The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-29
VARIETIES.

1t is useless to try the mind cure on a
dude.
Melons in Georgia are worth twenty-five
cents dozen.
There has never been a holiday, theatre
or a circus on. the island of Malta.
Bonnetts are now trimmed with asses
ears, says a fashion journal. So are dudes
1t is not the man who thumps the bar the
hardest that has the NEST money to pay for
his drink.
Weather sign-When you see doctor and
nurse taking charge of the house look out for
little squalls.
Joseph Taylor of Chicago offers to let the
current carry him over Niagara Falls for the
tritiing sum of $4,000
Great Salt Lake is twelve feet higher than
ii was in 1850. This represents the volume
OF salt sobs wrung from the prophets.
All the Mexican editors have full heads of
hair. This speaks volumes for the tranquil
ity of domestic life in the sister Republic.
The ethics of the tariff question will be
discussed in the Protestant Episcopal Church
Congress at New Haven, Conn, in October.
An anxious inquirer asks: "How do all
the doctors live?" We don't know, unless ii
is because they refrain from taking their own
medicine.
Syndicates of English capitalists and no
blemen OWL 81 100000 acres of grazing land
in the Western plains, together with the
stock thereon.
The Knights of Labor count among their
colleagues one Governor, one United States
Senator three Congressman and 125 members
of State Legislatures
Passenger-'Captain, how far are we from
landY' Captain-"About two miles" Pas
Senger-"But | can't see it. In what direc-
ION - Il sin
French railways annually kill one passen-
ger in every 100000 carried; English rail
ways one in 5.250,O00 Belgian railways one
in 100000; Prussian railways one in 21,-
100000.
Vermont girl went into a meadow to
sketch COW. The happened TO be
old one with ring in her nose, and they
picked the girl up on the other side of
seven-rail fence.
The price of a wife in Patagonia has sud-
denly advanced to two 81 goats and the brim
of a.plug hat, but is only temporary squirt,
and the old figures-one goat and plug of
tobacco-will soon be restored.
1t is interesting TO know, on Captain Bur
toms authority, that neither Aladdin and
the Wonderful Lamp" nor ali Bahia and
the Forty Thieves" is to be found in any ed
ition of the true Arabian nights.
New York has the President, two men,
bers of the Cabinet, three Assistant Secretar-
les, three Chief Clerks, seven heads of bu-
reaus, and any number of Deputy Commits
sioners and Chief Clerks of bureaus and di-
visions.
\ female writer declares that women will
continue TO live on this earth after all the
opposite sex have disappeared off the face
of it. They wouldn't live long just the
same with no men handy to act as peace
makers.
A Tallahassee school boy in defining dem
agogue said il was "a vessel made of glass,
covered with willow, that holds beer, wine,
gin, whisky, or any kind of intoxicating
liquor" He meant demajohn, but his err
ror was not great one at last.
There are 10000 children of school age in
London who have succeeded in eluding the
authorities and keeping out of the schools.
These same children, few years hence, will
probably be devoting their best energies to
elude the police and keeping out of jail
1t is TO be hoped that there will be no
bloodshed between the Gentiles and Nor
mons. The death of Gentle doeJnot.amount
to much; but when Mormon is killed from
seven to seventeen widows lose the light of
their life and the provider of their grocer
les.
The Pacific Mail subsidy question is on
US again. The idea is that after the people of
the country have taxed themselves hundreds
of millions of dollars TO keep out foreign
trade, they shall tax thmselves hundreds of
thousands of dollars to build up foreign
trade.
The prohibitory liquor law of Kansas re-
quires statement by the purchaser and the
druggist for every portion of rum sold, and
this document must be filed with a county
Judge. The fee for his honor is five cents in
every instance, and some of the Judges en-
JOY handsome incomes from this source.
Evarrice Manceau of LAvenir, province
of Quebec, has a son only six years of age,
who weighs JOG pounds, stands four feet in
height, measures around the waist thirty
seven inches, around the arm eleven inches,
and around the calf of the leg fourteen inch
es and is smart and aetive.-Montreal Ga
zette.
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