The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-09-05
CURRENT NOTES.

Tngsurplus OF the Post Office for the year Just
closed was e, 500 600.
JUDGE over in Csuads decided the other
day that man had a right 20 whip ais wife If she
neededi..
gold piece and IL Is prorO ed TO capitalize him at
q, 600 GOO, and launch him on the Eastern mining
market.
WHEN an Arkansas man let II be known that he
was going to ride over 70 the Corners 70 slsy man
who had sold him a spawned mule four of his
neighbors went along TO see the killing and have
chance to draw pay as witnesses.
FoR the last ten years a mammoth apple tree
belonging 70 Able Schofeld, OF Adair County
Missouri, has prssented its owner with twenty
barrels of fruit each season. II measures seven
feet in circumference near the ground.
The liz htning struck a man out in Ohio and
when thenews was 5rokon 10 his wife she asked.
in SAD but surprised tone OF voice: as he desd?
YES" was the reply. poor John; then the
lightning must have struck him more than once
ALBUQUERQUE. y. Mex. boasts of being the
youngest town in the world lighted with electrici-
ty. Albuquerque is infant OF three years,
which, after tSelye months experience with gas,
outgrew that aRtiqusted illuminatOr and in
stalled the electric light in its streets and public
buildings.
CLEVELAND has a young lady with ballet IN
her train. Although she shot only three
weeks ago her condition has so steadily improved
that she is now able to be about the house and
has actually gone down the street q saopping.
Her physician, however, declares tina: she IS not
, ct out of danger.
THE road agents who recently robbed a coach in
Montana, rsnged,the men in line with hands no
and relieved them of ali their valusbes. They
then rsssed a bottle of whisky and box OF cigars
compelling each one 10 take a drink and a smoke.
One Of the VI fortunates mad never smoked q cigar
In his life. but under the persuasive and urgent
invitation Of the gentlemanly robbers he lit his
frst cigar, and possibly the pleasure he will de-
rive in the future from smoking will compensate
him for the loss he sustained.
THE year 1882 was not a prosperous one in the
Gire nde, the great caret producing department OF
France. Several causes contributed to the depres-
sion, but the phylloxera was by far the most i'm
portant of evil. For years previous to 1875
the average annual vintage of the GirOnde was
49, 0CO gallons; last year it was 81 $751; 7o0 Mr..
Ssdler, the British Vice Consul at La Rochelle. in
bis Official report says that owners of Vineyards
have lost all confidence in insecticides and now
pin their faith, slight IT IS TO the experiment OF
planting American vines.
THE country has been badly imposed upon by
alleged limitations of the style OF dress Of the
English nobility and gentry. An American who
desires to look Ike real English lord viii do well
10 follow these directions: Let him get friend
two sizes larger than himself to order three suits
Of tweed OF different colors; let the large man
wear them till they bag. Then let the small man
put on the coat Of one suit. the vest of another,
the trousers of the third, and with silk bandanns
for a necktie. rum plug hat red face, wall
eye and a big stick. he will look II he had come
over to join the Northern Pacific excursion.
II public contest can settle such question, 1t
has been settled fer all England If not the world
that man can do more work on ale than water.
The one man, in England. bet the other IS that he
could cut fifteen of grain in less time than
his temperance opponent. They went at it with
will, No. l drinking only ale as a beverage, No.
drinking only water as q beverage. The crowd
was great, and the friends of each expectant. For
a long time il looked as though water would sure
ly win, but later ale spurted ahead and distanced
water by full acre. The temperance people are
detected, and now declare that they forgot 70 men
ton before that their mao physically inferior
TO his competitor.