The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-03
POLITICAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

CONGRESS did not adjourn for Christmas; i
petered out.
Mr. MILFORD BLUNT. who is not a wealthy ma n
is said to have already spent SIS, 600 on Lehalf
his friend Arab.
COMPETENT judges estimate that the Franco
German war cost France two provinces. a million
of lives and COO 600 co., 1t added g. 600 600 OOC
10 the debt.
THERE is work for Mr.. Bergh in New Orleans
A cocK fighting tournament is 10 be held there in
February, and it is thought that i 900 chickens
viii be fought.
l. Poland. Rev. Mr.. All, a Baptist clergyman,
has so often and greatly incurred the dist leas
ure of the civil authorities by the way has con-
due ed his religious services thst be has been in
Jail thirty times. He is getting used to it,
HERRIcR's wife asked him to bui d the fire.
He iepied that she was as We'll able to do IT, She
got mad, but built the fire. Herrick reproyed
her for exhibiting her temper. She then cut her
throat and died. Herrick is a shoemaker and lives
in Beverly, Mass.
A sHREwD advertiser In Brooklyn exhibited a
puppetshow in his store window, and attracted
such a crowd that patrons of the dentist whose
Office was upstairs, could not get to the doorway.
The merchant was eBjOined from continuing the
performances. subsequent compromise per-
mits the show after O'Clock In the afternoon.
YoRKEY PETE. the noted st. Louis bootblsck.
who founded a boys home in that city. and was
for years regarded model leader of the WELD
eIs OF the brush. has gone wrong. While on a
trip further West he boarded railroad tain at
Truokee Cal. robbed the passengers of a sleeping
car, and has been sent to Prison for two years.
Tuu Drfu Uraf
his entire Partially In po itics. Some time ago
when Mr. Gladstone had received a MAJ ked slight
at Windsor the Prince went out Of bis way 10
give him an exceptional proof of his respect and
lately Mr.. Chamberlain (Radical Ex-M Mayor of
Birmingham has with Sir C. Dixie, been OH
visit TO Sal dringham.
GENERAL BUTLER has taken upon his shoulders
task that might have appalled, a political Her.
cules AS Governor he proposes to reform all the
real and imaginary ab lses that have grown up in
the old Commonwealth for The pas! 200 years and
save the people no end of money He has also
undertaken to defeat Senator Hoar's re election
and TO organize the Legislature against majority
OF the Republican memters.
GENERAL THOMAS o. osborn. United States
Minister 70 the Argentine Republic, has been
visiting ,hi. country and will soon return to his
which had been his residence for twenty years.
He has been spending a few days IN Chicago re
Gently, and declares that It appears like strange
city to him, so marvellous has been its growth
and so many have been the changes.
AN old topper was locked in a police cell at
Dallas, Tex. In the night he yelled for help, de
claring that monkey was In the room. police
man thought he had the delarium tremens and
assured him that he nothfcg. After that he
became more frantic, and In the morning was
found dead. The monkey was no delusion, how
ever but had got into the cell after escaping from
it, owner an incarcerated organ grinder.
THE expression white as snow" is not strictly
accurate, for there is such u thing as red snow
Aristotle, in his writings. mentioned the phe-
nomenon, but could not explain it NJ. Sossure.
a French sc,e ntist observed red snow on the Alps
and upon examining it with a microscope dis
covered that the snow owed its red hue to a
minu plant, Protococcus Niyalis, which consists
of single cell. r d snow mas been observed IN
this country on the wasaIch Mountains, 10, 900
feet above the sea. Il looks like Snow that has
b en- sprlnkled with fresh blood.
THE bitterness tfat the Senatorial contest In
Michigan Is developing makes the result every
more doubtful The opposition Of the De-
troit Post the re election OF Senator Ferry was
understood mean that Hon. James F. joy
one OF It's owners, was q candidate for the posi-
tion. Bat the Post announces decidedly that MI.
joy is not seeking the place and viii not allow
his meme to be used. 1t prcnounces in favor of
no candidate and says that its course in the con
test is actuated by the single desire TO see har
mony restored to the Republican party.
AN interesting ceremony took place In the Vat.
lean on December H. when the Pope received
l $50 children belonging to the fourteen SCHOOLS
established H. Rome By the Society for Promoting
Catholic Interests. After the children had sung
a chorus of thanks. the pope spent two hours
walking about among them. ia king to them in
dividually or giving them his hand to kiss At
the conclusion of the audience every child re-
ceived a silver medal. and the Pope hand. d the
President of the society 200 fran cs to spend in
buying clothes for the poorer scholars.
CONSTANT source of unhsppiness TO Louis
Blanc, the French statesman and sgitator who
died the other day. was his dwarish size. The
wife of an English Church dienitary once almost
drove him into a state Of suicidal frenzy by ask
ing him. when he was detained Ia her country
house by a storm. whether he would mind sleep
ing in child's bed. Another day. at Brighton,
he was rendered supremely wretched because he
was taken at the Pavilion for General Tom
Thumb. An old lady said to him. "You darling
must really kiss YOU" He took his shert stat
ure from the Corsican side of the house.
on December II, the festival of Pope st. Dana
sus, solemn high mass wa, celebraiet In the old
church of Saints Laurence and Damascus in
Rome, for the first time since 1t was CLOSED Tor