The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26

And fuzz and fuZz, ~
And, gracious, how they stick!
st. Louis Journal.
The peach crop of Kentucky will be enor-
mously large.
A fantastic Missourian wants to vote for
Grant and Dawes in 1885,
The Chinese claim that the telephone was
invented by Kung Fo Wiling.
William Cullen Bryant and Samuel ]. Til
den were the closest of friends.
The state auditor of Virginia reports salts
factory returns from the Moffet register.
A straw about eight inches long and with
no flaw in it makes a very efficient director
of the mint.
1t is whispered among Conkling's friends
in New York that Dorsheimer has put up his
front hair in curl papers.
The Jacksonville Journal is the Oldest
newspaper published in Illinois since the de-
mise of the Springfield State Journal.
It is a crime under the law of Iowa to kill
birds or destroy their nests. The fine for
this offense is not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
II is stated in official quarters that the re-
appointment of DR.. Linderman as director
of the mint is held in allegiance by Secretary
Sherman, pending inquiry into certain ale
cations.
New Haven Palladium: Stanley Matthews
seems to be the only man in the country who
never read the reports of the Beecher scan
dial, for if he had he would never have writ
tan those letters
Courier-Journal: In February, 1877, a
thousand republican papers would have been
glad to have Mr.. Anderson write up its
southern topics. Now there is none so pure
as TO do him reverence.
Mr.. George st. John Sheffield, of the
class of 1865 at Yale college, has furnished
the Yale crew with steam tug, which will
be q great assistance in coaching them for
the race at New London.
Ordinary working girls in Brussels get only
eight to ten cents per day. The low wages
are attributed to the competition of the
converts, of which there are thirty-five in
the city. The nuns undersen all competi-
tors.
1t stated that there are 100000 pupils
enrolled in the public schools of the United
States. The average daily attendance is
100000. The estimated population be-
tween six and sixteen years of age is 10000,
600.
An exchange says that 1.-The man who Dor.
rows a newspaper instead of subscribing for
it is the man who will try to crawl over the
wall of heaven instead of passing through
st. Peters gate" He may try to get In that
way, but he won't succeed.
Cleveland Leader (rep.): General Butler
has an occasional lucid interval in which he
really means to do what is right, but the
horned Satan is large within him and breaks
out frequently N spite of his efforts. He
has been unnecessarily brutal.
Wouldn't Senator Hipple-Mitchell, erst-
while of Pennsylvania, now of Oregon, like
to have committee appointed to investi-
gate the recent election in that far off state,
and ind out what has become of the repub-
lican voters who used to be there.
New York Tribune: 1t was ably remarked
in Mr.. Potter's famous letter that once upon
time there was a gigantic game IN which
the democrats held the cards and the repub-
licans bluffed them. There seems to be an
opportunity just now for its repetition.
Embedded in the wall of the palace of
Assur- Bani Palo, at Nineyeh, round clay
cylinder divided into ten compartments, and
containing nearly 1900 lines of fine in
scription, has been found by Mr.. Rassam.
What the inscription means has yet to be
determined.
Play has become so high in the London
clubs that it is asserted that at least f3, O0O,-
600 change hands over the card tables every
f. IL 4
down into the Whirlpool of ruin. To the
clubs can be traced the downfall of many of
the young men of England.
New York judges are bound that the dig
nifty of the magistracy shall be sustained. A
police justice. the other day. very properly
fined prisoner So for contempt OF court be-
cause, jusi as his worship was hosting in
portion of finecut, he leaned over the rail,
with the remark, Just give us a chew of
that, judge, when you are through with it"
The birth of an Anglo-American boy of a
distinguished parentage is announced in
London. Master Vernon Robert Harcourt
is the first born of Sir William and Lady
Harcourt, his father being English by some
hundreds of years of honorable descent, ar
his mother American, in virtue of being
daughter of the late United States minister
to Englafd, the illustrious historian Motley.
New York Tribune: The irrepressible
Toombs has sent word to Alexander
Stephens that he is with him to the last
extremity in his contest for a return to
congress Outside OF Georgia, Toombs' CO.
operation would be a hindrance rather than
a help, but 1t will be a decided acquisition
there, because there are few more popular
men in Georgia than this fery-tongued and
irascible old Bourbon.