The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-15
EFT CETERA.

THERE are 600 lawyers in Pittsburg, but
200 of them are down with the grippe.
Mrs. AGNES r. JAMES announces her
self as a candidate for city treasurer OF
Hutchinson, kas.
ROSWELL p. FLOWER is an expert euchre
player, and though he is busy man, can
manage to spend half a dozen hours at
time showing his friends at the card
tables what it is 10 be playing against a
master in their use.
Mr.. LoRETTUs S. METcALF has resigned
the editorship of the Forum, after fifteen
years of close confinement to review
work. He is to be succeeded by Mr.. Wal
ter II. Page, an experienced newspaper
man. who has been the Forums business
manager.
Tue Hon. Patrick Walsh of augusta,
Ga, has been shown the statement of re-
ceipts and expenditures for the year OF a
Georgia farm representing an investment
OF $4,000. where the yearly profit is So
33l.4 The farm is a few miles from
Augusta, and the principal crop raised
was cotton.
Mrs. c. NJ. SMITH, who died last week in
San Francisco, was. years ago, Miss Todd,
sister of pretty Mary Todd, who married
young Lincoln in Springfield in 1872
White Lincoln was president Mrs. Smith
was a great deal at the white house as
ssting her sister in doing the honors of
the presidential mansion.
CONSIDERING that Harry Able OF Mid
dleton, Conn.,, is ninety-two years old, he
is about as smart man as there is in the
state, and can do days work as cleverly
as men fifty years his junior And he is
one OF the best story tellers in the coun-
| try. Fish yarn spinners are dumb in his
presence, and ordinary liars pay him
| homage.
THE dog-catcher of Berlin recently ran
in the stable.dogs OF Kaiser Wilhelm.
| The dog-catcher of Berlin is the public
executioner, otherwise lis own head
might have been in danger The ofIense
was condoned when it was laid upon a
| journeymsn dog catcher who had not vet
been formally introduced at the kaiser
| kennels.
MILE. SECARD. who is said TO be very
beautiful. was the queen of the Paris
washerwomen in the Mi Careme parade
this year. She had the unanimous
suffrages of $4,000 washerwomen, and al
though queen for one dav only she was
rohed in white satin embroidered in gold,
and was seated on throne covered with
crimson velvet, fiecked with golden bees.
AVAILABLE cow, owned by Ezra Com
stock OF New London, died from a pecul-
lar cause. Some two weeks ago Mr. Com
stocks little daughter and some of her
playmates were romping in the hawmow
| and one OF the little girls lost hat pin,
which was five inches in length, with a
| glass head. Soon after the COW became
sick, apparently suffering greatly, and
finally died. A post-mortem examination
showed that the COW had swallowed the
hal pin. which had penetrated the heart.
COMPLAINTS are being made that Uncle
Rusk is sending out packets of poor seed,
and that, as an agriculturist, he is so YER
dant that he couldn't tell an adiantum
cuneatum from a ballet girls wig. This
NAV be so, but the farmers should give
! the old man bit of time. He Is studying
ten-cent seed catalogue until he fairy
dreams of caulihowers and clover, and
| hopes soon to be able to subscribe for a
farmers weekly, so as to learn how to
utilize potato vines for grating purposes.
Philadelphia Times.
BLOOD oranges have become so plentiful
that the New York Journal has
renewed the charge that the Italian fruit
dealers OF the metropolis are guilty OF
charging ordinary oranges with red ana
line dye by the means of hypodermic
syringes. This charge is corroborated by
one of the leading fruit dealers of New
York, who, in answer to an inquiry as to
blood oranges, replied: Blood oranges
Why, they are simply oranges that are
fixed by Italian dealers. We don't deal
in that kind of fruit" Beware of the
blood that is in the orange.