The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

Paris last year consumed IL ,319 horses for
food, being some 200 more than in 1877.
Japan is now manufacturing boots for
sale in the United States from leather
brought from American ports.
A Montreal paper announces that the
cure o. Quebec has preached against dane
ing in the Basilica." Queer place to want to
dance In.
The six-year old daughter of convict has
been picked up drunk in the streets of Chat
tanooga-
A Montreal debating society has decided
that love is not a stronger passion than jeal-
ousy, and will next ascertain whether theat-
ricals are injurious to the morals of the COM
munity.
They have what they call Count Joannes
night IN the Royalston Variety theater,
Boston, once a week, when ambitious anna.
teurs are afforded an opportunity to brave
the abuse of the gallery.
cat and dog recently attended a fune-
raj at Windbam, n. H., together. marching
before the procession to the grave and then
leading the way back to the house.
A bride in Beloit, Iowa, shot herself on
on the morning after the wedding on learn
ing that her husband had another wife; but
the wound was not serious, and on recover
ing she took the less tragic course of prose-
cutting him for bigamy.
But for his dog, which pinned him and
held him down till the neighbors could
break in and bind him.a farmer near Ripou,
Wis, would have killed his wife and child
while in an insane fit.
City Missionary Mossman, of New York,
went to a policy shop and lectured the in
mates on the evils of gambling He con-
cluded by inviting bis hearers to call on
him, giving his street number as AZ. As soon
as he had gone four OF them bet on 47, and
won from So to $50 each
Two lovers at South Lincoln, NO., were 30
anxious to get married the other day that
they set out for the minister's house in fu-
rious storm, accompanied by two men to
shovel path for the sleigh through the
drifts.
There are parts of California where the
beasts OF the forest exist in their primitive
glory Panthers and lions recently made
descent from their mountain home upon
some fine and costly Angora goats belonging
70 farmer of Carpenteria, and left only six
out OF TWENTY-FIVE
Owing to the severity of the weather, the
forests of Bernese Jura are infested by droves
of wild boars, sometimes so numerous as to
defy attack. Bands of wolves hover about
the farms at night, and hundreds of hungry
channels have descended from the noun
tains. and are wandering about the valleys
in search of food.
Bankruptcy is dangerous in Dallas county,
Iowa. DR.. Slocum failed in business and
although his creditors were not heavy losers,
they dragged him out of bed at night, threw
him nearly naked into a wagon, and started
with him towards The woods. 1t is supposed
that they intended to tar and feather him,
but his friends rescued him before he was
hurt.
The court house in Troy, N. Y, originally
cost $50, 900, but for several years the politi-
cal ring has drawn about 10000 annually
for repairing 1t, fully 80 per cent. of which
was downright theft. One railing is said to
have been several times removed and re-
stored the price of q new one being charged
at every restoration. A large quantity of
fiue furniture, bought for the various Offices,
has been discovered in the houses OF the
thieves.
The bark Jane Avery sailed from Ply
mouth recently and had gone about 40 miles
when another vessel ran into her and car.
ried away her gear, and the wind increasing
the Avery's main and mizzen masts rolled
out of her. The crew would not venture
aloft to make fast the topgallant sail, so
Captain Dodd went up, and falling from a
height of 20 feet broke his thigh-bone and
collar bone. Then q tug took her in tow
and the hawser snapped, breaking one mans
leg and tearing of another's fingers
In the State of B,kaneer last year, some
seventy or eighty Hindoo takirs, declaring
that their head priest had been uDjustly ar
rested, sat down outside the Epgiish agents
house and remained there for eight days.
threatening to commit suicide or starve
themselves to death unless their alleged
wrongs we're redressed. Not until their
leader had been released on bail would they
touch food, and they had dug graves and
placed some of their number in them, to be
buried alive, when they carried their point.