The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

and g sleek broadcloth suit.
STANLEY is lecturing in England on "The
Horrors of African Slavery"
SENATORS BRowS, Of Georgia, and ingalls,,
Of Kansas, do not speak as they pass BY"
TIE frst volume of Mr.. Blaine's book his
now reached a sale of half a million copies.
SOME men ere very patient. W. NJ. Eyarts
was a candidate for the Senate twenty-four
years ago.
PRoFEssoR Huxley thinks smoking, in
moderation, no more Injurious than drink
ing water.
CoRBIs, President of the Long Island
Railroad, distributed ten tons OF tuckeys
among his employees.
WHIrTTER got seveuty-seven buckwheat
cakes fr IN a Boston cooking school on his
birthday anniversary.
WHAT can be the matter with ST. John?
His newspaper organ in Kansas has been
sold out at Sheriff 8 sale.
II is now stated that orion, the Tichb0rne
claimant, will come to America rs a museum
attraction. That Is where he belongs.
A coLoRED silvefsmiih of Georgetown,
Ky, made n miniature steam engine which
attracts a great deal OF attention st New
Orleans.
SENATOR FAIR, Of Nevada, is assessed for
s. 22O.00o in the city Of San Francisco, and
is now a defendant in a delinquent tax suit
in which the city claims ( ON MIN SOB 262.
THERE is a Jewish penmaa in Vienna who
writes 400 Hebrew letters on one grain Of
wheat. he has also written the jewish
prayer for the imperial family on the narrow
edge of an ordinary visiting card.
SHERMAN DAY. a son of the late President
! jeremiah Day, of Yale College, died recently
in San Francisco. Mr.. Day surveyed the
first railroad between San Jose aud Sscrs-
mento, and made one Of the first graded
wagon roads ever the Sierrss.
Mas. ANN MILBURN died at Jacksonville.
H., December 80, aged eighty.ssven years.
she had resided there City years. and was
the mother Of the noted blind preacher"
William II. Milburn. whose e~loquence has
made the name famous ia Europe and
America.
JUNGLE PETER" BURRIrT, one of the pio-
neers OF Kane County. worth $780, 900, and
seventy years of age, was married in Elgin,
on the 3Oth, to Miss Rebeccs Mcbride, a lady
Of twenty-thres. The marriage created quite
a sensation. They left for a New Orleans
and Florida tour.
A DRUNKEN marine, arrested In Vallejo,
Gala, the otner day, complained that ne
had been shot in the foot, and his boot was
full Of blood. On being taken to the hospi-
tai it was found that a bottle filed with
whisky had been broken IN his boot. He
imagined be was dying.
STANLEY, the African explorer, is not mar
ried, and probably never will be. When ne
FIRST started for Africa he was engaged TO a
pretty New York girl, who gave him up for
dead in a year and married another man
within two years. He did not return till
the end of the third year. aud thought the
damsel should have waited for him, and her
course embittered his life.
JUDGE DENNY, of Oregon, is introducing
game birds from China into that country,
and recently received a lot of ninety
pheasants, comprising the golden. silver,
copper, green, togrspan and ringneck va
~rieties. Some previous impOrtstions OF the
same birds are doing we'll and increasing
rapidly in various sections of the State. A
portion of the last arrivals will DO distrib-
uted throughout the State.
a ST. PAUL merchant has a very poor
opinion OF the farmers in that section be-
cause they buy at the stores what they ought
to raise. Farmers said be coatemptu-
ously: "Wby, we haven't twenty real far
mers in this county. They are 81 nothing
but wheat raisers, and that is a long way
from being q farmer. A large number of
farmers in Dakota, who own whole q~larter-
sections of land, seldom have q drop OF
milk in the house, and the butter they eat
is bought at the nearest store. They don't
even keep a COW or pig, or try to raise
vegetables enough to provide for the win
ter"