The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20
NEWS MISCELLANY.
GENERAL NOTES.

An advertisement for a district school
teacher, in New Hampshire, contains this
clause: "No man need apply who wears a
shawl"
The first impression of Mr.. Mills "Au-
photography" consisting of 5000 copies, was
all sold within six days of publication. A
very favorable first impression.
Out of a 10 nationalities in the world,
there are only three queens: Victoria l., of
England; Pomare, of the Society Islands.
and Ranavola H., of Madagascar.
Mrs. Mary f. Norris was carried miles
beyond her destination by the Orange and
Alexandria railroad company. She charged
them $500 for walking back, and got it.
A gentleman who rather suspected that
sol one was peeking through the keyhole
of his Office door, investigated with syringe
full of pepper sauce, and went home to find
his wife had been cutting wood, and chip
had hit her in the eye!
Mr.. George w. Knox, of Cleveland has
tackled huge plank with jack knife, pur-
posing to whittle it into marvellous things,
and leave them all connected. The work
will be done In time for exhibition at the
Philadelphia Centennial. Already the leisure
of year has been expended on it.
Here is Marshal Bazaine's opinion of Gam
BETA: A friend said to him the other day,
f"You must feel much hatred for that man?''
said his interlocutor. "Hatred?" he rejOin-
ed, "Why? Does any one hate a child that
tries to bite him? All that can be done is to
pull his ears. Gambetta is great child"
The Empress of Germany dresses very
simple. She drives out in calico dress.
Mrs. Bismarck, though past sixty, fresh and
comedy as a woman of thirty, superintends
her farm work, and goes about with great
bunch Of KEYS at her girdle. Her house is
filled with quilts and such of her own handi-
work.
The New Orleans Picayune says: 1.-The
great majority of the people of Louisiana
fully and heartily indorse the proposed re-
assembling of the legal legislature of this
state. The action is logical. true and con-
sistent and fully accords with the course adj
course made Imperative by the position as
sumed in Washington, and counseled by
the delegates sent thither by the recent con-
vention of the people. Without such con-
stitutional assembling, Mr.. Morton might
plausibly claim that the body claiming to be
the legal legislature had forfeited its consti-
tutional title as SUCH"
Nothing can be more superb than the
green of the Atlantic waves when the cir
cumstances are favorable to the exhibition
of the color. As long as a wave remains un-
broken no color appears; but when the foam
Just doubles over the crest, like an Alpine
display of the most exquisite green. 1t is
metallic in its brilliancy. But the foam is
necessary to its production. The foam is
first illuminated, and it scatters the light in
all directions; the light which passes through
the higher portion OF the wave alone reaches
the eye, and gives to that portion its match
less color. The folding of the wave, produc
ing, as it does, series Of longitudinal pro
tuberances and burrows, which act like cylin-
dric2l lenses, introduces variations in the i'm
bensity of the light, and materially enhances
its beauty.-Prof. Tyndall, in Macmillan's
Monthly.
Eli Perkins, the boss idiot, lectured in
New York the othes evening, and the World
gives this report: 1t was as fool that Per-
kins, before he took to the lecture ROOM
hao taught US to regard himself, and il was
as feol that we expected to enjoy him last
night. But il was very poor fooling indeed
He bad borrowed Artemus Wards idea oil
cartoons, ne had caught a suggestion from
Mast. me gave as original Dan Bryant's old
est jokes and Nelse Seymour's stalest gags
He had a friend who took photographs and
amdrOtypes; yes, be took any thing he
could lay his hands on. He had another
JTl6HO w no imported all MS clothes from
Pdfis-Kentucky re referred to one of his
pictures with cart in il as a cartoon, and
waited two minutes for applause. gt was
mainly and altogether impotence, without
humOr; vulgarity without even mirth
grimaee without expression. The reputable
people ~ho go to Association Hall FROM 9
sense Of duty and never leok at the order o
entertainment until they get in, and never
question it even then, stared at the spec
tacle IT thistumble bugs he rolled his lit
tie ball Of stolen rubbish from the highway
sprawliRg over it-until they were nnable
to tell how mach was Perkins himself and
how much was muck.
REFINKMxs71--Refine is not fzstidi-
business. i is not luxury. it Is nothing e1
the kind. II is far removed from excess Oh
waste. A person truly ref-aed will not
<qUsnder or Deedlessly consume anything
Retirement, on The contrary, is always
closely allied to simplicity and a iudiciOus
and tasteful employment OF the means OF
good and happiness which it has at CON-
rssand. It seeks to divest itself OF superhui-
ties, and aspires continually TO the utmost
possible purity. To commence at a mate
rial base, refinement leads to personal clean
illness and elegant neatness, good taste and
simplicity in dress. All "loudness" or
'.fiashiness'' is repugEant to its spirit. In
its home and surroundings, whether pa
latial, 2ffiuent. or humble, the same chasti-
ness aud unaffected grace are maintained.
The abode of genuine refinement and of the
mere pretender to it are very different. III
the former you viii find no excess, gaudi-
ness, or false glittering, but the latter
abound with it. In personal manner refine
rnent is most conspicuous A man of refine
nent Is always polite without flourish,
gentle without effeminacy, and considerable
without stiffness. Display and ceremony
are not identical with refinement, and are
poor substitutes for it. There is, of course,
no refinement like that of the heart, which
impells its possessor to show on all occa-
sions thoughtful and kindly regard for the
ceilings of others. No adherence to eti-
quette can compare with it for insuring the
spontaneous observance Of true and grati-