The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-02-10

dark corner into the common light of day,
AS indicated by its name, this establish
ment is filled with curosities of ali kinds.
sucii as armor and coats OF mails with ALI
the other riff-raff in such cases made and
provided. 1t would have been too smsYt IL
they had modelled the interior after the es,vFv
picture of "Grandfather's Shop;n but it
would have been charming. The whole en-
terprise Is only another evidence of the ef--
forf constantly made now to do away as far
as possible with the commonplace in our
plain every day life, Let us hope 1t VIII
succeed tor we have need of ali the en-
belishments and outward graces we can
get. However we can not always
tell how much that is truly
quaint ana old worldly may be hidden I'm
odd corners even of such a new city as ours
Some adventures which recently befeIl
friend of mine in his search for double
bass, may serve to illustrate my meaning
This being an era of concerts, the gentleman
aforesaid found himself drawn into scheme
for an amateur entertainment of tFsat kind,
which was 10 be orchestral in rs nature, ana
charitable (of course 2 in its object. So no
felt in duty oound'to help it along as yaueh
as possible by offerizg to procure che only
instrument Licking. They had Z" 11si-
cianer," but he had no de qDoi, as we French
the morning papers, and in due sfrnc two
answers were received. Let rs say
that they emensted fron awe
points as far removed from each
other as the East is frons the West. Arrived
at the first place, the earnest seeker was met
by very small. very vc1able Geru1an wo-
man. who assured him that me s"tsoable
bass was travelling with her hssbaad r,eny
miles away, but that be- had another ONO
which he sometimes used, only E was ON Of
order, bat she wouad have it u,ended, etc..
etc. Then he went to pace n uusber t1o,
w 1ar Haru g. bn.I
house m the suburbs and while he sat vssit-
ing in the parlor, what was his establishment
at beholding a small deforned old RAN come
sliding down the banisters, Is boys delight
to do. On his foot was an arrangement OF
IRON ESDs
to enable him to walk more sasily,
but hspretesred to descend by the zwiHer-
and less painful method hsse mensioned-
Engaging h;m in conversation, il soon
proved thas he was . dea5er in shoice
old instruments, an enthusiast, and =
wait" said he,. "while /
show you some wonderful old instrur rzents=
cremenas, astraSsvasinrs, and y know not
what beside" And up stairs he went agsin,
only to rea9pear sSter a mcmept with 5eth
arms full OF his beloved vio1ns,. s,ssiihg
dowDthe bannists5s this time on his SOM
ach, which diffic1st feat he accomplished
with great apparent ease. Could he FlsyE
Il q, Dut nCr was lreU. A10 tD3n ne LTl50.
and sailed utterly. Perhaps he ceul8 play
in dveams, and did :. but in reality he could
only teach Alh this was not business, Of
cour ,but 70 wazso interesting, ,thataltAoughs
no bass-viol was forthcoming, 2y inform
ant did nos grudge the time spent A few
days after ward he really did succeed n OBJ
tanning the object OF his search, but it was
"naythur"of those hs had sought. Being
Obliged to oonvsy the instrument to tbs sub
urban city of his. hoae, bus not daring to
trust it out of lis sight, ne remained with
thehuge hing IN the bagg>gc-oar, sxbmit-
ting to endless questions Som brakenen.
and baggage masters, as to whether be was
going TO play tonight and 20, on. Finally
he reached ishouss by means of y h4rk.
and having deROsite 2his unEainlY oomPsn-
ion, be i2dulged, let rs presume, In the rx--
ukant AID e1pressiHe refrain OF "aohDny
Sehmoker, !" "znng, sung, zzng. it 10 mein
bass s-Nicli,''
Imust not brget 10 mention the impor-
sant fact that the very latest fashion fnr-
brides Is the choice ot delicate coIorss 1prth heir-
tea-rose pa,b pink laveneaAr, and blue arc
the tirts most afe9ted, and many women
whose comple%.Dns dba noS suit.
white, will bless this esnvenissnt mode,
For the rest there r no change.
moth ng of note, save the advent 81 a TRIPLE
skirt or double. OSerskirt 80 to speak. This
is entirely new and very odd, and is + pre-
sumS intsnded to make up for the loss of
fun nndeIskirts, and criHsline.
The lass thingsf interest conneoted With
the, Stinsr tragedy, is the fa<t just an
noEnced that large fOstune hangs on evil
dence, asto wAether the daughter Deborah
sCzvived her pareu Is sor one momena, or
not. If she dS3, then her tsEtune goes
equally to eight bf fothsrs and SISTERS Il she
dad not her yOaBger BROTHER ard siste5 get IT,
all, and this naoInentous QUESTION will le-
decided by what toe neighborz say about IT,.
AS q. bonne bouche, give yOu the hollow
ing beautiful oonundrum, positively the
last thing 0ut= Why are hats nSw uni-
versany terxaed goagOthas? Beossse they,
are Places OF skullst g.sN-