The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-28
GENERAL NOTES.

A number of candidates for Drew TheOlog-
icaI Seminary have been turned away for
want ofroom, as the utmost capacity OF the
bulldinus has been reached.
The Roman Catholic temperance societies
propose erecting a Statue in Central Park to
the memory of the late Father Matthew, at
n cost of $40, 900. No temperance advocate
was ever more worthy of the honor.
The Fairbankses have just been shipping
$1,000 worth of scales from st. Johnsbury, VT,
to Russia, and their product for the first six
months of 1874 foots up %, $40 scales, with
larger per cent of truck and hay scales than
ever before.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Barber reports tina. l3S, sis, 800 stamp ped en-
velops were furnished co postmaste-s dur
ing Lne fiscal year which en0Sd June 80, 1874.
against liz, ,2l5,S50 during tho proceeding
year.
The unfinished Stevens Battery, which has
for many years received in silence the pep
perings of the public press, is at last to be
knocked down by the sheriff's hammer, the
Governor of New Jersey haying ordered its
sale.
A person who has it at first hands says
that Browning wrote, "How they brought
the news from Ghens to AK" when once
Decaimon on the Me0lJ6TrdDean. III
him how he should like to have good gal
lop, and he wrote the poem forthwith.
The trustees of the Plymouth Baptist
church OF this city state that an attempt has
been made to assassinate the pastor, the
Rev. D. Henry Miller, owing to a sermon
delivered by him tavoring the reading of the
bible in public schools. Two shcts were
fired into the pastors study during his alb
sence, and he has been sent threatening
letter.
IL Is proposed to place memorial window
in the new memorial hall of Harvard col
lege, in remembrance of the christian phil
osOphers of Cambridge, England, who have
taken the lead in liberal culture from the
seventeenth century to the nineteenth. The
noted men OF this school in the seventeenth
century were graduates of Emanuel college.
to which John Harvard belonged.
Quincy College, Illinois, is to be reopened
this fall with favorable prospects. Arrange
ments have been made for suspending
johnson College of Macon City, Mo-, and
transferring its proceeds, together with all
its subscriptions, which will amount to
nearly s4o, 900, to Quincy PTpE E: w. Hall
of New York, who mas lately been President,
ofJohnson College at Macon City, has been
elect ed President
A late visitor to Paris, EN- route for Boston,
has seen the sculptor, Mr.. Thomas Ball.
HIS statue OF "emancipation,' for the Wash
ington Freedmen's Monument, is being cast
in bronze at Munich. He made a slight
change in the figure of the slave, thereby
modifying the ouIy possible fault in a work
which, OF all his works, the artist declares to
be the most oil inspiration--lParis Letter.
A copper piece, affecting to beof ten cen
tinies, has got into certain circulation in
France, of which note may be fttingly
made. 1t bears the head OF Napoleon III in
q Prussian helmet. Around the neck is a
dogs collar with a ring; upon it is inscribed
sedan" The circular legend is, "NgpOleOn
III. le Miserable: $1,000 prisoDnairss." On
the reverse an owl perched on a cannon.
around, vampire Francaise, Dec 1851:
Sc; tember, 1870.
By simple process, steel may be made so
hard that it wiIl pierce any substance but a
diamond. Jewellers, lapidaries and miners,
who wish to give their drills this degree OF
hardness, have but TO subject them to the
following treatment: The tool is first brought
to a white heat, and then pressed into stick
of sealingwax. left there for a second. and
removed aud inserted intothe wax in another
place. This operation should be repeated
until the Instrument is too cool TO enter the
WAX.
thinkers and observers have long noted
the dsterioration of physical manhood in
our cities; the bent form, the lingering step,
the dislike OF even the commonest exercise,
aud the consequent tendency TO disease.
Bat when tneg rad Of the long training,
tbs 4tisn b ldllv labor OF the students, aud
the grapd euImination of months OF steady
application la the short but keen struggle
Tor supremacy, sue1 as took place on Sara
toga Lake, even the weakest will feel at