The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Harvard school of instruction in ge-
ology for the summer of this year will be es-
tsblished at camp near Cumberland Gap,
Ky.
The Academy of Music at Newport, r. l.,
has been sold for $4,000 to the African
Methodist Church.
A Texas plantation has produced, this
year, $1,000 worth of syrup from land which,
if planted in cotton, would have yielded
only about $500.
Wood paper is coming into extensive use,
orders for al least 20 900 tons having recently
been received by the manufacturing COM
pany in Chester county, Pa.
A cartmsn, Wilson Reid, and a letter
carrier, Silas D. Davis. of New York, have
Just had a walking match of ten miles for
$1,000. Reid was victorious.
Senator Worthington, of Ohio, is attempt
ing TO limit public school education in his
state 20 a, b, Cs, spelling, reading, writing,
arithmetic, grammar, geography, compost
ton and elocutiOn.
Among the financial corporations of Mil
waukee is the Mutual Hall Insurance Com
pany, which paid to farmers last year 81, 400
in compensation for damages by hail sus-
tanned by their crops.
At Lyndon, VT, one day last week, gen.
tleman opened fish hole in an eddy, and
removed with his hands nearly 500 pounds
of pickerel and suckers. The fish crowd up
to the hole for fresh air and are captured.
According to Dun's Commercial Agency,
during 1874 this state suffered by 167 bust
ness failures, including liabilities amount
ing to 8, 397, 900. In 1873 there were 134 fail
ures, involving liabilities amounting to
-, 260, 600.
A bill has been introduced into the Ohio
legislature providing that persons convicted
81 murder in the first degree shall be con
fined in the penitentiary two years before
execution, and shall then only be executed
on a warrant of the governor.
Serrsno vas slipping bis chocolate. bad
news, your highness," said messenger
''the army of the north will proclaim Al.
fonso." "Ahl the only possible solution,
said Serrano. And he went on slipping Lis
chocolate. His sun had set. His son had
risen.-Chicago Times.
A paragraph which is widely copied says
that Yale College has contributed $40, 900 to.
wards the payment of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher's law expenses in the Tilton
trial. Only the extensive notice which the
report has received makes it worth while Il
say that it is wholly and ridiculouslY false
Gen. Schenck has written letter explain.
ing that his work on "Poker Playing" was
written " bile he was guest at an Englist
cOuntry-houso for the amusement of the
party, and was printed ON a private printing
press without his knowledge. This, o
cOurse, does not impugn his knowledge o
the game.
The Brooklyn Argus says: There ar,
10000 white men in this country who car
not read. Seven hundred and fifty thou
sand immortal beings, to whom the Brooklyn
bonanza is the very arcanum of mysteries
ness" and paroxysmal osculation," an,
''soul trustfulness" except by the bewilder
ing avenue OF heresay.
At the close of the war Gen. Joe Johnston
met in Baltimore young man who had en-
ioyed undistured the social delights of tina
rebeIiious city. and who said to him, ''well
general, we are conquered, but not sub
dued." "Were you in the service, youn
msn?T asked the general. "No, sir; ha
not that honor" "Then, my friend, sal,
Johnston, 'you may not be subdued, but
am"
This rs the way they bow in Berlin: I'm
agine an oak plank six feet IN height, with
hinge IN the middle, draw itself up to pen
pendicular, and, with quick movement
snap the hinge so that the upper part sud
denly springs forward and back again, an
you nave some idea of the gracefulness {
the executed movement, and OF the snoc
one gets when being introduced to Germa
military swell"