The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-07
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirrnish
Line.
Professor

Imperious Jumbo dead and stuffed for show,
Might still suffice to make a circus go.
1t will take three months and 5000 to
mount Jumbo.
His Last Instructions.-A wine merchant
at deaths door said to his son: Remember
that you can make wine out of almost any
thing-even out of grapes n-Charivari.
\ Recipe for an Aristocratic Stew.-Take
an American girl, one part; impecunious
nobleman, one part desire for title, forty
nine parts; desire for wealth, forty-nine
parts. Mix. Boston Beacon.
In procession at New Strefitz, Germany,
few days ago the tradesmen of the guilds
Wore caps of bright tin, some shaped like
tincups. some like kettles, Others like sauce
pans, and still others like bathtubs, each
grotesque helmet glittering in the sun so
gayly as to present glorious sight.
Sockabesin Swassin is said to be the rich
est Indian in Maine. He is the handsOmest
man on the island Of Oldtown, and one Of
the most intelligent He is lineal descend
ant of the Baron de Chastine. There are
MANY educated Indians on that island, and
they live very like their white neighborS.
Why the engagement was broben.-'And
dearest Augustus, when we are married you
will give me all the pin money l want, won't
you, darling" yes, duclkie, you shall buy
all the pins YOU can use" "Oh, deary, that 5
30 nice of you. There's beautiful diamond
pin down at the jewelers. that I've wanted
for ever 20 long. Troy Times.
Practicing medicine in New Jersey
''What are those peculiar-looking animals
you have in that glass case, Doctor" a gen
tleman asked a New Jersey physician. Those
are Railway mosquitoes" 'Is it pOS>ibleI
/ never saw mosquitoes so large before. But
what do YOU keep them for?' LAS a sub
stitute for leeches. They cost less Life.
The everlasting of the last fifteen or TWEEN
ty veSkpis e's,ssf5 pearls what it long ago
did for oysters. Fashion also bears its part
in raising prices, and a good set of three
black pearl shirt studs can not now be got
wholesale much under $500. Four years ago
they could be had for less than a third of
|'the price.
THE traveller who would obtain a correct
impression of the United States" writes
Alexander Del Mar in the Pail Mall Gazette,
should not stop in New York, which is no
more an American city than st. Petersburg
is Russian one He should push on at
once to the great West. The United States
is essentially an agricultural country"
There is negro boy in Marietta who can
catch bees yellow-jackets and bumblebees
the same as any one else would catch flies,
and they no not sting him. He often catches
a bee and puts it in his mouth and keeps ii
there for some time When he splits it out
| it flies of. Live yellow-jacket put under
his clothes crawl around and out at other
places without singing hin.
Another of those famous old persons who
appear every now and then stepped into the
Pension Office at Philadelphia the other day
and astonished General Davis. Her name
was Mrs. Pierce, and she resides at Burling-
ton, y. j. Her age is ninety She
walked up stairs into the second floor OF
| the new Postoffice building and signed her
name to the receipt without the aid of eye
| glasses.
A kind-hearted man in Atlanta, noticing
| a curious attachment between a child and q
toad, thought to amuse the child by getting
| him some intelligent toads. His advertise.
ment in the morning paper for two dozen
| toads brought TO his door a continual stream
| of toad merchants lasting for two whole
| days, and offering him toads by the hundred
| in bags, sacks, baskets, buckets and pals
/ His kindness in the toad line is now tenn
1 pered by discretion.
Fragrant clover grows on the grave o.
| Thomas Carlyle, at Ecclefechan, and on the
| plain sandstone slab is this inscription: