The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-12
EFT CETERA.

The salt bath is becoming very popular
in New York and other cities.
The Slaughter family of Texas. the
most extensive land owners in Amer
lea, whose joint holdings are 100000
acres, are at the Auditorium hotel Chi
cage.
Aug Is is colored peoples day in
the worlds fair calendar, and 250.OO0
Afro-Americans are expected to pass
through the gates during the four days
OF the convention.
The most extraordinary failure of the
jury system in recent times was in New
Orleans the other day. The prisoner
was proved guilty. He confessed, be-
sides. The jury acquitted him.
The court of appeals of New York
state decides against Mayor Manning
in the case affecting the ownership of
the Albany Argus. and the Speer or
Hill people are given control of that
newspaper.
Rivers of the Chicago Tribune-''That
Miss BlenkinS over there was born
with a silver spoon in her mouth"
Banks CRITICALLY inspecting Miss Blen-
kns)-"lt must have been a mighty
wide one
Ex-Governor Nathanial S. Berry, the
war governor of New Hampshire, is
still living at Bristol, in that state, in
good health and active in intellect, al
though he has nearly completed his nine
ty-seventh year
Nevergo O1:30 p. m.)-''Well, declare,
the clock has stopped What could
have made it?" Miss Tiredout Cwearily)
oh, 1 don't know. Even machinery
gets discouraged at times, 1 suppose
Buffalo Courier.
The New York correspondent of a Chi
cago paper reports that Miss Helen
Gould has secured the unanimous con-
sent Of the other heirs as required by
the will Of her father, and will marry
within twelve months.
King Bull, head of the Lapland vii
lage at the fair. is said to be liz years
old, and his son, ninety years old, has
a son of seventy-three, whose daughter,
hfty-nine, has a son forty-one, who has
a grandchild aged two years.
Mrs. Stannard. the writer, who is
best known by the name Of John
Strange Winter, says she knows of one
happy marriage that was the result of
a proposal made on the fourth day at
ter the couple met 1t is her own.
Pat Carmody of St Louis is conceded
to be the oldest and most generously
patriotic Of all Missouri's pensioners.
He divides his pension money equally
between the confederate home at Hig-
gfnsvflle and a home for union soldiers.
A correspondent from Helsingfors
writes that women in Finland compete
with men as clerks, managers Of limit
builders and bank cashiers. in which ca
pacity they are found more honest than
men.
Leland Stanford began his bushes life
by selling horse radish and when he
died he was U. s., senator and had
$50 900, 900. more or less. This is the sea
son for horse radiSh, and ambitious
young Americans can at once enter the
business.
Miss Ella G.. Nash, a graduate OF the
Boston college of pharmacy, has passed
the board of examination and been
awarded a druggists certificate. Young
men will feel a certain hesitation in or
dering one with wink in it at her soda
fountain.
! Emil Ney, a San Francisco ship car
penter who claims to be gTandson of
the famous Marshal Ney, proposes TO ex-
hibet himself and his grandfather S
sword at the worlds fair. The latter
is now in possession Of A. W. Mas of
Meridian, Miss.
When Billy wamsley of Dimondale,
Mich, went swimming he left his clothes
on the bank. Seeing his father, he hid
from the expected thrashing. The father
found the clothes and mourned for his
son as one dead for eight hours, when at
last the boy turned up rather chilly.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, having
succeeded in paying off the debts which
hung over the tabernacle, has relapsed
into indolent and worldly ways. He has
become dog fancier, and has just paid
$500 for bull terrier known as Courett
II. The animal is said to be marvellous
ly ugly.