The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-25
CURRENT NOTES.

GEBHAROT is being rapidly forgotten.
MRS. GENERAL DIAz is nineteen years old.
COLONEL ROBERT e. ISeERsoLL is at work on 9
lecture on Shakespeare.
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER on Saturday al.
tended the opera for the first time In his life He
has escaped grest deal.
NEWSPAPER correspondent Gays DR.. Morgan
Dix looks like a medieval monk in the clerical
Garb Of the nineteenth century.
AN Illinois man boxed his wife's ears for invest
ing 81 In lottery Jacket She went to her fathers
home and her ticket soon after drew s.. O00
REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, OF Boston, last
week completed his seventy fourth year. Physi.
cally and mentally be seems as vigorous as he was
thirty years ago.
THE higher educatienists may take courage when
they reflect that the Medical Society OF Scott
County, Iowa, has elected woman, DR.. Jennie
| Young, It's President.
BISMARCK has outlawed the American hog, and
the New York Morning Journal wants to know II
| Jay Gould will be allowed to enter Germany on
his tour around the world.
AsYRAcUsE woman has invented a machine
for tightening cOrsets, and husbands will no
to get their wives shaped for thigh tea"
JOHN NEIEoFF, of East New York has carried
his head between his shoulders for los years, In
| spite of the muske. balls and cannon shot at
Waterloo, in which battle he fought Yet Mr..
Neihoff said the other day that he did not know
| of such man as General Grant
DRUMNEs for a Chicago house who had an ex-
ira wife in Michigan, fetls highly indignant to
discover that she has eloped with 6 Toledo drum
mer. He says that he doesn't mind the loss of
her so much, but the thought that she left him
| for Toledo drummer breaks his heart
Josie" MANSFIELD, on whose account Stokes
killed Jim" Fisk, is said to be The real name OF
the Lima Brown who is now suing Prince Gorts-
chakof7s estate for The annual income she says he
promised her when she was his mistress She has
taken up this as a regular business.
ALADY having read that Chicago lady wants
large figures 10 carpet to make her feet look lit
tie, remarks that the young lady does not keep up
with the fashions, large feet being now fashion
able. This freak of fashion will make Chicago
women the happiest females in the Union.
WENDELL PHILLIPS wife has been an invalid
for over thirty years. and during al this time the
gtat orator has baen untiring in Els attention 10
her. mo one but you can know what it has been
| to care for her." was remarked to him recently.
"Ahl No one but me knows how good she is
| was his heartsome answer.
A PATENT medicine manufacturer died in New
York last week. Before he died his friends asked
him how he would like to be buried. He had just
| strength left to say, 'Inser. me top column next
to reading matter itty.two times electro b. mail, "
and then he closed his eyes and passed fway to
vEh her 1fesioD
wrong insertions.
ONE day last week, when the officiating clergy
man had reached the conventional inquiry
whether any one present could state any lawful
objections to the marriage of Joseph Dill and Miss
Kate Cole. Henry County Uows) couple, young
lady in the body of the Church said that she
could-that Joseph was engaged to her. There
| was some confusion. but the ceremony went
| through.
PERSIA. new railroad town in The south part
| of Harrison County, Iowa, WAS swept by gale q
few days ago. large farm implement house.
full of machinery, was torn to pieces, photo
graph gallery torn down, several buildings moved
from their foundations and other damage done.
In the country near by several farm houses were
blown down and David Edwards, farmer, wa
killed in his bed by lightning.
IT is alleged that careful statistical investga-
ton among the Good Templars of an entire Coun-
ty in England has proved the smoking teetotaleTs
| to be over nve times more liable to break their
pledges than those who abstain from tobacco.
Consequently the newest craze in the ranks of
the Hydropods is a thorough going badge of
blue, with white stripe down the middle, the
the meaning of which is that the weaIer has
| taken pledge not to use tobacco.
THE ages of the Supreme Court judges are as
follows: Judge Harlan is fifty. and the youngest
man on the Beuce; the Chief Justice is sixty
seven; Judge Field, sixty seven; Judge Bradley,
seventy; Judge Woods, ifty-nine: Judge Stanley
Matthew'S fifty-nine; Judge Gray. ffty-fve, and
Judge Blatchford, sixty three Judge Miller was
appointed In 1852, Judge Field IN 1868, Judge
Bradley in 1870. the Chief Justice in 1874, Judge
Harlan in 1877, Judge Woods in 1880, aid Judge
Blatchford in 1882
A TRAINER OF feet horses, on his way from Buf
falo to Albany, was lodger at the SyracuseN N. Y.
Station House three nights ago. lie had for q
| companion Chicago man, who Is shipper OF
cattle to Glasgow, Scotland. The Chicasoan says
which went down several weeks ago in a storm
near Queenstown. There were ifty passengers on
board, seven of whom wers lost. Ths survivors
were picked up and carried TO Boston by tht
steamer Republic, of the white Star Line. The
man said that he went to New York City, got on
spree. was robbed of SO, and was now working hi
way back to Chicago as best he could.