The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21
CURRENT EVENTS.

If a man says 'T haven't saw" he is from
Philadelphia.
There are no bed bugs IN Bavaria, yet the
Bavarian emigrates.
The right kind of man will always have
! his life insured. 1t gives his wife's second
husband start.
| Reed, the owner of Trouble, has another
horse which be calls Disturbance. His next
beast, Mr.. Townsend says, will be called
| Sorrow.
Kansas has increased her population over
10000 during the year ending June 80; and
| over two million acres of government land
| were taken up.
| The Wahabees have posted a notice IN the
| mosques of northern India informing the
faithful that the world is to come to an end
on the 18th of July, 1879.
The telegraph Is popular in Beloochistan,
the wire being much priced by the people
there. The line was wilfully cut four times
within the first half of July, and each time
| quantity OF wire ranging from 100 yards to
half mile was carried away, besides a few
insulators and brackets
Talk about Journalists of the bullying
| brow! George Albert Page, a fourteen-year-
old boy, who lives with his mother at a lit
ne hamlet near Oneida lake, has head
Tilca Tihlca measures % inches in circumference.
lneugn sound enough in body the chief part
Oh NM Is not exactly level.
Edwaro FtetS>ll marshal of Austin, Mis-
Sr;;,ipp' 49, lHTeu .nse side of his top boots
could lick the whole EVs~s femilx On
Monday Fretwell and young nvsns met in
the public square at Austin, paced usr ,a-
short, quick strides, wheeled and fired sim
ultaneously. Both men iell dead.
Professor John H. Raymond, who died on
| "Wednesday last, the organizer of the
polytechnic school in Brooklyn and of VAS
sar college, two monuments of his ability
| that will stand long to preserve his memory.
He died at "a years of age. His last words
were: "How easy-how easy-how easy it
is to glide from our work in this world to
our work In heaven"
Professor Stewart, of San Francisco, puts
forward this theory as to why earthquakes
have become rare in that region: AT all
seasons of the year there is vastly more
moisture in the air in the Atlantic states
than in California, and firmly believe that
! our overcharged coast is being constantly
relieved of its plus electricity by the iron of
the overland railway, and that California
earthquakes are now appearing in the form
of frightful tornadoes and electrical storms
east of the Rocky mountains"
A combat between a bumblebee and q
humming bird is reported from Springfield,
Massachusetts. 1.-THE bird was busily gath
ering its breakfast of honey from a bunch of
| lilies, when il dipped Its long bill into
blossom which bad been pre-empted by a
bumblebee, and the enraged insect immedi-
ately flew out to battle. Two or three slight
collisions, hardly occupying as many sec
onds, followed, and then the humming bird,
| with the tiniest note of pain, dsrted off and
dropped dead in the grass notify feetaway."
: A Frenchman is interpreting Indian
; names. He says the Sioux Indians name
their papooses after events happening at
the time of their BIRTH As illustrative of
this peculiar trait, Red Cloud is known to
have taken that name from the fact that the
western sky was overspread with red clouds
at the moment of his birth; while the bring
ing in of captive horse with a spotted tail
! gave to another chief the singular cognomen
of Spotted Tail. Sitting Bull received his
name because buffalo bull was by lucky
shot, thrown upon his launches in sight OF
his mothers resting place at the natal hour;
while the struggles OF a fractlous pony fur
nished title for the redoubtable Crazy
Horse.
very different aspect is given to the al
legged elopement of the wife of J. V. N.
Stults, of Boston, in a letter written by Mr..
w. K. Richie, relative of the lady. Mrs.
Stults is the only daughter of the late T. J..
i
said, courted the daughter with the view of
obtaining possession and control of the faith
ers wealth Dunbar saw through his son-in-
laws purpose, and in bis will left not dol
lar to Stults, and carefully guarded the in
come of Mrs. Stults from her husbands
reach. Stults as Ritchie alleges, then plotted
to relieve himself OF the wife whose fortune
he could not manipulate, and at the same
| time to avenge himself on the dead father.
He introduced his wife to a Captain Austin.
pressed Austin's acquaintance upon her, and
finally contrived to have the pair detected
in a room together RitchIe AYERS that the
meeting of Mrs. Stults and Austin was with
out criminal purpose or intent, but that
Stults so terrified his wife by threats of arrest
and Incarceration that she secreted herself or
left the city. The story is a strange one,
and, If true, would prove Stults to be little
short OF monster.
A private letter from Paris, written by a
well informed gentleman who has taken q
| great deal of interest in the exposition, SAYS
that some OF the French members of the jury
have attempted tricks to secure grand prizes
in behalf of their own countrymen. He
| adds that the French are showing the cloven
foot all around now that the jury works
coming to an end. Up to the present 1.-THE
date of his letter is August J. they have
been the most polite and liberal men in the
world and have captivated nearly every
body by their winniEg ways. They were,
the Americans thought very free with their
high awards to others; but il now turns out
that they were acting deceptive part In
one class they pressed an American exhibi-
tor for gold medal when the American
juror considered silver medal quite enough.
But, as may be supposed, he accepted the
gold medal and was thus entrapped into
voting five gold medals for French exhibits
of the same sort as the American one. The
exposi ton is emphatically and completely
in the French interest, and the French jurors
seem 10 feel that they owe their country
men everything they can get for them. The
clever Gauls who have had charge and man.
agement of the great fair have shown that,
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