The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-23
NEWS GOSSIP.


Shacknasty Jim is in Washington.
This is nice maple sugar weather. verbum
sap.
The fair for dumb animals in Boston re-
allied $4,000.
Barnum is going TO send balloon 10 Eu-
rope this summer, sure pop.
A number of miners have resumed work
at the cid rates in Athens county, ..
The fur trappsrs OF Minnesota are reported
to have had very prosperous winter.
The christening robe of Gen. Sickle's
baby. baptized in Paris recently, cost 5000
tgOld).
The private library of the Rev. DIR.
Walker, which was bequeathed to Harvard
College, is valued at $1,000.
The acreage of wheat in Colbert county,
Ala, is five-fold larger than in any previous
yer since The war.
The District Conference Of The Methodist
Church, South. will convene AZ Irvine, KY,
on the 10 OF May, 1873.
The Massachusetts legislature have de-
clared the 18th OF June and 19,h OF April
legal HOLIDAYS tor this year only.
Two subterranean tanks, filled with $4,000
gallons Of grape brandy, were recently
seized by revenue officers at Los Angeles.
Cal.
Six Milwaukee women, with babies, met
the other day, and agreed to vote which was
the handsomest infant. Each child got one
vote.
In Brockport, Y. ", the crusaders have
instituted ssventy-twO suits against one
dozsn of liquor dealers for selling without 8
license.
The Hartford Post announces that z. T..
Barnum will be candidate for mayor OF
Bridgeport q the approaching municipal
election.
Large flocks OF snow birds are making a
living in Kansas in eating the eggs of grass
bopuers. which the frost has heaved up out
of the ground.
Smart boys Boston boys are. Two OF
them lately made SlI in one day by clearing
sidewalks from snow. They approve of
big snow storms.
Farm lands in Aroostook county, Maine,
can be bought of the state at sixty cents an
acre. payment TO be made in laoor on the
public highways.
LESS study and more fun" is Rev. Rob-
ert Collyer's view on the education of young
children. Collyer would be- the next presi-
dent if the boys voted.
The new club house TO be erected by the
Queen City Club, of Cincinnati, will cost
S55 OOO 1t is to be built on the corner OF
Elm ara Seventh Stre6tS'
The new house Of Leland Stanford of the
Pacific railway, in San Francisco, is to be l25
feet square, ana this will make IL the largest
private residence in California.
A process of toughening glass by heating
It to redness and then cooling it in oil, has
been discovered by q Frenchman, and is at
tracing attention in manufacturing circles.
A large Bramah rooster attacked a little
A. III, "A
her head considerably by picking it before
she little one was rescued from the cOwardly
creature.
A girl in Florida has been christened
Neuralgia, after bottle of patent medicine
approved by her mother. Probably Neu-
ralgia will be q good thing to have lew
years hence.
The fences of the United States are said to
be worth 81, SOC, 900 900, and, it is added, that
it costs S9S,OO0,OO annually, to keep them in
repair. There is nothing more interesting
than statistics.
In Illinois the civil damage law is con-
stantly made the basis for suits against
saloon keepers, and in nearly all cases with
success. A liquor seller in Amboy, in that
state has Just been compelled to pay $1,000
to the widow or a druukard who was killed
in his saloon.
Jack Frost has gone into the medium
business. One cold morning, recently, he
painted OH the parlor window the picture of
q Wisconsin mans aunt in the act of giving
him something; few days later he resolved
the intelligence OF her death and bis 2cces-
sion to her property.
a Providence, Il. l.. man, who spent half
a day endeSvoring 10 thsw out what he
supposed was q frozen water pipe, in order
to obtain water for home consumption, was
a little Disguised when be found that the
vat r bad been shut off tina, day for non
payment OF water tax.
A man died of smallpox at Cdnsi2hsris
last fail, and his clothes were buried to pre-
vent infection, but lately, through motives
of economy, the brother of the deceased dis
inferred and wore them. The frugal man is
now in the pest house and the clothes will
probably be buried again.
Western New York. which produces al
nually about half million barrels Of APP
pies, is said to bs tine garden spot for that
fruit in the United States. One single town,