The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS DRIFT
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


70 war in Ashantee?
Full many a turkey is now ghost that
one short week ago was goblin.
Raleigh hasn't public school in the city,
but there are thirty.nine saloons.
The Baltimore oyster war promises to con-
tinue so long as the shells hold out.
Beside the great consistory on the 22d, at
Rome, there will be another held there about
Easter.
Difference between tube and Dutchman:
one ia a hollow cylinder, and the other
silly Hollander.
Corn cribs, COWS and chOirs contribute to
the holiday entertainments. They furnish
mush, milk and music. e.
There were something like 0,000 weddings
Christmas eve. The divorce statistics have
not been prepared yet.
President MacMahon aud his wife have
contributed 5000 francs to the sufferers by
the Vile du Havre disaster.
A distinguished Irish gentleman, visiting
Vermont, said he never before saw land so
plenty that it had to be stalked.
y clear inconsistency-When mans cir
cumstances become most crooked and twist
cd they are said to be straitened.
ChicaSO,wishesto be considerable metrOp-
oils of art on this continent on the strength
Of numerous valuable importations.
A Wisconsin school teacher fell a distance
OF eighteen feet, and ten minutes after was
hearing the class in geography recite.
The stockholders of the National Trust
Company offer s. 900 for the apprehension of
r. ]. Grier, the absconding cashier.
The Indians around Omaha have a fond
ness for putty, and chew great guilds of it
probably TO prevent their lights from falling
out.
The Fair flower of the Pacific Slope is get
ting ready to develop another pistil. In
other words, Laura d. Fair is again mar
ried.
The SHOW is very deep on some sections of
the Central Pacific Railroad, requiring, in
the Sierra Nevada section, five engines to
draw one train.
They have been converting the Baltimore
sinners al the rate of 400 per day for a month.
Well, the oysters are put up in better shape
than they were.
An obituary notice in a Western paper
contained the touching intelligence that the
deceased chad accumulated little money
and ten children.
When Shakespeare made his observation
about patience on a monument, he didn't
allude to doctors patients. They are all I'M
der monument.
The Rev. William V. Feltwell. rector of
Grace Church, West Farms, n. Y, having
Joined Bishop Cuinmins, has been compelled
TO resign his position.
All the Chicago newsboy has to do, is to
bawl communist" at the top of his voice,
and then the old ladies and editors in hear
ing scamper OF in fright.
There is a town in Massachusetts where
there has not been wedding tor fifteen
years. II is the place where good bachelors
and old maids go when they die.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says: "Does
Tweed hold trump card?" We can not
say, but there is no doubt that Black wells
Island holds "knaye."-Toledo Blade.
A Baltimore paper speaks of boy who
was bitten by an alleged mad dog. This is
to avoid hurting the dogs feelings should he
merely be laboring nnder a temporary
alteration.
The Newburyport baby show was a sue
cess. young lady, aged twenty months,
took the prize. 1t has not been ascertained,
whether according to the laws OF her State
she can hold ii or not.
A Liverpool hospital refuses to accept a
gift of a thousand pounds until the donor
gives his name. That hospital won't flourish
until it is put into the hands of competent
business man like Dawes.
Gail Hamilton says, mot the least of the
many benefits wrought us by the clergy is
the sweet sOmnolence which so gently and
benignly broOds over a weary and happy
congregation on a sultry Sunday after
EoOn."
IL is rumOred that Geo. w. French, general
freight agent of the f. and G. II. r., has ten.
dered his resignation, to take effect on the
1st of January, and that he viii be succeeded
by E. s. Babcock, Jr., general agent of the
ST. Louis and Southern.
A Green Bay woman, whose husband
kicks her down stairs every second night,
saws she likes TO look over his old letters
commencing vita: "My dearest, darling
little angel Minnie, Heaven alone knows
the depth of my love for you"
"Have we Bourbon among us?" asked a
public speaker Of Kansas City audience.
Wall, I reckon, stranger, said a long-haired
man, neatly aTrayed in the Terean costume
have a nip7 The lecturer was sorry his
meaning had been misconstrued.
American armyi officers have been en-
ployed by the Khedive of Egypt for five
years. This is to build up his army on a
solid basis. While in the Egyptian army the
koflicers will be paid in gold at the same rate
~ remuneration rs in the United States