The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20
ALL SORTS.

cousin of Jennie Lind of old time men,
cries, Lars Lind, resides in Sterling Illinois.
He is carpenter, and good, faithful work
man.
A Michigan Indian observes: "Big crop
cranberries-big whisky; small crop cram
berries-one glass pop and no boots next
winter"
A set of thieves in Mexico have dogs
trained to steal handkerchiefs in the cathe-
dral and other churches from the kneeling
worshipers.
Fifteen Princeton college students intend
spending the summer in the Black Hills.
They will not be there more than fifteen
minutes before the miners will be borrowing
their high collars with which to make ring
for dog-pit.
The following recipe, it is said, furnishes
mixture which kills potato bugs and their
eggs: Steep tobacco stems or refuse tobacco
and to the decoction add I've from wood
ashes or potash, and sprinkle the liquid
upon the vines with a comm IN sprinkler.
The Chicago public library contains 81, 4OS
volumes, and is valued at $50, 000 The ex,
penses for the year just closed were SIS, 960
There are 1859 names on the list of borrow
ers, and the number of visitors to the library
and reading room during the year was 100
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Captain Boyton had narrow escape while
descending the Rhone. At Tarascon the
peasants, taking him TO be a seal or some
new sort of marine monster, got out their
fowling pieces and opened lively fusilade
upon him, compelling him to hoist his col
ors.
Irascible Old Party Conductor, why
didn't you wake me up as l asked you?
Here / am miles beyond my station" Con-
ductor-"I did try, but all could get out of
you was, All right, Maria; get the children
their breakfast, and I'll be down in a
minute
The architect who discovers a plan where
by double house may be built 50 that you
can hear all that is said next door, without
the people in the adjoining house being able
to hear a word uttered in your side, will
have no reason to complain of a stagnation
in business.
Sporting men have already found way to
beat the pool bill Photographs of the
horses in the race are sold for five ten, fifty
or one hundred dollars, the purchaser of the
picture of the winning horse obtaining the
money paid for the Others minus the sellers
commission.
The director of the mint has been in
structed by the secretary of the treasury to
have two first class medals cast for Colonel J.
Schuyler Crosby and Mr.. Carl Fosberg, as
human life at the time of the sinking of the
yacht Mohawk, opposite Staten Island.
The pages in the sultan's seraglio- are of
Greek and Hungarian nationality, selected
on account of their beautiful looks. They
dress like little kings, and bear themselves in
a royalty naughty manner toward the crowd
of obsequious servants and personages sur
rounding them in the imperial household.
The nest of humming-bird is thus de-
scribed by Californian: "It is about as
large at the top as half dollar, aud is made
of spider webs, downy feathers, with fbres
of bark and shreds of cotton, all interviewer
The eggs, two in number, were about the
size of a small white bean, and the young
birds before they were hedged resembled
humble bees.
When George Beers looked through the
house OF old Mr.. Phelps, of Phelps, Dodge
IL Co. the young widow SAID to him plain
lively. '-Oh Mr.. Beers My husband has
prayed in every room in this house" Il am
glad to hear it, my dear madame" replied
the gallant Beers, II hope il will bring me
luck" He afterwards occupied the mansion
as gambling hell et r'f'
The machinery in the printing Office of the
Volksfreund, Paterson, n. j., is run by a
petroleum motor When the engine first
starts il makes queer demonstrations and
startling noises with the igniting gases, but
it soon goes off with whiTr, and drives all
the machinery with the regularity and pow
er Of steam engine. The new engine has
been in use but two months, and uses two
gal ons of oil, costing % cents per day.
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Concord, N. H., and that region. seems to
be cursed with canker worms beyond all pre-
cedent. The apple trees do not blossom this
year. audit is feared that some OF the young
trees have been fatally injured. An I'M
broken ridge of the creatures, eight yards
long, was seen on the street the other day
and in one instance they came down Chin
ney into house and had to be scooped up
with shovels- fsf .f4 -. ,+~
The car and his eldest son, the heir APP
parents have no fixed allowance of pay.
They take what is necessary for their ex-
penses out of the rents OF the crown do
mains and ont of the treasury, the sums
taken from the latter being named ''indem-
miles, all the other members Of the AM