The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-02-22
GENERAL NOTES.

| Kick your corn through windOw-giasS
and the pane is gone forever.
In old England they used to hang a wo-
man for merely knocking" dress.
The man who has never uttered an I'M
truth may lie at the point of death.
At Richmond last week, a lady called
upon a Notary and took oath as Director of q
1 bank in Texas.
Are Church choirs put at the back end of
/ Churches to accommodate the timid 'wor-
shippers who can not face the music?
New York Commercial: The man who
praises his wife's cooking on washdays is
bound sooner or later to be an angel.
Ten barrels of apples were handed out in
the streets of Cleveland the other day. On
each apple was stencilled the advertisement
of show.
The difference between a punched half
dollar and q paying silver mine is, one is
com with a hole in it and the other is a hole
with coin it.
Tile first senior class of Colorado Univer
sity will be graduated this year. 1t has six
members. The whole number Of students
now in attendance is lis.
Little drops of water lin the milk and
little drops of sand lin the sugar. are what
make the big fortunes of the humble milk
man and the obscure grocers.
THE second cousins of the corpse will
now come forward and take their places, .
the undertaken announced ut a funeral, with
considerable pomp and dignity.
...Never milk while the COW is eating, is
the advice of a bucolic contemporary. Judg-
ing from the character of some milk it
would be more to the point never to milk
when the COW is drinking.
Bismarck IL a great man, but when an
English paper charges him with having a
nose like turnip dug out Of tie ground
after long winter he feels tae Lie just as
much as if his salary was Only 81 week.
| There was once woman who could carry
an umbrella without scraping the points
across the face OF every person on the same
side of the street. But she was side show
with a circus and was seven feet four inches
iigh.
Jones is a timid man. He lives out of
town, and out of town he has remained for
month. Every morning he starts for the
train, gets nearly as far as the railroad, sees
the red flag at the station and returns home
ward, wondering how much longer that ease
Of smallpox is to keep him away from the
depot.
A Philadelphia man has invented an cleo
trio Church pew, which will accomplish
good. They are of metal and so connected
with the pulpit by powerful battery that
during the sermon the congregation is walked
up by powerful shock. 1t will fill long
felt want.
Ine5rate stumbles against pedestrian.
Pedestrian, Indignantly: Now, then where
are your eyes? Couldn't you see me?"
''Thash allri-I shaw you-shaw you
double" 'Well, then, why don't you keep
clear of me and not bump against me in
that fashIon?" Gosh 1 thought I'd pass
between you. SHEEP"
you may say what you please" solemnly
remarked red-nosed listener to a temper
ance lecturer, but whisky once saved my
| life" How was that?" why, / wanted
drink so bad that l got up once in the mid
die of the night and went out to hunt for a
saloon. While l was gone the house caught
fire and burned ap my wife"
The Hartford Times is authority for say
ing that the latest rage among young male
idioJs of the lily and sunfiower breed, is for
the collection of hair pins from young ladies'
These are stitched into albums and marked
with the names of their former wearers. In
the matter of brains and general solidity the
hair pin has the advantage of these fellows
Two butchers in Kansas City clinched and
] fought in dispute over the Sulliv sn-Ryan
prize fight. One of them threw the other
over beer keg breaking his neck Cor
oneT's Jury cxonerated him from all blame
4 -DcIndDS OH the any DOUN VINO
would fight a bout so well-settled a dispute
as the late prize fight, deserved to have his
neck broken.
Montana people are calling for paper
mill. They say that they have plenty Of
cottonwood and straw for pulp, and besides
the advantages of good wEter-power. have
springs of boiling hot water which can be
utilized. With hot water, cold water, straw,
chemicals and pulp already to hand, why
ffl,
/ paDer-maker?
Oscar Wilde is said to have received a
| guinea a line for the short poem by him in
Our Continent" As the poem is thirty
lines long this brings his pay for the trifle
up to $50. Men have been paid more.
TennysOn once received $50 a line, but no
verse in recent years has been quoted higher.
in the present case the money is well spent
in securing deal of gratuitous advertising.
Two clergymen of Fauquer, Va, went
into Court with their dispute as to the own
ership of So calf Each owned a COW which,
he claimed. was the mother of the calf. The
Justice went with the Jury and litigants to
a pasture, where the two COWS were let loose
| for the youDgster to choose between, and the
question was so quickly and Enthusiastically
settled by the bTutes that the Jury gave
verdict without further hesitation.
Boston philanthropists are trying anew
the plan OF keeping men out OF bar-rooms
by enticing them into coffee houses. They
have opened what they call a coffee place,
and Governor Long tremendously drank
the first cup of coffee. As an offset to the
rum sellers seductive free lunches all sorts
of temperance comforts for the stomach are
provided at extremely low prices. a smOk-
| ing room. a billiard room. and rooms for
reaking and games considered innocent are
free to all weil-behaved men and boys.
A new violin genius has suddenly APP
peared in Italy-a little girl, whose name is
Tua. Her father, very poor man, scraped
little money together to buy a violin for
himself. HIS next extravaganza was to buy
his wife guitar. When the little girl was
| three years old she taught herself, and played
in such an incredible style on the violin that
the father Immediately undertook to pro-
duce her as prodigy. When she was seven
she arrived in Paris. There she was brought
to Massari, who was so struck with her preco-
cious talent that he at once offered to take
her into the Conservatoire. To this the
father objected. But the sensation which
the child created was such that a subscrip-