The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-04

Tooth birthday last Wednesday. There were
present seventeen grandchildren, twenty sreat-
grandchildren, and four great-great-grand-
children.
A WISCONSIN, drummer has also tried the lex
pertinent Of marrying five wives in different sec
lions of abe country, but has been brought up
with sudden. Three Is the limit Of safety.
RosASNA CUTTER. OF Natick, R. l., aged los. is
dim of sight and weak of memory. passing the
time in drinking strong tea and monotonously
knitting all day and unraveling at nights pair OF
socks which she began thirteen years ago. Ros-
anna should be added 10 the Tariff Commission.
LADY BRooKE's toilet at the Queens LAST draw
ing room reception is described as "a marvellous
arrangement in white Of Venetian velvet fairy
lsces sewn with pearls. ostrich plumes and an
tique diamond buttons''-in fact, as the London
World says, "a perfect replica Of the costume in
the celebrated picture of Nell Gwynne."
MINNESOTA school teacher asked the Com
mittee II they would sustain him II he thrashed
an obstreperous young lady pupil, and they said
they would. Then he went for her, and when
the fight was over the girl ran home laughing
and left him standing outdoors subdued, and
seeking to borrow q suit OF clothes
A WISCONSIN farmer, pretentious as to piet y
took q ten-year-old boy out Of charity institu-
ton, promising to rear him properly. The lad
lied one day, and the good man slit his tongue
with pair Of scissors. AS this punishment was
preceded by horse-whipping, proddings with a
pitchfork, ana suspensions by the heels, a Grand
Jury has indicted the dikciplinarian.
CHIEF JUSTICE GARTER, of the Supreme Court
OF the District of Columbia the other day inter
rupted lawyer who was saying that 1.-The making
OF his will is one of the most noble acts of a
| mans Hfe.' Nr. Cartier spoke up in dissent,
urging that will-making is dissgreeable job 10
most men. He concluded in this way: IF a man
could take his possessions with him. all the prop
erty of the earth would now be either 10 heaven
or hell"
ARETURN of the shipping and TO image which
has passed through the Suez Canal from its open
ing 1859 to the end OF last year has been issued
a Parliamentary paper. This shows that the
emount of 1882 far exceeded that of any previous
year. OF the total of S,l9s ships las against 2,727
| in 1881 which passed through the Canal in 49,
1850 were English, their gross tonnage being
5795, 5s, against lS26 SAL the gross tonnage Of
| the foreign vessels.
"ASD what, in the name Of goodness. is this?',
| something into the room and dropped it at heI
feet. This is my shirt, darling, and 1 viii be
greatly obliged II you will sew on button fol
me-" David Davis said the lady Eternly
when You bring me your shirt will sew on a
button for you with pleasure, as becomes fond
and dutiful wife; but just now, sir, must insist
upon your removing this circus canvass from my
apartment"
OLIVE LOGAN met Carl Rosa on the street In
London the other day. and straightway wrote of
TO the Philadelphia Times in this reminiscential
mood: IF Carl Rosa is no longer the slender vio-
! linist Of lang syne, Romeo chef d'orches.re. am
the Juliet of proportions symmetrical that was?
No, SIR, / am not. lam one of those women de-
picted with such humor by Hawthorne, who,
starting life as violet, have in course of years
expanded to the dimensions Of the dahlia." This
is certainly frank enough but it should be re-
membered that Olive says it of herself.
THOMAS H. HERNDoS. the member-elect to
Congress from the First District of Alabama died
at Mobile last week, sged ffty-fve years. Mr..
| Herndon. who was a cousin of the wife of Presi-
| dent Arthur, was graduate OF the Harvard Law
School. He entered public life as a member Of
the Alabama Legislature ia 1857. he was one OF
the members Of the State Convention which de
clared fo- secession in 1861. and subsequently en-
| tered the Army as Major. He reached the rank OF
Colonel and was twice wounded He ran as the
Democratic candidate for Governor in 1872. he
was subsequently elected to the Legislature and
served two t. ms in Congress.
A FEW weeks since an old woman, upward oil
ninety years of age, died at place called EglIn-
ton, near Londonderry. The usual arrangements
for the future were made, including a wake. The
coffin was closed and taken 10 the place of inter
ment, where the service was duly gone through
the coffin lowered, and the grave filed in. On
returning home, however the relatives were sur
prised to find the corpse of the old woman lying
on the bed upon which she had expired. They
had simply forgotten to put her in the coffin.
They took her to the grave il. cart, dug up the
empty GOTTA, placed her in IL, and eventually
had her securely planted.
THE Washington correspondent OF the Boston
Traveller says that an antique furniture store in
the District contains a very ingenious brass
breech-loading cannon made By Frederick well
known gunner OF the war time 1t will shoot a
| two-ounce ball distance OF a mile. This cannon
was once the property of little Tad Lincoln.
II was one OF a pair made for the boy by the gun
ner. the second cannon being a perfect model oil
the celebrated Dahlgren gun. The second piece
was bought by Mrs. Dahlgren the other day, but
not until after Secretary Lincoln had called at the
| store and verified the property as having once be
longed to ais brother Tad" Mr.. Lincoln says
that his mother would not let little "Tad" keep
them because she regarded them as altogethe
too dangerous weapons to be used for laythings
She gave them away to the man who subsequent
ly placed them on sale in the antique store.
THE number of suicides committed in Berlin
during the month of February exceeded by 80 per
cent those recorded I'm January. Hanging was
the mode Of death selected in the great majority
of cases. Want and misery were, of course, the
chief causes which determined so many persons
30 put end to their existence: but in cases
no motive whstever could be assigned. March
has begun badly. Several suicides were registered
on the I'd, among which were included the sui
eide of whole family. A merchant named
solvin. who had been ruined by unfortunate
populations, pursuaded his wife and child to take
poison, aud then did so himself The daughter,
a girl of twelve, had managed in her last mo
ments to think OF her doll, which found
dressed IN white and put carefully away in its