The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

An uncOmmonly large bear has fallen be-
fore the unerring musket OF Mrs. Harriet
Augusta Smith of Wisconsin. II thisdoesn't
prove that women should be allowed to
vote, there is no virtue in platform logic.
A Missouri man during the late panic
drew all the money from the bank and then
died. His heirs don't know where he put il
and it is safe TO say they are INDUCING in
some lively a~bjurgations on the old mans
memory.
Mrs. Carter II. Harrison having giving
birth to a daughter at Heidelberg, cabled
the interesting fact, on New Years day to
her husband in Chicago ; whereupon ne in
the Joy Of his heart, ordered a bakcr TO give
500 loaves of bread a day for ten days to the
poor of the city.
Bonaparte is avenged. Mountain Goods
ave destroyed many of the villages of ST.
Helena, and dreadful have been the ravsges
OF the white ants. The population has de-
creased by one-iifth within Is months. and
the inhabitants are left are starving
A Kentucky legislator who had been alb
sent from his seat for several days was
asked what had been the matter. "wen,
folks call it nervous chills others pro-
nounce 1t a kim of al affection of the heart /;
but, to be candid, call it a plain case of old
fashioned drunk"
A Belgian peasant accidently discovered
that a mixture of earth, ceal dust and soda,
proportions he afterwards found Three
parts ofth earth and one of coal dust, wat
cred with a concentrated solution OF sod
Mr.. Hoffman, of Dubuque, took out his
wife's false teeth before planting her in the
cold ground. He says that, while admitting
the propriety of weeping and wailing in the
land to which the partner of his bosom has
gone, he stands ready TO pledge his last red
that there shan't be any crashing of them
new SIS teeth.
1t ia said that there is a dog in Iowa which
its owner, q farmer named Tremaine, values
at $50, 900. We have a dog ourselves which
we value at somewhere in the Immediate
n~eighborhood Of that sum, but TO a warm
personal friend who wanted him badly, and
seemed to think he couldn't get along with
out him, it is not wholly impossible that, in
some m of convival joy, when the
heart beats high and warm with dance and
song and banquet wine, we might be induc-
cd to sell him for fifty cents.-Courier Jour
nal.
A dry goods box, labeled "Yenison," was
received at Rochester, n. Y. from Mime
sofa, the other day, and was found to con-
tain the body of a man whose son had sent
it on in that shape to save express charges.
The father who uld gladly die in order
to see such beautiful, refined and unique
economy developed in his son. is a man
whose utter want of parental affection and
beggarly restitution of soul stamp him as
an untutoyed savage of the deepest dye
| Courier-Journal.
A wonderful mirage has lately been seen
by the people of Metropolis, Kentucky, ten
miles from Paducah. Shortly after sunrise,
mirrored in a clear and deep blue sky, the
city of Paducah appeared, with all its
spires, houses, streets, wharves, &c, clearly
visible. Thu mirage appeared about forty
degrees above the horizon. At the time the
beholder could see three steamboats, at the
wharf. the Tennessee river, the towheads
and. in fact, the entire city, all appearing as
natural as life, except that everything ap
peared magnified to twice the natural size.
A curious relic is the cradle of Queen Eliz.
abeth. 1t is of English oak, very massive
with richly carved panels, six in number
two on each side, one of the same height
composing the foot, and a much higher one
under the head board. The length of the
cradle is three feet two inches, its breadth
twenty inches andthe height, to .the top ofthe
ornaments, four feet. AT the foot is a large
shield, with two cherubs supporting the roy
al crown, and in the center the initials "E
R.n-Elizabeth Regina. The ornamental
work is of silver, carved and engraved in
quaint devices.
George Alfred Townsend draws this not
fascinating picture of J.. Wilkes Booth. He
was a pet with thel ladies and was a good
reciter of such pieces as Beautiful Snow
Crock Me to Sleep" 81 am Dying, Egypt
"The Bridge of Sighs," etc. For years
Booth had obtained social currency upon
such Rotations. He was, besides, a man
of beaming presence, bold, agreeable, a good
listener, and just ignorant enough to be
aware OF pleading and vital misapprehensions
while scrupulous enough in little matters
wherein nobody could take him up. Town.
send asserts that he was the idol of a dozen
married and unmarried women OF leisure
but outside of the hotel, where his true
character had it's legitimate development
he was a bruiser, a creature, a patron o.
cast-a-wavs.
Entire reconciliation is difficult with 6
woman. She invariably keeps certain re-
serves. When she has once parted from
you in spirit, she VIII hardly return
Though she seems to, she does not. She
gives her hand agsin-perhaps her lips
but the heart is no longer in one nor the
soul in the other. Kiss her you have once
roundly quarrelled with-ifi it be not a mere
lovers quarrel-and you will ind the statue
under the crimson curve,t the chill Of the
marble through the bounding blood, A keef
observer may determine in society whether
you nave had discord with a woman yoT
meet. However perfect the breeding, how
ever disciplined the manners, the past dis
cord leaves a shadow that will not be lifted
The old wound may be closed; IL is no
healed nor can it be by the highest skill il
| spiritual surgery. Frequently men like on
another better after lighting; women never
! be the foe of either sex. With these tn
the bloom of favor is taken of, not to b
restored. They feel, though they may no