'-Puck.
A HUNDRED THOUSAND dollar cottage on eco.
900 lot is building at Newport for Mics CatheriR,
Wolfe, the richest single women in America.
TEN thousand dollars a week, on an average
are sent to Norway and Sew1en by SCANDINAVIAN
settlers who wish to help their relatives to escape
THERE are now two female dentists in Philsdel
phia. One of them had previously studied medi
cine. but did not find the profession congenisl.
THE Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has a subscriber
who has read it for ffty-two years, and last week
renewed his subscription for the 1fty-third time
A JOINT resolution has been offered in tn,
Wisconsin Legislature that hereafter State OF
icers shall make biennial instead Of annual re
ports.
GAMBETTAs compliment to the Prince of Vale
deserves to be remembered: "Ah, sir, II al
Princes were like your Royal Highress, Their
would be no Republics
NOTING Jay Gould's purchase of g cemetery 10
at big figure, the Chicago Times is fearful les
this is the beginning of an attempt to get contro
OF the route TO the shining shore.
THE Charleston Is. C.) News says that the entire
hotel bill of the Marquis of Lorne and party In
that city, Including carriage hire, cash advance.
and everything else." was only sos.
THE haziug for which five sophomores of Bow
doin College have been suspended consisted In
cutting off violently one-half of the slowsppear-
ing mustache Of reluctant Freshman.
IN the past Eve years 5000 persons have been
ments on the sly always breeds coDjugsl misun-
derstandings and ructions.
HORACE WHITE has not bought the Times and
John Mclean has not bought the New York
World. These organs will continue to drift to
wreck without any new impetus
WITH ten cents man can have his shirt washed
or can get drink Of whisky, which accounts for
the number of dirty shirts worn in this broad
land of Observation-Disclosures.
HAWTHORNE disliked to sit for his photograph,
remarking, on one occasion, "The sun seems TO
take an internal pleasure IN making me veneer
able. as If 1 were as old as himself" but he was
Selighted to sit for portrait
THE Galena QIlj Gazette heartily indorses''
the proposition to head the next Republican State
ticket in Illinois with Richard J. Oglesby for Gov
ernor. and ex Senator r. H. Mcclellan. of Galens,
for Lieutenant Governor.
IN the biographical sketches Of members or the
Maine Legislature, Representative from Thorn
aston is written down as a Democrat in politics
and in religion independent as G man can be
whose wife and mo:her-in-law are Baptists."
THE Lancaster Bingham Mills, at Clinton, Mass,
the largest mills of the kind in this country.
They employ z, 900 hands and produce 2O,0O0, 600
yards of Goth every year. Their products are
sold mainly in Pennsylvania and the Southwest.
MRS. MELVILLE, wife of the Arctic explorer, is
in fresh trouble. Her three children are serious
ly ill-the eldest with Pneumonia, and the two
little ones with measles. They are living on the
third floor of house in West Philadelphia, and
are said TO be in SEXUAL want.
"a COFFIN" ssid the Irishman, SIS the place
where a man lives when he is dead" This
funeral" says De Blowitz. in his dispatch to the
London Times on the procession that passed
through the streets of Paris after Gsmbettas
corpse, this funeral has been the greatest
OF his life"
For every railroad tie laid in Dakota a bottle
of beer is drunk by the laborers. The beer and
the ties cost the same-ffty cents. At Bismarck
lately train of thirty cars was seen all laden with
beer-Chicsgo beer. 1t is supposed that none of
those laborers will ever own railroad.
Miss LAURA Don, the actress. is at Nice, and
will remain there until May next for the benefit
of her health. which. she says, was seriously i'm
paired by the close and constant attention she
was obliged 10 give to the putting on the stage of
her own play, 1.-The Daughter of the Nile"
VIXEN Nine. Nilsson, in Atlanta, sang "way
Down on the Srwauee River" all the colored
people in the gallery cried. Nine. Nilsson, whose
bro hers and sisters welded to their peasant
life in Sweden, will, with her adopted son, con-
slider New York as her home.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE. just before he laid down
his pen never to take it up again, wrote these
words, which will appear In his last novel:
Amusement is good, truth is still better, and
love best of all. Love gives itself and is not
bought but all true love is founded on esteem"
Mr. BOWEN, who has been nominated for Sena-
tor by the Republican caucus Of the Colorado
Legislature, is bonanza king of less note than
Mr.. Tabor. another of the candidates. but he is a
practised and successful politician, having had
much experience in Arkansas before he moved 20
Colorado.
JAMES r. KEEsE having mortsaged his property
at Newport for $4,000, ell the gossips have as
sembled for a tournament of tongues with a view
to ascertaining what it all means. In the mean
while Mr.. Keene shows up at his Broad street
Office IN New York every day, as If nothing un-
usual had occurred.
THE National Gazette gives some startling sta
tstics of disasters In 1881 the vessels lost
at sea averaged one day, and in 1879 and 1880
there were 400 steamer collisions in the North At
lanhc alone. 1t is believed many OF there acct
dents might have been avoided If proper code
of fog signals had been in use.
THE Chicago Tribune (Rep.) remarks that at is
not pleasant thing to say, but 1t is abundantly
evident that not the slightest reliance Is to be
placed upon the statements OF either Senator
Morrill, Fiatist Kelley that large reductions of
taxation are effected by the tariff bills under
their charge"
'I HAD a wife and a dog aboard that boat and
both were lost" remarked the bereaved man,
gazing In the direction of the wreck 'It must
make you feel sorter desolste." responded his
Eyes. it's rough on me-" continued
the mourner. GIVE been walking the beach ever
since daybreak, looking for the body OF the dog"
ONE OF the correspondents tells Of a lady In
Washington socieiy who lately attended ak en-
tertainme nts between noon and midnigbt the
same day. First she went TO a II O'Clock break
fast, then 10 2 O'Clock lunch, next to ''tea"