The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-12
NEWS AND GOSSIP

The railroad interests of the country have
now new organ in the Pathway Worl J, the
first number OF which HIS Just appeared in /
Philadolphia.
The New York middle Deu promise to
cult stealing, abandon the devil and live
honestly in the future, If only Western
freight will be sent there CO usual.
TIE president eff the Georgia railroad gave
a dozen car loads of wood to the poor of
Augusta Cor holiday present. That cor
porstion has q heart OF wood at least.
<'Matcl- Making is the title of q para
,sraphin Potter's American Monthly. The
samouut of wood annually consumed IN the |
manufactured matches in the nitedStates
Is 100000 cubic yards. |
All the defaulting officers Of the United
States treasury, according to Secretary Bris-
tow, are to be prosecuted to conviction. This
will 1ecessitste a very material enlargement
of the peniEentiaries.
Phe edittr of the Christian Union declares
that the notion of eternal damnation has
about died out of Ire churches. Ris editorial
to that effect has kindled quite a blaze. 1t
heats thiGgs up extensively TO try to put hell
out. Quite a large number are interested in
that institution yet.
A deEcately moulded Englishman is
spoken of by the Liverpool Post, who lately
made wager that he would bite toad's
head OF, eat az ounce twist o. tobacco, and
follow this up with three raw potatoes. The
bet Wa the price of the tobacco and two
igallonso of beer, which he easily won.
Aifotal specimen OF the "dugong"-the
aquatic mamsl which probably gave rise 60
the Esbulous stories about mermsids-has
been received by Prof Wilder, of Cornell
University. a. was sent frOR Australia, and
Will Onahl ha a66 70 ha M ra;k Hr
museum, if che purchase money can DO
spared from the fund appropriated for sech
purposes.
The management OF the Lake Shore reil-
way have Just promulgated an order de
clsring in future the company will not re-
tain in their employ men in the habk of
usirg Intoxicating liquors as beverage,
and the freqCenting of places where the same
is retailed Will he considered prima facie owl
deGce Of its Use, and discharge will follow.
In the MIDST of the service in the Roman
Catholic Cathedral in Baltimore, a man
dressed as q quaker walked up the aisle,en-
tered the pew and stood bolt upright with
his hat on. When told to take off his hal he
said he was not permitted by his conscience
to do so, but he ha0 no ojections to having
somebody else remove it. He proved to be
John Hopkins, wealthy but eccentric
Friend.
Ing notice: Hereafter we Will publish all.no-
'tices, not exceeding four lines, free of charge,
for persons wanting situations or wanting,
'to-employ help, and We hope that those 4 n
want Of employment will take advantage of
this offer, as we wish to assist them all We
-caC. Drop your notices into the postofiee
to our address.
A BostoniSn, by name Grancs Lippitt
has, in communication &c the Banner of
Light, called <or the name o. the Philadel-
phs gentleman who traced the spirit Of
Katie King to a notwithstanding house
and unearthed the fraud. He also wants
the written statement of the young widow
whc-swindle6 the public Mo- hing less than
thiswill cause him TO doubt tt genuinenesS
of the Holmes developments.
The word 'S5onanza'' has been freely
launched upon the sea Of journalism, and is
likely to become household word. A Ne
yada.pa saysit is Spanish, and means
flair weather at sea-" Applied to mining it
means"'a body OF rich ore." When Span
Ssh miIer strikes good vein, he replies to
che quecy: How are you getting on?" in
his own language, "Oh, ir en- bonanza
which means in American slang, "Oh, we're
ail hunEey-doryi"
Prof.'C. ". Riley, at a recent meeting of
the Academy of Science at st. Louis, gives
the following views of the advent of the
western grasshoppefs: The cause of the
locasts or <grasshopper ravsging the western
country last summer was probably ettribut-
able to dro1ths that prevailed in the noun /
taiROGs districts west OF the rayaged 1
county, said he did not believe that
there was any real connection between
drouths and locust devastations and that
especially he did not believe that the
drouths i'm the devastated sections were any
cause OF such invasions. His view of the
origin OF gFasshoppers is that they are deni-
zens Of high and any attitudes of the Rocky
mountains, and are indigenous from British
Columbia TO Mexico; that owing to certain
conditions they become so numerous in
their native haunts that they are compelled
to migrate in order to obtain sustsnance
He thinks they come eaStwardlg on account
or the winds, which, during the summer
season, blow in that direction. He says they
can not thrive In moist climate, and eonse-
s-quently their ravages never extend beyond
the limits of Kansas co any serious extent.
The London correspondent of the New
York Graphic writes thus of the circulation
of some of the more influential English
newspapers: CHANGED to see ia an Ameri-
can journal, the other day, a ridiculous
paragraph stating that the circulation of the /
London Times was not more than twenty
five thousand copies, and that of the Daily
Telegraph "a little larger" The Times keeps
its business affairs very close, but have
reason to know that its present circulation
Is not less than fifty thousand
copies. The recent extraordinary enter
prise which it mas shown in telegraphing all
its continental news has swollen its circula-
tions and il issOon to do other extraordinary {
things-among them the running of special
train each morning from London to Man s
chester-lS6 Understanding there at A. NJ,
and thus competing with the Manchester
journals st their own doors. As for the cir
cula'ion OF the Daily Telegraph we have the
iJrec.se EgGfes, furnished by an eminent I
firm of accountants who bave examined the q
books. For the ten months ending October I
81 the number OF papers printed was As, 9S1,- 1
405-a daily average OF l76, ia copies This /