Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-22

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incOse of 1865. $50. or 81 900 per psy. With
little pocket money extra
The ladies Of BuG,lo wear the Buffalo -
skirt. make for that market. IL is loaded with
shee, lead. Each belle 10 that dress mus, be
ser'ons buratg 20 man ll~8 IHl ~
Several Of the mos. respectable yound ladies'
in Northampton, Mass. have recently been seiz
cd IN the streets in the evening and kissed.
1t is recorded a. a fac, of great significance
that Mrs. Grant, General Grants wife) arrived
at Washington on Thursday from City Point,
where she left Ulysses in good health and spirits
--Meissoniers Retreat from Moscow
picture nine by twelve inches, thereabouts-
was sold recently sold in Paris for 90 900 francs,
equivalent in greenbaeks. With gold at 200, to
about S35 QUO.
An Englishuan has taken the pains to
weigh the clothes VI rn by lady Of eighteen, Of
averagesize, and saystheir Weights l4115 pounds
He thinks there j. no doubt that by continually
carrying this burden about them, ladies waste
their physical strength
"A rebel officer imprisoned on Johnson,s Is
hnd gave birth 70 r boz few days since. II
IS hardly necessary 20 say that the officer was
woman. The Sandusky Register is responsible
for the story, the truth Of which il affirms.
Some of the elite OF New York are making
an effort TO reform the custom of late hours at
evening parties, which they consider injurious to
health aud beauty. 4 new MODE of invitation
has been devised. 20 convey delicate hint of the
new system: "Mrs. Smith will be glad to re.
eeve her friends between the hours of eight and
eleven"
The Federal and Safe taxes in Ohio now
amount to the comfortable little sum of SOS 600
600 year. This IL tax OF $3.50 upon every
voter, or head OF a family. IN the State. IL il
rather expensive to run the best government on
earth
The Philadelphia Ledger tells Of man in
that city, who separated from his wife. packed
up his things, started TO leave town. cot drunk
and was taken up by the police and returned 10
his home. On getting sober. he took secon /
thought the sober second) and concluded 10
stand by the Old flag TO the last
The Hartford Conn Times says it is ,ele
grapned from Washington that the treasury de
partment decides that in assessing a special war
tax on incomes of 1863. there shall be deducted
from the full amount Of income not only the
5000 allowed by law, but also such sum as was
paid for house rent. Persons who have paiG 4
special tax under a different construction of the
law by assessors will be entitled to draw back
-Messrs. Ross and Thomas Winans continue
the building of ship in the port OF London af-
ter the style of the cigar steamer which they con
strpcte1 at Spring Garden, Baltimore. At the
last accounts work had been stopped on her
temporarily on account of the failure of Mr.
Fairburn deliver the iron plates Tor the hull as
the contract called for Her length on deck is
run twenty FIVE miles per hour, and cross the
ocean in from six TO seven DAYS
The report of London paper that the iron
clad Warrior Is failure, seems 10 have been in
correct On being put out OF commission after a
long cruise. she thoroughly examined and
the account SAYS: Nothing cove he more sat
isiactory. considering tie work the boilers have
done. during the three ears and -four months of
the ships commission. The most minute in
spection cannot discover a fault in any part OF
the ships hull; the frame and plating is a. rigid
as ever, and not single instance exists tween
decks or below. OF bit OF iron having given the
hundredth part Of an inch.
"A New Orleans correspondent of the Chca-
90 Times SAYS:
have been credibly informed that General
Lees forces, during his late raid into Mississippi
applied the torch TO a large female seminary in
the vicinity of Liberty The building, have
been informed cost sos. 600 There was in 1t, at
tue tiihc = Nh~ pulHcdb fourteen pianos Ne
pretext for this wanton destruction of private
property was that Col Hodge had made his head.
quarters in the building
"A Paris correspondent thus describes the
mode OF cOoring the hair red.
Would that dressing and undressing were the
only foles Of our womenl The mode now is
for them to initiate the color of the empress hair
We laugh at the courtiers who bad operations for
imaginary fistulas performed because Louis XIV
afflicted, and here all the women are imi-
tating the empress Spanish walk and color OF
hair. ! don't wonder that so many people are
daily carried off to the mad house-the wonder is
that some mORSfre commission lgndticO iHQui-
TendO be not sued out against all and result III
all OF Us being sent 10 Charenton-where the
Paris bedlam Is situated Would YOU know the
process by which Jet black hair is transformed
into golden hairY For our fair danes OF
court and all cur lore;tes (they rather began it,
sacrifice their beautiful black hair a. freely as a
red head with you sacrifices his carrot. You
wish to hear how the metamorphOse is OBJ
taineGT At the appointed hour the candidate
for golden honOrs enters her dressing room
attred in a long white dressing gown. Her
hsir floats loosely over her shoulders unsecured
I b. comb or pin the artist IS there. He be
gins by seeing that the hair is thoroughly sepa-
rated; then he BY degrees pours over the head
ton corrosive submate or some equally deadly
pOison), and he takes hair by hair and saturates
1t with the water from one to the other end THIS
takes two hours. He allows fifteen inmates 70
elapse, and then he soaks the whole haif in ice
water. next he pOurs another phial of his wafer
upon the hAr. and kneaGs tie hair with his
hands. Another respite OF A quarter OF an hour
is given which j. follow ed by soaking the head
ia ice water, which is succeeded by a new phial
OF water These processes take two hours aud
fifteen minutes more The artist then takes
two tailors' 'gOoses, heated to a high degree of
temperature The chambermaid holds the end
OF her mistress nsr. and the artist moves back
ward and forward the g0OSes within 3 few
inches Of the hair until the hair becomes red
This ends the operation, which has lasted five
hours, and leaves the LADY, with red hair. an in.
tolerable headache. tangled nerves. and eighty
dollars less in pocket | say eighty dollars. not
eighty francs. but four hundred francs. Felix,
the hair dresser who invented this operation, is
making more money than ever, aud before he
resorted to this method ne was literally coming
money. So goi
Charleston and iIs Harbor.