The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-03

said: Then pardon me for having troubled
YOU" and off he walked. leaving the chief so
dumbfounded that he did not have the man
arrested.
The republicans of Illinois are all in favor
of Grant in 1880. Indeed, the Grant feeling
is stronger among them today than 1t was
in 1868 or 1872.
Edison's very, very, very latest invention
is the tssimeter, to measure pressure. Every
young lady should wear one about her waist,
as evidence in suit for breach OF promise.
The family of Argyll is said by a CORE
spondent of the Boston Transcript to have
some association with Boston. The mother
of the first wife of the present dukes father
was the second daughter of Nathaniel Cum
ningham, and was born in Cambridge, Mass,
in 1856.
Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens health is now
the best that il has been for many years. IL
is said to be a strange popularity of his case,
and one that in part that accounts for his
vitality, that during his long sickness his
stomach has performed its functions without
the slightest change.
Nine. Anderson, who styles herself "the
lady champion walker of the world" COM
pleted at Leeds the feat of walking 1,5OO
miles in ], 900 hours. She walked the last
mile and half in IA minutes and 30seconds
and afterwards, for several hours, continued
to walk quarter of a mile every quarter OF
an hour, her average time being two minutes
per quarter.
One of the curiosities at the Paris exposi-
ton is to be the smallest book that was ever
printed in any language marvel OF typo
graphy. 1t is a microscope copy OF Dante's
"Divina Comedia," printed in Padua, bound
in red velvet and silver, and so small that 1t
may be worn as a charm, hanging from the
watch:chain. microscope is needed to
read it,
Prince Bismarck is not an early riser and
Is fond of sitting up late at night, chatting
over bottle of wine or glass of beer. 1t is
said that nearly all his diplomatic negotia-
tions, beginning with General Govonne's
confidential overtures in 1866 for an alliance
between Italy and Prussia, until the most
recent pourparlers on the eastern question,
have been transacted by him in convivlal
way in the nocturnal hours.
The newspapers of the plains are full of
gloomy forebodiDgs in regard to the lndi-
ans The Utes, Shoshones, Arapahoes and
Sioux may taSe the warpath at any moment
With the Utes will 60 the Uintahs and posi-
bly, the Navajoes. The Shoshones would take
with them the Piegans and some of the Flat
heads The Crows too, have long been their
allies, and ii is impossible to say whether
their policy will be peaceful or hostile.
They are very numerous and are formidable
as warriors.
A curious duel case has just been decided
at Nuremberg. A law student, during his
compulsory one years service in the army,
deemed himself insulted by the treatment
he received from lieutenant On c0nclud-
ing his term duel was fought and the lieu
tenant was killed. The questions before the
Jury were, whether duel had been fought,
whe Their it had fatal result and was it the
accused who was guilty of that result? The
jury gave verdict of mot guilty. on all
three charges. Some say the reason OF the
verdict was pity for promising young man
who had done an act which custom demands
and the law half sanctions; others that 1t
was the dislike in which Prussian officers
are held, and. lastly, the difficulty that if
the officer had been in the students place
the law, after compelling him to hight, would
have punished him according to its result.