The Indiana State sentinel., 1886-01-06
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

Love is the exquisite essence of exist,
ence. Saratoga Eagle.
Excessive gaIlantry and perfect truth do
not sail in the same boat.
Il is decided. after all. that there shall be
| a carnival in Montreal this winter.
Sorosis has extended a formal invitation
| to Miss Anna Dickinson TO deliver her Joan
| of Arc" lecture before that body at an early
| date.
Mr.. James r. Randall, who wrote the IA
nous song, MY Maryland" when be was
| twenty-five, is about TO publish a volume OF
| poems.
| Miss ClnveIand's weekly Saturday after
| noon receptions, from till o'clock, will
| begin on Saturday, Jan. 9, and continue
| Though the season.
The first bicyclist to make the tour of the
| world with his wheels is Thomas Stevens,
who at recent dates had reached Persia in
| his eastward course.
Browning has been writing for fifty years
and his poetry fills no less than twenty-five
| volumes. He was only twenty-one when he
| published his first poem.
| The Wordsworth Society has begun work
| on its proposed selection from Wordworth's
| poetry, in which work Mr.. Robert Brown
| ing has promised his aid.
1t is said that Mrs. (''H. H.") Jackson de
stroyed all private letters which she had re-
II
y by taught her lesson.
/ she Pail Mall Gazette gives the following
analysis of marriage: do you wish to be
my wife, Mabel?' said a little boy. "YeS"
| incautiously answered Mabel. Then pull
off my boots"
The st. Louis workingman school is sus-
| tanned at cost of $4,000 per annum by
voluntary contributions, a daily luncheon
/ being given gratis to the small folk who at
| tend daily to the number of $50.
Early Spring" one of the poems recent
1 ly publi he'd IN Tennyson's new volume, and
| cable1 from London to the New York Inde-
pendent, was published in the Christmas
number of the Youths Companion" in
| 1888.
Victor Hugo once exclaimed to a friend:
| 81 feel that l shall be complete only up
yonderl That which later | shall speak,
| now / only stammer. | shall continue my
being in sublimating it. / am the tadpole
| of an archangel."
| Schiller's works were greatly loved by
| George Eliot who, while arranging them on
/ shelf one day, exclaimed to a friend: ''Oh,
| il had given those to the world how happy
l should be-" OF Shakespeare she said that
/ in educating child his works would be the
i first books she would put into his hands.
| Good art, whether in poetry, music, paint
/ ing, sculpture, or architecture ought really
/ to be easily understood. We do not mean
| easily understood by the ignorant and unre-
| fecting but all who quietly set themselves
| to ask why such and such design, or con-
! dition of effect Or combination of color, or
| poetical description or association of sounds.
should inspire admiration.
i Mr. Whittier said recently to a cores
| pondent, In that gently modest manner
which suits him so veil: IL have never
thought of myself as a poet in the sense in
| which we use the word when we speak of
| the great poets. have Just said from time
10 time the things ] had to say, and it has
i been series of surprises 20 me that people
| should pay so much attention to them, and
| remember them so long,"
once to every man and nation comes the moment
4 TO decide,
| In the strife OF Truth with FalsehOOd, for the
good or evil side:
| Some great cause, Gods new Messiah, Offering
each the bloom of blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep
upon the right
And the choice goes by forever. 'twixt that dark
James Russell Lowell.
The most interesting discovery in the
| Goethe archives, thus far, is that of the COM
| plete correspondence between Goethe and
| Carlyle. Goethe's letters to Carlyle were in
| trusted to Mrs. Carlyle's keeping and she
\ put them away so carefully that they could
| never be found. Mr.. Fronde could only
| obtain imperfect copies of them. In the
| archives, however, not only have careful
| copies of Goethe's letters to Carlyle been
| found, but all the originals of Carlyle TO
| Goethe. 1t is this correspondence which
Mr.. Charles Elliott is editing.
| An amusing story is told of Lady Ran
/ dolph Churchill and Westminster elector.
| Her ladyship met the elector at dinner, and
| asked him how he was going to vote, and
| he replied that his mind was not yet made
/ up. "Oh then, you must vote for Mr.. Bur-
/ dett-Coutts,' she said Well" said he, II
| can not promise but if were treated as
voters used to be treated by lady canvassers
/ verv possibly give in" "Oh, thank you so
much, | will let the Baroness know at once"
| replied Lady Randolph, as the ladies rose
| from the table.
Harper's publishing house, writes "Opal,"
is curious example of the architecture that
has grown with the demands of its business
1t must ocupy now an entire block, and is a
| perfect citadel fortress in its iron and
brick. Curious connections and iron stair
| cases and mysterious passageways abound
i in this immense fire-proOf establishment
| The private room of the head of the house
| is fitted up in old-time style. A great fire.
i place, furniture and hangings of the colonial
| period and antique ornaments make il an
| apartment from which Peter Stuyvesant
might have just stepped out.
There is always much interest felt in
| wives of men who have attained celebrity
The wife OF the great preacher, Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, while she has always modestly
| kept herself in the background, is neverthe-
| less almost as remarkable for her fine intel
lect as her renowned husband. A woman of
| medium height, with dark hair and flashing
black eyes, and face sho wing great strength
of character, Mrs. Talmage is a noticeable
| figure wherever she is seen. She is an
earnest worker in the church as well as
| devoted wife and mother, and the duties that
devOlve upon her as the wife of a minister
| of 50 large a congregation would appall any
| woman less gifted with good judgment and
unit ring energy than she. Mrs. Talmage
has, among her other labors. the charge of a
| Bible class of 800 adults, to whom she de-
| livers a lecture each Sunday, which is as
brilliant in its way as her husbands sermon.
, She is in every way rare woman among
women, intellectual, earnest, pleasing and
| modest.
The Plain Duty of Democrats.