The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Ohio courts granted 1,l59 divorces last
year.
The state librarian of Ohio hadn't been
dead a week before eighty-two people asked
to be his successor.
A school teacher at KinderhOok, Pike
county, Illinois, kicked pupil of his school
the other day, for which he was fined thirty
dollars.
Tom Hughes has been lecturing against the
game laws in England because they involve
the punishment of several hundred men
every year for their infraetion.
No wonder the Americans like Victoria.
She gets her apples from Michigan, her cram
berries from tape Cod and her apple butter
from Rhode Islsnd.-Danbury News.
A certain member of a certain legislature
not many miles from the Hoosier capital
speaks of "eouuter currants," by which he
evidently means currants exposed for sale
on the counter.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in speak
ing of the Massachusetts baby-farming in
VesfigatiOn. saws: "The babies, of course
died one after another" Now didn't they
die one before another.
Close on the heels of the announcement
of Trask's death comes the statement that a
New York firm ara about to open new to-
",
tended to employ 2.000 hands.
The Rev. Giles Bailey, pastor of the Uni
versalist Church of Reading, Pa, had cane
presented to him at Belfast, Me-, some years
ago, by Capt. Wales, retired scattering man.
who was then about so years old. 1t is gnarled
1t is cEnically observed in regard to the
recently introduced artificial butter that the
real difficulty is not in making an artificial
butter, but in so introducing the hairs as to
give 1t the most natural appearance.
Napoleon always carried with him an
emerald of great value which belonged to
the crown Jewels. He lost it at Waterloo.
1t was found by Prussian soldier, and has
since been numbered among the Prussian
crown jewels.
England produced in 1873 over 5000 tons
of arsenic, one-tbird of which came from
the Devon Great Consols mine. This mine
produces monthly enough arsenic TO de-
st1oy the lives OF 500 000, 900 human beings
and IT often has enough in store of the
deadly drug to destroy the entire pOpula-
ton of the earth
Here's what Butler said, last Saturday
without vote of censure), apropos of his
proposition for Sunday session; Scripture
says" he remarked, "that II a mans OK or
ass shall fall into pit be may pull it out on
the SADDaJI,6 ana tHe CDlY uiu5ESDCe between
my case and that is. that I want to get
seventy-three asses out Of pit"
A few days ago fOur-year-old girl en-
deavored to entertain her venerable grand
father by singing and dancing. snow, let's
hear you pray" said the pious grandpa
'-Ons, two, three etc, up to twelve she
counted. THAT isn't praying-its count
ing" ~Well grandpa" she replied, "the
other kind o. prayin' wears out my stock
ings SOL Davenport Gazette.
The young ladies Of a certain Indiana city
are about introducing a new game called
''Kiss me quick, and let me CO." They have
frequent rehearsals, at which the girls are
never late, bet they are never perfect in their
parts. They remember the Kiss me quick"
well enough, but somehow, they forget to
say ''and let me CO." And the young men
are SO mean that they won't prompt the girls
a single time.
A little girl about nine years old. says
the Detroit Free Press, was crossing the
Campus Martius yesterday, having her
fathers dinner pail on her arm, when
man gave a pull at the long braid of her
hair hanging down her back "Did you do
He admitted that he did, and she continued,
"May be you. don't know who I am, sir.
Pm engaged to Jack Thompson, sir, and
we're to be married in nine years, sir"
The following paragraphs taken from the
proceedings of the Illinois legislature: Mr..