The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-10
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

2S3,6S4 grasshOppers make busEel.
A Boston tailor advertises diagonal boys
suits"
Nine. Theirs is making calico fashions-
bile in Paris.
Flipper, the colored cadet at West Point,
stands number 46 in class of So.
His Majesty OF Greece wishes to abdicate.
Anybody desiring throne can easily slip
IN.
The Christian Union thinks church finan-
ees are more than a match for angels wis
dom.
"Mr. Variegated Narrative" is the latest
name for the distinguished Sioux Chief
tain.
Only 1906 desertions from the United
States army IN one year. All can't be gen.
erals.
How to prevent the hair from becoming
gray: Cut il of, do it up neatly in tissue
paper. sad put it away in drawer.
The Hon. George S. Boutwell, has resumed
the practice of his profession at his former
rooms in Studio Building, Boston.
A lady, on separating from her husband,
changed her religion, being determined, she
said, TO avoid his company in the next world
as well this.
Announcing that the emperors are to
meet at Ems, the Rochester Express asks,
"who is Em, anyway? Do the empresses
know about it?
"It's generally the case with bad boys"
philOsophicaIly remarks Miss Anthony,
"that they look like their mother, and act
like their father"
1t is not pleasant to contemplate the par
oxysmal expression OF young iady's face
while she is working her mouth in an
effort to get piece of chewing gum off a
back tooth.
A Newport, (R. II man, who was recently
thrown from his carriage and assisted home
BY neighbor, was somewhat surprised the
other day to receive a bill of six dollars for
services rendered.
clssped her tiny hand in mine, vowed
30 shield her from the wind, and from the
worlds cold storms. Sho set her beauteous
eve on me, aud with her little lips said
she: can umbrella will do as WE'LL
A Cleveland woman recently married
ChiRese lsundryman, and three days there
after the unhappy Celestial appeared at a
barber's shop and ordered his pig tail cut
off, saying in explanation, "Too muchee
dam yank."
An old gentleman arrived from Europe on
Friday, and he had no sooner entered his
hotel than some one spoke to him about the
Beecher trial. What" said he, Saint that
thing over yeti'' And he sailed for Europe
on Saturday.-New York Mail.
How few of us realize the privilege OF as
ISOLATION with childreni They come and go.
They claim our aid and defer to our judy
ment, yet we forget their royal natures, their
splendid kingdom of guileless love and in
nocence into which it is permitted US to
enter and hold festival.
An unornsmented Austrian girl, seven
teen years of ago, was the most beautiful
creature az recent gathering in q royal
drawing room. She hadn't q particle of
jewelry about her, and yet she outshone ev-
cry mothers daughter of that vain throng
as easily as Kentucky woman could have
done it.
Pin 'em back, ladies; pin 'em bscki Don't
be ridiculed out of darling fashion, even
if it did originate among the demi-monde
of Paris. Pin 'sm back; draw Them tight
and tighter. Sit side wise, resent imperi-
nent stares-in short, just have your own
sweet way as usual We can stand it ifyou
can. Pin 'em back.
A little girl was once asking her elder sis
ter about heaven. "Do they play in heaven?"
she inquired. "NO; they do not play there"
are good" "Are there no toys there?" "No,
not any, "No dolls, nor balls, nor Nosh's
srks?" "Oh, mol" ''Then," said the little
one, ''I shall take my doll and go TO hell"
A French doctor by an examination of
matrimonial statistics. has discovered that
out of one hundred blonde women thirty
ssveu remain old maids blythe way side,
while out of one hundred bruEettes only
eighteen stop without a husband. A little
three year old girl, to whom he impaired
this Information, asked him to make her
brunette.
A young man with speculation in his eye
called at an insurance Office in indianapolis
the other day, and asked what policy on
his mothers life for $1,000 would cost. He
explained tina: no had bought some real es-
tate. and that, a. future payment would
crowd him some, he thought 10 realize
enough on the old Iady's death, as she could
not live long, to help him out. The insur-
ance man advised him not to stop at any
half measures, but secure the old lady's
skeleton az we'll, and dispose of it to one of
the medical colleges.
OF hale old turtle that lives In meadow
at Southineton, Conn, the New Haven Reg
lister says: "It was first caught by Mr. Human
Lewis in 1923, who cut his initials, Il. L.,
and the date, 1929 on the undershell, and
then allowed i. TO depart. 1t was next cap
tured in 1881 by Mr.. Asahel Epson. who also
put his initials and the date of his capture
upon It. 10 1858 Mr. Hiram Bradley first
Iouud It, and, following. the example OF
Messrs. Lewis snd Epson, be cut his initials
and the date by thu side OF the others. and
again deposited It In the meadow. Besides
these, his turtleship has been captured and
subjected to the engraving process by at least
{ " thar persoEs-once In 1915, and again
in 1879"