The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-18

toga, to run this summer, will cost $225. 900.
New York has 900 Indians on reserva-
tons, all that remain of the great eastern
tribes.
New York Herald: The tradition ~ tho
first Chinaman, Fohi, reaches up 100 years.
How is that Fohif
Secretary McCrary has crs' ated new Office.
that OF private secretary and has appointed
his brother thereto.
We can seneTs.Iy tell what a mans going
10 90 next Wren be puts the lighted end OF
cigar IN Sis mouth by mistake.
A bttle fellow who wore striped stockings
Wa, asked why he made barber poles OF his
EGGS. His reply wa, We'll, amt 1 little
shaver9'
A very curious fact is that the water in the
well lately sunk in the Colorado desert,
within fifty miles OF the river, is too salt for
domestic use.
The past winter was the mildest ever
known in Oregon and Washington territory.
At Olympia, on Puget sound, flowers have
been in bloom all the season.
Nantucket, Massachusetts,. is one of the
Hes of the Blest, for it has Jail without
prisoner. The whole expense of the estab-
lishment last year was only 1888. 80.
Horace White expresses the opinion that
the only bad sign about Hayes's administra-
ton Is Mr.. Evarts keeping up his law prac-
tice while acting as secretary of state.
My first (syllable) is company; my second
shuns company; my third calls company;
and my whole entertains company. Give it
up7 Why, co nun-drum, of course.
Nine colored men were recently sent to
the N West VIRGINIA for fol
robberies. There's blackmail for you, with
a vengeance Hawkeye
The Agricultural college at Blacksburg,
Va has grown faster than any literary insti-
tuition in that state. 1t was organized in
1872, and now has over 200 students.
The Augusta (Gs. Chronicle calls upon all
in that neighborhood to devote themselves
to picking blackberries in their season for
export
on their verdict except and Irish iuryman
(who holds outl "Ah, there, iliv'n more
obstinit men 1 niver met in all my loifep'
Punch.
An eastern man, In writing to his friends
of his marriage in California, thus tersely
describes his bride: "She has head as red
as woodpecker's. and owns sheep until you
can't rest
The German imperial post Office presented
the emperor on his recent Dir hday q mag
nihcent work representing all the means of
communication which have been used from
the beginning Of civilization to the present
time.
M. Quad" says that zone of the landscape
scenes in Nevada is an English tourist wig
Cling over the ground to get I'm position to
kill mule, believing that he has o sure
thing on grizzly"
We are quite willing to vote for Anna
Dickinson Tor president, but she can never
be All actress. Anybody can be president;
few can be actresses Why can not this
simple lesson be more generally learned7
Little Susie, looking at some pictures of
winged angels, exclaimed: Mamma, l
don't want TO he an angel" Why not,
dear2' "Humphl leave off all my pretty
clothes. and wear feathers likes hen!"
II is estimated that it would cost Texas
$500, 900 to hold constitutional convention,
and the Houston Age suggests that. instead
OF that expense for convention, five cotton
mills be built. which can be done for the
same money.
The Binghampton IN " Republican says
q number 0f railroad men frOm that neigh
borhood will soon leave for Brazil, where, il
Is stated, Dom Pedro will furnish work for
600 railroaders Each man hires out for
three years alta handsome salary.
The Alabama game law recently enacted
prohibits the killing Of any species of game
from April IA TO October l. talso prohibits
the killing of wild ducks at night at any
time of the year, and at any time or season
with floats. blinds or other devices.
John ID. Lee was something of philoso-
pher. On the way to the place Of execution
the wagon he was In got stuck in the mud,
and lac asked TO get out and walk. Hs
refused, saying "a man would BE- I'D fool
to wade through mud to his own place of
execution"
At Rome society has been formed for
the drfenss OF family principle This bod .
confers special privileges On those who are