The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06
ALL SORTS.

Darwin thinks there is no harm in marry
ing your cousin, provided you are both
healthy and she is willing.
Victor Hugo is rewriting several of the
scenes OF his dramatic version Of Lies Mis-
CRADLES. and the piece is to be played in
Paris in honor of the coming exhibition.
"What is to be done with the devil?n asks
the Buffalo Express And the Hawkeye
replies: IF he is through taking proofs, let
him distribute BREWER until it is time to go
for the MALL
"a great many people nowadays don't
believe in the devil" said an Illinois
preacher in a recent sermon, "but, alb, my
friends, you may rest assured that the devil
believes In them"
Steinberger, of Samoa, is sketched as
small, thin, wiry person, with q dark COM
plexion, and mustache and hair black as
crows wing. He bows profoundly and
gracefully, and has sufficiently easy man.
ners.
Mime. Anna Sauve Drouin, of st. Benoit,
Quebec, has given birth to human cusioslty
rlvaling the Samese twins The child have
two heads, four arms, but only two legs, with
two perfectly distinct and separate body
from few inches below the body upwards.
1t are female children, and they weigh ten
pounds jointly and severally-
A Frenchman who so far forgets himself
as 10 become ''civilated' to that extent that
he comes before a justice is now reduced TO
desperate straits. A law has been passed to
the effect that every person who may be
condemned twice by the police for the crime
of open drunkenness will be held incapable
of voting, of elective eligibility and of being
named for the jury or any public office"
The Boston Commonwealth saws: "a
fresh story is told of Charles Francis Adams,
Jr. He was sitting at table in hotel
dining room at the west with Writ Dexter
of Chicago, whose grandfather was eminent
as legal light in Massachusetts half a CELL
tuTy ago. A casual sitter, in conversation
with Dexter, remarked complimentary:
Your grandfather was one of the most emf
nent jurists of our country At which Mr..
Adams spoke up, forgetting that other peo-
pie than his own had grandfathers: My
grandfather was indeed eminent, but
never heard before that he distinguished
himself as jurlst.' Il was addressing the
other gentleman, sir, was the quiet rejoin-
der"
Yesterday stranger got off the cars at
Burlington, and waded through the mud
from the depot to look at the town. He fell
into water main ditch; they dragged him
out, and he fell into gas main ditch. He
got out of this by himself, and ran into a
Division street grading party, and banged up
into stone quarry, that reached from some
place up out of sight down to the lower edge
of the crust; he started at the broken end of
Market street sewer, and looked at the bridge
building over Hawkeye creek, and finally he
waded up to Valley street, and glared in
utter amaZement at the huge mounds of
mud, the impossible crossings and the long
cash that trenched the street and marked
the course of the Valley street sewer. Then
he made break for the train, and climbed
into his seat, shaking his head gloomily. ITS
all right, Mr.. Beecher," he muttered you re
right; there is no such place; this is the
place where they dragged it up."-Hawk-
eye.