The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-01
CURRENT NOTES.

Tor fear he may be taken for one of bs
Wilde animals.
Boston Express: If you must dabble il
shares, try plowshares. No other kind pay
regular dividends.
One redeeming feature of Mormonism
seems to be that il does not throw the bur
den OF the support of a husband on one
woman.
The blush of maiden is caused by nature
fsending ont a signal of warning The blush
OF an editor is caused by sending out a
pitcher for beer.
Electricity is being used successfully to
hive bees.-Ex. Yes, and the telegraph is
often used to hive birds-Jail birds. Won
deEful are the uses of electricity.
An old sailor was observed to be always
!. hanging about the door of Church when a
marriage was taking place. He explained
that he liked to see the tide going out.-Cin-
cinnati Saturday Night
Mary Walker has received Congressional
clerkship that pays her So day. 1t really
seems now as if il was the duty of this
woman to marry man and support him.
Philadelphia Chronicle
There will be a rupture when Mr.. SulIi-
vans eye lights on these remarks of the Chi
cago Times: Mr. ]. Sullivan, of Boston,
has won the champion belt from p. Ryan,
of Troy. 1t takes the form of truss
"Strike while the iron is hot" SAYS the
proverb, but when the old man is on a
| strike and his wife is compelled to Support
the family by taking in washing, she has to
iron while the strike is hot-Cincinna.i
Saturday Night
The New Orleans Picayune notes that vel
low dogs follow in the wake of the sun
flower craze. About dozen yellow dogs in
an aesthetic parlor might break up tae whole
b1sineSs.-but there is no telling -New
Haven Register.
The editor of the Virginia (Ne ~ Enter
| prise, being accused of being a Briton. pleads
guilty. He declares in extenua ion. how
ever, that he has "endeavored in his own
person to make ample atonemens for that
terrible mistake of his early life"
An average man gives off 40S per cent
carbonic gas of the air he respires; respires
10 666 cubic feet of catbonic acid gas in
twenty-four hours, and consumes 1869
cubic feet of oxygen, four drinks and an
average of three five cent cigars a day.--Sta-
tistical Crank.
"How beautiful the dome of Heaven this
evening" said Angelica as she leaned heav-
lily on his arm. The stars seem to look
down upon US" "0h, yes" said practical
John, tits impossible for them TO look up
to us, you know. They cawn't'-New
Haven Register.
The Jersey Board of Education recently
charged lady teacher, through the Princi-
PAL of incOmpetency. The lady teacher put
i'll counter charge that the reason the Prin-
cipal thought her incom petent was because
she wouldn't let him walk home with her.
Lady teacher retained.
n New York policeman swallowed beef
bone at dinner the other day, and it LAGER
ated his throat in such a manner that it is q
chance if he lives. The obvious moral OF
this touching incident is to have beef bones
finely ground before they are fed to police
men.-New Haven Register.
Give us man, young or old, high or low,
on whom we know we can thoroughly de-
pend-who will stand firm when others fall
the friend faithful and true, the adviser
honest and fearless, the adversary just and
chivalrous; in such an one there is frag-
ment of the, Rock of Ages.-Dean Stanley.
81 declare, don't know what shall do,
the thermometer varies SOL said New
Haven woman this morning. "One day it's
as high as forty, and the next day it is down
to nothing at all. / don't see why they
can't make them permanent so we shall al
ways know just what the weather is''-New
Haven Register.
Liverpool mas ship stationed in her har-
Dor whose mission it is to reform the young
vagabonds that grow up in that city, Man.
chester and o.her Northern towns. During
/ the past years two men who were reformed
and educated on board this vessel were ap-
pointed to command large merchant ships,
and seven were made chief officers.
The French Able Maury was very fond of
joke, and during the days of the Reign of
Terror, when everything royal was pro-
scriDed, he frightened a poor furrier into
| changing the words under his sign of a tiger
from Royal Tiger" to National Tiger"
But the populace thought this was slur
upon their principles, and half killed the
poor man before he could explain how he
came to changeit
| A young man who was cleft OUT of
Cleveland surprise party invited the young
| lady who was to be surprised TO go with hira
TO the Theater that evening. She did so,
and the company which called on her, after
waiting around well nigh unto Sunday
morning, when the young lady came back
with him from the Theater, understood ex-
actly what had become of that surprise"
when the two walked in together
1t is asserted that the nutritiousness of
apples has never been properly appreciated,
and that they are far more nourishjng than
/ potatoes. Cornish workmen say that they
can work better on baked apples than on
potatoes. There is dish in Cornwall called
squash pie. made of mutton, with slices of
potato, apple and onion, and, strange as 1T
may seem to many, 1t Is excellent. Corn
wall is the country for meat pies as the
miners carry their dinners with them in that
| form.
Mr. Henry e. Abbey has chartered two
palace cars for Madame Patti and Edwin
Booth. For each of these he pays $50 day,
but his stars have their homes in them dur
ing the entire trips. So convenient has this
system become that the Messrs. Brooks d
Dickson speak of buying palace car out
right for the use of their attractions, and
there is proposition by which Brooks &
Dickson and Mr.. Abbey would become half
partners in another FtTst-claSs stars are
beginning to demand this convenience
1t happened not thousand miles from
Wabash. An estimable Irish lady took her
children to the photographer Ito have their
likeness tuck" She said: me Oldest by
wurruks at the - factory; wud you please
put him in wild the rist of 'em?' The man
who makes faces explained the impossible
ity of granting her request, and succeeded
in producing good negative of 1.-THE chill
ders." The old lady surveyed the picture
with evident satisfaction, but came back,
after reaching the door, TO say: Mister,
couldn't yez put me in there wild the dar-
lints?"
A young New York farmer fell in love
with pretty young woman who came to
make visit in his town. wooed and won
her, insisting upon the marriage at once, to
which she consented. A number of guests |
were invited the two were married, all the |
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