The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-17
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wife-''what kind of cards do you think
make the best calling cards?" Husband (ab-
sent-mindedly)- Aces. Rochester Demo
crat.
The Rev Sam Smalrs newspaper, the
Oklahoman. which he has just started at
Oklahoma City, is a six-column quarto and
democratic in politics.
Alexander r. Shepherd. once Boss Shep-
herd of Washington. is now said to be
rich mine owner in Mexico. He is a man
of great influence in Chihuahua.
Bluster-"Do you mean TO say that I am
a liar?" Blister-'T hope that / could not
do so ungentlemanly thing. But 1 see
you catch my idea."-Boston Transcript.
''You say that your married life has been
miserable disappointment. Wasn't it be
cause you didn't marry the right woman
81 suspect it was because she did not marry
the right man."-Boston Transcript.
There is said to be but one British house
remaining where the old feudal custom IS
observed of guests and servants all dining
together on Christmas night and the
dance afterward being led by the hostess
with the gamekeeper.
The great Partisan dressmakers have a
custom of charging a married woman more
for her gowns than an unmarried woman.
An American lady in Paris recently COM
mented upon this difference, which she had
observed TO the extent of $50 in two dresses
identically alike. "Ah!" exclaimed the
great modiste, why not? Madame has a
husband to pay her bills, but mademol
selles dot must be looked out for, go that
she may get husband"
Charles Ridabock recently gained admis-
sion to the San Francisco almshouse, at the
age of ninety-one. He is a New Yorker by
birth and once owned the present site of
San Francisco. In 1898 he made a voyage
as a sailor to the Pacific coast, and while
there married the daughter of a wealthy
Mexican ranch owner, through whom he
inherited the land destined to be so valu-
able. But he was taken away in irons by
the ships captain, and lost his chances Of
owning a city Later he returned TO San
Francisco and made much money in min
ing which he soon lost Lately he has
been tending sheep on California ranches.
Bishop NIcNierny of Albany, who died last
week, played an important part in the del
icate and difficult negotiations carried on
during the war to prevent the recognition
of the confederacy by Great Britain and
France. He was secretary of the three
commissioners, Archbishop Hughes, Thur
low Weed and Bishop McIlvaine, who were
sent to those countries, and he was the
last surviving member of that historic
mission. For many years he kept the rec
ords of their proceedings, rich in material
of romantic interest. until a few years ago,
believing it better that they never be pub
hshed, he threw them all into his furnace
There died in Philadelphia not long ago
a dancing master who had taught two gen
erations of ladies the graceful art of Terp-
sichore and whose sprightly old age was
Joy to all who came in contact with him.
Perhaps there is some intimate connec-
ton between dancing and longevity. In
New York the Dodsworth dynasty has been
sustained by father and for forty
years, and in Boston the Papantis. father
and son. have instructed the offspring of
The Hubs aristocracy in dancing for more
than seventy years. And this in one hall
on Tremont-st., frequented now by the
grandchildren Of the ladies whose feet kept
time when the century was young. TO the
violin of the eccentric Italian-an exiled
nobleman, so the report went