Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-06

Woman should remain - s;eadfsst at man.
eide as the rib ousof which she was taken.
TO the lover there are bot two places in all
the wOrld--one where bis svest-hesrt Is, and
the other where she isn't
The city of NAnkin, China, once populated
with 1900 900 OF people has cwindled down till
i's inhabitants now number only 2OO. 1000.
On an average one thousand persons each
day visit the public library of Boston, either TO
take out books 10 consult authorities. or TO read
the reviews and magazines.
An exchange saws there are 50 600 Chinese
in the United States that idols are wOrshioed
in two temples in San Francisco and suggests
that the work OF evangelizing these poor crea-
lures is an inviting cause 10 Christians.
"A confectouer 10 NewYork got Up a thanks
giving cake for the Ladies Home Mission. which
ten feet long, twenty-five inches vide and
sixteen inches thick To make il, 1t took DOC
eggs, LIS pounds OF -four, lbs pounds of sugar
aud 20 pounds OF butter.
The Salem Gazette tells the following goose
story: "A young spring goose was exhibited in
Salem market, by John Bradstreet, of Topsbeid
on Tuesday. weighing seventeen pounds THIS
one of four Matched by an old goose seventy
eight years OF age The average weight OF The
four was fifteen pounds
Buffers canal which has been so long il
progress. is FIVE hundred and fifty feet in length
sixty feet wide at the bottom and one hundred
and twenty five at the top. lt will have fileeE
feet OF wafer at low tide. 1t goes through a
strata OF unctuOus clay, in which vegetable mat
ter exists. half converted into coal.
-Meinheer Won Dunek attended in court a
Ne" York 10 get excused from the jury box 81
can't underestimate goot Englese," quoth Mein
| heer What did b. saw" asked the Judge. 81
can't understand goot Englese," repeated the
! Dutchman. Take your seat" cried the Judge
take your seat. That's DO excuse you neeC
not he alarmed. as you are Dot likely 10 hea
any"
! Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade
the heart wlthers, mau grows old aud dies; thf
world lies down 10 the seouchre Of ages: bu
time writes no wrinkles on eternity. Eternity
| Stupendous thought! The ever present, unborn
undecaying, ana undying-the endless chsii
composing the lite OF God-,he golden thread en-
twInlng the destinies of the universe. Earth
| has its beauties. but time shrouds them for the
grave; its honOrs are but the shrine of an hour
its palaces. they are but the glded sepulchre
| its pleasures, they are but "a bursting bubbles
Not so in the untried bourne. In the dwellin!
of the Almighty can come no footsteps to decay
- The manager OF Berlin theatre got up
| drama in which "a human head was to be offere,
TO a tyrant. In order TO produce much ellec
"a possible, he resolved to use a human head Or
the stage placed table covered with cloth
| on the table basin, and an actor, conceal
ed under a cloth, pOked his head through h0l'
| in the table, so to seem TO be placed in th'
basin. The effect was prodigous the audience
applauded ard trembled Unluckily wag Wit
was behind. the scenes, spfinkled some snuff OF
the basin. and just as the tyrant finished his ad
dress to the severed head of bis enemr, the hea'
replied by hearty fit OF sneezing, changing tn
audience from grave ia CAV with remarkable ex
petition.
An excitement occurred in Philadel phia owe
a case of ladies belt buckles in this wise, rs De
.cribed by a local editor
We saw yesterday, at the house oil an exten
siye importer case of ladies' belt buckles
| They are Of the widest dimensions, and carry
ribbon fully three inches wide They were worl
in the times when ladies waists were located bu
a few inches below the axilla. They RENAME
uusold when The fashions changed just twenty
eight years ago. They were then packed up an
CONSIGNED to garnet. They were Yesterday re
produced for sale, anu taken 10y the retai
trade with such rapidity that in little while bu
few remained. The buckles in question sold a
price sufficient TO pay twenty eight years inter
est on their original cost and leave a very hand
some profit beside.