Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12
WHOLE NO. 1,265


AEE sORrs OF PARAGRAPHs
What light cOuii not be possibly seen in
DARK room7 Ah Israefite.
Tie man who ETes fOr himseIf alone lives
for Des0 fellow.
-Marisgsabie young ladies are prettily called
waiting maids.
PRAY, madam, what makes you SO sedateT
"Oh, have taken n se1ative."
1t sounds very odd. but yet it is true that the
first apple was eaten by the first pair.
Say. Jack. can you tell me what's the
best thing to hold two pieces Of rope fogetherf"
al guess knot Jack
-AWhat is the difference between vour great
coat aud babys One YOU wear and sbe other
you was.
"A man was recently arrested in Detroit, he
having deserted four wives and FIVE regiments.
The yak lace" is the newest thing for
trimmings. 1t is made from OK wool in Thibet
and Tartsry. -s ..ars
MIR. Lincoln seems bent upon accomplishing
two things-to make all our money green and
everything else blue
Drinking water neither makes man sick,
nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
Coon says that 'in the hands of
corrupt ruler. the powers claimed by the Presi-
dent would be dangerous.
Laws are like cobwebs, which catch small
fies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
-Four things cannot come back-tbe broken
word, the sped arrow, the past iife and the ne
elected opportunity.
"A young girl generally loses her freshness
by mingling with fashionable society, as a bright
stream does by mingng with the sea.
The Empress Eugene, at Biarritz dances
until two o'clock every morning. bathes next
day with the Princess Murat-deuced pretty wo-
man-and both frolic wildly in the surf.
Among the recent batch of Confederate
prisoners is one man only twenty fours years old,
whose hair is as white snow. He says it was
fright in his first fight
Cholera prevails extensively among the Eng
lsh regiments in India. Cholera has also ap-
peared in malignant form in Shanghai. where
the deaths are said to number about five hundred
daily.
An old lady. when she heard her minister
say there would be nave in the new church, OBJ
served that 'she we'll knew who the party was
to whom he applied such opprobrious epi-
the."
other Towering plants will redden them vividly,
flowers nearly white being thus turned to deep
red, sometimes altogether and sometimes mixed
with the lighter hue in half dozen varieties,
from one and the same root.
The great billiard match between Kavan-
augh and Secreiter is to be played at New York
on the 18th inst The terms of play will be
carom game, $500 per side, 500 points up, on
a four pocked Phelan & Colander table.
Sea bathing costumes in France are recula-
ted by the Government which regulates every
thing. A writer, speaking of their effect on the
wearers, says the raen resemble wet statues not
much like Apollo, and the women look like
magn6ed brown rats on their hind legs"
Noble General Thomas, in the midst OF his
deadly fight with the overwhelming masses of
the enemy, sent this immortal dispatch from the
front to General Rosecrans: 81 am here with
my columns as immovable as a rock. k."-fDayton
Journal.
The white officers of colored regiment. the
LIST Kansas, have been detected in cheating the
darkies out of their pay Well, if that isn't the
meanest thing we ever read of II il not for
disgracing the colored men, those officers shonld
be reduced to the ranks Quincy Herald.
-WEsr INDIA CorroS CoxPASr.-Capitalists
may be interested in the new enterprise which
the cultivation of cotton in Santo Domingo The
climate and soil is all that could be desired The
company have purchased large tract of land,
and are about to send ont a company OF white
settlers to commence operations.
A GHosr CLUB-In London. they have estab-
lshed ghost club for research into the possibility
of a travellers returning from those bournes to
which all look forward with interest. The
club is in downright earnest as may be gathered
from the fact that the committee advertise Tor a
"haunted house, one whose reputation is well
authenticated.
Theodore Tilton, of the Independent. lately
presented a wreath TO the wife of Gen. Rosecrans,
and made terribly patriotic speech on the coca
sion The other day. this Tilron
drafted in New York; but, instead of taking up
bis musket and going 70 belp Gen. Rosecrans
fight Bragg, be paid his 1900 III the fellow had
any shame about him, he would rather cut bis
throat, drown himself, bang himself, shoot him
self, or take dose ofstrychnine than come within
Parrott gun range of the wife of Rosecrans-
-SidDey Smith once said: "God save my
King, in these times, too often means God save
my pensions and my place; God give nv sisters
an allowance ont of the privy purse, make me
clerk of the irons, and let me survey the met
lings: let me live upon the fruits of other men's
industry, and fatten rpon the plunder of the pub
lie" a.arr
That is the sort of LOYALTY that can be depended
on; il never tires. There is no danger Of change
of opinion, unless the spoils give out. Well. why
shouldn't loyal man be paidf Why shouldn't
a man be loyal to be paidf
The Chicago Post announces that Lieuten-
ant Frank E Brownell the avenger OF Ellsworth,
has been ordered before the military retiring
board with view to his retirement from the ser
vice. This will dispose of another Of the vast
army Of more ornamental than useful officers.
Because private soldier fred upon and happened
to kill the man who had just shot down his COM
mandiDg officer. was no reason why that soldier
should be promoted to a rank for which his mill
tary knowledge was totally unfit. Had he not
done so, it would have been an omission of duty
for which he would have deserved arrest and
punishment But the war was young then. and
Mr. Lincoln acted as if he likewise was extremely
youthful.
Free Governments.