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

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you needn't make any apology" said he
jumping up with alacrity; ANY old thing is
Good enough for me-"
Mr.. EDWARD JENKINS, the author OF "Ginx's
Baby" is to be the editor Of a new illustrated
daily paper in London. It is to be OF satir-
ical turn, and the Parliamentary reports are
to come though telephone.
A FRENCH enth usiast is quoted as writing to
NJ. de Lesseps, when he was getting up the
Suez canal which the English didn't hike:
"YIeld not an inch TO perfidious Albion. II
necessary. move your istnnus elsewhere.
Your shareholders win follow YOU"
QUEEN VICTORIA, in opening Parliament in
late years, takes on the appearance of robes of
state but not the robes themselves. She wears
her ordinary widows dress and the royal
robes are outspread upon the throne. After
she seats herself II is the Office Of the Princess
Beatrice to pull the corners of the robes over
the skirt of her mothers gown.
CAPTAIN WEBB, the channel swimmer, has
undertaken to swim 80 consecutive hours
viz, for three days and two nights. He will
be allowed to leave the water for not more
than SO minutes in each "a hours. The at
tempt will be made under the most favorable
circumstances possible-viz., sea water of
summer temperature, and in London early in
March.
DIR. EVANS, OF Paris, the famous American
dentist, who took it so i'll when Mr.. Evarts
good naturally alluded TO him as person "to
whom the greatest potentates, usually reti-
cent, had freely opened their mouths" has
just been consoling himself by plugging and
boring away at the teeth of the crown prin-
cess of Germany, in her villa at PIgli, near
Genoa.
TaE Keene IN. H. Sentinel tells of lady
who, having bought some dry goods very
cheaply IN that city by representing that she
could get them at that price at another store,
ana having subsequently learned that
the latter store had marked up
its goods, sent the deficiency TO the
dealer she had patronized with an ex-
PLANTATION OF the facts.
SOME one, who signs hims elf "a Confederate
Whom the ex-Presfdent Fed at Appomattox,"
has made careful canvass of the Federal Of
hce-holders OF Richmond, numbering s., with
the following results: For the ex-president,
Al for Sherman, IL; for Blaine, /; doubtful, ..
Among Republicans generally the third term
ers, according TO this informant, are as so
TO one.
cit scarcely seems credible" says the Boston
Herald, that within the memory Of men still
living in hale and hearty manhood-say as
late as lS0-Summer street residences had
spacious gardens and barns, the cows OF citi-
zens grazed on the Common, each COW pro-
vided with a wooden tag bearing the owners
name, and eminent citizens rode out in GRIM
son barouches, dressed in short clothes, lace
sleeves, wigs and cues, and cooked hats. Yet
such was the fact"
ACCORDING to the Norwich Conn., Bulletin,
a gentleman of that city with large expert
ence as a juror AYERS that he has noticed that
the iuryman who sleeps through the greater
part Of a trial. and the one that invariably
asks, "What is it all about?" generally vote
right ON the first ballot. He claims that it
shows the superiority OF impulse over reason.
"a man who reasons" he says, usually gets
all tuckeTed out wrestling with his own ideas,
and bewilderment comes in TO the rescue of
the criminal"
THE late Isaac Butt, lawyer and member of
Parliament, was going home late one even
ing, when he was accosted by a desperate
looking ruffian in one Of the suburbs of Dub
lin, and asked what he was going to stand.
"Well," replied Mr.. Butt, meelzly, "I'm very
sorry that can't give you much, my friend,
but what / have we will share. Here, he
continued, drawing revolver from his pocket
''Is q weapon which has six chambers. I Will
give you three and" But here the lawyer
found himself alone.
A LEADvuLE barber by mistake got his bay
rum bottle filed with oxalic acid, and the first
man to whose face he applied it jumped up
and kicked over all the chairs, next the stove
went wrong end up, the cups, towels, shears
razors, strops, hair oil, dye water and eau de
cologne jugs danced all about the room, and
after things had been set in proper motion in
side the shop both the barber and his Gus
toner went outside and said murder" And
the shaved man having by that time got
his knife out he had to be held by four
men while the matter was Investigated and
explained.
Ma. henry BACON meeting Mile. Bernhard
in her teachers (Mr. steven's) studio, speaks
Of ''the yellow hair with s;reaks
of brown through it, done up in loose bunch
the sharp, somewhat heavy profile,
the parted lips, and the generous bunch
of lace around her throat" He
adds: while she talked she painted, and 1
almost forgot the subject Of conversation as
watched her pile the paint upon the canvas.
not daintily or mincIngIy, but firmly and
Shall 1 not confess was aston
ished? for knew many tricks Of the probes
sion, and belonged to the doubling c.ass who
have little confidence in the much talked of
talent OF Mile. Sarah Rernhardt."
1T is interesting, ana to many people IL may
be profitable, to know the comparative value
of different kinds of wood for fuel. Shellbark
hickory is regarded as the highest standard of
our forest trees, and calling that 100 other
trees will compare with it for real values as
fuel for house purposes follows: SheIlbark
100; pignut hickory, "; white oak. 81;
white ash, ~; dogwood, 70; scrub oak, 49,; white
hazel, ~; appletree, 20; red oak, 81; white
beach, IS; black birch, 62; yellow oak,
90; hard maple, SO, white elm, S.; red
cedar, So; wild cherry, So; yellow pine "a chest
nut, So; yellow poplar, "a; butternut and white
birch, AZ; white pine, 30. 1t is worth bearing
in mind that in wood of the same species there
is a great difference, according to the soil in
which they grow. A tree that grows on a wet,
low, rich ground viii be less solid and less
durable for fuel, and, therefore, of less value
than tree Of the same kind that grows on
dry and poor soil. To the ordinary purchaser
oak is oak and pine is pine; but for house use