The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-06-03
WISE AND orHERw IsE.

WISE AND OrHERW ISE.
To prevent smugglinS-wear nothing but
home-spun.
The "6rst gun" fired at Gen. Sherman >
book is OF an epistolary character.
Somsbody broke into the warehouse of a
New Orleans undertaken last Saturday night
and solemnly stole thirty collins.
The presidents friends, tits said, are urg-
ing him TO write a book to Offset Sherman's.
IL would doubtless sell well as a curiosity of
literature.
Newspaper paragraphs abusing Grant
have no effect in the state of New York
Several canal boats there have been named
after him.
A talsnted Indiana burglar sert lot of
circus tickets to family, and while they
were euiOying the show he went through
their house e.-COurier-Journal.
The post-offices are complaining of the
great number of boxes OF grasshoppers that
western sufferers are sending east through
the mails. Thus far, hawever, not a post
master has been lost.
Among these who were not killed in the
Boston drugstore explosion was a clairvoy-
ant who lived in she building. Worse than
that, she never once predicted that the old
thing was 20 be blown up.
In Tennessee only one paper approved the
Nashville lynching, and only one defends
Henry Ward Bescher. That's as near being
q garden of Eden as an American State can
reasonably exp CT to tiDd itself.
Massachusetts people are crowding to
their State House TO register their names in
the eupola. These names make rather
heavy reading for hot weather. but great
ness must not be lost sight of altogether.
L.
critic of the Chicago Inter-Ocean ''can al
most hear the whirr and ping of the thun-
dering cannon" He doesn't seem to hear
the shrieks aud groans of mis- readers.-Cou
rier Journal.
The Milwaukee Sentine's humorous par
sgraphs were all left over the other day to
make room for soma resolutions from the
cemetery association, and a crowd of Mil
waukeeaus appeared at the Office the next
morning to welcome The new humorist.--
Courier Journal.
The legal profession isn't over-sensitive,
but if Judge P1rter's concluding remarks to
the Beecher jury do not make the lawyers of
America shut up their Offices for six weeks
and DENY that they ever saw a court house,
they are not the high-t0ned persons that
William Blackstone intended them to be.
A tall girl with forty-five dollars worth
Of millinery goes to church every Sunday
and sits directly in front of the Titusville
Herald man, so that he can't see the minis
ter. Why doesn't he forget his surround
ings some day and hit her one9 Ten thous-
and pens would leap to his defense, if he
should get into a controversy through il.
Considering the amount of downright
wickeduess left US by Lord Byron, the
Brooklyn Argus assertion that there Is
probably not young lady in this country
who would not cheefully give something to-
wards monument for him, Is rather start
ling However, the Argus looks at things
from a Brooklyn observatory with a ragged
edge.
BY an order from the post Office depart
nnent, separate pouches for registered let
ters will soon be placed on all the principal
mail routes in the country. This will be
invaluable assistance to the mail robbers
Heretofore they have been obliged to carry
of bags OF unremunerative letters, and,
with much care aud toll, fish out the letters
that had money in them.-Detroit Tribune
Carruth, the Vinelaud editor, with the
bullet in his brain, still lives. Anthony
the editor shot through at Lesvenworth
seems likely to recover, and libel suits
AGAINST various prominent newspapers have
tailed miserably. Is tnere not specis
providence for the unfortunate class OF meI
who grease he wheels of progress on hal
wages7-St. Louis Republican.
Here's richnessl The Italian Senate hai
passed law making profanity punishable
offense. The penalty fixed for swearing il
4. imprisonment for several days. Ii is though
that it would have been better to impose
money foe. Ii profane men were forced Il
pay ine for every oath uttered, serious
draft would be made upon individual re
sources and the public revenue would b'
considerably increased, as the Italians ar
very proficient swearers.
Cincinnati claims to haveth Oldest woman
in the United States-Mrs. Podests; bori
January ~, 1869. aud, therefore, LOG years o
age. Miss Anthony is far too modest to as
sert her right to wear the wreath of snow
thus awarded To- Mrs. Podesta, and in ignor
ing Der claims thereto Cincinnati exhibits
"a usual, that singula,ly bad taste for whic
she is almost notorious for he
siDgulsrly bad whisky.
Two genial you residents Of Port .Jervis
New York. have been amusing themselve
lately by firiog bullets st the passenge
1-ains of the Erie RiiIrosd. Nothing wa