The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

These are cooler nights, and most people
who sit on the piazza till late in the evening
concluded that ids sboud tibe do ged idside
ad go do bed.
Brother Ehesrman is going to Rome
Hope He'll know enough to do as the
Romans do and keep his mouth shut
Boston Post
Carl Schurs7s income from lectures the
coming season will not be less than twenty
five thousand dollars. His New England
dates are nearly all full.
An electric magnet weighing 1,SOO pounds
was lately shipped to West Point by Wal
lace & sons, of AnsOnia, CT. The magnet
has sustaining capacity OF sixty tons.
Captain Paul Boyton has offered his ser
vices in aid OF the inundation sufferers to
Nine. McMahon to give at Paris on the 10th
inst. a series Of experiments with his life
saving dress. The offer has been accepted.
The Philadelphia papers take kindly to
the suggestion that Andrew Johnsod's tailor
zhop be exhibited at the national centennia
next year, with the original sign hang
ing out, bearing the words, "a. Johnson,
taller"
The wheat belt" is enlarging its are
Arkansas, for instance, will export small
grains this year for the first time in its his
tory. The same general tendency to raise
more and buy less is observable throughout
the South.
Miss Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper,
daughter OF the novelist, is devoting her
life to the support and training of little
homeless boys and girls, the orphanage be-
ing situated on the Otsego Lake, near Coop
erstowD, y. Z.
The burial OF DR.. Thirwall is the third this
year within the walls of Westminster Alb
bey, the last before it having been that o.
Sir Charles Lyell, in the month of February
which was within few days after the burial
OF Sir w. Sterndale Bennett
The city OF Baltimore has an ordinance
which provides for insuring The lives snd
limbs of its frenaen- It is proposed to effec
an insurance for each member of the depart
ment so thas he shall receive five dollars {
week during any inability TO work, and MI
representatives $500 in case OF his death.
Don Pi2tt bss encountered the mighty Mul
lett abroad. The mighty M. is of opinion tha
the public buildings in Europe do not com
pare with the gigantic structures which h'
has built in this country. Piatt also me
Stanley Matthews, OF Cincinnati, who com
plains tnat London snubs him and sits oi
MIN.
A speaker ss the Old Orchard, Mass, tenn
perance meeting the other day declared tina
half the clergymen OF Boston are wine bib
bers and their deacons tipplers. This is
renewal, probably, of the oblique advertis
ing resorted to by the vendors OF piou
unfermented wine, good for communion
purposes.
The New Orleans Picsyune says tina
"never before in the history of Louisian
have so many white men taken active par
in the practical details of agriculture, and
is at least singular coincidence that seldom
If ever before has there been crop so prom
ising in all respects" as that now on tn
ground. Il concludes that white men cal
endure field labor in that climate.
A lately-sppointed postmaster of a west
ern Masssctu usetts town came down to Bos
ton, the other day, to "qualify" and hav
his bond for 500 approved. The bond wa
all right, and the regular question was pu
TO the p. NJ. "How much are you worth
sir?r "wsl," he replied, 'I don't tell haoy
much I'm worth. Bradstreet sets me q
$4,000. gees you d better put it down q
that fgger.' "How much do the assessor
set you att" ''Wsl, the assessors don't Sc
me at quite SC high figger; but" in con
hdential whisper, "'tween you'n'me, I'm
one of the eassessors."-Boston Traveller.
They viii not put another squash into tn
harness at the Massachusetts, Agriculture
College this year. but they are trying othe
interesting experiments with vine Of th
same kind, ,::sbe mammoth Chilli. They hsv
one squRsh upon the scales to ascertain il
final weight, and meantime TO note its in
crease or weight, which is now three pound
per diem. The growth OF its leaves is ais
recorded. Another scale marks the increas
OF irs vine ir length, and still another of il
tendriis. An ingenious contrivance is al
ranged to find out the movement OF an uI
supported tendril; the result is worked i
triangies on paper perpendicular to th
free tendril. Another arrangement is
test the strength of the tendrils and thei
growth in power relative to the growth of th
supported squash. A gauge Is being pre-
pared 10 examine the sap in the vine an
Us passage into the fruit,