The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
WISE AND OTHERWISE.


The hog crop for the year is estimated at
100000 head.
Massachusetts is producing superior ar
ticle OF cod-liver oil from dOg-fish.
A memorial window to Bishop Berkeley
in the new chapel at Yale College is being
discussed.
A pistol tight recently occurred ia Kansas
City, an6 local paper remarked, then the
scheutzenfest begsn.'
In view of the fall shopping the temper
ance girls are playing on their pianos Gather,
bring home your money tonight"
The corn crop of this year is perhaps the
greatest ever raised in this country. And
yet the chiropodists are not happy.
With eosSon cloth at four and half cents
q yard IL looks as If even the FaIstsff
Brigade need lot steal their shirts.
Mr.. Beeeher's paper, the Christian Union
says the republican party, * not morbid, is
exhibiting signs Of weakness and decay.
California will send the largest snow
plant, taken from near the famous big trees
at Calavsras, TO the Centennial Exposition.
The Springfield Republican says "ths de-
mocracy have led trumps." Psbsw, they
have only played the duce.-Lowell Courier
A balky horse in Salisbury, Penn, was in
duced to move on by a cruel driver, who
blew sand into the animals ear through g
goose-quin.
A porcupine weighing II pounds, an ami
NAL quite unknown in that vicinity, was
shot by George Duren at West Woburn
Mass, Friday.
Blackbirds are becoming pest along the
slough Near Muscatine, Iowa. 1t is said
not only thousands but millions infest
ha In rhor
they are literally devouring the corn.
A pair of horses attached to an omnibus at
Fort Howard, Wis, ran away last Saturday
evening and were not heard of again until
next day. when they were discovered over
ten miles away, neither horses nor stage be-
ing injured.
At Duluth, Mimi, last Thursday, another
floating island sat sail from it's anchorage a
couple OF miles down the bay, and, impelled
by strong wind and current, moved
straight TO and through the canal out into
Lake Superior.
The editor Of the Chicago Post thinks
there are lew such cheering spectacles in
this vale of tears as that of a fellow and hi:
girl from the country, at the Exposition
endeayorlng to chew the same caramel at
the same time.
A young woman who found herself al
ooH0"AOLs -AAsf WAsIOAb uO1CJ,
wherewith 10 proceed to Chicago by pawn
ing her glass eye, though the pawnbrokel
was at first inclined TO consider thu deal :
id barren eyedeality
There exists in Fresno county, California,
characters engraved upon stone by some
ancient race inhabiting California, perhaps
thousands Of years ago. These inscriptions
are cut upon the rocky sides of narrow
canyon, and cover perhaps several acres Of
surface.
In Lafayette, lad, last Wednesday, tit
tie girl was bitten by a dog, and when ar
officer came to killed the animal the
mother few into a rage and told him Il
keep his hands of as the child and dog were
both hers.
The majority in New Jersey for the con
stitutional amendment prohibiting any
division of the public school funds for tn,
support of sectarian schools, or the levyinf
OF any taxes for that purpose, amounted tC
1884. Hudson was the only county which
gave an adverse vote,