The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-10-23
CURRENT ITEMS.
MARRIAGE makes the man the wonl-
an was maid before.

MARRIAGE makes the man; the wom-
an was maid before.
DIVERSITY of opinion proves that
things are only what we think them
| Montaigae.
A WOMAN who has four sons, all sailors.
compares herself with year, because
she has four seasons.
CAPTs. HOWARD and Garrett, of the
British navy, have had to pay $21. rs for
letting their dogs worry cat for the d.
version of the officers at Portsmouth.
WHEN you see man take off his hat
to you it is sign that he respects you
but when he is seen divesting himself of
his coat you can make up your mind that
he intends you shall respect him.
A BOY of - years, dining at his un-
cle's, made such good dinner that his
uncle observed: "Johnny, you appear
to eat WELL" "Yes, replied the urchin,
"I have been practicing eating all my
lfe."
DANIEL CASEY, of Lawrence county,
| KY, is farmer in limited circumstances,
who has been married thirty years and
has no children. He has, however
reared and educated twenty-one orphan
children who were left without money
or friends.
TRADES unions, the Celestial Empire
says, appear to have taken root in Japan.
1t is reported that, owing to the recent
rise in the price of rice, all the laborers
in Gifu, Mino province, made an al
rangement among themselves and forced
their employers to raise the wages.
CAPT. WEBB recently performed the
feat Of swimming seventy-four consecu-
tive hours in the large tank of the Scar
borough Aquarium. He did not show
at the finish any signs of fatigue. AL
though allowed half an hour in each
twenty-four, Capt. Webb did not during
the whole time absent himself more than
| about four minutes.
A MAINE man has regularly received
the Congressional Globe and Record fol
the last thirty-six years, ana has read
every copy. We have heard of walking
dictionaries and encyclopedias, but this
is the first walking waste-basket that
has been brought to our notice. Boston
Post.
Mr.. ENos A. PAYNE, of Frankfort
KY, has married Miss Mary P. Akin, of
Lexington, and local poet celebrates
the event in these lines:
And thus we old Hymen I'll
His joyous cup again
1t only shows that pleasure still
Is close Akin to Payne
A REMARKABLE family of fat children
live in Barren county, KY. The father,
Smithland Chamber, weighs 100 pounds,
and his wife only 112 pounds, but G.
year-old daughter weighs $50 pounds.
The latter is about as tall as other girls
of her age, but measures eighty -four
inches about the waist. A son died,
when years old, weighing 200 pounds,
and some younger members of the family
are growing fat rapidly.
The editor laid his half-smoked cigar
on the table, and the candidate, drop
ping in to talk matters over, perched
himself ON the table and sat down on
the real Connecticut Havana. By-and-
by he sadly slipped off his high seat
you are not lukewarm in my cause,
anyhow" he said plaintively. "Ah,
no." replied the editor, encouragingly,
"the old fires are still burning" And
then great hush fell upon the busy
sanctum, such profound silence that
for minute you might have heard a
gum drop.
THE Grown Princess of Prussia
Queen Victorias eldest daughter) is
said to be now the most popular woman
in Germany. She would have gained
the goodwill of the Berlin population
twenty years ago had she not held, with
invincible tenacity, to the idea of an
English establishment at Potsdam. She
wished to retain her servants and to in
troduce the English style of household
management But only few English
sailors, with an officer, who form the
crew of the miniature man-of- war on the
Havel, are left to represent English SER
vice.
HARRY JosEPHs, who died lately in