The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-07
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

The Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts
now has twenty-five separate schools, or
gaDized under competent direction.
The best preventive of spring sickness is
TO spend more time in the open air, and to
moderate the diet to the milder season.
Satin screens on rollers, to be made large
or small, after the window shade method,
are the newest for milady's drawing room.
William III. Furness the well-known
Sbakesperian scholar at Philadelphia, has
the finest library on the subject of America.
King Alcohol got his deadliest blow, John
SwintOn SAYS. when the knights of Labor
decided to exclude saloon-keepersf from their
organization.
Judge Eggleston of Terre Haute, Ind, has
written a play called Liberated Slaves"
which will be presented on the stage in that
city sometime this month.
Senator Logan raised laugh the other
day by beginning an after-dinner speech
with: Ministers texts are often mere pre-
texts, and tOasts are only intended TO fire
fellow Off"
The largest iron manufacturing company
in Chicago, doing business of 81 o00, 900
annually, requires all persons in its employ
to sign an agreement not TO use any intoxl-
eating liquors or tabacco in any form.
The Chautauqua Town and County Club,
WHICH IL especially aUapLeu 10 the summer
season, is entering upon its second years
work. The study of the habits of plants
and animals the care OF farms, gardens, etc.,
are promint mt features of the club work.
A society taking its name after the great
naturalist, ]. j. Audubon, has been estab-
lished for the purpose of fostering an inter
est for the protection of wild birds from
destruction for millinery and other CONNER
clal purposes. The headquarters OF the So
ciety are at 40 Park Row, New York city. 1t
invites the cooperation of persons in every
part of the country.
The recent New York flower show in
cluded $4,000 splendid roses, and a vast col
lection of orchids, and other beautiful
flowers. Pyramids of roses, azaleas and
orchids, thirty feet high, floral fountains
great masses OF palms, from Honduras and
from Florida, and masses of early primroses
from Englands hedge-rows gave variety to
the show, which was visited during the week
by $4,000 people.
J. p. Dunn, Jr, of Indianapolis, has for
years collected material on the Indian ques
ton, which he will now arrange and publish
under the title Massacres of the Mountains,
forming most thorough history of Indian
life on the western border, and incidentally
pointing out in a sensible, impartial manner
some of the defects of the present Indian
policy and the remedies therefor.
If men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in their dealings;
II hearts had lever rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings;
II men, when wrong beats down the right,
Would strike together and restore it
II right made might
In every fight.
The world would be the better for it.
"Of Longlelow's student days Mr.. Fields
once wrote: i hope they keep bright the
little room numbered twenty in Maine
Hall in BOwdOin College, for ii was in that
pleasant apartment looking out on the pine
groves, that the young poet of nineteen
wrote many of those beautiful earlier pieces,
now collected in his works. These early
poems were all composed in 1924 and 1925,
during his last years in college, and were
printed first ia q periodical called 1.-The
United States Literary Gazette" the sapient
editor of which magazine once kindly ad-
vised the ardent young scholar to give up
poetry and buckle down TO law! 'No good
can come of it" he said ''don't let him do
such things; make him stick to prosel" But
the pine.trees waving outside his window
kept up perpetual melody in his heart, al
he could not choose but sing back to them. "
One of the brightest old ladies in New
York said the other day: 'Once 1 started
with Mrs. Horace Greeley to ride from her
house on Nineteenth street up broad way in
an omnibus. Rev. Dr. Bently soon got in
and sat down near the door. We exchanged
mods of recognition with him. Presently 1
was Mortified to have Mrs. Greeley pull the
strap, and, whisking little tin pail out
from under her shawl, hand it to that man
OF God with the request, Doctor Please just
step out to that little shop on the corner and
get me cents worth OF emptyingsp hand
ing him the requisite copper He calmly
took the pail, got out went for the yeast as
if it were matter of course, while the bus
full OF passengers waited, and he came back
and handed her the pail, merely saying with
a smile, He didn't give me any changep
That was when the omnibuses tried to ac-
conmodate every passenger, except posi-
bly, those who were in a hurry.