The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
CLIPPINGS.
fortunes.

THE Louisville Democrat says Ii is for
strong ticket-Hancock and English.
BARRY SULLIVAN, the actor, is mentioned as
a proboble candidate for Parliament for Bel
fast.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD is now in excellent
health and spirits, and is distinguishing him.
self in pedestrianism.
A RUSSIAN countess parsdes the streets of
Nice escorted by three large bloodhounds of
quarrelsome disposition.
THE number of negroes who have left Lou
siana for Kansas since the exodus movement
was started is set down at 5000.
HARD times are said to have made the di-
vorce market very dull in California. People
can't afford the luxury OF legal expenses.
THE Columbus (o) Democrat thinks that
the few scattered remains of John Sherman's
boom should be gathered up by his frienas
and preserved as relics.
THERE is prospect of largely increased i'm
ports OF wool into the United States this year,
the home crop will not be sufficient to meet
the manufacturing demand.
A MAN In Marshall county Tennessee, over 80
years of age, has never seen either a railroad
or a steamboat. He is a good farmer and at
tends closely 10 his own business. He has
lived within fiye miles of a railroad for several
years.
THE New York Evening Express says that
Senator Logan's four days pitched battle
against Fitz John Porter has closed, and the
field is sire wn with dislocated parts of speech,
and wounded adjectives, and lost nominatives
trying to find the verbs they belong to.
FROM official statistics recently published In
Copenhagen, it appears that In the 10 years
from 1869 to 1873 there were 4,770 cases of sui
eide ascertained to have been committed in
the Kingdom of Denmark. OF this number of
persons 3.7O9 were males and 1851 females.
1T is said that the electric middlings puri-
fer" invented by two Yale students is an en-
tire success, so far the tests thus far applied
indicate. One of the inventors is now in Min
nesota arranging to introduce the machine
into one of the largest Touring mills In that
State.
Mr.. R. H. DANA ILL.,, the young gentleman
recently married to Mr.. LongfelIow's daugh-
ter, was the most noted athlete in his class at
Harvard. Since leaving college he has broken
down physically, and has Just made a journey
round Cape Horn for the recovery of his
health.
THE Pittsburg Post says that the Democratic
members OF the South Carolina Legislature
have been polled on their first choice for
presidential candidate, with the following re-
suit: Bayard 70. Tilden ~, seymour IL, Field 10,
second cholce-Seymour SIS, Bayard Il, Tilden
5, Hancock Is, Field s.
FROM a paltry rs cents worth of iron ore
may be developed $3.50 worth of bar-iron, $40
worth of horse shoes, $3.50 worth OF table
knives, $500 worth of fine needles, s19.4s0
worth of shirt buttons, s2OO,OO0 worth of watch
springs, s400C0O worth OF hair springs, or
s2,5O0,OOO worth of pale: arbors FUSED in
watches.
A LITTLE Philadelphia girl, eight years old,
recently lost her life. perhaps through her own
heroic self control. She was holding a baby
on her lap when her clothing caught fire. She
succeeded in placing the baby, uninjured, In
its cradle, and then ran into the street to save
the house from being burned down. Her own
injuries were so severe that she died.
THE Florida orange crop this year is much
larger than ever before. From such counties
as are easily accessible the figures point TO q
crop of about 10000 boxes. In Putnam
| county alone the 1879 yield was nearly 5,500,00C
oranges, and next year, with the large num-
Der of blooming trees that will come into
bearing, the crop will amount to 25.O0O.OOC
oranges.
AN eccentricity of the late Mrs. Gales, Of
Washington, is recalled by the story of the
London beauty who had all her coins secured
before putting them into her purse. II Mrs,
Gales dropped her handkerchief on the floor
she would not use 1t again until II had been
washed. Immediately on returning home
after a walk or drive she would change every
article of her clothing for fresh garments.
Mr.. p. 7. BARNUM was asked recently
whether he would be a candidate for mayor Of
Bridgeport. Conn, II he could be assured that
he would be elected. mo, sir" was the reply,
III should ever accept the nomination again