The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-26
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the slxirmish
Line.

harvard Annex as q memorial institution
under the name of Longfellow College, is re-
Ceived with favor.
A man in Baltimore drives four horses tan
dem, the wheeler being tremendously big,
the next of moderate size, then small one,
and the leader q pony.
Johnny, it would be a good thing for you
to remember in life that we never get any
thing in this world if we don't ask for it,"
Eyes, we do, pal" answered Johnny. 81 got
a licking in school to-day"
A Pittsburg debating society has decided
that girls should be twenty-four or twenty
five years old before marrying. 1t takes
woman of discretion and experience to keep
a family clean in Pittsburg.
CAN'T is authority for the statement that
Miss Lula Hurst, of Georgia, has lost her
magnetic power. but she still retains firm
grip on that $4,000 she made out of her ex-
hibitions.-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Not many farmers know that on the mid
die stem underneath a cotton leaf is small
cell, or cavity, that contains drop of blood
which can be seen by pressing between the
thumb nailS.-Lexington (Ga.) Echo.
A Rockford, ILL.,, woman had her eye de-
stroyed the other day by the cork of beer
bottle she was trying to open. You never
catch a man getting hurt in this way. He
knows enough to keep his eyes Shut.-Bur-
lingtOn Free Press.
The wife of City Judge Joab c. Brasher, of
Hopkinsville KY, presented him with twin
boys on Friday morning. Judge Brasher is
a Republican, but on Friday morning patri-
Otically bridged the chaSm by naming them
Grant and Lee.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
John Morris is commonly called Tod by the
people of Two Rivers, Mo-. and he does not
like his nickname, which he thinks conveys
an impression that he is hard drinker He
requested his acquaintance to desst, and
those who do not he sues for SANDER.
There is such thing as being smothered
in honey. A Kansas editor recently drew a
prize in a lottery, and the very same day his
wife had twins-both boys-his mother-in-
law was killed by lightning while in transit
to pay him visit, and a man who had
owed him - for subscription sent in the
money.
A little girl who had been invited to
wedding was besieging her mother to let her
go. 81 want to see some one married aw-
fully she announced as a climax. "You
should not use such emphatic language re-
mOnstrated her mother. "Well then,
mamma. / want to see some one awfully
married" amended Miss Malapert.
1t is now the custom for young ladies to
send around to various dry goods stores for
samples of silk and velvet which they work
up into what are called crazy quilts. And
there is nothing that makes a young lady
much wilder than to receive from a shrewd
merchant lot of samples fastened to piece
| of cardboard with rubber cement.
A spirited young lady of this city is re-
ported to have summariiy ended an interest
ing and promising love match simply because
her adOred young man insisted conduct
ing his part of the correspondence with the
| aid of a typewriter. She declared she could
easily read his manuscript, and did not pro-
pose TO file away any more machine-made
love letters.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Fanny. you should not beat your doll
with that heavy stick. You will make all
the sawdust come out of it." said Texas
mother to a little girl who had placed her
doll on the ground, and was belabOring ii
with a base ball bat. 81 don't care if all the
sawdust does come out of her" replied Fan
| ny; Il don't want people to say that my
children turned out bad because | humored
| them too much
Beer is more dangerous than whisky. That
is the verdict of the Scientific American.
| which sets forth that the use of beer is found
to produce species of degeneration of the
organs profound and deceptive fatty de-
| posts, diminished circulation, conditions OF
| congestion and perversiOn of functional &C
| tivites, local inhammations of both liver
and kidneys, are constantly present. a
| slight injury, severe cold, or a shock to the
| body or mind, will commonly provoke acute
diseases ending fatally in beer drinker.
The Sunday-school lesson was about Moses
and the Israelites in the wilderness, and the
teacher was asking questions OF the scholars.
What did Moses strike the rock for?'' she in
| quired. For water" answered the class
| promptly. ''Were the people glade YES
MAJ am" And was Moses blest for what he
had done? "No, ma'am." "Why nOt?'
That was poser for some time, but finally a
tough-looking small boy held up his hand.
| well, Tommy, why notY' Cos, mum, he
didn't strike it for beer"
They tell at Newport of a girl who, by
adverse circumstances, was kept in town I'M
fashionably late. She had no notion of let
| ting her acquaintance know. She would
tell them that she had been several weeks in
the Catskills. ALI but her white face would
| betray her She meditated. If a parlOr
complexion could be painted on, why
couldn't the ruddy brown of outdoor ex-
| posture be cOunterteltedE She went sOt
store where cosmetics and colors for theat-
rical use are sold, and bought the material
for the desired tan. When she got TO New
| port and described her exhilarating trip TO
the mountains, her face bore the requisite
sunburn, hiding the blush of the liar
Ohio has a remarkable decrease in the
number of marriages, in proportion to the
population. During the year preceding the
war there were over $4,000 out of a popula-
ton of obout 2,340,000. The war reduced
this number to an average of about 10 500,
and the return of peace ran the number to
3O,4 69. This large increase denoted that
there were a good many faithful girls who
waited for the men to whom they had plighted
their troth. After that the average number of
marriages was about $4,000 year for num-
Der of years; but following the panic of 1873
there was drop to %, 4S9. The revival in
business in 1882 was marked by another in
crease to 30,500 but the succeeding depres-
sion Of 1884 again reduced the number to
25,720.