The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-06

mortgage, and in the future the church
will choose its victims with more care
Puck.
81 FIND you guilty of robbery, and will
give you two years in the State Prison."
said the austere Judge to the prisoner, who
was surrounded by a galaxy of brilliant
lawyers. NOW, look s-here, Judge" said the
prisoner, with a look at his array of coun-
sci, faint you pretty hard on me? know
a man is judged by the company he keeps;
but you must understand 1 don't keep this
kind of company when I'm free.-Yonkers
Statesman.
THE diameter of trees varies not only from
summer to winter. but from day to day.
They are larger from noon until twilight the
next morning than from twilight until
noon; they are smaller in the winter than in
summer. Water and the sap of trees expand
mo- only in proportion as they rise above,
but also as they go below the freezing point.
Low temperature as we'll as high promotes
evaporation, and the trees evaporate from
their branches in winter. and so the colder
the weather the more they shrink.
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the Poets Corner in Westminster abbey, the
bard, as is well known, has one arm thrown
c~arlessly over q pile of bound volumes of his
works. When David Garrick, the great
Shakspearean actor, died. he was inferred
underneath the floor in the Poets Corner,
and q few days afterward it was discovered
that the forefiDger of Shakspeare's efiey
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purely accidental, yet nothing could be more
Appropriate.
A FARME in the eastern part of the State
missed a couple of bis COW some time ago,
and a diligent search and notices in the
county papers failed to bring them to light.
Yesterday, however, while in the field. he
noticed q hole in one side of his pumpkin,
and, on getting a lantern n going in, he
found the lost cow quietly eating pumpkin
seeds and getting fat. The hole ia the fruit
was caused by the rapid growth of the vines,
which had dragged it elong over the ground
for half a mile.-Kansss Teetotaler.
RATHER a good joke was uttered the other
day at one of Pierre Veron's dinners, to
which literary and political men alone are
invited: "Do you know why Richepin, after
all, did not go into the desert?" said some
body. mo, indeed!" well, he was career
ing along on a camel, when he met an Arab,
and asked him the name of the waste land
he saw extended before him. ''Tis the great
Sa(ha)ral' said the Arab. What, again!n
cried Richepin: 4 really thought I had got
rid of her?' And, turning the camel's head
round, be returned to the spot whence he
came,"-London Truth.
THE New Orleans correspondent OF the
Boston Transcript writes: "When Major E.
A. Burke. the Director General and moving
spirit of the Exposition. rose to his feet the
crowd fairly roared a greetingto him. When
silence was at last obtained the wearied
looking man spoke, like the enthusiast he
is, words of hope, of greeting. of acknowl-
edgment to the people who had so honored
him.. Do you see how gray he tsp asked one
sitting near me. Yes Six months ago he
lad not a white hair in his head. He was a
| young man then. Could you call him 30
nowY No. / answered. Great anxiety for
the health of Major Burke is felt among his
friends: he has labored without rest day aud
night, and has tried, and has partially SIC
ceeded, in doing in six months that which
required twenty years. His nights are passed
on the grounds, as he is not willing to lose
the time required in going from his house to
the exhibition.