The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-20
EFT CETERA.

Russell yearns to hang on the second term
fence.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON and family have
already occupied their summer home on
the shore of Buzzard's Bay.
Nor least among the marvels of the
presidential tour is the fact that not one
of the party has thus far caught cinder
in his eye.
Col. JOHN HAY and Elijah Halford are
in London. Mr. Haltord returns almost
Immediately, as he came over only for the
benefit of the sea voyage.-NeC York Suns
Gable Special.
THE czarewitch during his Indian tour
required no less than thirty tongas or
carts for his luggage, and about three
hundred pairs OF ponies to draw the same
impedimenta.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in declining an
Browning's birthday in Boston, wrote
II am at present compelled to forego all.
even pleasurable, eXcitements."
Mrs. VARINA n. II. MoRToN. a colored
woman residing IN Brooklyn, filed a
physician certificate last week. She is
the only colored doctor in that city. and
perhaps it is safe to say the only colored
woman physician in the country.
IT takes you less time to reach the
eleventh story of a new structure nova
days than it took to reach the third floor
few wears ago. When you step into an
elevator in a modern building you feel as
il you were flashed through space.-Ne1C
York Tribune.
Trrr, loI xwiI oatt ha foS If
doing away with the piano lamps, pictures
on castles, with the everlasting scarf on
top, and the rickety tables in the middle
of the floor, with marble statuettes under
meath glass covers, will be benefactor to
the race.-DecoratOr and Furnisher.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, who has gone home
to Vermont for the summer, says: 81 shall
not bid farewell TO Washington at this
time. II is true we have rented our house
for two years, but we expect to spend a
good deal of time in that city every win
ter. My law business will call me thither."
IT is rumored that the versatile kaiser
is about to pose as "pietist." He is on
the point of making retreat" so it is
said, to the historic castle of Wartburg
where Luther distinguished himself by
hurting an ink pot at the DEVILS head.
Here William ii. will shut himself up in
strict retirement for day or two, hoping
possibly to emulate Luther's achievement.
ROSE HAWTHORNE thinks that one rea-
son why Ralph Waldo Emerson smiled
was in order to distinguish himself from
| the American eagle, which he resembled
to a remarkable degree. "Go to the cage
of eagles in Central Park in New York, :"
she adds, land you will find that the
hoariest bald-headed monarch there will
be the image of Emerson who does not
| smile"
1T is not surprising to find that a man
of such kind impulses as Bishop-elect
| Brooks should become the victim OF mis-
| placed benevolence. While walking up
Beacon-st. in Boston one evening he
was attracted to stubby urchin who was
| trying in vain to pull the door-bell OF a
house near Charles-st. Advancing to the
door, DR.. Brooks seized the bell-kDob.
| The urchin, whose eyes followed the
movements OF the "big man." retreated
meanwhile to the bottom OF the steps.
| Giving the bell vigorous pull, the emf
nent divine turned to the urchin, who i'm
mediately shouted Now scoot % and then
DedJ IL Iihsty IetredJp icdNiuk Vie NOCtOA W
make his escape as best he could.
The aged widow of Jouvin, the great
glovemaker, died at Grenoble, France. a
few days ago. That famous manufacturer
has been honored by his fellow-townsmen
with q statue. Jouvin's most important
achievement was the invention of ma
chine for cutting out leather gloves, and
caused quite revolution in glove manu-
facture by introducing the thumb with only
one seam. At present thousands OF men
and women are employed by the Maison
| Jouvin, and when the founder of the firm
died he was possessed OF several millions,
| and the fame of his gloves spread over
the whole of the civilized world.
MAY s daughter was born to James
Hooker Hamerslev. well-known broker
Of New York. The child had the proverb-
ial silver spoon in it's mouth, and yet Ii is
unfortunate because of its sex. If it had
been boy the child would have been the
heir 10 the large fortune of the duchess of
Marlborough. The duchess enjoys only
| the income from the estate OF her former
| husband, Louis Hamersley, during her
| life, for by his will all the property at her
death will go TO the eldest son OF j. Hooker
| Hamersley, or If there is no such son, to
various charities which were named. For
this reason the sex OF the child was OF
more Importance than is ordinarily the
| case.