The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-10
NEWS n GOSSIP.

Tbs progress made by the pupils learning
drawing in the public schools of Boston is
quite satisfactory, it is said. The cost of
instruction is only two mills per pupil
per day, or S3l, S35 81 per annum for the
whole.
Count Won Arnim was born in 1924. He
did not inherit his title, but was created
count while he was Prussian ambassador at
Rome. He is of middling height, has black
hair, which he wears long, and blue eyes
He uses spectacles.
According to Bert, meat does not putrefy
in compressed sir, but merely u~ndergoes a
slight change in external appearance. Even
when putrefaction has been begun it is said
to be entirely arrested when the substance
is introduced into a condensed atmosphere.
New Hampshire presents ODD new or
newly repaired school houses, Al new
schools, 81 additional graded schools. but a
diminished average attendance. OF it's 227
towns, So either failed to report to the State
superintendent or reported lack of interest.
Howard Glyndon, !" that is to say, Laura
G.. Redden, is said to be no longer deaf and
dumb, but has learned to talk like other
folks. A gossipy letter-writer saws her
manner is full of happiness, she bubbles
with laughter while speaking, and enjoys
life to the utmost.
Sir Alfred stephen, late chiefjustice CT
New South Wales, has addressed a letter to
the Sydney Morning Herald, in reference
to the Tichborne case. Hitherto he has ia
vored the idea that the claimant was indeed
Roger Tichborne, but now be is satisfied
that he is Arthur Orion.
Mr.. Robert Bonner has purchased from
Mr.. Gray. of Boston, the wonderful five
year old, Wellesley Boy, for a double horse
10 trOr aside Of Startio The prica paid is
not announced. 1t is known that Mr.. Gray
asked S25, 1000 for him, and that Mr.. William
h. Vanderbilt was a competitor for the pur-
chase.
Late advices from Japan report Mr.. Avery.
United States Minister to China, as in ex-
tremely poor health. While at Toxic, en-
route to his post, he was confined to his
bed for several days at the house of Min
lister Bingham, where he was a guest. He
sailed from Yokohama for Shanghai on the
26th ultimo.
An ink closely resembling hat forming
the characters upon the Egyptian papyrus
NAV, il is said, be made by dissolving gum
lac in an aqueous solution of borax, and adj
ding lamp-black in suitable quantity. This
ink is claimed to be almost indestructlble,
resisting both time and chemical agents,
and becoming a beautifully lustrous black.
Prot. o. c. Marsh. of Yale College, the IN
iDent student of fossils, arrived at Chey-
enne, Wyoming, last Wednesday, and will
proceed to Red Cloud Agency, in a few
days, in company with Maj. T. III. Stanton,
paymaster U. S. A., to examine the recently
discovered bone fields in that locality. He
expects to find many new and valuable sci
entiic fossils in that region.
Mr.. VI. A. Little, OF New York City, on
Saturday presented George Evans the
iocEau vbo roda Eollouoraft af cara4oooG
when ~Lexington's great four-mile race was
watch and chain. Inside the case is an in
scription, Little to Evans. Fellowcraft,
four miles, 7:l9X, at Saratoga"
An English correspondent writes to an
American paper: SIT is the oldest thing i'm
the world to me that you will tolerate such
literary humbugs, who nav no reputation at
home. What has come over you that YOU
reject such a scholar as Charles Kingsley,
and open your arms to Hepworth Dixon and
Charles Bradlaugh? The one a mere literary
chiffonier, and the other an uneducated and
~soulless infidel."
Maine shows a smaller number enrolled
in schools, but a decidedly better average
attendance, an increase OF S3lI, 100 in the
amount raised for school purposes, a very
large addition to the number of its high
schools, more vigor in many instances OF
local action, and a better adjustment OF the
parts OF the State system, calculated to
promote the advance of all the interests O.
culture.
1t is best to prepare paste by trituratine
the starch with cold water in a mortar until
no Jumps remain, and not too thick a mass
is formed, and pouring into this boiling wa.
ter, very slowly, with rapid stirring, until
the paste begins t. form, as indicated by the
increase of transparency, and then rapidly
adding the rest ofthe boiling water necessary
for the paste. Boiling the paste is very injurf
Gus, rendering it less adhesive, and liable to
peeg of.
Nearly a year has elapsed since The Uni
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