The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-21
EFT CETERA.


It is understood that Justice White and
Mrs Linden Kent viii be married in June.
In Minnesota a syndicate has purchased
the rights on tract of land covering
1.5goO00o0 feet of pine lumber. The price
paid was 100000
Par1er-'I have received very gratifying
news Of my son who recently went TO col
lege" Barker-"Yes What news" Par
ker-"He's ve.'-Puck
a Manitoba farmer has garden patch
the soil Of which is imported bodily from d
warmer climate on IT he grows vegetables
which are entirely foreign TO his neighbor-
hood.
MY dear uncle, the mere fact that man
makes his viii is no proof that he's going
to die. For instance. ! made my viii yes
terday and left you everything I possess"
Life.
"Thompkins is the most absent-minded
man I ever saw" IN what way" Got
married the other day and forgot to take
his bride when he went on his wedding
tour. Halo
Tosti. the man who writes songs that
sentimental young ladies love To sing, is
an accomplished amateur upholsterer. He
spends his leisure i'm making sofas and
cushioned chairs.
Walter Besant. among other reasons for
his opposition 70 woman suffrage. says that
mon have to do tho couquerinS the dc
Tending and the providing, and they ought
TO do the governing.
Mrs Dropin-"So Harry is taking los
SONS on the violin. Is he making prog
ress?' Little Alice-"Oh, YES, he's got 50
now that we can tell whether ne is playing
or tuning."-Brookiyn Life
Edward Eckert Wisconsin convict.
serving life sentence. occupies an anon
alous position. The supreme court has
decided that he was Illegally sentenced
hut it can not order his release
\ joker in Chicago recently sent pictures
Of W. y. Howells and Archibald Forbes TO
the police OF that city 70 have them identi-
fed. The almost unanimous verdict of the
police was that while the faces were not
in the rogues gallery they were undoubt-
eddy crooks. which shows how easy it is to
see what you want 10 see or expect to see.
1t won't he many weeks until
Coal bills no more Wen fear.
And vet no small comfort this Will bring
Nor dropping spirits cheer.
For nature hath somehow SO wrought,
In her great plan precise
Than when We cease to pay for coal
We start to pay for ice.
Buffalo Courier.
some idea Of the number Of New York
men who get their clothes from London
may he gathered from the fact that there
are twenty-three agents OF English tailor
ing houses now in that town. Most of the
goods are brought into the country free of
duty. and cost the wearer a little loss
than the same clothes made here All the
big London houses have places I'm New
York City where necessary alterations are
made free.
A mass OF earth ten feet i'm depth. 800
tHap 10
weighing $1,000 tons, is slowly but with
ominous steadiness slipping down the
south side OF Mt. Echo. i'm Cincinnati
The top of the mass has Travelled $50 feet;
has already damaged handsome stone res
licences and driven out the occupants, and
several churches and other houses are
menaced. Unless it stops of it's own &C
cord no human agency can stop it.
Cincinnati police noticed handsomely
attired young woman vigorously chewing
gum. carrying a baby and intensely in
terested in the pictures Of a theatrical
bill board. One Of the officers, struck by
the unusual appearance of the little one
asked what allied it. He was informed it
had been sick for some time and that she
intended taking it TO a doctor that night
Looking closer it was discovered the child
was dead and had been so for several
hours.
j. $. T. STanahan, the first citizen OF
Brooklyn, has a keen sense Of humor. At
the girls high school last week, after the
flag salute to Gen. .. Q. Howard. he
marked, in conversatio that he was born
in the same year as the three great rascals
of the tury-Louis Napoleon. Andrew
johnson and jefferson Davis. But YOU
have lived and conquered them all, said
Gen. Howard. And have not been found
out as the rest of them were" added Gen.
Woodford. Well" said Mr.. Stranahan. in
his quaint way. Il have been thinking of
changing my residence, lest 1 might be
found out some day.