The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-07-14
CLIPPINGS.
question.

Mr.. TILDEN will soon return General Han
cock IS visit.
IT is estimated that over slO,OOO,OCO year are
expended in private horticulture in Great
Britain and Ireland.
On the 10th of last month there was ice a
quarter of an inch thick in Yorkshire Eng
land, and snow in North Scotland.
THE latest argument. or rather excuse, is
that General Garfield was troubled with emo
tional insanity when he took 1929 from Oakes
Ames without giving value received in return.
THE veteran soldiers and sailors have per-
fected an organization in New York having
for its object the election OF General Hancock
as President. Branches will be orr sanized all
over the North and West.
LONDON LIFE says that Prince Bismarck re-
marked not long since: "I sometimes wish
that my father had carried out the idea of
making me parson. 1t wasvery nearly done,
too. One Of his relative had already place
In sight where should, at the end OF the first
year, have had at least $50 a year. L should
have been n mucn better man had I turned
parson." But the Princess deprecated this
view.
LAURA MARKLE, of Kingston, N. Y, betook
herself to the middle OF a stream to avoid SER
vice OF a summons. The officer pursued her,
and tried to show her the Judges signature,
but Laura declared that he was only trying to
drown her, and knocked the papers from his
hand. They fioated down stream and sank
and he had to strip and dive for them. "Suf-
icient service" quoth the Judge, and the Off
Ger doubtless thought it more than sufficient.
AN old gentleman having packed away
yuh IA ma 10 N nj of Ito Do
into his cellar, found the greenbacks mouIdy.
AS he spread them out in his orchard to dry
while the farmer, his wife, daughter and
hired man guarded them, and the passers by
watched the proceedings, it is hardly wonder
full that he has been twice awakened In the
night by masked burglars. The first time
they got 81 900. The second time the old man
and his wife fought them, the neighbors
chased and caught them, and they are now in
the penltentiary. The old man still keeps his
greenbacks In the house, bslleving them safer
there than in the banks.
AN ingenious boy in Richmond. Va, has a
pigeon box. He fastened upon the front of it
a piece of looking-glass. perhaps fourth OF
square foot in sizs. Some Eogish sparrows
built in this box, and occupied their spare
time in fighting the images OF themselves in
the glass. They would fight by the hour, and
pant with labor and heat, flying vio'ently
against the glass, taking breath, and trying
again and again. They were not observed at
first to do so, but finally they took good-sized
gravel in their mouths and struck the glass
again and again with all their might. Some.
times the gravel was large as a dried black
eye pea. Were the sparrows trying to break
the glass, or is this their way of fighting when
they are very angry?
OF all the myriad bugs which nature has in
vented to poster us, says the Homer (Nev..
Mining Index, the Mill Creek woodtick is boss
The thing has shell like a terrapin, with
mouths all around and q dozen or two of legs)
each one armed with diamond drill. 1t bur
rows into the flesh like a gopher, and often
becomes distenGed with blood to the sizs
of a hazel nut, when it drops of, leaving an
egg in the cavity. This germ causes an 1ntol
erable itching and burning, and sore that is
often difficult to heal. 1t is next TO impossible
to guard against them. Men are attacked in
the most sensitive places, and out of a dozen
persons sitting in a saloon or anywhere else
about here three or four will all the time be
popping up rs If hoisted out of a pigeon trap,
shrieking "Godlemity!" The new conner is
startled and inquiries the cause of this queer
ness. The reply is: wood ticks" Carpet tacks
and patent rat traps amt nothin' to them.