The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-09
EFT CETERA.

The burning in effigy of Hoke Smith
was fake creation.
The girl baby is the first great crisis
of married life.-GaIveston News.
The reason that the geysers at the
National park leap so high is because
they are composed of spring water
Lowell Courier
Clara-"How has your new dressmaker
been treating your" Maud-"Oh,
splendidly But she has been suing
father.''-Detroit Free Press.
1t is asserted that James whitcomb
Riley's head has no bump of locality.
His poetic feet. however, always move
on correct Hnes--New York World.
Miss bod, the lady tennis champion of
England. only recently celebrated her
twenty-first birthday. She is also an ex-
cellent bicyclist as we'll as a singer and
pianist.
The idea that the earth is slowly drying
UP has quite a setback by a recent an
nouncement of the photographic engi-
neers that the Gulf of Mexico is one foot
higher now than it was in 1856.
At Redditch. England 10000 people
make more than 100, 600 900 needles
year. and they are made and exported
so cheaply sthat England has no rival
and practically monopolizes the trade.
New York had four suicides on Sat
urday, all of them owing to drink, i'll
health and worry. One shot himself
another tried hanging a third chose a
knife and the fourth took potato bug
poison.
Germany appears to have a well de-
veloped Farmers Movement" for an
analysis of the new reichstag shows that
there is a preponderance of farmers and
land owners, their number reaching 145.
while there are only 10 lawyers in the
new house. There are four Hebrews
holding seats.
Lord Beaumont, who is descended from
the last king of Jerusalem, succeeded
to the title last year at the death of his
elder brother. He has Travelled extern
sively in the United States, with the
avowed purpose Of wedding an heiress.
His name figures honorably on the serv-
ice records of the British army.
Wah Chong, a wealthy Chinese mer-
chant of Seattle, Wash, made his for
tune in building up American trade with
China and importing Chinese laborers in
past years He is said to be worth over
s., 0O0, 600. He had several wives, here and
the mother of a son sixteen years old.
F. o. Pascoe, who died in England
recently, had been known to a limited
circle for nearly half a century as one
of the most eminent biologists of the
age. He was an intimate friend of
Owen and Darwin and their enthusiastic
and valued fellow-worker. PaScoe pos
sessed one of the finest private geological
museums in the world.
Mrs. Lewis Rice of Frederick Md, has
collected enough money to place a suita-
BILE monument over the grave of Francis
Scott Key, author of THE Star Spangled
Banner" A fiat marble slab now marks
the place where he lies in Mt. Olivet
cemetery, Washington, d. c. There is
very handsome monument to Key in
Golden Gate park, San Francisco.
The death has just taken place of
Miss E. J. Crop at Keynsham, England.
She was the first lady who crossed the
Atlantic from England in a steamer.
on April s. 1888. she sailed from Bristol
in the Great Western, under the COM
mand of Capt. Hosken, r. N, who OBJ
tanned special permission to command
a merchant vessel. Miss Crop was the
only lady passenger on board.
The pastor of a wealthy protestant
church in Pittsburg and a prominent
Roman catholic of the same CITY have
set an example of christian unity. They
have held a joint fair for the benefit of
charities connected with their respective
churches and also held peoples praise
services I'm the same hall together. More
over they propose to repeat the expert
ment next year. They made $4,000 by
the fair.
Eavesdropping is misdeneanor under
the criminal code Of New York. but the
law is rarely enforced. Recently a far
mer, near Saugerties, was counting a
buxon widow, with whom one of her
farm hands was also in love. The far
mer-lover was wooing his sweetheart ar
IDENTIFY one evening, when the hired man
crept UP under the window just as the
farmer was in the act of stealing a kiss
while the widow tenderly calculated
"darlingw Moved by a spirit of jeaI-
ousy, and no doubt urged by a desire
for revenge, the farm hand interrupted
the blissful lovers by kissing in their
startled ears the expressive word:
"S'catr' Complaint was lodged against
the offender and he was sent to Jail for
thirty days.
James Robinson, who now lives at
Cincinnati, is probably the oldest sur
vivor of the old time circus. He is over
eighty-two years of age and was actively
engaged in the business from his boy
hood up to just before the war. He says
that in those days the regular charges
in the South were % cents for whites
and 37la cents for slaves. Spanish coins
were plentiful and a dollar could be
split up in nearly any way desired. The
slaves were charged the higher price in
order to, in a certain measure, restrict
their patronage. 1t was nearly as easy
to get 371a cents as 1t would have been
to get 25 cents. The slaves came in
droves generally, accompanied by some
member of their owners family, or in
charge of a trusted slave. In the North
% cents was the usual price, but busi-
mess was not so good as down in Dixie
Rest More Important thnn Exercise.
American women have at last become
fully aroused to the Importance of
exercise, and with characteristic energy
we all-men, women and children-have
gone at IL and are exercising indoors
and out of doors as hard and fast as
ever we can. This would be fine thing
IL our lives were not quite so full and
hurried and If we were as a people a