The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18

An appropriation of $40, GOO Is asked for IN
Philadelphia to mounta portion of the city
police.
1t has cost youth of Charleston, ILL.,, $3,
600 to SANDER young lady, and he has been
served right.
The Health Board of Chicago claims that
the present year has been the healthiest in
that city since 1871.
The Harvard Law School will not gradu-
ate class this year, on account OF the
lengthening of the course.
The Chicago Journal wishes all the gold
coins under five dollars called'in and kept
IN, as inconveniently small.
The court OF queens bench of Quebec has
decided that man who frightens another to
death is guilty of granddaughter.
A man at Leominster, Mass, has been
killed by inhallng the sulphur from friction
matches to cure an attack of dlphtheria.
Complaint is made that little children in
some of the public schools of Rhode Island
are compelled to walk upon their toes.
A Philadelphian and his wife have been
fined $25 each for tampering with letters di-
rected to their servant girl.
The New York Times wishes some one
would devise an effective continuance
for preventing the noisy rafting OF the WIN
dows of street stages.
novelty at the recent fair at ST. Paul,
Mimi, was team of elk, well broken to
harness, and very gentle. They travel 16
miles an hour.
"Artotype" pictures are all the style in
some of the eastern cities. They are consid-
erably superior to photographs, and can be
sold much cheaper.
AT least one Boston clergyman always
speaks of women, not ladies' and occasion
ally, if he uses the wrong word in the pull
pit, will stop and correct himself.
The Chicago Times announces that at the
incoming of the new year it will be printed
on larger sheet with larger type, and will
charge fifteen dollars per year. ##I.r.1
Most tramps are shrewd fellows. On the
morning following snow storm, no tramp
who knows his business will apply at house
where the walks have not been cleaned.
4-11-44 is the popular gig now with New
York policy players. These numbers have
won large quantities of money within few
weeks, and consequently they are having
good run.
Several billiard saloons in Hartford, Conn,
have been closed for want of patronage. 1t
is evident the billiard experts of that city
are not as flush in money matters as they
were at one time. s.H
1t took letter IL days to go from one
Florida town 20 another, distance of %
miles, and the people of BOTH with reck-
less disregard Of expense, are now clamoring
for railroad.
An aged resident OF one of our eastern
cities, who has watched the weather for
about 20 years, predicts an open and mild
winter. He says: IF the last storm before
and the first after the sun crossed the line
clear of mild and warm, we may expect a
| broken winter"
| Frank Watson, tramp, was mangled by a
| freight train at Nelson Creek, KY, and turn
| ed out to be a woman. She was born in
Louisiana; lost her father in the war; at the
/ sge of Is, some months before the accident,
| had donned male attire to earn better liv-
| ing, and had just lost position as teamster.
A story reaches us that capitally illustrates
the shrewdness of tramps and their disin-
| clination to work. A Hartford lady, who
has fed from five to dozen weekly for
months past, recently had ton of coal
dumped in the gangway leading from the
gate. Since that coal has been there not q
single tramp has appeared for a meal.
A railroad company, suspeeting deadheads,
put detective on the track. One day he
heard passenger remark that 1t was very
! easy to go from b to D. without a
ticket. He watched the speaker and was
| surprised to see him hand the conductor a
ticket. Getting into conversation with the
passenger he said: "Pd like to know your
plan for travelling without ticket. and don't
mind giving you couple of dollars for it,
Done" said the man, pocketing the bill.
"When l want to travel without ticket
walk"