The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
TABLE GOSSIP.

TABLE GOSSIP.
The story about Sarah Bernhardrs mar.
rying was hoax.
The Cadets at West Point are prohibited
from using tobacco.
The crowd of office-seekers at Washing.
ton is unprecedentedly large.
A law student of Cincinnati, named Fred
Swarz, has been rendered deaf by smoking
cigarettes.
Charles O'Conor, though eighty years OF
age. is building a $4,000 cottage at Nan.
tucket Mass.
Several National Banks have been found
delinquent in large sums for taxes upon
certain deposits.
1t is suggested in New York to cremate it:
dirt-not by burning the town down, but by
erecting great furnaces in the suburbs.
There are now fifteen Mormon settlement:
in Northern Arizona, with an aggregate
population of 1000, and they are growing
rapidly.
There is more eloquence in the gift of a
dollar to starving family than in the most
charming sermon that was ever preached or
the subject of charity T.
One evidence of our total deprayity is to
be found in the fact that it is extremely
pleasant to run over head andoAats into
debt. and that we are sorry to have 10 pay,
even when we have the money.
When they tried to force Miss Gay, of In
dependence, Mo-, into marriage against
her will. she kicked the minister's hat off
knocked the young man down, and rode of
on a mule, with one foot on each side oi
him.
Never iron a calico dress on the right side.
If ironed smoothly on the wrong side there
will be no danger of white spots and gloss,
which give a new dress done up' tor the
first time the appearance of a ume-worn
garment
A lady who, in consequence of great re-
verse of fortune, has been working for a
fashionable milliner, says she is absolutely
amazed to find to what an extent in the
days of her wealth she was swindled in her
bOnnets and dresses.
A Russian named Kebelkow was born
without legs or arms; yet he eats, drinks,
fires pistols, threads needles and can write
so well that for year and half he acted as
copyist. All this he acquired the ability to
do with his mouth, aided by stump depend
ent from his right shoulder. He Is happily
married and the father of two children. He
lives in Hamburg.
A wealthy Chicago widower is to marry
the wife of Mike Weaver, a notorious
burglar, as soon as she can get divorce.
He made her acquaintance when she re-
turned s., 900 worth of plate and jewelry,
stolen by Weaver, after the latter was sent
to Prison. The woman is pretty and win
some. and, though she herself came from q
a family of thieves, she has none of their
| characteristics.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has thrown all
| the small boys of the city into O profound
state of gloom by issuing proclamation for
bidding the making or selling of fireworks
in that city at any time in the future, and
announcing that he means to enforce the
prohibition to the letter. That this outrage
is to be perpetrated on the very spot which
witnessed the birth of the Fourth of July is
sufficient to make every true patriot shud-
derl
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
writing from Topeka, in Kansas, in regard
to the temperance law, says: "At present
there seems to be general disposition to
fully abide by the letter of the law to the
extent of giving it fair trial, and there are
good people in each community who have
banded together, and resolved to see it en-.
forced in every particular, so far as it is pos
sible to do So" The way to test the law is
rigidly to enforce it, and this Is just what
the people of Kansas should and must do, il
they mean to gain its ends.
Mr. Cook, from the country, fell asleep in
his chair on the veranda of the ST. James
Hotel, st. Louis, and did not wake until 4
o'clock a. m. His watch and $500 in money
had in the mean time been stolen. He was
very angry, and resolved to catch the thief
at any cost of time and trouble. On four
successive nights he feigned sleep in the
same chair, with the brass chain of brass
watch hanging out temptingly, but nobody
touched it. On the fifth night however, the
pickpocket returned He had scarcely
| pulled out the watch when Cook opened fire
with a revolver, and when a surgeon looked
the thief over critically, four bullets were
found in his body.
One of the sturdiest feats in swimming
ever performed in st. Louis was by William
| Barr, who when he plunged In from the
great bridge, desired to commit suicide, but
changed his mind on striking the water.
The suicide of Give Hersee, brother oi
Rose Hersee, the prima donna. recently re-
ported from Colorado, was marked by SIM
liar change of purpose, but in his case he
could not save himself. The Soldene Opera
Company, to which he belonged, were on a
train which was delayed on high bridge
over Clear Creek. AS though suddenly con-
ceiving the idea, he cried, ''Good-by all, -
and jumped from the platform of the car.
once in the water he tried with all his might
to reach the shore, aud his companions
sought to assist him; but swift current
swept him away.
Twenty-Five young women, eleven of them
English and eleven Scotch, played an Inter
national game of football in England. The
teams appeared in costume essentially
similar to that worn by male football play
ers, consisting of jerseys, knickerbockeis
stockings, boots, and Cow" with sort
of sash depending from the waist-the
Scotch teams wearing blue jerseys and red
sashes, and the English red jerseys and blue
shashes. Most of the players were we'll
built, athletic looking girls, and the teams
looked exceedingly picturesque in their
bright and tastefully arranged costumes.
Some retained such feminine ornaments as
frilling, bracelets, etc., but others, with
arms bare to the shoulder, entered into the
game with all the enthusiasm of boys. The
Scotch lassies won-
The Hindoo girls are graceful and ex,
quisitely formed. From their earliest child
hood they are accustomed to carry burdens
on their heads. The water for the family
use is always brought by the girls in earth
en- jars, carefully poised in this way. The
exercise is said to strengthen the muscles of
the back, while the chest is thrown forward.
No crooked backs are seen in Hindostan.
Dr. H. Spry says this exercise of carrying
small vessels of water on the head might be
advantageously introduced into boarding
schools and private families, and that it
might entirely supersede the present ma
chinery of dumb bells, blackboard, skipping
rope, etc. The young ladies ought to be
taught to carry the jar as the Hindoo women
do, without ever touching it with their
hands The same practice of carving water