The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-22
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

General McC' elan is to deliver an address
at Antietam on Decoration Day.
Mr.. w. ID. Howells is authority for the
assertion that no woman who studies Greek
ever marries. No wonder il is dead Ian.
guage.
IL the United States million of sewing.
machines are made every year. These 90
the work of l., 600 coo women working by
hand.
Preacher Spurgeon now suggests that
Scriptural texts should be printed on oz
eDges, probably as means OF making Sum-
dsy-school scholors swallow some OF them.
Flower weddings are to be all the rage in
London this spring. They are termed thus
because the bridesmaids at each wedding
will be dressed to represent some spring
flower.
Mark Twain's last book has been repudi-
ated by the Concord Public Schools, but it
will be immensely popular with the Con-
cord School of Philosophy, which will find
in it no end of Henceness of the Which and
Thipgness OF the Unknowable.
If you can manage it at all, pay your little
debts promptly. 1t may be a benefit along
an exter siye circle. An old resident re.
members an incident in his own business
experience. wherein a certain marked coin
came into bis till three times in one day -
Toronto, Canada, Globe.
I Mr.. Henry Willard, who only few years
ago appeared to be one of the successful
milli0naires in New York, and who blilt
one OF the most luxurious houses on upper
Madison Avenue. is now living modestlv in
Berlin. His fortune is said to be $500 600.
1t was formerly s., 100000.
There arrived In New York the other day
twenty i've red-cheeked young women from
Hungary who came to be wives for that
number of young miners at Msucn Chunk.
They had never seen their prosective hus,
bands. an agent having been sent to the old
country by the miners to engage them as
wives.
When a man can not venture to remark in
the family circle that Honesty is the best
policy" without his wifs rising to indIg.
nantly deny tnat she ever went through
his pockets when he was asleep" there is q
strong suspicion in the air that she does not
sleep so sound as no. to get up occasionally
to see IL be has any buttons missing from his
clothes.-Fall River Advance.
There is rumor current in New York
that the Rev. DR.. Newman will be called to
the Metz opolitan Methodist Eoiscop pal
Church at Washin gton: ID. @ over which he
was formerly pastor. The Church is said to
be not as prosper us as 1t was during the ad
ministration OF General Grant, when hs and
some other members OF his Csbine. with
their families attended the church.
When Miss Cleveland, now Lady Of the
White House, left her position as teacher in
the Lebanon Hieh School, some years ago,
the pupils gave her surprise in tue course
OF the chorus sung at the concluding exer-
cises. They amended the lines, I'VE are
ready to fight ready to die. for our father
land" and sung I'VE are ready to fight,
ready to die, for Miss Cleveland
Walt Whitman, who will be sixty six years
old In May, is in hts usual physical condi-
ton. A friend says that. notwithstanding
his paralysis, the embs element of book
agents. the incredible ISLANDERS and miscon-
structiens that have followed him through
life. and the quite complete failure OF his
book from a worldly and financial point of
view" his equanimity and good spirits re.
main unimpalred. and he is to day, amid
bodily helpiessness and a most meagre in
come, more vigorous and radiant than ever.
The postal letter carriers at Salt Lake City
are having unique experience. On account
of the polygamists' arrests. all the Mormons
have been warned against talking to stran-
gers and giving their names or residences.
The carriers in their rounds knock at doors
and scurry ensues inside. A child ans wers
the door. 1t is asked who lives there, and IL
often refuses to tell. Ii does not know the
names of the neighbors, or where its father
az mother are to be found The uniform
is sign OF the enemy. and no Information
is to be had
During lecture in Ithaca, n. Y, recently,
as reported by the Journal, Chaplain Nc
Cabe referred to call which he recently
made upon General Grant. This chaplain
said: After concluding my business with the
General was about TO leave. knowing that
his time was valuable. Don't hurry. chap
lain; take . seat" remarked the General.
81 viii, IL you will talk about the war"
General Grant smiled ana asked: "Whas -.
pecial feature of the war do you refer tot"