The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Riding friend en- a rail recently cost
some Ohio young men $50 and the costs
apiece.
A lad of fourteen is conducting a religious
revival in Illinois, and is winning converts
by the score.
An Indiana man has married and buried
three sisters, and is now prospecting for an
other family 10 entomb.
"George Washington, deceased, /" is men,
toned by an exchange. Now, then, who
was George Washington and what did he dor
A captain of new military company
drilling bis men the other day, near the Mis-
sissippi river, coOlly ordered them to "fall
in"
Postal cards are trumps with the practical
iokers since the temperance praying enter
prise commenced to crystalline in Milwau-
kee.
1t is proposed to pray for the Ohio grangers
that they may be kept from selling corn to
the distillers. That is drying up the stream
at the fountain.
A Yankee politician suddenly finds out
that he had rather be a doorkeeper in the
hall Of the grangers than to shovel sugar In
the stores of the middlemen.
Dio Lewis is supposed to be distant rel
alive of one Dio Genes who had the eccen-
trio notion that lantern was intended to
be used by daylight.
A white boy met a colored boy and asked
him what he had such a short nose for. 81
spect so it won't poke itself into other peo-
pies business.
A faithful brother in a Fairfield, Connect
cut, church recently prayed for the absent
members ''who were PROSTATE on beds OF
sickness and chairs of wellness."
Congressman Cox went to lecture in
Richmond, Va, but had no hearers-it is
said because the people there never go out
after Sunset.-Syracuse Journal.
An applicant for old clothes at Pine
street residence, Saturday, received a half
dozen soiled paper collars with the advice to
ssturn them and chalk the edges"
There is tr on BILE in Boston about the elms.
They are in the way of the street railroad,
and there are some slight objections to hay
ing these splendid trees cut down.
A disconsolate gentleman in Chicago ad-
yertises that the thief who stole his we'll
bucket and rope will pblige him by coming
and taking the well, for which he has no use
"Dinna be sea mean vii it; it's for a pull
faitherless BARN." said Scotch woman tC
an apothecary who was weighing out two
ounces OF calomel for sick child.
An interesting incident ofthe golden wed
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field. Mass, which took place last week.
was the singing of song by greats grand
daughter aged five years.
.ssw. B. Aston is eighty" No doubt he
would pay million dollars a year if he
could thereby live. another dSeade, but his
friends are opposed to the extravagant out
lay for such useless object.
The lady president of charitsblel ass oci
alton in Des Moines, was recently fright
ened almost out of her wits by the incur
sion of party of masked men, who, how
ever. instead of gagging her and walking of
with the spoons, presented to her a large
sum of money to be distributed among tn,
poor.
There is a new song just out entitled AN,
Mother Among the Angels" Let US sug
gest that the composer and librettist should
not stop at this point. Let them next fayo
us with my Aunt Among the Cherubs,
s'My Uncle IN the Clouds" "My Planetar,
Grandmother" and "Cousin Popkins il
Paradise. Punch.
Colonel Higginson says that when he wa
a boy at Cambridge there was not boa
owned at Harvard. A student in the clas
two years before him owned the first boat
and was "hauled up by the faculty there
for. He pleaded that he was not aware o
any objection to it in the college laws. Th
college officer, however, showed him ruiz
that mo student shall be permitted to keel
domestic animal without the consent o
the faculty. and argued that boat cam
within the restriction.