The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-24
NEWS \ GOSSIP.

fee.
The editor of a Texas paper Acknowledges
the receipt of two beautiful Indian scalps'
So,vini,s manage advertises a free matt
nee during the Mardi Gras festivaIln Ne"
Orleans.
The New York Sun notices that no sena-
tor Of the United States has ever been elected
president.
Nearly half the buildings in Chicago
are for rent. the other half for sale, and all
mortgaged.
Young lady-"Did you know Strauss was
dead?v Second ditto-"It is only the theo-
logan though"
Illinois has abolished solitary imprison-
uant Conyicts there are too numerous to
be so exclusive.
TT people in Alaska can make 500 a day
panning out gold, it win be a great protec-
ton to the seals.
Eastern papers declare that coffee will
.soor he so cents per pound. The paper that
said that don't know beans.
The Louisville Cou~rier-Journal says there
ara FIVE months calves in Kentucky wnlen
a vonne and ambitious man can buy as low
as $685. o each.
A Minneapolis man states that Tennyson
ia onlv q third-class poet. How sad to blight
the peaceful old age OF the poet laureate.
The winter is so mild in Colorado that
fires are uncomfortable, and the proprietors
of the base-burners are trying to negotiate a
sale at any sacrifice.
It has been ascertained that there are six
voung ladies in Washington who have not
been called the reigning bellies OF the season
by the newspapers OF their town or Guy
This shouldn't occur again.
Subsidy Pom. wants to be a granger after
his trial isoyer. He is a proper candidate
and if not horny handed, at least has the
smell of mapure on his garments.
BROOKLYN will publish an encyclopedia
containing a full list of all the defalcations
and breach of promise cases that nave &C.
.curred there during the last six months.
discovery of interest to wood ~engravers
ia the fact that plates of polished slate may
be used as substitutes for box wood 1or en-
craving. These plates will furnish over one
hundred thousand impressions wltno1t loss
of detail, do not warp, and are not allecteu
by oil or water.
A Delaware man has been taking cod-liver
oil for four years to cure the consumption,
and has inst found out that he never had any
.consnmntiOn. He carries a doctors scalp in
his belt and no druggist is safe who men
tions cod Liver oil in his presence.
A band of Ohio women gathered in front
of alawyer's Office by mistake n prayed
and sang half an hour before they learned
that thew had been throwing away time.
II is celebrated that their prayers wouldn't
have had any effect under eighteen months.
They have a new drink at the cafes in
Parisg called "bene." This must be in
honor of that distinguished baked beans
Dbjlosopher. DIR. Dio Lewis, who, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, is creating trouole III
Ohio for the small sum of fifty dollars per
day.
The leader of the Cabs Hill robbery is a
clever 'un. He is the most innocent look
ing man one would meet with in a days
ride. can shoot on horseback, going at break
neck speed. with great accuracy, and is as
cool-headed as he is audaclous In the roo-
berry line. He was born and brought up IN
Missouri, and altogether Is a credit to his
state.
A resident of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has
refused to pay his school tax on the ground
that the schools have no right to teach any
languages but the English, aud that when
the other languages are taught there is no
longer any right to compel the payment OF
taxes for their support. They must be main
tanned by tuition fees. His case is made a
test one. and a great deal OF interest gathers
about it.
Senator Sherman now wants to unload on
the District of Columbia. Senator Carpen-
ter unloaded on Louisiana several days
ago. Senator Hitchcock is trying to unload
on the swamp land steal asthe expense o.
.Judge Crounse. Grant has been recently
unloading a heavy load of chief justices,
The whole Republican party Is engaged 10
unloading itself. Unloading seems TO Dt
epidemic with the whole Grant dynasty
Omaha Herald.
The Havanese have a novel way Of disci-
plining opera singers. Verati, the tenor Of
the Lucca-Mursks company, was to be the
Elvino in "Sounambuls'; but he did not
make his appearance, much to the disaP-
pointment or chagrin of the officials, If moi
of the public and artists. FL Presldente OF
the theatre, who possesses maglsterlal pow
ers. made out a commitment 10 prison foi
eight DAYS for Verati, and had him put In
the carcel.
At Miss Cushing's readings in New York
recently, a large proportion of the audience
were ladies, many of whom came unattended
This custom prevails at Baltimore, The
case appears to be different in Paris. Twt
American ladies, unattended, recently Wis
tied the Cafe Tortoni, Boulevard des 1taliens
undoubtedly through Ignorance of the Gus
toms of Paris. Owing to the traditions
responsibility of this historical establishment
they thought they could safely enter tor an
ice. This they did, and the walters refused
to s6rve them