The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
NorES ARour WnMEN

A fashionable young lady in Boston de-
mands $500 in pin money per month. Does
she get it?
Miss Anthony threatens ts sue the press
OF America generally: for libel. Is il in re-.
gard to her age?
Mrs. Minis, of Lee county, Georgia, culti-
Yates one thousand acres of cotton and five
hundred acres of corn.
A Topeka girl has been left quarter of
million dollars by her uncle, and now all
through trains stop at Topeka.
One hundred and four winters have FROST
ed the venerable head Of Mrs. Polly Bick-
ford, of North Wakefield, N. 81. rg.ef
A new weekly paper, called The Jim and
Eliza Journal, has been started in Mississip-
pi. Jim and Eliza are the editor and wife.
The constitutional commissioner of Michi-
gan has adopted the article making women
eligible to school offices. Pennsylvania
ditto.
A young lady of Elmira, New York, spent
four years in learning Greek, Latin, French
and Spanish, and then married a vegetable
peddler.
A young lady was heard to say at the post
Office, ''If I don't get letter by this mail, 1
want to know what he was doing Sunday
that's all.
The Dundee IN. " Record says that you
can't fling brick in that town without hit
ting dsshing young, widow worth from
5000 TO $4,000.
Josh Billings says: "There amt emmy
thing that viii kompletely kure lazyness,
though a second wife has been known to
hurry it some,"
A Digger Indian girl received on New
Years day redingote, consisting of an
old army overcoat, and her dazzling neck
was encircled by string of tomato cans.
There was young lady in Louisville, the
other day, who said she always feels well, if
she has on only nice fitting pair of kid
gloves. If nothing more. Queer climate or
queer taste in Louisville.
A Duluth couple were married on the ice
the other day. and it would have been high
! iy romantic if the bride had't fallen down
and cracked her auburn head and kicked
the minister's feet out from under him.
A young lady from one of the suburbs
came to the city the other day to have her
picture taken. When the artist showed her
the proof and asked her how she liked it,
she placidly remarked that he "put too
darned much mouth on it to suit her," m
If bustles hadn't gone out of fashion this
announcement by an eastern paper might
be of some use: Tin bustles holding gal.
lon of whisky can be purchased by Buffalo
ladies who want to smuggle Canada liquor.
weighty Tennessee family, of sort to
delight the heart of a Fairbanks, was recent
| " represented by an ethereal girl Of twenty
seven years who weighs 752 pounds avoirdu-
| pois, and her fragile brother of eighteen, who
| only weighs 5S5 pounds. -
A gorgeous Georgia girl recently peddled
out 800 kisses at ten cents smack and then
gave the money to the poor to buy coal and
flannel and things. The young men Of that
town feel within their individual and col
lective breasts that charity is divine.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames is writing a
new story Of American life for Every Satur-
day, entitled Ellis Two Wives" The Dem
yer World thinks Mrs. A. Z. Young leaves
that fellow entirely out in the cold in her
tale of the man with nineteen of 'em.
1t is stated as a fact susceptible of easy
proof that young man at Austin, Nevada
has made mistake. He bought a hand
some dress pattern for his intended wife snd
pair of red flannel drawers for himself. He
delivered the wrong bundle. Result. A
Some useful lesson or example may bt
found in the most simple occurrences. A
the Terre Hauts depot recently an old lady
attempted to get off while the cars were in
motion. gentleman standing at the doc
prevented her. "Lst her CO." exclaimed
kind hearted passenger; 'if she gets killed
it will be warning. to somebody else"
A Paris correspondent of the New Yorl
Times says that NJ. Sardou has just brough
out another most scandalous piece. ale
Merveileuses" is a startling piece of immor
tally. There is one character who come
upon the stage draped in gauze. and, al
though the woman is probably clothed il
tights, nature has been so well initiated il
every minute detail that everyone believe
her absolutely naked. There is a suppressed
cry of "Oh," and startled look of confusion
whenever she appears on the stage. Th
aim of the piece is to show the follies Of tn
directory, and it is no excuse that this piec
of apparent nudity is driven away and duck
ed in the fountain.