The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

Turneth back in wild despair,
She remembers that she traded
His old clothes for chinaware.
81 mean business" said a burglar who en-
tered Mr.. Patterson's house, in Sterling, Ill.
$50 do ]" said Mr.. Patterson, and shot him
through the head.
Sarah Bernhardt the actress has a fancy
for psts. She regularly keeps six dogs, ten
cats number of gold fish, an aviary of
birds and skeleton.
"Have you ever read The Tale of Bum
Bile Beeg" asked George OF Sarah Jane.
mo" said she, as she turned the color OF
real paint; "but Pve felt en-"
Girls, whose opinion about such things is
always valuable, say that there's too much
shirt collar and too little young man in the
present day to suit their taste.
A cynical old practitioner says: "A lady
who practices medicine commits two faults:
she increases the number of doctors and di-
minishes the number of women"
A load of sawdust went into New Jersey
town recently, and a man who stood on the
sidewalk exclaimed: There must be going
to be LYDIA Thompson troupe here soon."
The queen is reported to hold that Ameri-
cans should be received in England with
particular attention, and to act upon her
CONVICTION IN such a manner as to make her
self unpopular with her own subjects.
The sultan's favorite wife is q Circassian
princess by the name of Annie, who exer-
cises great influence over him, and has had
not a little to do with the course of the
government during the recent difficulties.
Miss Kate O'Byrne, of Wilmington, Della
ware, founded three years ago, and has sue
cessfully conducted ever since the Daily
a a har rd
time at first, but is now out of the financial
wilderness.
A young lady of Faribault, Minn., was
saleswoman in a store, and she determined
to be independent. She was breaking down
in health and so she, under the law, took
public land and started farm. There is
girl worth marrying.
A girl in Kentucky struck her croquet
partner on the head with a malet; brain
fever set in and the young man nearly died.
The girl was kept under arrest till his recov
cry, and when be got we'll she married him,
and now he's sorry he didn't die.
1t is a mistake to suppose that Gail Ham
ilton is the daughter of the distinguished
Alexander Hamilton, one of the writers of
the federalist papers. The latter had his
Burr, but Gail is regarded as a burr herself.
She sticks to Massachusetts, justnow.
The countess of Paris has given birth to
a princess. and French papers recall, the
event having taken place at L a. m. the
superstitious belief which exists In the
house of Orleans that all of its members
born after midnight are destined to be lucky
in life
Time makes all things even. For twenty
seven years New Hampshire husband kept
taunting his wife with the fact that her
brother was once in Jail. Last week his
mother was arrested for setting a barn on
fire, and the wife shifts and says: mice
family you spring from"
If women will stuff their bustles with
paper, let them initiate the example of that
bustling San Francisco dame, who filed hers
| with greenbacks and wore it for six months
without wearing the greenDacks out. 1t was
! $40, 600 hustle. and the facts came out in a
trial, though the greenbacks did not.
A fashion item says puffs and false braids
are being dispensed with. But when you
see a woman drowning, and you reach the
| spot as she is going down the third time,
you want to grab her pretty close to the
| skull, or you may have 81 worth OF false
locks and your labor for your pains.
A San Francisco paper states that the
| immigration TO this country of the Chinese
| is not nearly as extensive as has been repre-
China every year to spend New Years. and
these on returning here are beralded as
| fresh arrivals, while in fact very few arc now
| coming here for the first time.
p 7. Barnum says: 81 tell you as show
| man, you can't make animals drink whisky
| They know better" The Norristown Herald
| says the Snowman is mistaken. We once
| heard a woman call out of a second story
| window to an object that had for nearly an
| hour been trying in vain TO unlock the front
door, Drunk again, you old hog, are your"
This is from the Burlington Dix-neuvieme
| Steele: Young lady in a railway car, excit-
edly-"Cond9ctor, this man you put in this
| seat with me has insulted met Conductor
| grandly-"The scoundrel; what has be done
miss?" Young lady. indignantly-"He went
| to sleep" Howls of derision and wrath
| from the passengers The scoundrel is put off
A young and thrifty Hamlet has been dis
| covered in California. His mother wrote a
| note to the school teacher, requesting him to
whip the bearer soundly, and gave i. to her
son. SuspectiDg It's contents young hopeful
gave another boy three alleys to take 1t for
| him. Not until after the execution did the
teacher discover that the yelling youth was
| a total stranger to fchool and its customs.
| The DAY after the pauers had stated that
| the damage to his windows bad been assf ssed
| at to, MI. UlduStOIe RECEIVED DaOIN written
| letter from a workman enclosing the exact
sum. The writer said that he and his family
had felt so ashamed OF the great statesman's
windows having been broken by anyone
calling himself workingman, that they had
scraped together the sum TO pay for the dam
age.
A beautiful young heiress in Moscow has
married beggar eighty-six years old. 1t
has queer look at first, but nothing could
be more natural. The young girl-she is
only twenty two-could not enter into pos
session of her fortune until she was married.
and the young men whom her guardians in.
| tToduced to her were empty headed crestures
| to whom she was unwilling TO bind be rself
| for life; so she resolved 10 marry old beg
gar and get the money without sacrificing
| her independence The old man was one of
her pensioners, and readily consented to
marry her and then keep out of her way,
retiring on comfortable allowance. All the
beggsrs in town feasted and made merry on
| the wedding night.