Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

• WM. A. LAMSON, iw HARDWARE, TINWARE, Coal Sf If GUNS and Ammunition Breach and Muzzle Loaders io great Variety, Quality; and Prices ranging from $25 to SSO. Cartridges, Powder, Caps, etc. etc. Pistols, various grades and and prices. WGive me a call, at Clark & Mayhew’s old stand, in Nowels’ Block, Washington Street. Rensselaer, Indiana.

ATTENTION I Just opened in Rensselaer, a Now Store containing Fancy Notions, Millinery and Gents' Furnishing Goods. Ladies, please call und examine our goods and ascertain our prices. Respectfully, Ed. P. Honan.

A few evenings ago lu Philadelohia there was a trinity of talent in the “Star Lecture Course*—the trio being composed of Robert J. Burdette, of the Burlington Hawkeye, James W. Riley, of this State, and Josh Billings. Mr. Burdette presented Riley to the audience and prefaced the introduc tion by referring to uur State, from whence Mr. B hails.viz: “Indiana,* said he of the Hawkeye, “has* frequently and widely been known more for what it is not, than for what it is. Too often, in the splendors of the glided and barbarous orient, you have used Ho sierdom as a synonym for verdancy and a low state of civilization and culture, But did you know that this State of Indi* ana at one time had a larger school fund than Pennsylvania or New York, or any other State in the Union, save only Massachusetts? Did you know that Indiana was vaccinated for colleges years ago, and it ‘took’ splendidly all over the State? Why you get on the cars at New Albany, and travel north on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad; you ride less than one hundred miles, and you pass throgb Bloomington, the seat of the Indiana State University; fortvone miles further on you come into Greencastle and all the stately build* Ings of Asbury College; thirty miles straightaway the train pauses at Crawfordsville, the home of Lew Wallace. Maurice Thompson and General Carrington, well known names in the world of literature; and hero is old Wabash University, justly proud of its standing in the world of scholarship; twenty-eight miles further, and the beautiful city of Lafaye te and the buildings of Purdue Univers ity rise before you, and ninety miles .further north, and oniy ten miles off the direct line of this road, is Valpa i ralso. with its famous Normal School, I witn an attendance of oyer fifteen hundred st idents. Now all these colleges are on the line of railway. I have no doubt all the trunk lines have more colleges than this north and south road. Lev/ Wallace’s‘Fair God and‘Ben Hur* speak for Indiana in the literary kingdom. And. did you know that Indiana has a better system of turnpikes than PehnsyN vanla? Did -you know that Indiana even set the fashions for this republic, and that every lovely woman who arrayed herself in green and adored archery, every-archery club that was organized to miss targets and break windows, from Boston to Ban Francisco, kne t at the shrine of Crawfordville, Indiana, the home of the archer poet, Maurice Thompson, author of those delightful Scribner papers ’Merry Days with Bow and Quiver’ and the originator of the impetus given to archery iu America? Did you know that there is one county in In dlana, not far ftom the capital, in which there never has been a saloon since the county was organized? Did you know that Warsaw, Indiana, manufactured one fourth or more of all the bungs used in the republic? Did you know that twelve railroads center in the capital of Indiana, a city of 85,000 souls, and there is not a tedious,peace-destoying line of transfer busses in the city, and no need for one, because every passenger train on all its twelve railroads runs into one union depot, within pistolshot of the heart of the city? Did you know that in Central and Wes tern Pennsylvania Connestoga farmers are turning the soil with Indiana plows, and hauling their products to market in Studebaker wagons, from South Bend, Indiana.?

A vase was sold for $11,500 in London the other day. Mrs. John Mac Kessy, of Lafayette, is the mother of a babe which weighed seventeen and a half pounds at birth. A mab in Know County, Me., who wanted to vote against a projected high school wrote on hh ballot “Know.” They have a new game in this State, A man who can bold an egg in either hand and jump five feet without breaking the eggs by involuntary sqeezing wins the bet.

Tichborne claimant is sawing wood and unloading timber in tbe dockyard at Portsmouth. He weighs about sixteen stone, as against twenty-five wben he was first sentenced, but is in good health and thrives on a prison ration a quarter than that allotted to the other prisoners. A daughter of the late President Johnson is living near Albany. Shackleford county, Texas, She will be best remembered as Miss Mary Johnson, but is now Mrs. Daniei Stover. With her son and two daughters she manages a farm and a ranebe in a prosDerng manner. A full line of Gentlemen’s furnishing goods at Fendig’s. H, B. Smith, the Bom Watchmaker can can be found at Hatnar’f