The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-09-01
IMPRESSIONS.

A RUSSIAN Bishop will soon visit this country
on his way to Japan.
BISHOP ELDER, of Cincinnati, has declared that
no banged OF frizzen hair will be allowed among
the women of his congregation.
THERE are five old negroes in Atlanta who say
they saw George Washington. 1t begins to look
as if Washington never saw white man.
"CoME home drunk, will you?" said Ben Lucas
to his intoxicated father at welles, o. "rll give
you a lesson and killed him with one blow.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT is said to have bought
the trotter ST. Julien for $4,000. st. Julien was
owned by three Californians, who paid COM
paratiyely small sum for him.
ANNA DICKINSON once bought $50 acres of Wis
cOnsin land, and found every foot of it under
Lake Michigan. This was her starting point in
losing confidence in human nature.
LosK out for a clergyman of medium size, fair
complexion, smooth face, very light mustache,
and about thirty years old. He is Rev. c. L.
Crowther, swindling fugitive from Findlay 0.
HoS. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS is reported to be
in better health than for years past. He can
sit hotel piazza at the seaside without
paper-weights on his coattails.-Boston Traveller
WHEN Jim Keene figured up that he had lost
sent out and bought box of cigars costing $780,
Some OF US would have wilted right down to a
clay pipe
AMONG the distinguished inmates of Sing Sing
Prison are ]. Lloyd Haigh, the forger; Beckwith
who embezzled $4,000 worth of Rabbits soap
Gentleman joe" who undertook to blackmail
Dr.. Dix, and Jim Burns, who undertook to rescue
Red Leary from Pinkerton.
J. B. McCULLAGH, editor of the ST. Louis
GIobe-Democrat has been visiting Hancock Toa
Graphic reporter the Republican Westerner said:
HE is confident. In aquiet way he appears to
take his election matterof course. don't
believe doubt OF his success ever entered his
head"
1T is calculated that the 100000 barrels of
beer reported by the Brewers Congress as having
been sold last year would have filed canal five
feet deep and twenty-one feet wide extending
from New York to Philadelphia, and that it would
take pump throwing thirty gallons minute
twenty-one years topump it dry,
CORA L. V. RICHMOND, the spiritual clairvoy-
ant explains that the spirit after death is not
clothed in external garments, fashioned as earth
ly garments are, but affectionate friends spirits
who are in sympathy, gather around and adjust
the raiment Garments are woven of atmospher-
ic conditions and spiritual substances surround
ing the individual.
NED KELLY was the leader of band OF outlaws
in Australia. A large party of mounted police
surrounded the house in which he had taken
refuge He surprised them by coolly walking out
among them. His head, chest, back, and sides
were protected with heavy plates of iron. Nine
policemen joined in the conflict and fred point
blank at Kelly, but, though many of the shots
struck him, he always recovered himself, and
tapping his breast laughed derisively at his oppo
nents as he coolly returned their fire. For half
an hour the strange combat was carried on Then
an officer closed in on him and fired two shots
into his legs, and this brought the outlaw Town.
When the ground he roared with savage fe-
rocity, cursing the police.
s. C. DuNHAxS a lawyer of Hartford. accom-
panied by Rev. Z. J. Lamb and veteran guide,
assembled Longs Peak, Col Just as the summit
was reached violent snow and ice storm envel-
oped the peak, and the cloud bearing the storm
soon proved to be heavily charged with electricity
The presence of the fuid was discovered at the
rude monument erected by Colonel Long and his
party when they explored the peak in 1860. Under
the lee of this pile of stones the party attempted
to take shelter. They at once detected low sing
ing sound something like the buzzing of an i'm
prisoned insect This mpidly gathered in volume
until it more resembled fusillade OF torpedoes-
The party forsook this place, and moved 10 the
open rock field Mr.. Durham, thinking he had
discovered through the storm available shelter,
pointed il out with his hand which member
began an exhibition similar to that seen at the
rocks. The fluid increased in activity, and Mr..
Lamb and Mr.. Dunham received shocks which
seemed to scorch their ears and foreheads and
SINCE their hair They described the sensation as
similar to that which would be produced by sud-
denly drawing heated wire tightly about the
head just below the rim Of the hat accompanied
by pricking Of the head, shoulders, giddiness,
nausea, and a display Of blue, fiokering flame.
Mr. Hubbell could distinctly see blue light play
ing about his head. During this display, thun-
der, unaccompanied by visible lightning, was rum
81 = about. the summit