The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-31


the opening. but couldn't get enough 10 eat
and preferred a long walk 70 starvation.
Harry Z. Smith. the lbrettist OF Robin
Hood" end other comic opera. has just
completed a comedy whose subject matter
! Is nothing less than ire story Of Shak-
speare's life. IN the last act the first pro-
/ duction of Hamlet is shown in the old
Globe theater London.
Fred Burt. a Chicago piclspoolet, was
so successful in san Francisco that he ex-
cited the jealousy of the local talent. 50
three Of them lay for him. stood him Up
for so. and the police drove him out q
town. They viii tolerate no Interference
with home industry ont there.
Charles z. C. Winters. a soldier who
fought bravsly in four great wars. died
in Port Jervis last week I'm perjury ana
want He was saved a pauper's burial by
the generosity Of a citizen. Tie served in
the Crimean. the Austro-Prussian. the
Franco Prussisn ana the American civil
wars.
Andrew Jaclzson-s body-servant, a very
old negro who is known as Uncle Alfred.
is still living at Jackscn's old home. the
Hermitage, near Nashville. He acts as
guide to the many visitors and has a great
fund Of anecdotes about Old Hickory. He
is said to be the only person now living
who was ar Jackson's death-bed.
The sultan has a hobby. II is carpentry
and cabinet work. Before he came 70 the
throne. and when there seemed little pros
pect Of his succeeding 10 the heritage Of
Osman he spent a good deal of time in
the joiners shop, and became a fairly
skillful workman, capable OF shouldering
his tools and earning his living anywhere.
William Preston Harrison, one Of the
sons of the late Carter Harrison Of Chi
cago. has gone TO Hawaii. He spent a
few days in san Francisco and visited the
NIidwinter fair of which he is an hon.
orary commissioner. Mr.. Harrison ac-
conlpanied his father in his trip around
the world, but their itinerary did not take
them 10 Honolulu nor 10 san Francisco.
Ada Rehan is "A great success in London.
Her Viola" in Shakespeare Twelfth
Night has become the positive sensation
Of the fashionable London season Her sea-
son will last until May when Duse VIII
occupy the theater for six weeks. Bern
hardt for forty weeks and between them
Rehsn will play for twelve weeks. She
will pass her vacation I'm a bungalow built
for her i'm Cumberland
Last summer two poachers were arrested.
convicted and fined for fishing in lake
leased by the Angler club OF New York.
In revenge the poachers appealed the case,
and through it the supreme court handed
, down the order that the law forhidding
fishing on sunday in the state of New
, York must be enforced and that under IL
man is not to he permitted to fish on
his own grounds on this one day OF the
week.
a Dubuque 0a) methodist church re-
Gently got new minister, young man
who formerly conducted rescue mission
on the Bowery. New York. During his first
service in the church the organist played
the air Of "Ta-ra-ra Boo.n-de-Ay' as
voluntary and there was almost a riot.
The former pastor denounced such bias
phemy" and was in turn denounced by the
new pastor. who wanted 10 wake the old
church up bit.
A Chicago newspaper remarked that Patti
sang Home. Sweet Home" like a novice.
This made Patti mad al the way through.
SHE was so mad that she made the confes-
sion that she had been singing il for forty
years. The French proverb says Neither
woman nor music should be dated. but
Patti has thus dated both. 1t would be in
tereStng 10 know where this critic has
been since befo' the wah." TO declare that
Patti was novice i'm anything
Mark Twain was once asked 20 90 10 the
Eluira reformstory and give a reading to
the boys there from ono OF his stories He
replied. WOW, that's a good idea for me.
Because + have been asked by a literary
club 70 read down i'm the town. The boys
arc unauned and under guard, and IL viii
he perfectly safe for me. By watching
them 7 can get an idea Of how safe it's
likely To- be To read the same thing 10 that
club" He gave both readings. and stIIl
lives.
While the expression. "9Obson's choice"
IS frequently used, il IS doubtful If many
who use it have any idea Of its origin.
Thomas Hobson was the first man in En-
gland 70 let out hackney or road horses.
or 10 teep what would be known in this
country as a first class livery stable. He
had rule from which he would never devil
ate. He had no particular stalls for his
horses. and whoever came was obliged 10
take the one nearest the door, no matter
how many there were i'm the stable or 80
without and this soon gave rise TO the
expression "Hobsons choice"
About two years ago the postohHce in
spectOrs requested that a gallery he built
in the New York postofice across the
sorting and distributing room about TWEEN
" feet from the floor. from which they
could watch suspected clerks. II was built
and inclosed on both sides with blinds
The clerks called il tho spy gallery" IL
was great fun for the clerks. When an
inspector went into the gallery the blinds
crealed and the sun Swinging through sent
his shadow over the floor below. The
clerks would look ND and see a pair ~
ewes watching them and would wink At
them smoker would 20 through the
roof just as the Inspector was preparing
to do an afternoons patient watching,
much TO his disgust. FINALLY the inspectors
found that the scheme didn't work and
the spy gallery" will be taken out
a Madame Castor has been having some
trouble i'm Paris courts Her first husband.
diving. left her $4,000: her second husband
committed suicide six months after his
marriage. leaving the widow $1,000. Her
third husband, who has just died, left
property worth Sis0ooo. Fii~ intimate friend.
NIichaud, took TO the Elvyer a paper
which he stated was the dead mans last
will Nfichaud believed himself to he the
showed that everything was left to the
wife Michaud testified that she had been
disinherited. The body was eNhumed and
traces of arsenic found. The widow was
arrested. but there was not a trace Of evil
dence against her. She was then tried for
manipulating the wills and acquitted. Mi
chaud then brought forward a document
in which Madame Castor was disinherited.
This she tore into pieces, but it was put
together and experts testified that IL is
in Gaston's handwriting. Nine. Castor as
serted that A1ichaud forged il and he has
confessed 10 the crime. This very compi-
Gated case has not yet been decided
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