The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

Waiting contests are held in Illinois
towns
The New York dog show was financial
success.
Coaching clubs are being organized now in
all the colleges.
From so to 100 covered wagons pass through
Nebraska City daily.
The Boston Post says Rhode Island is too
small to contain vacuum.
Thirty thousand dozen eggs are shipped
from Milford, Del. every week.
One hundred and seventy-four of the 632
students of Boston University are women.
The first strawberries of the season have
put on overcoats, and are not glad that they
have come.
Gad's Hill Place, the late residence of
Charles Dickens, Is to be sold by auction
early in May.
The work on the East river bridge is '.sus
pended" the New York Tribune says. We
supposed it was.
A Tennessee judge has fined a man $40
and sent him to prison for three months for
carrying concealed weapons.
Under the new tariff the Canadian SUBJ
scriber to one of our magazines has to pay
five cents duty on each copy.
1t is reported that the silk mills in Pater-
son, n. j., are employing 10000 persons,
and are running to their fullest capacity.
An old man in Monroe county, 20 years of
age, has had a six weeks illness, and his hair.
which was quite white, has become dark
brown.
One-fifth of the population of Richmond,
Va, are Baptists. There are in the city
nine churches of white Baptists and 10 of
colored ones.
Smallpox and scarlet fever prevail in
Montreal; typhoid fever cases are on the
increase, and several cases of lung disease
resulted fatally last week.
A rascal stole into the reservoir at Hart
ford, Conn, and opened the hoodgates, let.
ting so, 600 gallons of water run to waste.
The reservoir walls have partly caved in
also.
Smith & Wesson, at Springfield, Mass, are
running light at their pistol works, and
business promises to be dull through the
summer. A good many men have been
discharged lately.
The whole of Swift county, on the line of
the Northern Pacific railroad in Minnesota.
is occupied by 500 Roman Catholic families,
brought there by the National board of col
onization of that church.
The Little Book (Ark.) Gazette expresses
the belief that the tide of immigration to
that State could be greatly increased by
properly organized effort on the part of the
people to invite and aid 1t.
E F. Flynn. the father of General Mite,
contradicts the statement that the midgets,
General Mite and Lucia Zarate, are to be
married. He says the idea Of matrimony
has not entered their heads.
A delectable amusement in English pro-
vincial towns is catching and killing rats
with the teeth as they are secured by q
catching three in Is minutes.
There are 1913. 1888 shade trees kept up by
| the municipality of Paris at an annual cost
of $40 per annum. The trees of the French
capital are one of its great attractions, and
the money they cost Is considered well
spent.
young lady of Brooklyn, New York
died Tuesday from consumption resulting
| from heavy cold caught on the night o.
the burning of the Brooklyn theater, De
cember 6, 1876, from which she had escaped
| with great exertion.
At New Bedford, Mass, church, last Sun
day. while the clergyman was waxing elo-
quent in his Easter address, a minute young
rather wearisome, startled the persons in the
vicinity of his seat by suddenly exclaiming
ooh, div us westl"
Even the Talmsge trial in New York i
being put to other uses besides scandalizlni
religion and decency. The Herald o
Wednesday printed this advertisement
"Talmage Trial, West Gallery.-Would thu
dress to Brown Suit, Herald Up town Officer
Although IL paper making establish
ments in England have become bankrupt
hor " n ms ma
per factory has been reported lnsolven
within that period. Fine paper is being ex
ported from this country to South America
and there is great demand for coarse pape
from Germany.
A Delaware county lawyer employed by
lady to collect an account, wrote to tn
debtor and secured the amount. But b.
made no report and when demand wa
made upon him, replied that the who'll
amount was SIS less than his usual charg,
in such cases, but as his client was woman
he would call it square.
They are building little steamboat at Sal
Francisco for Honolulu parties, and her own
ers have made its name the subject of q rid
die at the Hawaiian Islands, promising an.
one who discovers 1t before 1t is announces
free passage on the vessel to any point OF
her route for one year.
Five Atlantic steamships left New Yorl
Tor Europe, oatuIuhys carrying ~ II roioH
passengers, the largest number sailing o.
any one day this season. Among them wer
Chin Ian Pin, the Chinese minister; Etelk
Gerster, Signor Campanini, and Genera
Myer, of the signal service.
A Hartford, Ct, boy has always declines
to eat oatmeal, although his mother ha
urged it upon him as strengthening diet
Suddenly he surprised her by one mornin
eating liberal plate full and calling TO
more" When asked fDr an explanation n
replied: "Tm bound to eat oatmeal till &c
strong enough to whip Georgy Scott"
The Toxic Times says that 1.-THE dil