The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-15
EFT CeTERA.


the whole wide world il a pretty modern
girl industriously studying page of Attic
Greek. -SOmerrile Journal
THE countess OF Aberdeen keeps eighty
servants at her Scotland home and is said
to be the one woman in Great Britain who
has solved the problem OF retaining her
servants.
STEPHEN G. BOYD of York. Pa, formerly
editor OF the York Gazette, has just been
admitted to the bar after passing a very
creditab,e examination lie was sixty
one years of age when be began his law
studies.
POOR French peasant woman whose
husband wes seriously wounded by 8
German forester on the Alsalan frontier
has refused to accept the indemnify OF
$500 francs offered her by the German
government.
PEOPLE who will keep parrots must take
the consequences. An old lady in Penn
syivania town was recently terribly morti-
lied while receiving callers on account OF
her parrots frequent cries: she wears q
wig She wears a wig"
WILSON McDoNALD, the sculptor, whose
Hancock statue is soon to grace the upper
end of New York. is modelling q statuette
OF James G.. aine. 1t viii be thirty
inches high and will be finished in bronze,
terra Gotta or any metal desired.
Now that Fanny kemble is dead it is
recRllsd that in her youth she took a most
gloomy and pessimistic view of life
though endo we'd with every blessing that
makes lie enjoyable. But in her old age
she was the DISQUALIFICATION OF optimism,
eminently cheerful and unrepining.
SAMUEL HARMON of Fox Hill. Pa, claims
that be has eaten 10 the last twenty years
1850 pies. His regular consumption has
been half pie each day. Mr.. Harmon
declares that he has never known what
dyspepsia is like, and lis neighbors aud
towns-people Say he is man OF truth and
veracitv.
SENATOR CoLQUITT of georgia, who has
been fighting paralysis all winter at his
home, expects to 60 up to Washington
about a fortnight hence and stay over
March 4 to attend the special executive
session of the senate that is 10 be ca led TO
confirm Mr.. Cleveland's appointments
Senator Colquitt is seventy years Of age.
THE wife of Bayard Taylor is gentle and
refined. Her eyes are blue and her hair
blonde. streaksd with white. She dresses
entirely in black since her wldowhood,
though III her earlier years she wore ne
a great deal. as il was the color which
was supposed to be especially becoming.
Her voice is charminglv soft and low and
the very slight foreign accent which ia
perceptible but adds TO Its pleasant tones.
An ordinary kettle lid engaged the at
tention of a Judge of the U. S. circuit
court and jury for two days at Chicago.
The plaintiff had been arrested for the al
legged larceny OF the ksttle-lid while he
was shopping. He declared that he did
not steal it and sued the proprietor of the
store to recover % 900 damages. The
case was in the nature of tempest In a
teapot, and the evidence revealed q ten
dency on the part of the pot 10 call the
kettle black. The verdict was for the
plaintiff.
MARVIN CLARK, the blind newspaper
man, is well known in New York by his
specials for the daily papers and other
work. 1t is now nearly five years since he
lost his sight. after a journalistic career
that had extended over a period OF thirty
years. As soon as il wss decided that he
was hopelessly blind he taught himself
the use Of the typewriter, and, by having
the papers read to him daily. manages 10
keep his place as a worker in his profess
sion. He il steadily cheerful and uncom-
plSining and does excellent work.
THIS il the way the pneumatic guns of
the Vesuvius Affect person aboard ship:
Suddenly an intense vibration seemed to
pass from stem to stern. followed bv a
kind OF kick that moved the vessel at
lesst three feet astern, and simultaneously
came a sharp. cracking report, not 30 in
tense az that of powder gun and similar
in sound 10 the explosion OF a million pop
guns. This was the firing Of five hundred
pound dummy projectiie from the Nesu-
yius' starboard gun" When loaded for
bar this projeetis carries dynamite.
FRANCIS MURPHY. the famous temper
snce preacher, proposes TO establish 8
workingman's temple in Pittsburg and to
preach therein the brotherhood of man.
He is about to leave that city for southern
California TO do temperance work for a
few months, but the assurances of p0cuni-
ary support and his observations OF other
signs lead himsto believe that he can make
o great success of this new scheme. He
will begin by giving Sunday night talks in
q thester and he hopes TO reach large
class of men who do not usually attend
church services.
Salvation OIL cures frosted feet, 200.