The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-31
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
sans has Strawberries.

Birds carry contagious diseases OF cattle.
Missouri farmers are sowing winter wheat.
Mrs. Arson G.. Burlingame is wintAriDg
in Italy.
1t begins 10 look as if Shelley wasn't
drowned at all.
Mr., Crow, Nebraska lawyer, has just
won his first cawS.
The season is so warm in Milwaukee that
they are picking their second crop of pref
zsl5.
Richard Grant White, who was recovering
from his recent severe illness, has had a
serious relapse.
A Chinaman confined in the jail at Stock
ton. Cal, did his pig-tail eniold around his
neck and banged himself.
An Atlanta paper Gays that what Georgia
really wants are more good straight roads.
Yes; or less good straight whisky.
A Colorado man, who laid in great many
grasshoppers last summer, has bored holes
In them and sells them for Arctic rubbers.
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that railways
may always prevent canal improvements
by temporary reduction OF the freight
tariff.
The Boston spirits are now able to mould
paraGine hands and faces of themselN es.
Now let them give as a plaster cast OF
Tweed.
A lady wants a recipe for beef soup,
First, hold the cow over hot fire so as to
SINCE off the pin feathers. Some people
like 70 add little rice.
The tallest OF the snowy Himalayau peaks
may, above the clouds, be seen tipped with
the vermillion of sunrise, while the plains
still lie dark in night.
Light Horse Harry Waterson has been
sick ever since he left Washington with
Halstead, and the Louisville lemon and
sugar market stagnates.
Mr.. Jenkins expresses his belief that the
drinking habits OF England are owing in
great measure to the want of comfortable
homes for the wOTkingmen.
1t is estimated that 1900 American
women began the new year with a good rss'
oiutiOn no longer to 'shsrpen" lead pencil
with the back OF a table knife.
A Passae father wants to know "wha
will keep a respectable, but poor yOun man
from hanging round the front OF the house?'
Tell him the girl is sitting on the back fence
Mrs. and Miss Mitchell, wife ard daughter
OF the late Dominion minister of marine, are
assisting in Methodist revival at Mon
tresl. Both ladies are fervent, fluent speak
ers.
Except for the tie OF the common Ian.
guage, the Greek cities, says a political
critic, stood to each other in much the same
relation the states of modern Europe stand
to one another.
Schemes demonstrates that pumpkin vim,
while growing will raise milestone. AND
now the gentle granger may have
pumpkin garden in the hallway and wstcl
it life sewing machine agent OH the iron
stOOp.
At San Francisco last week Mrs. Ranck
found at the Morgue the body of her deat
husband, but suppressed her Identification
10 order that it might ce buried by the citJ
authorities, being herself too poor to incul
the expense.
Lovers of mystery in novels viii be GLAD
to hear that Mr.. Wilkie Collins's new move
yes commenced in Ihe January number O
Temple Bar, under tbs title of "The Tw
Destinies." 1t will appear simultaneous,
in Harper-s Bszar.
The Suprems Court of Tennessee hal
solemnly decided in q case under the il
solvency act that an ass is horse, and Judg
Guild follows up the decision by declaring
that blackboard is a cart within the mean
ing of the statute.
A letter carrier at Halifax has been ar
rested for stealing letters. 1t proved, how
ever, on examination, that he had no
stolen them, as 1000 letters were found q
mis- house uHopened. He hadbeen to-
lazy to deliver them.
Canadian poultry, as well as Canadian
meat, has been successfully shipped to Eng
land and NESTS with a ready sale. A lot o
turkeys of nearly Jour tons has been dis
posed of readily at Bristol, and the bushes
next year will attain large proportions.
The real sherry district occupies a yer,
small spot in the southwest corner OF Spain
lying for the most part between the GuadaI
culver and the Gaudalete. The small trian
gle in which the choicest wines are producet
Is scarcely more than twenty miles broad a
Its base.
Mark Taylor, young negro at Sedalis
Missouri, has gone mad and believes him
self to be she Savior. In his paroxysms
be recites whole chapters and even books o
the Bible without missing a word, feat al
the more remarkable because he can no
read and was always vicious boy.
At bennington, England, about tw,
weeks ago, a clergyman, aged 10, was fount
dead IN his room from lack of the neces
saries of life. The coroner's inquest re
vealed the fact that for many years he hae
subsisted on an income of 8 pence a day
his food being bread, milk, cheese anC
cocoa.
The fearful effect of printing business
notices and obituaries In the local column
is thus shown by Georgia paper: "Awsy
from the land OF her birth and loved of hel
youth, she met the relentless conqueror
bowed her lovely head to his stroke. Othel
hands smoothed the long, brown tresses
other fingers closed the blue eyes aEC
folded the gentle hands upon the peaceful
sinless BOSOM" "Pure pork sausage-siz
pounds for 81, at Williams & Cooks, under
Exchange"