The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

the Century sticking out of their overcoat
pocket.
Mr.. Emerson hss said that manners are
the contrivances of the wise to Keep fools at
a distance
Washington hotel-keppers are rubbing
their hands with glee and wear one vast, sub
stantial smile.
The pay OF General Grant on the retired
list will be thirteen thousand five hundred
dollars year.
Our vanities of love OF appreciation make
Us more work and care than all the real ne
cessities of life.
Pilgrimages to Albany are no longer nee
esssry as the head of the new firm has opened
an office in Washington.
General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur has been
translated by the imperial scribe into Turk
ish by The Sultan's command.
Many are willing to die for their religion;
few are willing TO live for IL; it is much
easier to die bravely than to live bravely.
Washington journalists have a new organ.
ization called the Gridiron Club. Ben Per-
ley Poore is President, and Charles L. Muir
ray Secretary and Treasurer.
1t is easy to say true things that are not
new; nor is il difficult to say new things tina
a-e not true; the great man is ne that can
say what is both true and new.
Strength for to-day is all that we need,
For to- morrow will prove but another to-day,
With its measure OF Joy and sorrow.
w. ]. Florence said IN New York OF Sun
dsy: 81 hope soon tn have theatre of my
own in this city, as Mrs Florence aud my
self are tired CT this wandering life."
Henry Cabot Lodge who is to edit Emer-
sons correspondence for publication, says
be has the experience Of Froude in mind
and feels the weight of the responsibility.
An Albany belle has made crazy Quilt
for a present to President Cleveland. All
over the quilt, set in among the patches. are
badges OF various designs bearing the name
Of "Cleveland.n
Hannibal Hamlin says he is going to write
boox of "reminiscences by and by, when he
has plenty of time. He is only seventy-nine
years old and wants to look around a few
years before he settles down to little work.
Minnie Madden wears pair OF slippers
| woven from her own hair. The toes turn up
| coquettishly and they come TO point, while
| on the top OF each slipper is Miss Maddern's
| monogram IL raised letters, all done in her
| own hair.
bouquet recently carried by the Prin-
\ cess of Wales was OF Russian violets in tue
| shape OF fan, q Jacqueminot rose in the
centre, over which q cumming bird On a
| spiral wire fGttered with every motion OF
| the hand.
| Mr.. Edmund Gosse has said at least one
| good thing sncs his return 10 England.
| my own impression" said he, "Is that the
Say to enjoy America is to take the trouble
TO learn little about its intellectual and
| political life before going there"
1 Alma Tadema, the famous artist, in a re.
| cent discussion concerning the exchange OF
| genius between England and the United
States said: England is one ahead OF the
| United States We sent Oscar Wild over
| there, but she had no fool to send back
If will help you" we're the rule,
How changed beyond all measure
/ Life would become Zach heavy load
| Would be golden treasure;
Pain and yexaticn be forgot;
| Hope would prevail in every lot,
And life be only pleasure.
/ Hannibal Hamlin, who is nearly eighty
1 years of age, looks as IL he might live to be
100. BE has the hard, tough look of a man
with frame of steel springs covered with
sole leather. There is an intensity of vigor
about the old man that is truly wonderful
| BE has not the first sign Of the weakness OF
| advancing age.
The sons OF some of the very rich men OF
| New York are said to be living at tremen-
dously extravagant rate, and are likely TO see
| the bottom of the fortunes acquired by econ
omy and thrift. One gildsd youth recently
chartered palace car az 500 per day nd
took party of friends to New Orleans, this
being but one item of the expenditure.
1t is singular thing in politics that every
] man who changes his principles aud comes
l out for our side does so from sound reason
| ing and desire for honesty aud reform,
while every fellow who leaves our party aud
/ goes to the other side dees so from dishonest
| and impure motives in search OF personal
gain, and Is scoundrel who should have
| been kicked ont of the party long ago.
Mr.. Gladstone is in the seventy sixth year
| o. bis age. DE entered the House OF Com.
1 mons in j $50 ar q has sat in every session
Tor ffty-three years He has I,eea a Parlia-
| mentary leader for halt q century, standing
in II e front rank since 1915, when he was
| G lonia Secretary in the ministry OF Sir
| Robert Peel He became Premier IN 1865.
| was subsequently overthrown by Dssreali
aud sgain rose to the first place on the retire
| ment of his great rival.
At the last Delmonico ball the floral dec.
| orations were more profuse tnan usual and
| there were favors for the dancing-queer
| jade bracelets resembling blue and pink
| China curtain rings. Japanese fans In cres-
cents and triangles, pompons of yellow feath.
| ers, and silken ribbons held by silver pins
were among them. The girls in their silks
| and satins made quaint pictures decked out
with these trophies, and the men who re.
ceived the silken scarfs wore them with
| pride.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says
| there &re very few people who have an ade-
quate idea of the splendor and beauty and
historical interest OF the Grant relics that
have been made over to the Government.
These are trophies from nearly all the con-
siderable cities that the General visited on
his way around the world. Take the little
| town of StTatford-upon-Avon. The free
| dom" of the town was presented to Grant in
scroll of parchment, inclosed in 4 box of
the Shakespeare Mulberry tree-wood far
more precious than gold, and exquisitely
carved into leaves and berries OF the tree.
General Grant never swore, and ia my
| long connection with him, says Mr.. Mara
land, of Washington, who was member of
| never heard him utter q profaue word. 1
have been with him on many occasions in
which perhaps the use of profanity would
have been pardonable. / have heard him