The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-15
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Vice digs its own voluptuous tomb
Iowa can boast of S,76S, l66 miles of rail-
Msnkato. Mimi, has an artesian well SOC
feet deep.
Where the woodblne twineth-on the new
bonnets.
Kiss shots in billiards are now called
''Brook YIN caroms."
The currency of Cuba is getting to be
worth so little that it does not pay to coun
terfeit it.
Come, young man, trot out your new hat,
and let's see how it compares with the
bonnets.
Green peas have got as far North as
Macon, Ga, and are Macon rapid progress
hitherward.
Uncle Sam has raised seven hundred and
twenty-five millions of dollars worth OF
cotton in three years.
Josh Billings and Petroleum V. Nasty
probably feel that this spelling mania is a
personal reflection on both of them.
One of the great attractions of the centen-
NAL will be Susan b. AnthonY's relation OF
her personal recollections of the Pilgrim
Fathers.
They sued man in France for a libel he
wrote with sharp stick on a green pump
kin growing in a field. The Indictment was
squsshed, however.
Brownlow is warming up with his work,
and the way he calls acotemporary ga tooth
less, fangless old reptile" would make
Cincinnati editor envious.
Young Walwortb, the parrioide, now con-
fined in the Auburn asylum for insane con-
victs, is rapidly declining in health, and it
is said he can not long survive.
Owing to a late severe storm, Orange City,
Iowa, was ter days without a mail. The in
habitants will never catch up in reading the
proceedings in Judge Nelson's court.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
Worcester Press: 1t is said that jayne,
the notorious ex detective for the treasury
department, will appear as a witness in the
scandal trial. If Tilton has had his arm
around Jayne let's know 1t.
Susan B. Anthory wants to find the au
thor of the story which placed her in an i'm
proper attitude toward Theodore, and pro-
poses to be a mother-in-law TO him In all
that the name implies.-Detroit Free Press
The residence at Washington, in which
Bancroft is completing his History of the
United States, has had for its tenants James
X. P3ulding, Washington Irving, John Z.
Kennedy, William Writ, Peter Force and
Jared Sparks.
Washington wore a sst of false teeth made
from solid block of ivory. This is stats
ment of fact, and it isn't wonderful that
the father of his country didn't have
kindly expression OF countenanc0 under the
circumstances.
Gen. Mcclellan will remain abroad with
his family until August. They have been
ND the Nile. and especial ttsntlons have
been paid them by the Khedive.-Cincinnati
Commercial. All quiet on the Nile, else Nc.
wouldn't be there.
A gentleman in Oswego, New York has an
earthen teapot presented to his grand
mother by Gen. Israel Putnam IN I776, on the
occasion of her marriage TO lieutenant in
Putnam's command. 1t bears an eagle,
shield and patriotic notices.
At sale of merino sheep at Fresno, CAL,
the other day single ram brought $500, and
fifty ewes were sold at forty dollars each.-
New York Sun. Now let the sterner sex
brace up for blast from Aunt Susan. Why
should the male sheep sell so much higher
than the female is a question that should be
settled by the sorosis.
John Paul Jones must have had a wonder
ful collection of crockery on his ship, if the
auctloneer's catalogues are to be believed.
We notice in an account of recent sale in
London a pair of fiat Oriental vases, sup
posed to have been painted at Chelsea, which
are said to have come off the BOnnomme
Richard. They sold tor els.
The Baronne de Talleyrand, who Is de-
scribed as a lovely Circassian, with melt
ing dark eyes and pearlv white shoulders
and arms, wore so many jewels at a recent
costume ball in Florence that she took
gendarmes along with her to escort her.
There were jewels everywhere on her Oda-
lisque dress, which looked one shimmering
cascade of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and
emeralds.
Parson Newman, who has recently re-