The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-24
ALONG THE LINE.


The Sultan OF Turkey pays $4,000 for
music in the harem.
Just think-they've translated Sankey's
hymns even into Chinese.
Statisticisns tell us that 172, 296 persons
got drunk in England and Wales last
year.
$50, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fieas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still 10 bite 'em
And so proceed ad inhnitum."
Anna Dickinson wears $3.50 hustle in
ga Crown of Thorns." That's what
makes Henry VIII. hesitate.-Brooklyn
Argus.
Spilkins says there are two ways in
which "fair. fat and forty" makes itself
conspicuous, viz: Its waste Of sighs, andits
size of waist.
When Charles Francis said "It's all
Chaos" he was thinking, says the ST.
Louis Times, that after chaos came Adams
administration.
Poor Glendenningl The Troy Press
thinks the only thing for him to do now is
To ioin the srmy and fight the Indians, or
else go fl on a whsl Ing voyage.
Fred. Douglass can not tell within few
years how old he is. His birth was not
considered matter of much Importance,
and nobody kept record of 1t.
We have time to laugh, we have time to cry;
We have time to smile, we have time to sigh;
We have time for eating and household
chores;
But we havn't got time TO talk to bores.
Motto of a Portland temperance reform
club: eve bend the knee, but not the ell
bow" This is supposed to refer to dex-
trous habit of drinking out of the bung.
Cattle said to be the heaviest and best
In the world have arrived at Philadelphia
for xhibition-smoDg them an OK weigh
ing 1000 pounds and q heller weighing
$500 pounds.
"Mlle. Bettina Rothsehild, who married
her cousin from Vienna in Paris on the
22d of last March, had IA OF every article
OF ling erie" How the young ladies will
linger over this.
The Prince of Wales was so pleased with
some of the dishes supplied to him while
in India that Madras cook has been
taken to England for him-at government
expense, of course.
The prince of Wales has grown very
stout during his India journey, and
prophecies are abroad to the effect that he
will py and by rival the weight and pro-
portions of his uncle, George Nv.
King Alfonso was rather glad when the
Prince of Wales lett Madrid. He tried 20
drink as much wine and smoke as many
strong cigars as the prince did, but be al
ways had an awful headache In the morn
ing.
Mr.. Blaine and Doorkeeper Fitzhugh
seem to be very unfortunate in their cor
respondents. In the one case good door
kee per has been killed, and in the other
q presidential candidate Baltimore Ga
z9tte.
Is this, from the Cincinnati Times
merely hideous inventions: In the char
table town OF st. Louis they give trampi
bread and butter with little nitro glycer
Inc pills inside, and then kick them. Trey
go off.
SAYS the Rochester Democrat and Chron
icle: LsVega Tice, brother OF the s.
Louis weather prophet, has been indicted
for murder. Don't know who he killed
but family quarrels are sometimes tn
bsst-St Louis Times.
The Prince OF Wales has, In seventeen
weeks, traversed 1900 miles of land, 2,SO
miles OF ocean, seen more of India thai
any man living, and enjoyed more ful
than all the kings of England, from tn
conquest downward, put together.
When the English private soldier hear
that the king of Dahomey has an army c
Amazons he shakes his head and mutLer