The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-07
SENTINE ELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Skirmish
Line

Red Cloud the Indian chief, spoke at Vas
sar College last week.
General Grant is to stand in granite on a
$4,000 soldiers shaft to be put up at Salem,
Mass
President Cleveland has formed no decided
plans for the summer yet and will take no
vacation, il is said, until August. Then he
will probably repeat his visit to the Adiron-
dacks or go to some equally secluded place.
General G. Il. z. Is no longer the only
Beauregard of fame on this continent. Mayor
Beauregard, of Montreal, is swinging around
the circuit of New England cities 10 see how
much better those towns look than his own
Edward Htkinson, the well known Stats
tician, presents figures showing that the rail-
roads of the United States give employment
to $50, 900 people and transport 400, 900 900
tons of freight annually, one-half of which
is food and fuel; and, furthermore, it is
proved that the freight rates are so low that
the Eastern mechanic can have a years sup
ply of food hauled FROM a distance of 1000
miles for the proceeds OF one days labor.
From the archives of the Austrian War
Department it appears that of ,964 superior
officers, from the rank of Lieutenant up
ward, 1896, equal to 20 per cent. belong to
the nobility of the Empire, namely: One
Field Marshal, twenty-nine Masters OF 0rdi-
nance; of eighty five Lieutenant Field Mar
shals, seventy-one OF 139 Major Generals,
1903; of 295 Colonies, liz; of 33j Lieutenant
Colonies, I42; of $50 Majors, 22l; of 1919
Captains, 76S; of 4,191 First Lieutenants,
Sl9, and of 1881 Second Lieutenants, l, 40.
An elephant that had been brought to
Hamburg by some Cingalese lately showed
signs of furious delirium. An English
hod Off
marks for the privilege of dispatchiDg an
elephant with his rifle, was summoned by
telegraph, but his ardor cooled when he con-
fronted the enraged beast, and he declined
to shoot. Strangulation was then resOrted
to, chains that were passed around the ele-
plants neck being drawn tight by means of
tackle. 1t took ten minutes to kill the
animal in this way.
How shall Mount Desert be pronounced?
is a question asked many times. Shall it be
Mount Desert or Mount Desert? DR.. lap
ham, who is an authority on such matters,
is in favor of the latter pronunciation. The
Name Historical Society has adopted it. The
French gave the name to the island Mont
de-sert'') and we have adopted it-made it
an English name. DIR. Lapham's suggestion
that as we have given it the English ortho-
grsphy it should have English ronuncia-
ton is sensible. Let it be Mount Desert,
IDeQ.-IeWlSLOnA
That the administration of justice is often
effected by extraneous circumstances is a
truth which becomes evident early in life.
The. bright six-year-old son of genial clergy
man had been engaged, with some of his
| friends in wrong-doing, and he was called
| into the house under circumstances that
seemed ominous. "Did you get licked?" in
| quired one of his matterof-fact companions
| the next day. "Well, yes, | did" admitted
the young philosopher, but l should have
got off all right if there'd been anything for
supper that father liked. Boston Record.
A new story of youthful prank of Han
nibal Hamlin is told. When the ex-Vice
President was boy in Paris, seven persons
were baptized in a stream north of Paris
Hill. Hamlin was one of party of boys
who, hearing of the approaching ceremony,
| struggled an old cannon and seven cart
| ridges into the woods near the stream. AS
the dripping converts, one by one, were led
| out of the stream, one by one the cartridges
doomed in the old cannon. The unholy sa-
lute created great CONSERVATION and anger,
but the mis hIevous youngsters were not
caught.-Nor way (Me.) Advertiser.
There was a wedding last week from a
certain rather famous home on the Back
Bay, and the church ceremony interested
the small sister of the bride immensely. A
day or two after the husband and wife had
| gone away on their wedding journey the lit
| tie sister interrupted her ll-playing to ask:
Grandma, what church were you married
| in" 81 wasn't married in church. my dear.
Your grandmother was a naughty girl and
| ran away with grandpapa. We were mar
| ried at a minister's house" 'Oh, hO!"
| laughed the midget, show did you ever man.
| age 10 make such fussy old fellow as grand
| pa run?"-BostOn Record.
AT meeting not long since minister was
making a strong argument against the use of
tobacco, and was winning many converts by
his zeal and evident honesty, when a man
stood up holding plug of the much-berated
| plant high in the air. You have convinced
me, sir,' he said, addressing the preacher,
| that it is very wrong and sinful to use to-
bacco, and herewith Join the ranks of those
| who denounce it for the good of society"
| Near this enthusiastic speaker was poorly
| dressed little man who looked as if he made
his bedroom in dry goods box, and he re-
| marked in pleading tone: "Well, if you
are not going to use any more tobacco, you
| might give that plug to me. '-Boston Bud
| get.
A touching little incident occurred at the
Van Cleve golden wedding on Thursday
| One of the gifts to the bride of fifty years
was a very pretty but old-fashioned lady's
| gold watch, and it was observed that upon
none of the presents did the General and his
| wife look with fonder eyes than upon this.
| The story leaked out. that this was the very
watch which, nearly fifty years ago, Lieu
tenant Van Cleve had presented to his bride.
| In the tight times" which followed il was
found necessary to dispose of the watch for
"ready money" which was then scarce
| article. And so the watch was sold. The
| purchaser had always sacredly preserved it,
and was able consequently, at the golden
wedding, to make one of the most delightful
| gifts of the day.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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