The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-14
strange; can not see in you the slightest resem-
blsnce to your father"

blsnce to your father"
AT party at Fndlay, o., Jesse Taylor was in.
vlted to sit down between two ladies who sat on
chairs quite close together. Just he was In the
act Of taking the proffered seat they moved away,
causing him to sit down SO hard that he broke his
neck. which broke up the party. Now one of the
girls Is 80 crazy that 1t Is feared she will have to
be taken 10 the Insane Asylum.
DE-. HAHEL. editor of the Gorlitz, German
Conservative paper, has been condemned to two /
months imprisonment for challenging the editor |
of Liberal journal. The bearer OF the challenge
viii have six weeks Imprisonment The defence |
made was that duelling was a recognized social |
custern in cases Of injured honor and that an I'M
prisonment OF one day would te sufficient. but on
this occasion the Court did not see 1t in that
light
ONE Of the two happy men who skated with
Mrs. Langtry in Chicago says she has g cockney
accent, and he reports the following conversation
to which she was a party MRS. Langtry are
you not disappointed in Chicago?" 81 am; it's a
perfectly 'orrid town" "You can denounce it
all you please without offending mel don't live
here know you like Boston and New York"
"Ah, yes, especially New York; 1t reminds me so
| much of London"
THE Evangelist Moody has always had q grea
| weeks ago an English photographer succeeded in
taking picture Of him, but the printing was
limited to few copies. to be distributed among a
| select list of friends. This is the first time in
| twenty five years that Moody has faced q photo
| grapher's camera. Now he has bought the mega
tive in order to prevent the multiplication of the
portrait.
| Two little girls met on the street the ether.day
| and one said to the other: 1--WE put all my dolls
into deep mourning, and it's so becoming to
to theml Come over and see Them" what did
you do that for?" "Oh we had a calamity Our
old dog got killed and there didn't anybody care
but me and them; we've just cried our eyes out"
Then the other little girl said in slow, deliberate
tones: May Wilson, amt you lucky, though
There's always something happening to you"-
Detroit Post.
HEARD in hotel ONCE: "Is there Fire Com
pany within a block of this hotel?' "Yes, sir. /"
And Hook and Ladder Company near?'' Eyes,
SIR" And fre-escapes on all sides of the build
ing?" Eyes. sir" And extin guishers at every
door," Eyes, SIR" "And rope ladders in every
spartment?' "Yes. SIR" "well, If you can give
me a room on the first floor with window open
ing into back alley, will stay all night
Philadelphia News.
sALvINI does not desire his son Alexander to
} become an actor, and it was understood when
the young man came to this country, two years
ago, that he would simply make pleasure tour;
but he took the first opportunity to appear on the
stage. Then he accepted position in a Baltimore
civil engineers Office but the offer of seasons
engagement to play leading parts in the company
supporting Margaret Mather. a Western star
drove all thought Of engineering out of his head
THE Committee having in charge the arrange
r ments of placing bust of Robert Burns IN West
minister Abbey are very much encouraged with
the progress they have made already. From all
parts of the world they have received in smiling
subscriptions the sum of $3.50, and from Dean
Bradley have obtained permission to place the
bust on the stone screen in Poets Corner, the
bust of Shakespeare. An effort will be made to
prepare the bust in time for unvelling on the
next anniversary of the poets birth.
A SAN FRANCISCO reporter visited the sub
Treasury there, and gazed with undisguised GOV
etousness upon the s31 Oco 600 of coin pied sacL
upon sack in the spacious vaults. Here are hi:
afterthoughts: 1T is good to contemplate all thi
vast amount of wealth. for. although 1t may be
| beyond the measure of ones happiness to posses:
1t, he can. at least. enjoy the beatitude expert
enced by a one-year-old child sitting before 6
plate of gravy-he can put his hands into it. and
! delight in the sensation"
} Bishop GILMoUR, who not long ago aroused Cd
position in Cleveland by forbidding Roman
Catholic women to take part in the Land League
meetings, has just returned from Ire land. He
says that he conversed on Irish affairs with many
: intelligent clergymen and laymen, including
seven Bishops, but came away wholly unable To
locate the cause of Irelands misery. The wretch
edness Of the country, however, pslpable
enough, aud Americans, much as they read oil
it here. en- form no definite idea of the truth.
WHEN Margaret, infant daughter of William NJ
WINS was christened few days ago at Freehold
N. j., she was probably totally unaware that hel
neck was encircled by piece of lace of great an
tdquity, as antiquity goes in this young country
The lace was owned and worn in 1760 by Mrs
Margaret Mccall Swift, of Philadelphia, the great
great great-grandmother of the small Margaret Of
today, and having been admired at several Of
Washington's receptions and on many less por
tentious occasions. has descended through nu-
merous proud possessors TO Miss Margaret Morris.
on, of Hightstown.
NINE. NILSSON tells q Cincinnati reporter that
she will probably make her home In New York.
81 have really nothing to bind me to the other
side of the water" she said. 81, as you know,
came from peasant family. l am proud of 1t.
Ny father and mother, who were Swedish peas
are DUH uchu am the youngest OF q lam
lily of seven children. Well. my brothers and
sisters are still alive. They are yet peasantry,
fond of their free life, and will never change. 1
can understand them, but with the change which
has taken place in me by education, musically
and otherwise, and by my association in the
world, they can not understand me-"
THE sarcophsgus ordered last fall by President
Arthur, to be placed above his wife's grave on
South Ridge, in the Rural Cemetry, Albany, has
been placed in position this week. 1t is of Italian
marble, about eight feet long, and two feet high,
and rests upon a massive triple pedestal. Around
the upper edge, in raised old English letters, is
this inscription:
| HERE LIES THE BODY OF
ELLEN LEWIS HERNDON,
| WIFE OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
Born in Culpepper, C. II. Aug. 80. 1897;
| Died at New York, Jan. IL, 1850.
1T is related of Gustave Dore that many years
ago. while on a tour iu Switzerland. he happened
to lose his passport. Arriving at Lucerne, he
| asked to be allowed TO speak to the Mayor to
whom he gave his name. You say that you are
NJ. Gustave Dore," replied the Mayor, land
believe you; but" he added producing pencil
and piece Of paper, you can easily prove it."
Dore looked around him and precieved some
women selling potatoes in the street. With few
touches he cleverly reproduced the homely scene,
and appending his name TO his sketch. presented