The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
TABLE GOSSIP.

From 1S4S to January /. 1881, California
turned out in gold and silver 81, 139, 25S, 600
A wolf bit sixteen persons in a village
| near Naples, nine of whom d;ed of hydro
| phobia.
About s., SOC, 600 has been expended on
| the Mississippi River, aside from the jetties
| since, the formation of the Government.
Don Piatt says: Prom the recent terrible
marine disasters We are led to decide that
water is becoming more dangerous to human
life than whisky"
There is in Berlin an establishment called
| the Orfaneum, which consists of beer gar
den, wine cellar, restaurant a lodging
house, dance hall, and a stage, all in one
building.
In reference to the marriage of Lady Bur
dett-Coutts, London paper thinks it neces-
sary to state that should there be issue 1.-THE
bride is sixty-six) the eldest son will inherit
the title, but he and the other children will
bear the name Of the father.
Mr. and Mrs Garfield are being badgered
half out of their lives by persons who urge
them to pursue the course adopted by Presi-
dent Hayes-have no wines at their state
dinners. And yet they say that President
Hayes can drink wine as well rs any man at
other peoples tables.
A little boy visited his uncle on his birth
day and congratulated him. He then asked
his uncle if he washed himself. why sop
asked his uncle, patting the innocent little
prattler on the head. Because papa said if
you did the clean thing you'd give me a
dollar, at least
Mrs. Garfield is understood to have said
that she will not interfere with the Presi-
NAL dinners, and her Washington friends
say that she will confine herself to the af
fairs of her private household, with which
the public has nothing to do.
Jennie June criticises little women who
swathe themselves with great folds of heavy
material, drag loaded trains and carry
pounds of beads. She says: ''See a woman
in plain high gown of brown satin with
rutfles of fine lace and string of amber
| beads around her neck-a dress that is not
an obstacle, that even if it is long is easily
taken up. That is taste"
A man in Warren County, Kentucky
drives an OK team that once belonged to an
Incorporate man, and that got 50 used to stop
| ping for him at saloons that now when pass
ing saloon the animals will not move un
til their new owner goes in to get drink
| He doesn't care for liquor, he saws, but i:
obliged TO drink 10 get his team along. He
has refused 5000 tor the oxen.
A writer in the "home" column OF ar
Illinois paper has been TO Washington anC
says: "At the hotel table | seen at least {
half dozen Eastern Congressman and theil
families eating meat stews potatoes and pie
with the sharp edge of the knife toward
their mouths. | do not believe there is
family in the West fit to provide a Congress
man that does not know enough in eating
to turn the dull back of the knife to tn,
mouth.
In report lately published in France or
the tobacco trade, a Government monopoly
some curious statistical facts are stated. IL
the first place, the greatest number Of snuff
takers are found in the departments which
surround Paris, four of these department
heading the list with consumption pc
head of between three-quarters of pound
and one pound. The departments in which
} the practice is carried on the least are Doubs
Pyrences Orientalis, Mord, Haut Rhin, ant
Haute Savoie, where the consumption pc
head is only one-quarter of pound. Tn
singular thing is that Nord and Haut Rhil
are two out of three departments in whicl
smoking is almost universal, the averag
consumption in this particular form reach
, ing as far as four pounds per head. Ii woul,
seem, therefore, from these statistics tina
shutting and smoking go, in France at al
events, in inverse proportion to each other
, II is mentioned also, incidentally that tn
departments which most encourage smut
taking are those in which the most cider j
drunk France, after ALL is not such
nation of tobacco consumers as she Is gener
ally believed TO be; for she is surpassed il
: the annual consumption per head by tn
United States (where it is six poi n Isl tn
Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hun
gary, Germany, Sweden and Russia.