The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-24
TABLE GOSSIP.

Two Iowa farmers INDUCED IN q dispute
over a debt OF 81, ending in one being shot
dead for blow.
Sara Bernhardt's first words upon landing
in America were: eff Henry Ward
Beecher or Roscoe Conkling comes near me
I'll scream"
What relief 1t is to turn from the politi-
cal editorials In exchanges to the calm. dig
nified statements to be found in the local
notices of patent medicines! There is no
lying i'll patent medicine advertisements.
Here's a crumb of comfort for novel read
ers and an awful warning for girls: An
Ohio girl was struck by lightning while
splitting wood in a thunder storm, but her
father, who sat reading novel, scarcely felt
the shock.
In one of the dining rooms at a large
fashionable resort, recently, an intelligent
diamond broker made an estimate of the
value of the gems which glistened in every
part of the room, and said their value was
at least 500, 000."
A stranger in Galveston asked an old
resident how malarial fever could be dis
tinguished from yellow fever. GAS gen
eral thing" was the reply, you can't tell
until you have tried If you amt alive,
then it is most likely yellow fever"
Two partners of one welded life appear
instituted proceedings for judicial separa-
ton: II am sure" says the lady warmly,
that can't see what he has to complain
Of We are two bOsoms with but single
thOught-he wants to boss the house and so
do In'
If all our manageable young men should
form a Club all OF whose members were
solemnly sworn never to marry any girl who
did not know how to do all kinds of house
work, and who was not willing to do it, we
fancy that the practical, but at present
vulgar" occupation of keeping house
would become ''genteel accomplishment"
After the 4th of March next the Empire
State will practically have only one United
States Senator, but he will have two votes
not counting the Vice Presidents casting
vote. When julius Cesar and Bibulus to-
gether were Consuls of the Roman Republic
the Romans said that the Consuls were
julius and Caesar. So it may be said that
for some years to come the Senators from
New York will be Roscoe and Conkling.-
Buffalo Courier
Professor Young, in discussing the SUMS
heat, says that if ii were surrounded by
shell of ice one mile in thickness, the inner
surface touching the philosophers, it would
melt its way out in two hours and thirteen
minutes. This will be an interesting ex-
pertinent for our young people totry during
the long winter evenings. 1t will cost
nothing for the ice, for Vennor says there
is going to be oceans of it-Norristown
Herald.
correspondent of the Norriston Herald
wished to know How to keep Dutch cheese
from spoiling?" He got the following re-
ply: at is the queerest notion! Why,
Dutch cheese is never sold as an article of
food until it is spoiled 1t may be sub
jected to process by which its flavor can
be increased to the distance of two or three
miles, but that would only improve it. The
only way to prvent it from being spoiled is
to stop manufacturing it"
In book printed in Salamanca in 1851,
on THE business of the Saints in Heaven"
the writer asserted that the redeemed shall
swim like fish and sing as melOdiously as
nightingales, and delight themselves in mas
querades feats and ballads" AS there is to
be no political excitement in Heaven, great
er efforts than ever will be made to get there;
though the singing of ballads may deter
some persons who are sick of ''Grandfathers
Clock" and Dem Golden Slippers in this
world.
This important question is asked and an
swered by the Partisan: Surprising that
you are in society with lady of certain
age, and that you do not know whether she
be an old maid or not. ought you to address
her as madame or mademoiselle? Ii the
person be pretty, and il her certain age can
not be looked upon with indifference, they
call her mademoiselle. VI the person be
ugly and unlovely, call her madame; il Is
only gallant TO seem to suppose that she has
been. the object of sincere devotion and of
an affection founded on the qualities of her