The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20
NEWS AMI GOSSIP


NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The civil rights bill is nothing but case
OF black male.
Mullett is a self made man and architect
of his own furtunes.
Bancroft was Caleb Cushing's classmate;
fifty-seven years ago.
The grangers appear to be holding Ceres
of elections. Rather serious.
An international conundrum: Will Uncle
Sam put on mourning if Ant'nelll dies? Yes
yes-will Pho Mono.
The new patent butter made of beef suet
won't suit many people, we fancy. We
prefer the uddsr kine.1St. Louis Globe.
DIR. Hayes describes an iceberg of his ac-
quaintance as containing enough ice to sup
ply this world with ice cream and sherry
cobblers for century,"
"What is a more exhilarating sight," says
Vermont paper, "than to see Is handsome
girls riding down on an OK sled?" Well, 10
would beat it little?
There is an extraordinary interest in spir-
itualism at Geneseo, New York, and large
number of converts are being made, among
them several educated and prominent men.
A Springfield debating club has decided
that the law under which the cows of Abby
HI. Smith, of Glastonbury, were sold is
| illegal. That's settled now for specie pay
ment and the Texas governors.
The Pail Mall Gazette has invented pat
emit baby-washer, where you slide the be-
grimed and molasses-coated infant in at ore
orifice and take it out cleaned. fed and
spanked at the other. Is will go on the pat
ent Office files with the Bogardus kicker and
the cast iron tom-cat.
Mr.. W. w. Ssorrs, treasurer of Concord,
n. H, savings bank, who stole S65, 900 from
that Institution, is thus spoken of by local
paper: sin attendance upon his duties he
was prompt. unwearied and diligent. In
social life bis department was correct, and
ais character unblemished. He had nor, to
appearance, a single extravagant habit"
No?
OF the many brothers and sisters of the late
dowager, Empress Elizabeth, of Prussia,
Prince Charles, of Bavaria, and the Queen
Dowager of Ssxony are alone left. Queen
Elizabeth was the daughter OF Macmillan L.
of Bavaria, the sister of Ludwig l., the
patron of art, the aunt Of Macmillan IL,
the protector of science, and the great aunt
of Ludwig H., the present royal champion
OF Rlcnard wagner music.
An honest Englishman, owner of Camden
house, Chiselhurst, in 1870 offered the Impe-
rial family a refuge. He thought, as did
many others, that the term of their exile
would be brief The Imperial family, how
ever, remain there, and in three years have
made the land adjoining Camden House. OF
fabulous value. Chiselhurst has become
fashionable and its owner is very rich. Gen.
erosity, as well as honesty, is very good
policy,
The Grand Duke Alexis has devoted one
volume of his book of travel around the
world to the United States. "The Grand
Duke can not praise too highly American
hotels. American fare, he thinks, however,
too rich. There is at their tables, he exclaims
naively, always too much of good thing.
1 asked for the peculiar dishes of America,
and at the hotel they could not give me any.
Their cooks were italian and French. The
landlord shrugged his shoulders when
asked him about it. Out west, however, my
desires were at once gratified. dined one
day on baked pork and beans, very palat-
able dish. which would certainly bear trans
planting to Russia
The Olony of Natal. on the southeast coast
of Africa, is not by virtue of its isolation
free from carking cares. Bishop Calenso has
become the utterer of heresies, and Zulu
chieftain named Langahbalele is in open re-
volt. 1t appears that some two months ago
Bbout twothousand men of Langalibalele's
tribe returned from the diamond fields well
armed with guns, which they refused to
register according to colonial law. The
government insisted upon the law
being respected, and as, AFTER long
time had been lost in negotiations, Langali-
balele showed no symptoms of complying
with the demand, the troops and volunteers
were called out and forwarded TO the 'front.'
A skirmish subsequently took place, in
which three men were killed, including the
colonial secretary IS son.
They really make diamonds in Paris which
are said to be very near approach to reality
Here is the process: First, il is necessary to
dissolve charcoal. Then follow processes re-
curing crystalization-a mingling of pure
water, little carbonate of sulphur, and GER
tain proportions Of liquefied phosphorus. Still
all this may not yield thoroughly deceptive
diamond. Another composition is made
from silver sand, very pure potash minimum
calcined borax, and a form of arsenic, varied
occasionally by mixture of strass-a mix
ture for which an equivalent is paste, and
which represents transparent pebbles .burnt
materials. Sometimes rock crystal is used,
with borax acid from Italy, and nitrate OF
potash. OF these materials is composed the
false diamond, which figures so allaringly
in the shop windows of Palais Royal. ~