The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
STREET PICKINGS.

! Niathena ticians can prove by cold calcu-
| lation that there Is such thing as luck;
| that events transpire according TO law and
| that there is no subtle or extra-natural
| influence which affects them. BE that as
| 1t may it would be hard to convince the
] average man that United States Marshal
| Hawkins is not lucky man. About two
| weeks ago tailor near his office ratified of
a forty-dollar suit of clothing by the mod
| ern method of placing in sealed envelopes
| tickets, numbered from 1 to 100. The man
! taking the chances draws n ticket and
must pay for il the amount in cents TO
the number drawn. In this way the chance
/ might cost / cent or dollar. The boys
| prevailed upon Mir Hawkins to take a
| chance and rather than to be mean he did
| So When he drew No. 90 and had TO pay
| 90 cents they gave him the laugh" But
| he who laughs last laughs best. On the
| day of the drawing Marshal Hawkins and
So were strictly in it, for 50 the win
| ming number.
The suit was made up in nobby style
and Mr.. Hawkins donned it on st. Pat
/ ricks day. He strolled into the taiIor's
| and let the boys obviously admire him.
| There was another suit to be disposed of
in the same way. and to help out the
/ cause Mr.. Hawkins took three chances,
costing him a little over 50. Yesterday he
was informed that he had won the second
suit. 1t would be impossible to make up
| another rattle of the same people with Mr..
| Hawkins as a participant
|
| A mother and her little daughter got on
/ a y. Pennsylvania-st. car yesterday morn
| ing, and the child attracted the attention
| Of the whole car account of her rare
beauty. She had eyes of pansy tint and
| hair like spun fax. The corners of her
| little mouth turned up like the petals Of
| an opening rosebud. Her dress too, was
| beautiful and in keeping with her general
appearance. She wore coat, cap and leg
] gins of lavender hue, and was as fair a
| pocket Venus as could be desired After
! she had sat in silence for several moments
smiling sweetly at the passengers who ad-
mired her. she took ii into her head TO
turn around and kneel the seat. Her
| feet were very muddy from the asphalt
| pavement, and as there was a lady next to
| her the mother refused to allow her to
muddy the dresses around her. Behold,
| what a change took place, The child
! turned with perfect fury and kicked her
| mother. pulled her hair. pounded her face
] with her tiny but vigorous fists, and for
| few moments there pandemonium in
| the car Tears of modification came into
the mothers eyes as she said: why,
baby 1 am ashamed Of you. You never
did this way before" But she would have
been justified in administering good
| left the car several passengers avowed
their willingness to do the job for her.
A music critic in the city has been in a
state of nervous excitement since the
season Of grand opera opened in Chicago.
He has been prevented from going one way
or another until last week, when, TO his
Joy, he went His friends dropped in upon
his return to hear the account Of the opera.
and this is his report:
Il must tell you of the fourth act in
Carmen. 1t was grand The curtain went
up and there was ampitheater with live
people, not the painted ones like Robert
Downing uses in The Gladiator but live
ones And what do you think? horses run
ming around the stage Yes. sir. live
horses. We couldn't give anything like
that here"
He went on in this strain for some time,
when one of the crowd ventured to ask:
"But what OF the music; was ii worth go
ing to hear? Who sang?'' The music
was great, and 1 wish you could have seen
those horses running around the stage"
He cannot understand yet why his
friends laugh at his account Of the grand
opera which cost him about thirty dollars
to see.
He was on the late at night and his
breath was redolent with the perfume OF
mint and lozenges of one sort and another.
He was very sociable and the whole car
was entertained by his talk. When he got
UP and started for the door the car didn't
slow up. but went right along. He stood
on the step and prepared to take header.
THE conductor had better he careful how
he drops him." said one of the passengers.
HE might fall
Then the woman with the acid voice
spoke up: Il guess if he falls his
breath IL won't hurt him."
And everybody in the car looked relieved
at the thought.
A lank youth in the eastern part OF the
city is the victim Of u novel experience
which he relates thus:
9TH other day man got me TO lay of
and beg for him. l went 20 the bakeries
and groceries and told them 1 hadn't had
anything TO eat for two days. and they'd
give me bread and cake and doughnuts
The man'd wait at the corners and take
the stuff and sell IL. ] begged two days
for him. Then he told me he going 10
have me arrested for begging: and ia get
sixty days and he'd get dollar for having
me arrested. That scared me | hid all
night, and the next morning l walked 20
Mooresvile. 1 walked sixteen miles in four
hours; had to go barefooted part of the
way, for / walked my shoes of. My uncle
there put me on the cars and sent me home
again; and then my father said IL I had
anything more to do with that man he
himself would have me arrested. You bet
I'll keen away. from him.