The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-15
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

A brakeman on a Canada railway lately
found 81, coo in car and returned it to its
owner, a merchant of Truro.
The first iron boat ever built at New Or
leans is a yacht, which will be launched
early in the present month.
The Paris American Register was sold
August %. 1t was bought by DIR. Evans, the
dentist, for III ,2O0f., or sS4, 2iO.
A man at Lee, Mass, has imported BASAL
tic column from the Giants Causway, off the
north coast of ireland, as an ornament for
his lawn.
''Busted-too much grasshopper" was the
epigram scratched on the bulk OF battered
prairie schooner towed through a Kansas
town by a melancholy bull last week.
The Alta California says: Raising cork
trees seems to be an approaching industry
in California. st Auburn there are num-
Der oftTees three or four years ola that have
bark thick enough for any ordinary cork.
The Inter-University boat race between
the two Scotch universities at Edinburgh
and Dundee came off recently on the Dee.
1t was won by the Bon Accord crew. Edin-
Lurgh being but length behind. This is the
first match OF the kind ever rowed in Scot
land.
Treasury officials at Washington do not
admit that the yellow fever is so bad as to oe-
casion any serious alarm, but the stringent
orders of the secretary as to the quarantine
regulations, as well as other circumstances,
seem to warrant conclusion that serious
visitation is threatened.
The National Monument Association re-
ports the gratifying success of its appeals
for contingent subscriptions Responses
from secret societies and militia organizs-
tons are particularly encouraging, and the
society is saBguine of the success of the en-
terprlse during centennial year by this
means.
George T. Foster, in the Ohio Penitentiary,
under the assumed name of Henry T. Mar
shal, has received legacy OF $4,000, his
father having recently died in New York.
Foster was sent uD for three years in Febru-
airy, lo72, from Cincinnati. lie is the leader
of the chapel choir and one of the best be-
haved prisoners in the institution.
Many Dartmouth College students have
replenished their purses this season by serv-
ing as walters in the White Mountain
hotels, getting $40 a month. ''When we
consider" said President Smith, "the fact
that nearly one-third of the students at
Dartmouth teach school during the winter.
and work ut harvesting in the summer, we
need have no fear about the dignity OF labor
becoming an obsolete expression"
A curious episode in the railroad depot at
Lincoln, Neb., the other day, was a Men
MONTE divorce. The man was anxious to 20
to Dakota, and his wife equally anxious to
remain; so, after long argument in Rus
sian and German, they sat down upon the
floor, and, opening bag containing $1,000
in gold, counted it out, piece by piece, the
man taking one half and the woman the
other. They then shook hands and sepa-
rated, the man jumping upon train bound
Tor Dakota.
The literary labors of the late Prof. JEFF
fries Wyman consisted of two courses OF
lectures before the Lowell Institute in Bos-
ton, one of which was published under the
title OF Twelve Lectures on Comparative
PHYSIOLOGY" His other published writings
consist Of various articles ON comparative
anatomy, physiology and embryology in the
American Journal of Science" the "Smjth-
sonian Contributions to Knowledge" the
"Boston Journal of Natural History
and the proceedings Of the 'Boston Society
OF Natural History" of which association
ne was elected president in 1856, and re-
tanned that office many years.