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

ION SCOTT Is going 10 Europe again.
Tony PASTOR has got to be very rich.
A BROTHER of John c. Calhoun is lawyer
in Atlanta.
THE New Orleans Times does not believe in
the continued solidity of tne South as po-
litical base.
THE Benton county Democratic delegation
TO the State convention has been instructed
for Mr.. Landers for governor.
THE following advertisement appears in a
Boston paper: 'Wanted-l00 cats and kittens;
I will pay fair price. A. W."
THE Grand Rapids (Nlich.) Democrat flies the
names OF Hendricks and Potter at the head of
its columns for the next presidential ticket.
bob" BURDErrE, of the Burlington Hawk
eye, has broken down in health, and is COM
PEELED TO cancel many lecture engagements,
THERE must be a great deal of virtue in an
air cushion, as Peter Cooper has. with the as
sstance Of one, reached his ninetieth birth
day.
LITTLE fellow who was asked how John
the Baptist was clothed, answered: "In coarse
garments of camel's hair eight locusts and
wild honey"
IT is rumored In England that Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett is about to organize a racing
stable at Newmarket, which will be under the
management of Sir William Call.
LOUIS "A. MoBERLY (Democrat) was re-
elected mayor of Frederick, Md, on Monday,
by 50 majority, over David H. Moberly, his
brother, and the Republican candidate.
CHARLES O'CoSoR, In spite of mis- years, is
still great walker. He attributes the extra
ordinary preservation of his physical and
else.
AN Illinois justice, VINO was called upon to
marry couple, ran off with the girl and
welded her himself, leaving the lover In his
office to look over law books and spit on the
stove.
THE head waiter Of a hotel is the chap who
comes to inquire how you are getting along
after you have been served. During the half
hour you are waiting for a waiter he is not
visible.
IF a few hundred tons of the good white pa
per which is wasted in printing ephemereI
presidential gossip were put to Legitimate
journalistic uses there would be no difficulty
in breaking down the papermakers' con-
spiracy.
THE lawyers say that the 18th and 9th of
wants to know IL he's to work through both
days for one day pay. He says he shall be
content II his landIady's board bill is con-
structed on the same legal principle.
Snow was riding on horseback near Sonora,
Cal. The horse threw him of by kicking hard
against q rock. He was about to give the beast
a sound whipping, when he saw gold glisten-
ing where a piece a the rock had been broken
off, Thus a valuable quartz lode was discov-
cred, and a horse escaped punishment.
NEW HAVEN Republican writes to the
Springfield Republican recommending the re-
nomination of President Hayes. He says:
There seems very little doubt that a careful
count of the people of the United States to.day
would show a large preponderance of feeling
In favor OF the continuance Of the present ad.
ministration."
THERE Is an old negro in tn. northern por-
ton OF New York who assures his fellow
freemen that 1t is all lie about Kansas
winters being so cold. He says that he was
born In Kansas, and he knows that IL is very
little colder there than in Louisiana, and that
sotton doeh as well there. The old man came
from Arkansas and has got things mixed. He
says you can't fool him" Kansas, Arkansas.
ali de same"
A CHICAGO clergyman began a recent ser
mon with the following story of man who
was noted for his ugliness: Being at party,
he had taken no part In the dance, as his host
ess had some difficulty In providing him with
a partner. At last she led up to him prim
and aged spinster, at the same time whisper