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

England of Shakespeare? France and
England are TO. me single people, as truth
and liberty are a single light. / relieve in the
unity of humanity as believe in the unity
divine. / love all peoples and all men, and
admire your noble verses.
OF course your readers will not ,ail to OBJ
serve in the French poets answer a defence of
himself against the gentle hint of Anglopho-
bia which occurred in Tennyson's sonnet:
Stormy voice of France
VINO dost not love our England, so they say;
know not.
THE mosquitoes, for the first time in the his
tory of London, are plagueing the people
along the banks of the Thames 1t is sup
posed that these insect annoyances were
brought to England in cargoes of foreign
grain. s-sg.r
A LITTLE town in North Carolina called
Salem, and which has a population of but
1000 persons, has sold in three years over
100000 bushels of blackberries. for which
nearly half million dollars were received.
This year it is estimated that the berries will
be of extra size and flavor, and shipping will
soon begin in Georgia, North Carolina and
others of the southern states.
MARK TWAIN, in the following letter to a
gentleman in California, explains where he
DtuHtts
DEAR SIR-"Mark Twain" was the nom de
plume OF one Captain Isaiah Sellers, who used
10 write river news over IL for the New Orleans
Picayune; he died in 1868, and as he could no
longer need that signature, laid violent
hands upon it without asking permission of
the proprietoris remains That is the history
OF the nom de plume bear. Yours truly,
May %. SAMUEL l.. CLEMENS.
GRANT said that his legs were too short, and
that he could not, when in the ships berth,
keep from either slipping down two feet, or
back on his head; and the carpenter nailed a
partition across the berth, and thus fastened
the doctor ID. c. L } in tight and safe. 1t isn't
the first time DIR. Grants legs were unsteady
and he slipped about and fell on his head and
had need for piece of lumber. But then it
was shutter to carry him home, aud instead
of charging 1t TO the roll of the ocean, it was
limited that it was the punch of whisky.
CURIOSITY and jealousy were what ruined
promising young pest Office clerk in Augusta,
Georgia. He was in love with two or three
young ladies, and curious to know what they
wrote to other men besides himself, he opened
the letters that passed through his hands. In
a quarrel with his affianced he upbraided her
with quotations from her letters and also
divulged the fact that he had been reading
those of others. 1t is clearly proven by this
that jealous lover has no business in a post
office that his sweetheart patronizes.
= A CINCINNATI cigar maker by the name of
Andy Young was shot and probably MORALLY
wounded by private Waterman Tuesday
morning. Three men in saloon were arrest
ed for disorderly conduct by two policemen,
who requested the private Waterman, Sypher,
to take charge of Young, one of the prisoners.
Young on gaining the street started to run,
when Sypher shot and hit him under the
shoulder blade, but the wounded man ran on
and escaped from the officers. He was taken
TO the hospital, but no hope is entertained of
his recovery. Sypher has been arrested, and
the two policemen who first arrested Young
are to be suspended fiom the force. The two
companions of Young We're dismissed the next
morning by the judge, there being no reason
for their arrest