The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-24


mead from quarter to three quarters of al
inch In length.
The ladies of Warrenton. Virginia bave
organized a society for the payment of the
state debt. The idea is to get every woman
in the state to join, the initiation fee to be
% cents and monthly contribution.
The philosopher of the Danburv News
says: AT 20 a woman searches for trailing
arbutus. AT % she is after horse-radish
At 30 she digs roots for her blood. Such is
gentle spring in the various stages of femi-
nine life
The village of Bath, New York, has been
divided into districts, and in each district
ladies have volunteered to be in readiness to
make coffee for the firemen in case of a ilre.
Coffee has been purchased and stored at the
different stations
! Many years ago a Methodist Episcopal
minister found he had $50 to spare after
| buying horse and mpleting his outfit for
his circuit. He deposited it in a savings
bank and from time to time added small
sums to his deposit, but did not call for a
cent until recently, when he drew out his
accumulations. His deposits, with interest,
] mad swelled to the pretty little fortune of
| $4,000.
The editor of Vanity Fair, London, writes
u am daily asSailed by friends who, either
on their own account or on account of some
body else, implore me in the name of friend.
| ship to keep such and such thing out of
| the paper Being of an amiable disposition.
l am always inclined to indulge them; but
1t really must have limit, for if it goes on
shall either have to present my readers
| with handsome blank page or else must
take the advice once given to au editor, to
have no friends and live in cellar"
The most beautiful Indian girl according
to all accounts, now living, and one who by
reason of her beauty, intelligence and spirit.
has attained to unique influence which is
acknowledged among the warriors and de-
tended by 20 fiery brothers and cousins, is
Etisca, the White Forehead of the Unca-
papas.'' Etisca is Sitting Bulls niece: She
is only 10 years old, straight as an arrow,
1.-the as serpent, soft as hero and eyed like
a fawn. Her gayety is incorrigible At the
battle OF the Rosebud, where Custer was
overwhelmed, and when she was a mere
child, she laughed necessarily in the midst
OF the carnage, riding her pony like a sprite.
Mass Peter says he can whitewash all
around you, Uncle JASON" The good man
reused up instantly and exclaimed con-
temptously: Dat man talk bout white
wash'n. He don't kno a number fo' brush
from a pin-oak linn. When old massa," he
continued, lib out dar in de blue grass, in
kalntuck, be told me, Jason, go an waxi-
nate de choke-pa'r tree with some white
wash n done glib dat tree two coats, when
mass CONS rush out and shout, Stop dat,
Jason. Fotch some lam black pert as you
kin, an wash dat tree; it shine so, it most
dazzle my eye out Dat man talk bout
whltewash'n agin men' And the old man |
Strengthened himself up, and gazed out into |
space as II anticipating new worlds to con- |
quer.-Graphic.
"Orpheus," remarked the envious Casca |
one day, as he and his friends were strolline |
through the market where, 'hard by, a |
butcher on the block had laid his whittle |
down." "Orpheus would have made an ex-
cellent butcher, with his wonderful musical
abilities" "And why" demanded Brutus;
because he could take the bull by the
hornsr' Not exactly" Casca replied, but
that is something like it, Because sug-
gested CHINA, 'he could knock the Beef fiat
every time?' Casca looked disgusted. "And
do 1T single handed" suggested Declus Bru-
tus. Casca looked around for brick. BE
cause" said Cassius every time a customer
wanted veal he could make calf notes2r
Casca wept silently and shook his head.
Because he could show his thanksgiving
customers how to trombone a turkey?"
asked CHINA Casca pulled his hat tight on
MS head, and looked as though he was going
20 kick somebody. II know" shouted De-
,ius Brutus, because he could take whole
beef and cornet." AT this the envious Casca
waved them all to silence Nay, an you
ak much more like that I'll never look you
n the face again. For mine own part 1t is
III Greek to me. had some foolery OF mine
,wn in thought when | began, but you have
lriyen it out OF my head. 1t is the part of
nen to hold their hush when the mighty
ods, by such conundrums, send such dread
ql answers to astonish us."-BurliDgton
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