The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-20
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THE Salt Lake Tribune says there never
time when many young girls were going into
polygsmy as at present.
The Kelly Motor Conpany's President. Edward
Randall. of New York, has a faith IN the motor ss
immovable as the motor itself.
ARTHUR takes the straight old stuff. And not
an inferior order of go ds either but of old Ken
lucky bourbon, at SIS gallon
A MICHIGAN woman describes her ascending
husband as of "a fried pork complexion" The
detective exultingly made noteof it.
THE production of beer in the United States last
year amounted to ten and one-halt gallons for
every man, woman and child in the country.
A DEMOCRATIC paper in Ohio. says that Judge
Foraker would be taken for doctor a Cry
goods clerk" Doctors thus know how they look
AFTER a long discussion in the newspapers 1t
mas at last been settled that If the girls mother
keeps q boarding house man can marry on SIS
week.
THE Rochester Herald says that a variety of
canker-worm hitherto unknown IN that section has
attacked the young apple trees in nurseries south
of the city.
GEORGIA man let black calf chase him up
tree and kept him there all night. When he OBJ
served next morning that Inc calf was not a bear,
he Drained it.
HARPER's wEEKLY says there is a book canvasse
in New York City who earned last year by commits
sons his sales not less than SIS 900. and thst he
has done similarly well for several years.
AGE is telling heavily on Theodore Tilton. His
once jet black locks now hang over his shoulders
in ragged tangles of grey his eyes look heavy and
there are deep wrinkles all over his face.
A YOUNG woman of Troy who has been crossed
in love has gone into boiler shop to work. She
says the din of the hammers is the only thing
that keeps her from thinking and insanity.
THE Fitchburg. Mass. Sentinel says that 1.-The
argument for biennial sessions never was strong
as at present and the next Legislature will fnev-
lably be elected the issue of biennial sessions"
i'll. Cochin. of Cape Town, South Africa, re-
porter of twenty five years experience can report
in Short hand accurately in five different Ian
guages-Latin. French Spanish, Italian and
English.
THE Democratic Presidential nomination vii
be between Hancock and Randall says the Mem
phis Avalanche. Hancock may get it. but sam
Randall stands a better chance of being struck
with lightning.
WHEN ground was broken for the new Methodist
Church at Youngstown, o., the young ladies of
excavation. One hundred of them went to work
with new spades.
JOHN KEAPP. the oldest Odd Fellow in the
United States, is a very odd fellow indeed. At the
age OF eighty two he is on trial in Adrian, Mich,
for immoral conduct, and his correspondent is
Mary kellogg. eyed ninety five.
OAKEY HALL is going to publish in Truth his
Iecollecuons Of men, women, society, municipal
matters, etc extending over period of thirty
years. II Mr. Halls memory is entirely good this
ought to make mighty interesting reading.
MorJEsKA has had it announced that her hus.
band, the CoIrt Boxer IA. has taken out his first
naturalization papers, also that her only son, hav-
il just graduated in Paris. is his way to meet
his mother ia this country, where be will follow
civil engineering.
A NORTH CAROLINA woman. aged ffty-iour. has
just begun to learn to read Probably she in
formed by enemy tina, her name was in one OF
the lacal papers. When wOman's curiosity is
once aroused there is no telling what she'll do Ia
order to crafty it.
COURAGE and assurance count for good deal In
political contest for. if the Democrats advocated
tariff reform with one half the boldness that the
Republicans display in their defense Of protection,
they would carry the country overwhelmingly in
their favor in the next National eleetion.-Boston
Herald QndD
WILL you please tell me what is proper for a
lady to do when she is serenaded?" In romance
it is usually written 1.-THE curtains were seen to
hutter and white hand emerged and tossed down
rose" In real lie the heroine generally sleeps
through it, and, if she wakes, had better usually
do nothing-The Continent.
LITTLE boy baby fell out of third story win
dow, at Philadelphia and as luck would have il
fell plump into the basket of an old woman who
was passing by aud was rescued unhurt. The de-
lighted parents rewarded the old lady literally
though she stoutly insisted that 1T warn't me-
mum, but Providence"
on the 9th of July Mr. Beecher will start on his
Western journey. He will lecture in California
Oregon and Washington Territory. and viii WISH
his son. Herbert Foote Beecher. who has a resi-
dence at Seattle. w. T., and is the Captain OF 9
steamer on Puget Sound. in the employ of the Pa
eifc Railroad and Navigation Company.
THAT the craze for acting among the upper
TEN of London society is pretty strong. the fol
lowing note from one manager to another appears
TO prove: my Dear / am IA immediate wan
Of several guests for my coming revival should
be much obliged to you. therefore, If you would
kindly send me two three Earls at your earliest
| convenience"
BEFORE cutting a mans head Off in China the
authorities considerably make him drunk; and
occasionally e Iich convict who has been sent
enced to death will hire rather buy. coolie tC
take his place. The oooie leads riotous life fol
some little time befO. ehand and ct last. in a state
OF besotted helplessness. meets death without ap
parent suffering.
| The Columbus (Cia.l sun says people who are
given to asking uncomfortable questions are be
ginning 10 want to know what our Government
has really made out of the $1,000 900 which she
paid for Alaska sixteen years ago. For their peacC
OF mind we will state that volcanic discoverie,
have been made there. aad that at least crateu
/ sIe constantly dischargiog lava. All we want now
! Is d market for lava.
| A PITIsBUEG Jury gave verdict against a rail
road Company for the amount of money stole;
from passenger in a sleeping car "Since the de
| fendsnt' ssid the Judge. ''sold s. ticket for two
dollars in addition 10 the regular rates OF passage
and offered the fscili les for sleeping nc an induce
ment to pay the extra money, il bound itself Il
protect its patrons while they were asleep and fo
the time being helpless"
PADUcAH young man took his girl on q ii shinS
excursion 10 the Illinois lakes. They embarked
upon an improvised raft, the frail bark soon wen