The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-07
iok did the mess make them.-Phil.delphia

ADJUTAET GENERAL DRUM is said to agree
with General o. o. Howard in the opinion
that deserters from the army ought to be
branded. He says that during the last five
years IL, COL soldiers have deserted from the
regular army, or nearly every other man.
IT is the young lady with the brand new
sealskin who is ever remarking, "How sw-
fully cold il isl" while her less fortunate sis.
ter, with noting on but a summer jacket, is
''iust suffering from the heat" though the
thermometer be twenty degrees below zero.
BoUcIcAULT says that he never goes into a
dry goods store where handsome girls are
employed as forms on which to display gar.
ments without realizing that they are better
actresses, in the manner Of beauty, style and
grace, than those whom he finds on the
stage.
A DISPATCH from Raleigh, n. c.. says:
''MIs. Lucretis Garfield. wife of the muir
dered President, will in fortnight visit
Stanley County, this State, to look after
mining interests there. She owns q gold
mine, which yields her quite neat in
come"
him as follows: "The miserable scarscrow
who edits our contemporary is lying as
usual. We don't want the Postoffice, but
We are in the hands of our friends, and by
the Eternal they'll see that we get it wheth-
er We want it or not"
VRsrL's birtbplaee-the little village of
PietOle, in the Lombardy Plain, about five
miles from Mantua-has just insugursted a
monument to the poet. Close to the village
rises small hill, the Monthelli di Virgilio,
and here, according to local tradition, stood
the house in which Virgil was born.
Mr., VANDERBILT can sleep o. nights now
that he is secured against loss through Gen
eral Grants financial difficulties, We are
advised, also, that Mr.. Vanderbilt will now
return to the former custom of having three
full meals day.-Philsdelphia Press,
TIE venerable General John G. Fremont,
first defeated Republican Presidential can.
didste, is still vigorous enough to promise to
head Mexican exploring party, thus re-
suming his original profession of path
finder" possibly in search OF the last de-
feated Republican Presidential candidate.
QUEEN BAEoA of CASTLE, says recent Ger
man writer, was the inventor of wigs. She
was so shocked bit the bald head Of her son,
King Louis. upon his return from crusade
in the Holy Land, that she requested lock
from each knight of the court whose hair re-
sembled her sons. These locks formed the
first wigs.
Ms, OSCAR WILDE, speaking at Glasgow re-
Gently on Dress said a Lancashire mill
girl, W it'll shawl over her shoulders and
wearing clogs, knew more about dress than
fashionable London lady recently returned
from Paris, because in the former case there
was comfort, while in the latter there was
discomfort.
A PROMINENT Government Official in Wash
ington says that when in New York few
days ago he learned that FIVE physicians had
been called in consultation to examine the
state of General Grants health, and that
they had arrived at the conclusion that the
General was completely broken down physi-
cally, and required absolute rest.
AN Arizona sporting man wss recently IN
weighed into q church fair and induced to
try his hand at the wheel OF fortune. In
half an hour he had all the money in the
bank and a mortgage on the church. He
very considerably gave them back the
mortgage and in the future the church
will choose its victims VITA moro care
Puck.
EDIToR CALEB FooTE, of the Salem Mass
Gazette, claims to be the Oldest still active
and acting journalist in the United States,
but as he is now eighty-three, Editor Foote
is reasonably presumed to have one foot in
the magnificent maussleum most New Eng
land editors buiId-for themselves or for
their Presidential candidates.-NeW York
World.
In Bolton, England, there is club of men
composed entirely of hsbitusl wife. heaters.
The object of the club is mutual assistance
and protection. When q member beats his
wife and benighted magistrate fnes him,
the fine is paid out Of the club funds, and
the gentleman goes home and gives his wife
another beating just for luck. The noble
Briton must have his fun.
MR. SHARON, who is having such a scands-
lous time of it in San Francisco, owns about
$500, 900 worth of real estate in Washington.
Not long ago parts Of the property were
sold, one OF the purchasers being Secretary
Frslinghuysen; but since the decision de-
clsring that Miss Hill is Sharon's wife the
purchasers have refused to complete the
sale, lest there be legsl complications.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, of the United States
Supreme Court, has been attended by
woman physician during the recent serious
illness from which he is just recovering.
Mrs. DR.. Winslow is the family physician of
the Whites. A strong pressure was brought
to bear upon Mrs. Wsite to induce her to
call in some other physician. As this was
on the score OF gender and not of ability or
experience. that lady positively declined.
ME-. HERBERT, of Muckross, who has now
been q resident of New York for many
months, and seems to have taken fancy for
this country, has let his beautiful forest,
overlooking the celebrated Killarney Lakes,
TO Mr.. Amphlett, who, judging from the &C.
counts in the Irish papers, is having royal
sport there. Forty stsgs and nearly 1000