The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-06
AL soRrs.
The Fate of Newspaper borrowers.


The smallpox from n peddler's back
The measles from the Wiley boys,
The mumps from brats at Widow Roy'S,
And whooping cough and Yellow Jack.
Thus Brown had always sponged his news;
He promised 10 subscribe, but shirked,
And now death in the paper luriSed
For all who did its page peruse
4 doting wife and fond papa,
Seven brave and intellectual sons,
Thirteen fair daughters, pure as nuns,
And two delightful mothers-in-law.
Six neices and three nephew (fiatsl,
one Poll and nine melodous cats
Not one remained to tell the tale!
w. A. c., in the Graphic.
The father of Charlie Ross has spent 500
900 in hunting for his son.
A New York florist has made fortune of
500 600 selling button-hole bouquets.
The army records show that Kentucky
raises the tallest and Connecticut the short
est men in the country.
More than eleven thousand persons,
mostly women above the oge of 40, are re-
ported as having died in England, within
year, of cancer
Several new female correspondents will
appear at the nation capital this winter To
give their impressions of men and matters
to the reading public.
Sidney Ianier is writing cantata, which
will be made up of the press dispatches of
the last two weeks. Walt Whitman will
translate it into chOctaw.
The first place among the six competitors
for the Byron statue who have been invited
to try their skill was again awarded by the
English committee to Mr.. W. w. Story, the
American sculptor-poet
DIR Winslow, of Charing Cross hospital
Inn1or, declares rhat tap thouSaD1 I1naficS
now under treatment in America are suffer
erS from spiritualism and that insanity from
this cause increases daily i'm England.
IL leaves and garden rubbish are piled
snugly against the basement walls of houses
and over those portions of the premises
under which run the service pipes, il would
save a good deal of trouble in cold weather
from the effects of frost
Ii YOU lay butter in a fin pail and the
seller smiW gly observes that the pail need
not be returned for il is part of the bargain,
weigh it after the butter is taken out, and
see how much YOU have made by paying
forty cents pound for TIN and heavy iron
handle.
There are two persons who need to be shut
up in a lunatic asylum. One is the man or
woman who persists in keeping street car
waiting until final greetings with friends
are said. and the other i the one who holds
versation with the driver.
The eyes Of the sophOmores and freshmen
OF Amherst college were examined recently
| by an experienced Oculist, and il was found
| that in the former class near-sightedness
| had increased 80 per cent. within year
/ Twenty-One per cent. of the freshmen were
| found to be afflicted in the same way.
The modern city schoolgirl goes along
with litter, a hustle striped hose, hump
| backed. carrying thirty-one different books
three states, four copy-books, bottle of ink,
pocket full Of pencils, seven dollars worth
\ of pinchbacll jewelry, mouth full of chew
ing gum, and thirteen red streamers dang
| ling after her.-Delaware Gazette.
The Nation warns clergymen that nobody
| but a biologist, microscopic or a chemist
is cOmpeten, to criticise Professor Huxley,
which leads "a sharp critic to reply that If no
| one can properly critic:se Huxley unless he
himself be biologist, microscopic or 4
chemist, for the same reason no one can
| properly commend him but biologist, n
microscopic or chemist. This rather un-
pleasant for the Nation
Shallespea Scott, Dickens Harriet
Beecher Stowe, The Arabian Nights ard other
people and books are to be represented in a
| queer carnival at authers." which is TO be
held in Baltimorein February. Ii is to be
a sort of fair in which each feminine mana
ger Will have a booth fitted up 10 represent
some scene in some work of whatever author
she chooses, her assistants being appro.
priately arrayed after the fashion of the
! books characters
There is good reason tobclieve that disease
is occasionally disseminated through the
medium OF funerals. We have at least one
fairly authenticated instance in this cOun-
try of diphtheria being difttsed broadcast
] through the crowding Incidental OCCASION
| ally, TO the last ceremony. In America this
questSon is beginning 10 receive much at
tention, and several eases have been reported
! of late where the transmission OF the disease
from the corpse seemed highly probable.
The Suffolk district medical society sent out
| 100 circulars to medical practitioners with a
view to ascertain the opinion of
. the profession on the alleged danger
| of permitting public funerals Of persons who
| have died from diphtheria. Two hundred
and thirty-nine answers were re-
| ceived; of these Ii3 writers express Il belief
! in the possible danger of contagion at such
funerals, IL believe that there i danger from
funerals in the houses of the dead. but none
I in the churches; 20 fancy that in the present
state OF knowledge there i no justification
in prohibiting public funerals and eight
record circumstances which occurred in
their own experience coniirmatOry of the
proposition that peril may ensue. but the
testimony these latter advance is not quite
satisfactory. The society. after due consid
Grafton, recommended that funerals AT the
houses of those who have died OF diphtheria
should be private. owing 10 possible expos
ure to the contagion OF the disease.
Little or nothing now remains in any OF
the state buildings except furniture, anC
from some that, too, i gone. There are p
such buildings, and about dozen of then
are sold. In addition to those already an
nounced as having been Knocked down ar
the following: The Iowa building sold 70
1915, to Mr. Bower, of New Jersey, who in
tends removing il to his farm, about tel
miles from Camden: the Massachusetts
building, for 81 500, to a gentlemen of tina
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