The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-13
CURRENT NOTES.

CURRENT NOTES.
The Gar cried at the coronation.
THE Chinaman is 2 600 strong in New York City.
TEN feet of solid honey was found in a Georgia
bee tree.
NINE was sold in Montana last week fos
81, $4,000.
A GERMAN syndicate has purchased 100000
acres of land in Mississippi at sl.S5 per acre.
AN eccentric young lady of New York has sen
out cards in which she announces her matrimonial
engagement "off."
DON PEDRO is about to start upon his travels
again. Even in his old age he likes to get away
from home occasionally.
NJ. DE LEssEPs is telling his friends that he ex-
poets 10 have another christening in his family.
1t will be the tenth of the kind.
A MAN named Gasbill asked the Arkansas Lsgis.
lsture to change his name and it was done with
out asking his reasons for desiring it.
THE New Orleans Picayune says that several
young ladies of that city Will try to gain admission
into the Medical College there this fall.
RuNoR has i. thai General ShermaD's youngest
daughter, Miss Rachel, is betrothed to ex-5ecre-
tary Blaine's second son, Mr.. Emmons Blaine.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is 10 describe in the July
number of the North American Review the D at
he took in compelling the surrender OF General
Lee.
AMASUScRIPT of st. Patrick. In Latin. has been
discovered in the Royal Library at Brussels Il
formerly belonged to an Irish monastery al wurz.
bury.
SOMEBODY has cared enough about Mrs. Frsnce'
| Hcosson Burnett 20 inquire who her husband is.
| he is q clerk in OF the Government Oil rs.
Washington City.
THEODORE THROWS once fair brown locks
hang bis shoulders in ragged tauges of grav.
MS eyes look heavy aud jaded, and there are deep
wrinkle ell over his face.
| ms. GENERAL sHERNAS must be the model
wife. The General boasts of having kissed 80 per
cent of the preitiest girls in the land. and yet
hear no motion for divorce.
SNAKE bites arc said to CAUSE the death of % 20
people in India during some years The great
American antidote for snake bites Kills more ps)
lie than that, every year. in this country.
YOUNG lover in Iowa paid $40 for a locomotive
10 run thirty-hve miles to see his girl aud when
he got there the family bull dog ran him two
/ miles and didn't charge him q cent. Bun dogs
have no souls.
! SENATOR FAIR is said to have thought his wife
too plain too dull, too uninterestng to occupy the
head of his table at his banquets. All this may be
changed since she has received verdict of 81 25e
eco almOny against him.
! CoNGRRssMAN PHIL THOMPSON has been offered
sl5O 600 for one-thrd interest in mine in Summit
County, Colorado. He has gone 70 New York to
see about it, as well as about some valuable pat
| enis in which he is Interested.
AwEALTHY Englishman living in Naples lately
imported, for his only child's wedding, splendid
wedding cake Forty boxes OF 1t were sent-afser
communicating with the postal authorities the
Post Office, They never got beyondit.
Ex-CoSGREssNAN JANIS NJ ASHLEY. Of Ohio, OF
Andrew Johnson impeachment fame, is a frequent
visitor to New York City, and may often be seen
down town. He makes his headquarters at the
AstOr House. Mr.. Ashley long ago gave up poll
tics.
IT has cone out that friends OF Harvard Uni
versiiy, foreseeing something like this Butler di
lemma, tried 10 persuade Governor Long (who is a
g1adsate three years ego TO fOrego the degree and
break the custom. But Long could not bring hirE-
self TO tee sacrifice.
Two Connecticut doctors are quarreliug as to
which of them killed undertaken, who was
sick and employed them. The surprise is OF
course that sn undertaken should call q doctor
especially two doctors. One would suppose that
he had learned better.
WHEN Senator Anthony visited the Provid anee
Journal Office the other Gay he sat at his ace IS
toned desk, refreshing himself with draughts o.
Pawinxet water from the old cOcoanut dilper, aud
surprised and grauffed all who him by his
improved appearance.
TIE death is ANNOUNCED OF King Osmoru, one Of
the soveresgns of the African coast. This monarch
wss, as the saying is, very much manned He he'd
10 wives and 80 children. = of toe latter being
sun alive HIS eldes. aud success is uxoT
ous a. his father, having already Az wives
IT was the halt Of Poushkeepsie family to
put their silverware in basket az night and take
II upstairs for safe-keeping. This had been done
every night for FIVE years, but one sght last week
the basket was forgotten. and that night burglars
entered the house and carried IL off with its coz
ien,s.
THE largest mule IN the world was sold at X an
sas City. last month II was eighteen AID three
iour.hs hands high, weighed 97j pounds, meas
uIed fifteen feet froaa nose to tail. and WIS six
years ole. Somebody viii please rise up now and
eel kick story commensurate with tho size o.
Ike beast.
MS EwING, colored. of Franklin. Team, on
Tuesday sent her niece, eight years old 10 saloon
for quart of whisky. The Girl got the whisky
sno, before getting home, drank the entire con
tents OF the bottle Che then went on home, and
il few minutes after entering the house. she
dropped dead.
Mr.. PULITzER's success is said to be largely due
to his wifes talent. sympathy and pluck. The
wife of Colonel Mcclure, Of the Philadelphia
Times, Is a large stakeholder in the paper. The
Times Democrat Of Kew Orleans is mainly owned
by Mrs. Burke. while Mrs. Nicholson is the con
trolling spirit Of the Picayune.
Vow it is leaking out that Martha Washington
was a bit OF a shrew and came of peppery
iorgned fsmily, and that during her cyclones tbs
immortal George would take refuge with his dogs
beoks and guns in cutbufiding peculiar q
Southern planfstions, called the "office," anc
used 5or The transaction OF business connected
With the estate. aud that tisersin a retired
closet whore he kept his 'pizen' In jug; aud