The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-17
ALONG THE LINE.
II of iulerest-coupons.

Tilden Is worth -, OOO, 900 or 80 OOO,OOO.
The mayor of Oil City, Penn, gets 81
year as mis- salary.
The first "trick horse" on record-the
wooden one in which the Greeks entered
Troy.
The original ommission of Gen. Wash
ington as commaBdeT-iE-chief of the
American army has been brought from
Washington to be exhibited in IndepenG-
ence Hall.
Josh lBillings says: The mewl is q
larger bard than the epse or turkey. L.
has too legs 10 walk with and two more to
kick with, and il wears its wings on the
side OF its he'd.
Now why can not all men be as consid-
crate as that Logansport gentleman who.
when his wife's health failed, bought her
new axe half pound lighter than the old
one, to split the wood with.
A man who was recently hanged in
Canada for killing his landlord made q
speech on the scatfold, in which he ex
pressed a hope that this might be warn
ing to other landlords who persisted in
dunning their poor tenants"
The trouble with Gen. Custer Is bad
habit of writing for the magazines and
converting his expeditions into romsnces.
--ECincinnati Commercial No; the trouble
is that he speaks truth, which is stranger
than fiction. -Boston Post.
A Wisconsin, editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravaganza OF the people OF the
present dsy by calling attention to the
costly baby carriages in use now, while,
when he WAS a baby, they hauled him
around by the hair of the head.
Uhan Narl- A thraVv hi saIf n, r1r n,
the s'desd remains" OF his loved Caesar in
a Pittsburg theater the other evening, he
struck the ''corpse'' fair in the stomach,
which had tile effect OF doubling il up
with a grunt, that rather detracted from
the solemn V of the occasion.
Fond moiher 10 old gentlemen to whom
her son is apprenticed)-"I am sorry 10
say sir, that Harry wont be able to come TO
work for seine little time. The doctor
says be has got tn5 brain fever" Old ger
tlemen-"Thsu the Decor is a fool,
madam, for the boy hasn't got any more
brains thsn-thsn donkey, ms'sm."
The San Francisco Chronlcie says: The
steamship Bslgic has arrived at this port
from Hong Kong, bringing an assorted
cargo, the largest item OF which was a
select lot OF 600 prime male Chinese. This
makes the total receipsO of Mongolisns
during the month OF April 800, or at The
rate OF 80 900 tor the year.
They were digging ditch and the day
was hot. Pat sald one, "this is mighty
hard woIruck we're st." at is indade
Jimmy; bat fat kolnd of worruck would
We loik IL ye could get it?" Pat leaned
Ikought3ully on his shovel, and wiping his
forehead with The back of his hand said:
-aII f<,-e ~. ala
think I'd loike to be bishop"
Dom PlstE is trying to laugh off the
ugly impression which certain revelations
before the Congressional committee a to
the celebrated Observation-Disclosures have
produced. He says the people in church
laughed a. him, sunday week, when tbs
minister begged his hearers 60 lay their
treasures up in Heaven, ''where thieves
do not break through nor moths C >Trupt."
Long John Wentworth, ex-mayOr OF
Chicago, is entirely bald, except little
tuft of hair at the b ase of the braia behind
the ears, and on one occasion, when riding
in the cars, &c frequently took of his hat
and scratched back o. his care, when a
waggish backwOudsmsn shouted out:
{ Stranger, drive 'em up into the clearing,
and you can catch ZEN all IA five min
utes"
A Roman tomb was rt Gently opened at
York, England, and enclosed in a stone
coffin was found the body of a young girl,
admirably preserved by the use of gypsum,
and furnished with what has been con-
sidered modern deyice-a chigpon. I his
rested upon pyramid OF pods. plates, sad
coils, and although many hundred years
old, Is good specimen of the present
fashion.
At the castle of johannesburg, on tbs
Rhine, a few days since, some of the fine
Prince Metternich wine was sold at auc-
ton. The wine of 1874 sold at prices rang
ing from S575 to sl,Ol5 the piece GAO gall
1ons), and from s2l9 to $500 the half piece.
The wine of 1873 brought from S435 to S76O
the piece, ana from 1882 to $500 the half
piece. The purchasers we're exclusively
Rhenish wine merchants and inn-kee pers.
There is not much danger of his Holi-
ness the Pope coming to want in his old
age. Last ye: the Peters pepce" and
the jubilee iudulgeaces.netted him 81, O00,-
ZOO. The Emperor Ferdinand OF Austria
left him s., 600 600; as heir OF the Duke of
Modena he can calculate on an iacome OF
$4,000 a year; Lord Ripon gave him
$4,000 outright; Belgian convert, SAC, 900,
and q pious old lady, recently deceased,
500. 900. an 90
The completion of the Cologne cathe-
dral IL now being proceeded with, more
than 700 men having been engaged, aud
more than ,O00, 900 marks spent upon it.
The eight towers which surrounded this
.octsgon are nearly finished up to 200 feet
in height, from whence the spires of no
feet viii be supersdded. The total height,
including the cross, of these towers, will
be 500 fest, against ASP feet of the Stras-
burg minister, 43l OF st. Stephens, Vlenns,
and 393 feet OF the dome ct Antwerp.