The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19


90 to Europe.
Are you going to squat on your country
relatives this summer?
Grants third term is like an old vinegar
barrel--all smell and no good
Mrs. Hayes seems to be sitting down and
waiting for the river to flow by.
VIM. Cullen Bryant was a Unitarian and
a vegetarian and an octogenarian also.
Turkey will be divided INTO hotel bed
rooms when the congress gets through.
Doctors never allow ducks on their prem
ises-they make such personal remarks.
Now, gentlemen, give US a ten cent cigar
for five cents and FIVE cent cigar for moth
ing
1t is thought that the wheat crop of the
United States will this year reach 400, ,O00, 900
bushels.
There are 12 radical socialists in the Ger
man parliament, and 80 socialist journals in
the empire.
Among the assets of Asher W. Harmany
bankrupt, of Virginia, is the Natural Bridge
valued at $14, 900.
Mrs. Hayes, il is said, will probably go to
the White Mountains this summer with the
wife OF Secretary Thompson.
Who hath woe, who hath sorrow? Well,
that Nevada man who traded a mule for a
wife feels about as red around the eyes as
any Of 'em.
Several papers continue to mention Mr..
Potter as Mr. Pottah; and Mr.. Pottah says
there is such thing, by Jove, ss being too
infahnally pahticulah.
The sum of SIS Is ample to fit out a rebel
lion in Mexico. They use the money to
buy whisky, and the rebellion lasts as long
as there is anything to drink.
A noted physician of Berlin is to attend a
Russian ball. 1t is the ball with which Vera
Sassulitch shot General Trepoff The general
goes to Berlin to have it extracted.
A reporter of the New Orleans Democrat
asked Packard how much of Anderson's tes.
timony was true, and Packard answered
That's a sumner, but / can't answer il
now"
If Alexander H. Stephens bad during the
last twenty years talked less about "the
faith OF the fathers" and had done more for
| the sons be might have been fairly useful
man.
Detroit Free Press: Mr.. Vest, of Indiana,
was pulled down by drink and pulled up by
| a cowhide. The cowhIde was attached to
| Mis-. Vest, and the husband is more attached
| to her than before.
1t is notable that while Stanley Matthews
was ever on intimate terms with the white
house. he never attended the Sabbath even
| ing gatherings to join in the singing of
thems. Remorse?
"What 20 eat and how to cook it," is the
name of book recently published. "What
to eat and where to get it, would meet
| with livelier sale among the laboring
| classes here just now.
When Myra Clarke Gaines sees man pick
up any thing in the streets she shouts
Halves" pounces on TO him. and he is
lucky if he gets away with enough Of bis
4 treasure trove to remember it by.
Chicago says of the congressman who Sc
cured the appropriation for its public build
ing:
"He sat and dozed the session through,
Hid in those standing collars;
But suddenly he woke and grabbed
Four hundred thousand dollars"
The dean of Chichester made good point
on the Darwinians in a sermon at Oxford the
other day. "Ye men of science said he,
we men OF science, leave me my ancestors
in Pc adise. and do not grudge you yours
in tLs Geological gardens"
Col. W. A. Cook, well.known Washing
ton lawyer, has filed a petition for rule
against himself to show cause why he should
not be disbarred He does this to get q
chance to explain some matters with which
people whom he can't kick and won't sue
keep taunting him.
Albert w. Edgerly, a lawyer of Lynn,
Mass, forbade his wife to go to a circus. She
went, and on her return found the doors
locked against her. He refuses to live with
her, although their previous eight months
OF married life was felicltous.
An old soldier, relating his experience at
temperance meeting in Iowa, said that at
one time he got possession of two kegs of
whisky, took them to camp, put a faucet
into one, and passed the whisky around
among the boys until they all got pretty full.
About the time the keg was empty, he said,
| for o moment his conscience told him he
| was doing wrong. He picked up an axe
and Knocked the head of the other kep in