The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

case aud vas shipped to San Francisco.
"Whst is the interior of Africa princi-
pally used for?" asked teacher OF a
pupil. "For the purposes OF exploration,
was the reply.
A man has been sentenced to months
inprisonment ct hard labor in Enniskil-
len. Ireland, for stealing sticks valued ST
one penny from Lord Belmore's estate.
Princess Fredericks, daughter of the
blind ex-king of Hanover, is said to be
the most beautiful princess In Europe.
She Is the devoted and constant compar-
ion of ner father.
Strict silence is not enforced in all Trap
pist converts. IL that near Quebec the
inmates are allowed the privilege of say
ing 1t faut mourir I'VE mt st die) as often
as they think proper.
Mr.. Valentine, the sculptor, has finished
the recumbent statue of Robert f. Lse,
and it will soon be placed in a suitable
structure above the confederate leaders
grave at Lexington, Virginia.
A sure cure for pain in hollow tooth is
a mixture of powdered a umn and common
salt, applied with a lock of cotton wool.
A sensation of coldnts So follows the appli-
cation, alter which the pain gradually
subsidies.
The incessant changes of ministers and
other high functionarles In Turkey are
explained by the fact that considerable
sum goes into the Sultan's privy purse at
each change, the money having To be paid
by the incoming officials.
John Laight, aged u. and Sarah Coons,
aged 20, were IN r.ied Lately in Somerset,
Kentucky. they had, in 1913, been
= lc6 Il
separated by divorce; and subst quently
each had been married twice.
A young lady residing in the West was
presented with a handsome Bible, on one
OF the fly leaves of which wera written
the following lines - lar more truthful
than poetical:
That Plymouth pastor refuses TO kiss"
Three men were shot in row st a ball
at Gsudaloupe, California. One of them
refused to stop dancing until physician
arrived, and then only long enough TO
have the bullet extracted from his back
but, upon trying to dance again, he fell
and died.
M. Thome de GsmonG, the well known
French engineer, who was the first to put
forward in any rrActioal shape the scheme
for the submarine tunnel between France
and Eogland. aud who devoted t1irty
years of his life TO propagatiDg bis ideas,
died in Paris on FeD. 4.
He entered car door. When the brake
man came inside and took a key out of
his pocket, unlocked the stove, put in
some wood and locked the door again, he
asked him whst be locked the stove door
for. The brakeman shut his LETT eye and
a. -
90 out.
Mr.. Punch being asked his opinion of
tbs present lsdies's dress, replied: Il
highly spprove of the present fashion,
comprshendiug IS it does the highest
graces OF the two most Distinguished mod
els of female bsau1y-having in front the
Venus do Medic, behind the Venus de
Ho.tentOt."
A country editor once received the fo,-
Lowing: "Dear Sir: have looked care
fully aud patiently over your ps per for
six months for the death of some individ-
ual / WAS acquainted With, but as yet not
a single soul l care anything about has
dropped OF. You viii please 10 have my
name erssed."
Garibsldi receives visitors in an arm
chair. He is surpMted by pillows, and is
incapable of moving without crutches s.
The fingers of both hands are stiffened
into utter rigidity, with the exception OF
the thumbs His race, however, bears toe
hue of health, and his mind remains as
vigorous as ever.
DIR. Won Bulow said in Chicago: 81 tel
you the only reason why 1 play Beetho-
yen, MendelssohD, and these, is because
the gigantic Il noramus with the inevite-
BILE beer glass-the German music teacher
IL America-bas int rpreted so many OF
these badly. / would rather from choice
play Wagner and Liszt."
A man who had just been reading Mark
TwaiI's LITERARY Nightmare" says the
Austin, New, Reveille, ste pped into Main
street saloon this forsIoon mutiering,
punch, Brothersl punch, with care!
punch In the preseDcs of the psssenj areii
when a retired prize fighter VINO was
snooziDg in a corner got up, and accosting
the nightmare Fellow demanded, "Whose
ears are You going TO punch, you bloody
dufferf" The other fellow teied TO explain,
bot the fighter ipsist ted that he (the other
fellow had said "Pnnch brothtr-i punch
with csrei punch that big feller square in
the carl" The appearance of the police
prevented bloodshed.
A Colorado paper, speaking of q recent
wind storm. says that the gale was thickly
freckled with tbicgs strange to the eye,
things living and dead, that fitted hit 1er
and thither, going and coming, appearing
and disappearing among the rolling bill
lows of sIeet and dust, shingles. barrels,
coal buckets, ashes and cipders, fragments
OF frame houses, hcrses, mules and veg
-ons while now and then human form
scurried down the gulch with the rush and
roar Of the tempest.