The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22

John, 'Uet up, Sarah, ETC., or 10 make any
other brief announcement. as a substitute
for the customary bell or gong.
The cul,siit was brought before the maeis-
trate and asked his name. 1t was given as
Lachtenschlager. Did you shoot the dog in
und he jumped Offer de fence"
Since the introduction of female post
masters. girl goes up to the window and
says, "Is there letter for Miss Margaret
RobinsonT Yes" says the female post
master, "here is one from John NJ. Jones.
"Boys," said rural school teacher
Stick pin there And then as he shot mp
in his seat like a jack in the box he offered
reward of IS for the boy who had stuck a
pin there.
The proposal to block up the straits of
Belle Isle with the view of shutting out
vast ice bearing force of water, whose chill
ing influences are felt far inland in the lower
portion of the Dominion, excites great inter-
est in Canada.
Out in Nevada a young wife in Eureka
asked her husband 10 take her to the circus.
but he refused and said: -Four wives have
been trapezed from me already, and you re
the fifth, and afore them circus fellows get
here I'm goin' TO chain you up"
The commission recently appointed to bury
dead animals and men in the Danubian dis
tricts of Roumania, and to disinfect the
battlefields have completed their work, at a
cost of s. 900. The work was accomplished
by soldiers, under the supervision of four
surgeons
Uncle Jason asked Spikes one day, wat
dat enjuueer mean by say dat Use done
most sprout into an anjul?" Don't ask
me" said Spike. TASK him" 1t was SUISSE
qUently inferred that he had done so, as he
went around the mill muttering, Oats no
sign of an anjul, kase a mans ears look like
wings"
OF two monks living together in the same
house in Catanis. Sicily. one remained out
recently rather late. The erring brother
was recognized by a robber, who immediate
ly went to the house and was admitted by
the stay-at home monk, over whose mouth
be tried to put gag; but he overdid the job
by letting his finger slide in too. That finger
was bitten clean off, and preserved by the
monk as corroborative testimony.
/ The Virginia City Enterprise reports that
an EDglishmsn in Nevada proposes, if $780,
600 can be raised, to bore two artesian wells,
/ Is inches apart, the one SIX and the other
four inch bore, TO the depth of 5000 feet.
I Then he will drop into one a powder car
l fridge wrapped in asbestos, so that subterra-
mean heat will not exploded 1t until it reaches
/ the bottom. The explosion then will unite
the two wells. the water poured down one
/ will be converted by subterranean heat into
steam and sent through the other, where the
power can be transmitted TO any point.
There are numerous conceptions of pleas.
ure aud comfort. Most people find, with or
without experience, that the real comforts of
I life are found at home; for there the devoted
wife is the presiding deity; there the child
rem praise and play; there the young girl
approximates and reaches womanhood;
within its sacred precincts youth puts on
! the responsibilities of manhood; there are
the reunion of hearts and hopesand prayers;
there be found real rest; there are the
/ faces and the affections typical of the better
life; there the terminating and binding
together of hearts and minds and souls i'm q
bond as strong as chain and lovely as
wreath OF beautiful flowers; there the mem
cries that glow and exist with life itself:
! there the influences that strengthen and
! bless and guide in after years, whatever we
| do or wherever our footsteps roam,