The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
CURRENT EVENTS.

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$50, 500 on the Derby
Who hath seen a newspaper bore? Don't
all speak at once, now.
The mayor of jefferson, Texas, receives the
princely salary of 81 year.
The Hon. w. F. Cody Buffalo Blll) is
dangerously i'll in Nebraska.
Minister Lowell is at Athens, whittier he
went after painful siege of govt.
The shah only took with him to Paris Sc
boxes of gold coin, valued at s24, 900 per box.
Syracuse Herald: Grant is a man of iron,
but Robson appears to have been man of
steal.
Perkins, the Hanscom bond robber is de-
scribed as wearinga Jim Anderson" mus
tache.
Henry w. Raymond, son of the late Henry
]. Raymond, proposes to practice law in
Chicago.
A humane gentleman is trying to raise
funds in Dublin for the establishment of
home for destitute dogs.
Senator Ben Hill announces that he is In
favor of law permitting states and corpor-
atoms to issue paper money.
Life sized portraits Of Anderson and the
jerks have been ordered by the Sazerac ly-
ing club, of Austin. Nevada.
Bancroft, the Harvard oarsman, told a
friend last Friday after Harvard's victory
that he had rowed his last race.
Only think. Here we are 5000, 900 miles
further from the sun than we were six
months ago. and yet it is ninety-eight in the
shade.
The American crews which are to take
part in the international regatta are said by
the London Sportsman to be objects of great
interest.
Count Andrsssy Is slim, tall and hand
some, with a stylish carriage and military
department. His greatest fault is his I'M
certainty.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Hon. David
DAVIS will return 10 Illinois as soon as the
bridges between this state and Washington
are strengthened.
Philadelphia Press: Let us not delude
ourselves with false hopes. The next con-
gressional delegation from the solid south
Will De q SOllQ OomOcratlc one.
Says the New York Telegram: ''The clerk
who got married on S. a week, and is living
at the rate of ST., as he testified himself,
may yet be in John Sherman's position"
Speaker Randall says he always sets down
any man who talks TO him in favor of free
trade as either an ignorant man or a de-
ceiver. How would be classify John Stuart
Mill?
Twenty years ago Albert Grant, the Lon
don financier of Emma mine and Lisbon
tramways notoriety, swept a wine mer-
chants office for So a week, and was dis
charged because be was mot sharp enough"
Philadelphia North American: The ma
tally changed until one party or the other
shall become overwhelmingly powerful and
dominant, and thereby be able to develop
the entire scope and tendency of its views
without interference. The present situation
is not satisfactory to anybody, because it is
merely a sort of armed truce.
Dennis Kearney, the successful labor poll
tician of the Pacific slope, is something of a
bowler All that he asks when his life is
ended, he says, is a humble slab over his
grave in Lone Mountain with this inscrip-
ZION: Here lies Kearney, the drayman,
who led the victorious charge of the people
against the hordes of tyranny and corrup-
ton, and died for liberty and the rights of
man."
A Portland paper gives this as proof of
the force of Imagination: THE owner of a
standard thermometer, on Exchange street,
etherized the mercury to-day, reducing it to
temperate. Men came along perspiring at
every pore. with fans spread and umbrellas,
and when they saw the indications, lowered
the umbrellas, folded their fans, and re-
marked how quickly they felt the sea
breeze"
Joe Hooker, at the reception OF the army
of the Potomac, occupied big arm chair,
having a beautiful little girl of seven on his
knee, who he kissed repeatedly. One of the
company remarked to the child, ''You must
remember this. Ten or fifteen years hence
you will be very proud of having been
kissed by Fighting Joe Hooker" Where
upon the general wittily retorted, 81 should
not mind it either, my dear, if you were ten
or fifteen wears older now"
When Mr.. Eli Perkins, the great Ameri-
can humorist, read James Andersons testi-
mony, he wept copiously. He felt that his
laurels and occupation were gone. Then
raising his right hand to heaven, he vowed
that he would make his next newspaper
article sink Anderson's Ananias efforts into
nothingness, or fracture is spinal column in
the attempt. Ellis last newspaper contri-
button says he has travelled some 900 900
miles by railroad during the past six
months. hence we Judge that his spinal
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