The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-11
SENTINEL" SCRAP-BAe
May all his friends shake him,
HIS creditors break him,
His scOlling vile rake him,
The little imps wake him,
And the dickens take him.
We allude 10 the feller
Who stole our umbTeller,

Who stole our umbreller:
The highest price recorded for Stradiverius
violin is 5000. s
Swinburne, the poet, is little fell0' He is
not quite five feet high
Philadelphia has number OF very clever
lady amateur blliardists.
A number Of pretty girls have been APP
pointed ushers III the congregational church at
Ottawa, has.
Minneapolis has been figuring up and finds
the past winter.
With some people poetry may be said to be
a sort OF versy vice, while others il is vice
versa.-Od CHy Biiezard.
John Lamar Acree of Lower county, Georgia,
has died from o brass harmonica, which pois-
oned his mouth and lungs.
The county clerk OF Shewano, Wis, has
issued warrants to pay the bounty on 100 wild
cats killed during the winter.
A baby born at Carolton, o., March 10,
weighs only two and One-half pounds and is
bnt eight inches long. IL is perfectly healthy.
Four generations live in house in Central
Falls, II. /. There are a mother, daughter,
daughters daughter, and daughters daughters
daughter.
A newsboy who arrived at Springfield, Mass,
after it had been showed UP for three days with
single Boston paper, put 1t up at auction and
sold it for 81 -.
Some one observes that the class Of men who
used 10 blow out their brains, now merely blow
ont the gas; but il is believed that men who
blow ont the gas have no brains TO glow out.
-N0TristDWR'Heroid.
\ famous collection of bric-a-brac has just
been sold in Paris, belonging TO Charles, first
an errand boy, then billiard marker, a crOupier,
and finally Il millionaire. He had an immense
establishment and finally went crazy.
\ New York sportsman lately caught at 81.
James City, Fla, a tarpon that weighed lS4
pounds-the largest fish of that species ever
caught in Florida. 1t will be stuffed and pre-
4 sented to the Smithsonian institution.
Mrs. W. B. Shoemaker, of Muscle Fork town.
ship near KeytesyiIle Mo-. has not been away
from home, not even to visit neighbor, for
more than twenty-five years, although all the
time she has enjoyed the best of health.
At midday, while the sun was shining bright
ly, brilliant meteor was seen at Orlando, Fla,
passing from the southwest to the northeast.
IL was of cleaning blue color, looked rs large
as q fire balloon, and had long, waving tail.
An Albany horscman was speeding his trot-
ter the other day when the horse east hind
shoe. which flew with such violence from the
hoof that il went high in the air and caught on
telegraph wire, where it hung until some
boys got il down.
There is said TO be a.queer old fellow in Bos.
| ton WHO mas devoted years OF time ana a Tor
tune in money to the collection OF elaborate
statistics which 90 To show that the more dogs
there are i'm u community the more wicked the
people OF the community are.
| In response TO the crusade against high bon.
nets comes the " ord from Pans that bonnets
are TO be higher than ever. Woman is a marvel
of contruriness, and ii any reform in this direc.
/ ton is 10 be secured, the high bonnet must be
| commended as strenuously as IL has been de.
| nOmced.
At wedding in Aroostool, Me-, the groom.
said to be worth $1,000, presented each guest
with bag of peanuts and few pieces OF
| candy. This was considered in the light of q
| Joke, and more So when the party was aftcrward
| Invited to supper az the neghboring hotel, but
affairs took on another aspect at the conclusion
| of the meal when each guest learned that lac
would have to pay for the yictnals eaten.
California big trees will have 10 take sec.
| ond place as botanical giants now that the
| ocean has undertaken 60 beat the hand In the
| size of It's products. Capt. John stone of thc
! ship Clever picked up sea weed on the At
/ lnntc, ncur thu equator, that was LOO feet
/ long. IL was ON HlfrL and has been identified
! ~ a specimen ot maeroCcpus pyrifcra. Per-
haps Il II the kind OF weed that the sea serpent
eats.
4 prophecy is widely current In Germany that
| tho empire Is 10 bV greatest under young
/ ruler, who has but QUO arm aud four sons. lie
/ " 60 succeed un aged sovereign, curry on great
| war successfully aud prove another Frederick
| the Great The Germans see n this the destiny
ot Prince William who was born with one arm
/ partly dulormcd.-short and still Aud they sec
| Ia lds character al the requirements of the
| prophecy, even down Go the four sous. llui the
| power % Germany will wnne after this ruler,
| aud she viii 20 down ind become an insignii'
| Gait power
| Ilool.swineine aud window.burning In India
! have bnrn abolished but " u said that ~ the
! MANS d0mnions there u " castle IN which,
/ when any 0l The members dies, u fng n nt
i tnohed io "a bamboo, and the bninboo given "a
| n nnn ~ hold over The corpse of the deceased
! Then, having retired to n convenient distance
/ the ugn of the caste open FIRE on the Tag prob
! ably lay way or showing Distress aud helping
| Che soul OF lhc deceased on W Journey " the
! other world, II somriimrs happens that the
| man holding the DAG IL Slot aud 40 order has
/ been Issued by Tho government prohibiting ar
Ing nj the llag Ia tic tpluft
| linssnu roolldpa OF Ward City, Aris, will
! probably f0nn hp seen ln circus, Tie has de'
| voted his spare iine totdauatnga black snake,
! and has taught u nfhumber Of remarkable
| tricks 40 The word 81 command the snake
| will dc Itself up In a Turks head knot and re-
! haIn IN Tint position uuill released Then Y
viii stand straight np on the end oi IL tail aud
/ hiss au accompaniment t0h violin which It's
| master plays The intelligent reptile sees O.
| putting tho chickens IN thclf coop ~ night and
/ u One happens to be missing u will thresi
around and bias ~ u most alarming manner
until Nh lO0lldge'a attention " attracted, IL
favorite resting place at night N ~ one Oi MI
/ ToolidgGs long boots.
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