The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-13
r.G SORTS.
Albert hal, london, has % exits.

80 h"'O Tie green turtle canning ouSihcsS-
An orig nal portrait, by Pope, of Daniel
Webster is waiting for purchaser in Bos-
ton.
Murphy, the temperance evangelist, is
tal'ked out. His physician says he must rest |
bis voice.
We suppose that the milk of bob-tailed |
cow may be appropriately referred TO as the |
lack-taiIed fluid.
The suit of General G. W. G. Lee for the |
recovery of the Arlington estate will be |
tried in the county court at Alexandria, Va,
next November.
Mr.. Robert Waddell, who was once a
member of the state assemblage from Orange
county, N. Y, is the captain OF base ball
nine at Ottawa, KS.
A Vermont farmer Mr.. A. B. Bishop, of
Jericho, has set out 700 elm trees along the
highway bounding his land. Future gener
ations will rise up and call him blessed.
The quack doctors of New Hampshire, in
Guiding all sorts of irregular practitioners,
are preparing petition to the legislature to
remove ali restrictions from the practice of
medicine.
Shakespearean literature will be enriched
by new book, The Natural History of
Shakespeare" by a Manchester lady, in
which his birds, beasts and flowers will be
the features.
Texas has a local option prohibitory law,
and about one-third of the counties in the
state have decided by popular vote against
the granting of licenses.
Mr. Sidney Lanier, who has been staying
in the south for the benefit of his health, has
recovered. He is going to New York to
work in the ways of literature.
John Morrissey offers purse of 1000 for
a three mile heat race, to be run for at Sara
toga in June, July or August, provided Mr.
Harper, of Kentucky, will enter his horse
Ten Brock.
Undertakes should be careful of what
they say. One Of them said to sickly-look-
ing man who was passing his place, Good
morning. This is nice day to take ride"
The sickly man WINGED.
Albert Grant, whose peculiar financiering
has been so much before the public during
the past few years, and who has lately been
conducting in person his lawsuits in the
courts, has appealed the notorious Lisbon
Tramway case to the house of lords.
Cooked snails are said to possess the power
of restoring tone to the coating of the stom-
ach when badly injured by strong drink.
| The sale of snails is a source of much profit
to the peasants of Tivoli, near Rome, Italy,
and the flavor is said to be more delicious
than that of oysters.
People who talk about Mark Twain's hav-
| ing made $50, 900 by his books have very lit
tie idea of the profits of a Mis-
| sissippi pilot and the financial advantages
that accrued to an Innocent Abroad, Mark
| Twain pays taxes in Hartford alone on
| S66, 900, and at one time had $4,000 in a
| single insurance company.
wv. s. Browne, the founder of the Gin
| cinnati Commercial, is now, and has been
for number of years, pressman of one of
| the daily papers in Memphis Tennessee, at
a salary of 81 500 year. M. d. Potter died
rich. and Murat Halstead, his successor, is
rich also, while the man who preceded them
is still poor. Such too often is the fate of
founders.
| ''Sam," said s.young mother to her darling
| son "do you know what the difference is be-
| tween the body and the soul? The soul my
| child, is what you love with; the body car
| ries you about This is your body. (toHch-
ing the boys shoulders and arms, but there
! IS something deeper in. You can feel it
now; what is it?'' "Oh, 1 know" said he,
| with flash of intelligence in his eyes, H'that
| is my hannel.ehirt''
The good old doctrine of the perseverance
| of saints has been set to music by oslored
genius. The meter may be little irregular,
but the 'peth.out" is certainly orthodox:
Methodis', Methods was born,
| Methods gwine to die;
| rs gwine 10 run in de Methods faith
| An eat o. the Methods pie!
| Trialsl
| Great tribulationsi
| Amt dat hard?
\ Trialsi
| Clfmbn' Up lions hill!
| But faint no matter how long it takes
| Pm goin' to climb der hill.
|
dinner to reply 10 the time-honored toast of
Woman, closed. his remarks with the famiL
lar quotation from Scott:
40 woman, lin thine hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please"
Here his memory failed him; but, after
| little hesitation, he continued in triumph:
"But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
/ Wefirst endure, then pity, then embrace"
! 1t is very rare that Scott and Pope have
been so felicitously COMPOUNDED; nor would
any one believe that the last couplet, de-
signed for Vice, could be so fifty applied to
| Woman The ser timent is not quite gal
liant; but who can deny that a man meeting
awoman he does not instinctively like, is,
after a while, thus carried from passive to
| an osculat0rily active state?
In the gothic archway leading through the
| cadets barracks into1he quadrangle, at the
| West Point military academy, there appears
and vanishes at regular intervals from morn
| ing until the hour fer retiring at night, a
| quaint old figure attirsd in the undress cos
| tune of United States soldier. With up
| right, though somewhat feeble bearing, the
| figure pauses exactly beneath the center of
| the arch, and, facing the parade grounds,
raises horn to its lips, blows call, and re-
tires with the regular motion of an autona-
ton. This is old Bentz, the bugler of the
academy, who has been in service here since
1884 nearly "A years. In winter and SUM-
mer, through all sorts of weather, the old
trumpeter has made the hills echo with the