The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-29
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''PA, what do they mean BY polling the
delegates at the conventions? Is it any
thing like clubbing them TO make them
vote the right way2"
"YOU have got a new hired girl l see,
Mrs. Youngwife." Eyes, l got her about
a week ago" Glow do you like herr"
VERY much, indeed. She let's me do
most as like about the house IN. T.
Press.
"WHY, you have no servants at all in
your house now" No" What has be-
come of your hired MANI" "My husband
fired him-whisky" and your hired
girl?" "She fired herself-kerosene. -
~ Y Press
THE Czech students who made them
selves popular at the gymnastic festival at
Nancy. promenaded the streets of Paris in
a costume consisting of a yellow jacket
over Il red shirt, with baggy trousers
stuffed in their boots-a costume louder
than an American college yell.
AUSTIN CoRBGN designs to plant 10000
hawthorn trees on his great game park in
New Hampshire. The trees have all
been i'm ported from England and 1000
have SO far been set out. They are to
serve as a hedge to retain the buffalo and
other large game within the limits of the
preserve.
IT is related that President Harrison,
then only a colonel. could not promptly
secure surgeons to care for his wounded
after the battle of New Hope Church He
therefore took off his coat, rolled up his
sleeves and did what he couli himself to
stanch the flow of blood and to dress
wounds He directed that tents be torn
up into bandages aud he spent hours in
work over his disabled soldiers before the
surgeons arrived.
PARIS is to celebrate on Aug 10 the one
hundredth anniversary of the foundation
OF the national conventional day other
wise memorable for the massacre of the
Swiss guards by an infuriated mob. Full v
two hundred persons have written to the
committee in charge of the festival offer
lug to lend locks of hair cut from the
heads of Louis XVI. and his queen. If all
these locks are authentic there must have
been a great bribing of BARRIERS in those
gay times.
PROCTOR KNOTT was the orator of the
day at the Vanderbilt university COM
mencement. Since his retirement from
the governors chair of Kentucky Mr..
Knott has been practicing law at Frank
fort. He is 9 man OF apparently sixty
five years, slightly below medium night,
stout. with white mustache and gray hair
His Grafton was an eloquent one and
showed that he has not lost the lingual
dexterity which made Duluth famous on
two continents
THE young crown prince of Germany,
who entered the army as lieutenant a
few DAYS ago. is now learning to ride an
Arabian horse presented to him by his
father on his tenth birthday. He was un-
fortunate enough to fall from the steed
while riding about the royal park at Pots
dam recently. He was not injured seri-
Ously, however. Although he could not
be persuaded to take bis mount a second
time that day, he got into the saddle as
usual on the following morning. He is a
plucky boy and is already popular with
his future subjects.
IT is said that the confederate briosdier
is falling out of public life. Only ten
southern generals are left in the senate,
and not half as many survive in the
house. The most picturesque of them all
is Walthall of Mississippi. who succeeds
Lamar in the senate. Gen. Walthall Is a
tall and a very slender man, with verita-
BILE name of black hair. He entered the
confederate service as a lieutenant and rose
so quickly in rank that when the battle of
Mission Ridge was fought it was he who
was in charge of the brigade that bore the
brunt of Hooker's attack