The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-26
CURRENT MOTIFS AND GOSSIP.

San Francisco, Cal. Some time ago q lady
near that city gave birth to triplets, and now
she proposes to give the privilege of naming
the three children TO the person who casts
the highest number of votes at s. vote.
SMUGGLING out Of Mexico into the United
States increases, and will until Uncle Sam
locates gentlemen IN place of roughs in the
border Custom-housea. The GrIngo line of
the Rio Grsrds always was g stretch Of rot
tenness as long and as crooked as the river
which flows between the two countries.
ONE of the South Americas fruits which
are to be tried In Southern California next
year Ii the melon shrub. 1t lie described as
an evergreen, with q beautiful purple and
white flower, and bears fruit shaped like q
rifed cannon shell, about four inches long
by from two to three inches in diameter.
4 CURIOUS creature was caught in the hsr-
Dor of Charleston, s @ the other day. 1t
is q foot long, has head like frog. its body
being like that OF fish, except that instead
of the fore fms there are two large wings
eight inches long and five inches across. The
wings are speckIed like those Of whippoor-
! will.
An inventor of Parkerburg, W. Va, is
reported TO have discovered a substance that
is as imperTious and durable as glass, and,
like il, non conductor OF electricity and
useful for many purposes. 1t can not be
broken by ordinary means, scids have no
effect upon il, and it csn be used as substi-
tute for indis-rubber.
AMATEURS in painting are enjoying their
| full tide of the wear, the holiday season.
Christmas work OF sll descriptions is receiv-
ing the sdornment of pencil and brush,
sometimes with q pleasing effect, and some
times with result fearful to criticise.
Amateur poets are always busy in producing
rhymes for Christmas cards wAich amateur
artists decorate.
ACCORDING to the tradition, sack" was the
last word uttered before the confusion OF
tongues at Babel therefore, sll people retain
it. For instance, in Ssxony 1t is "sscc;;"
Germany, sack" Irish, ''sac;" French,
''sac;" Latin, "saccus;" Italian, "sacco;"
Spanish, ''saco;" Greek, 'tsakkos;" Hebrew,
''sak !" Swedish, sack" and 30 on through
out the whole world,
A GENTLEMAN who was travelling through
West Virginia went TO q house and got food
for himself and companion and their horses.
He wanted to make payment, but the wo.
man was ashamed to take money for msrs
act of kindness. he pressed the money upon
her. Finally she said: "If you don't think
I am mean 1 will take one quarter ofs dollar
from you, so as to look at st now and then,
for there has been no money in this house
for over year." The little farm and barter
at the store had supplied all the absolute
wants of this woman.
ONE Of the most impartial incidents OF the
Presidential contest of 1884, one which Illus
trates above all the absolute fairness of the
American people, is found in the death by
dynamite of the two employees of the factory
at Stoucheburg, in this State. One was a
Democrat and the other Republican, aud
they paired off to the deadly task oframming
so per cent cartridges for political parade.
They were certain one of the twain would
be killed, 1t having been determined that
the survivor should cast his vote and ex-
plode the cartridges They shot up simulta-
neously, however, into the starry empyrean
and fell with absolute impartiality into the
territory of Coroners of their respective polit.
ical creeds.
THERE are in shakspeares plays about
ninety deaths, taking place either on the
stage or behind the scenes, Of important per-
sonages. 1t might be increased by soldiers
and attendants who were killed by the way.
The modes Of death are very various, and
yet not quite all which We might naturally
anticipate. Cold steel (the dagger or sword)
accounts for about two-thirds of the whole;
twelve persons die from old age or natural
decay, In some cases hastened By the trying
circumstances of their lives; seven sre be-
headed; five die by poison, including the
elder Hamlet, whose symptoms are 90
miHutely described By his ghost; two Of suf-
location, unless, indeed, Desdemols makes
the third; two By strangling one from fall,
one is drowned three die by snake-b bite, and
one, Homer, the armorer, is thumped to
death with a.sand bag.
ABOUT year ago 5. Fl. Kelly kept hotel
at Armandale, little station on the Shen-
ango and Allegheny Railroad, between
GreenvilIe and Butler, Pa Kelly had %
daughter, Mamie. aged twelve, and very
pretty. One Of Kelly's boarders was Ed
ward O. Beatty. q telegraph operator. Beatty
and Mamie were very fond OF each other.
but their affection was not noticed on &C
court of her age. One day they eloped, and
were l. seed to Greer lille, where, to the
great establishment of the sorrowing pa
rents, 1t was learned that they were married.
There all further trace OF them was lost until
few months later, when 1t was learned
that the runaway daughter had died in Q
little town In the Ear West. The sad news
almost killed the fond parentA They
moved TO Altoona, where they now live. To
their surprise and joy they received letter
few days ago from their long lost child
whom they bad mourned as dead. The run
away couple went from Greenville to q
Western town, where they have since lived
happily. The letter states that they are the
possesson OF o happy home in Harper,
Harper County, Kansas