The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

Never put off till tomorrow what can be
done Just as well the day after.
The advertises is not superstitious. He
knows it is foolish to trust to signs.
.Hennery the WILL, F" as the tramp said as
he paused at the last hen roost he visited
before aybreak.
Jane Gray Swisshelm says: ''Give the
working girls work." Also give them their
pay after they have done their work.
A Minnesota girl has been serving as a
brakeman in male attire. She gave civil
answer to the question of passenger, when
her sex was at once suspected
The hauor dealers of HarrisOnburg, Vir-
ginia are so mad with the bell punch that
they have closed their saloons. Harrison
burg Is the home of DR.. Motfett.
Colonel Ingersoll has begun a suit in the
United States court against the Detroit pub
fishing company to restrain it from publish
ing his lectures, and for damages for already
publishing an addition of such lectures.
The Rev. Mr. Pentecost, the evangelist has
had piece of good fortune. Mrs. Rogers of
Middletown, Conn.,, lady known for her
benevolence, has presented him with bank
book with a comfortable sum to his credit
Detroit Free Press: Although Victor
Hugo refuses to exchange autographs with
the sweet singer of Michigan, she can proud
" point to her baby and scornfully cry out,
match him. me atch him If you CAM
And ne can't.
Why should the government spend great
many thousands of dollars in manufacturing
small arms in its armory at Springfield,
Mass, when private company in the same
town can make and sell precisely the same
arms at much lower figures?
French paper: Scene at the door of the
European congress. Russian to Turk: See
here, now, you know We are friends
treaty of alliance-compli mentary kilograms
exchanged, and all that sort of thing. Smile,
d-n you look cheerful or I'll lick you
again"
1t is reported that Kaiser Wilhelm said to
Rothschild, at Frankfort: I've passed my
eightieth year, and at that age we must be
gin to think of the end Whtr-at the 10
vial banker said: ''Your majesty was burn
TO live hundred years, and we bankers will
not LEI you go at less than par"
The San Francisco merchant to whom you
have letters of introduction calmly advises
you 10 go to the Yosemite, the big trees and
the Santa Clara valley, none OF which he has
ever seen; and then he takes an overland
train and finds bis pleasure on the Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island coast.
Twelve years ago thief hired a horse at
livery stable In Natick, Mass. and the owner
did not see either the man or the beast
until recently, when they entered the vii
lage. They looked older, but were recOgniz-
able. The thief claimed that he was on his
way 10 return the horse, but his explanation
was not accepted.
-Tae Toledo Weekly Blade must be a re-
form paper. 1t sayagely denounces IBIS
ttff ffr,af al olC
spore germ of self-propagating and self per
petuatiDg dyspepsia; fat soaked and
jaundlced with soda or salaratus; more in.
digestble than the sodden tortiIlas of the
Mexican greasers." Then it goes on and
gives six receipts for making them.
The novelty about the elopement of Al
exander Bablink and Miss Halliday, in Hyde
park, Massachusetts,, was that the girl went
IN her night dress. Her father had hidden
most OF her clothing on her gong to bed,
but she climbed down ladder to her lover,
who took her to his home and dressed her
from his sisters wardrobe. Then they rode
TO q ciergyman's house and were married.
Mrs. Van Colt, in her recent campaign in
Buffalo, pathetically described the agony she
went through at her conversion before she
parted with her wedding ring. She could
easily give up her diamonds and jewelry
but that little worn hoop" which her hns-
band had kissed before be died, she could
not part with. But the Lord would have
the ring and she finally yielded and was
saved.
One of the most successful counterfeitiDg
schemes is TO issue a small quantity of notes
on a certain bank with the name of the place
president. or cashier misspelled. Upon dis
covery the bank sends warming through
the country, pointing out the error. Then
the counterfeiters make a second issue with
the name or names spelled correctly and
circulate them boldly, knowing that mer-
chants and stOrekeeperSsTill look only for
the indicated ''catch."
William Of Orange, crown prince of the
Netherlands, has reached the age of 50, has
never married, and has hitherto shown an
invincible repugnance not only to matnmo-
ny but TO the duties of royalty. For many
wears the prince has dOmiciled himself in
Paris and has made Pistols. Nyms and Bar
dolphs OF the Boulevard cafes not only his
friends but bis associates. He openly de
clarss be would rather be known as "Cit
ron than as The heir to the throne OF Hol-
land.
One of the noticeablethings on Union Pa
cifc trains at stations along the line is the
steady stream of collins that bring back the
remains of those who by mistaken medical
advice and popular notion are led to go 20
the mountain regions and TO Santa Barbara
in search of lost health, which. in cases of
consumption, they rarely if ever find. These
professions of the dead contain some who
might be still among the living If they had
remained in their own homes and among
those whose sympathies, care and support
are so essential to this class OF untortuuates.
serafna, Countess Cagliostro, the wife OF
the gentleman qualified by Mr.. Carlyle as
ssthe quack OF quacks-the most perfect
scoundrel that in these latter ages las mark.
ed the worlds history" visited England in
1857 and took lodgings in sloane street,
K1ightsbridge. The count advertised in the
newspapers his Egyptian pills at 30 shil-
lings the drachm; while the countess did a
very thriving business among the female
nobility and gentry by selling the Wine OF
Egypt producing restoration OF vigor.
youth and beauty to the most wrinkled and
the most worn out" This elixir was very