The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-30
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Gen. Butler is having mounted at Chicopee
a sword four feet long, of finest Toledo tenn
per, the hilt OF which will cost 81 ,000
A young Londoner, named Rawlin, re-
Gently won 4 two penny pot Of beer by div
ing in full dress from the top OF London
Bridge.
An Alabama paper complains that be-
tween chicken cholera and protracted meet
ings the pOultry-raising industry Is seriously
depressed.
A thief in Montreal has been sent to Jail
for three months for stealing the Grape from
the door of neighbor where there was
death in the family.
A church at Colchester, Conn, now use
bass drum to regulate the time of the sing
ing, and the man who used to play the bass
viol looks on the innovation as a base viola
dOn OF precedent.
When Mr.. Delano heard Mr.. Brewer give
his evidence before the whitewashing COM
mittee, accusing the department of fostering
frauds, he said he was minion and ought
to be loaded with shooting stick.
In the name Of common decency, Of
national honor, of outraged law and OF
American civilization, the Bangor Whig
protests against the levity with which il s
becoming heOitusl to treat the bloody shirt.
Theirs artfully carries his bed with him as
often as he goes away. When his bugs meet
those of .he plaza he goes to, there is a fight,
and while the battle IS going on the states
man peacefully slumberS.-COurierJO Journal,
The suggestion 10 put SEP in whisky"
meets with contempt among st. Louis
editors. They never put anything but "a
little more" in theirs. They take 1t straight,
and the stronger the better. - Chicago
Times.
A Buffalo physician, who has undergone
the operation which was so accurately des-
scribed in the case of Clara Morris, says it is
absolutely painless. Iron al a white hest
produces merely tickling sensation Gu the
desh.
The celebrated boiling spring OF Pagosa,
at De NOrts, Rio Grande county, Colorado,
is an immense csuldron of wafer sixty by
eighty fess. The water is remarkably clear
and OF unknown depth. Il is probably the
largest spring in the world
The last words OF young Philadelphia,
whose full soul loathed the obituary column
ere he went to meet his grandfather, were:
When 'hictions sore hear no more
And doctors do despair.
Don't let g. w. write me up
At ninety cents square.
The Washington Republican, the kitchen
organ Of the administration, is evidently
Disguised with Republican journals. II
saws; 1.-THE number OF editors of Northern
republican newspap srs, whom it were base
datJery to cali idiots, Is constantly increas-
ing.'
The st. Joseph Mo- Herald regrets that it
can not, by "tbe widest process of versifica-
tion," possibly make IhinocerOs rhyme
with Queen Elizabeth" or "gazelle'' with
Sewing machine" and so has respectfully
10 decline poem by one OF the most tai
ented of ST. Joseph's fair daughters.
Cincinnati corpse arose in its coffin and
quietly remarked: 81 feel very queer. The
two young men who were sitting NJ
with it had important business down town
the next moment, and did not hesitate &C
pass out through the window to attend Il
it, Washington Chronicle.
New Haven papers are now denying tha
Ann Farley, of New Haven, who had bel
scalp torn of two years ago, and replaced by
pieces of skin taken from several otneI
persons, enjoys a fine head OF hair. They
say that though her scalp Is restored, bel
head is as innocent of hair as a billiard ball
At a territorial hanging, the victim, whC
had been literally supplied with whisky
prior to fulnIling his engagement with the
sheriff, was asked at the last moment If ht
would have aoyJhing. Gust drop" h'
replied. lie got IT. 1t was about six fee
and broke his neck. lie took drop too
much.
An innocent bit OF Tennessee news hal
begun to go the rounds in this shape; "a
Tennessee murderer selected his victim at
spelling bee, and ballaste1 him with buck
shet while he was climbing over five
barred word. Tho people have given the
murderer pair OF mules and farm, anC
will send him 10 the legislature"
Mr.. William II. Hunt, the artist, was re
Gently in ths vicinity of Newburyport
Mass, in company with a fellow artist, wheI
a curious Irishmsn approached, and in
quired, 'Who are yes, anyhow" He wa
told that they were painters. painters, Il
ity Maybe thin " are the fellers tina
painted Wards Ink on the side OF the cart
bad cess to YEP
The Springfield (Msss.) Republican, il
speaking of the vacancy caused by Judge
Woodruff q death, ssys Roscoe Conkling
the senator, preferred his chances for the
next presidency, two years ago, Go seat IN
the Supreme Court; perhaps the matter
looks so difficult 10 him row that be nigh
be willing to take the next lower bu
hardly less honorable and useful judicia
place.
The Topeka Blade says: 1.-THE best joke
OF the season occurred last night at the can
can. One of the fellows whose presence wa
80 imperative at the lodge was everhaulet
at the door Of the opera house by his fair bet
s9r naii, who had witnessed the show ron
the gallery, clothed in one OF mis- suits. Sh
showed him into a carriage, mumblini
heme.n