The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-18

the new Philadelphia postofiice building.
he regards ii as his best effort.
The surveyor general of Connecticut has
testified that there is no such thing as even
an approximately correct map of the State
on Gle among this official records.
4 Frenchman in New York, named
Albert, makes a living by training ambitious
bows for the stage charging - cents for
each rehearsal. lie has been following
this line of BUSINESS successfully for IL
years.
John Cooley, ST., the oldest printer in the
State of New York, died in Utica on the I'd
inst at the age of "A. He was apprenticed
IN Cork, Ireland, in 1913, came 10 Utica in
1851, and had worked at the case almost con-
tinuously more than siXty-one years.
During the war of 1870, German, painter,
having nothing else to do, frescoed his own
dining room. dealer coming there one
dav was so charmed that he gave MIN 90, 900
thalers for the panels containing the coveted
paintings, which were carefully removed.
Mr. Wards picture, ''Luther's First Study
of the Bble," which has been purchased by
substitution for the British and Foreign BIZ
bic Society. was, lately, formally presented
10 the society by the Hon. A. Kinnaird. and
accepted ON behalf of it by the Earl of
Shaftesbury. 1t was stated that during the
last sixty or seventy years nearly $4,000, 900
copies of Luthers Bible has been distribu-
tea by the society.
The representatives of the various mutual
protection associations in Ohio organized
under the law of April 20. 1872. for doing CO.
operative business met in Columbus, on
the 9TH inst. to consult as to their future
action in view of the recent decision of the
attorney general rs to the legal statues of
these organizations. The meeting resolved
to make q contest 10 sustain their position
and continue 10 do business.
4 reporter of the New York Sun recently
interviewed Dion Boucicault, the dramatic
author, in which the following candid opin-
ion was was given:
Reporter. Mr.. Boucicault, what do you
think of yourself?
The dramatist looked puzzled for an in
slant, and then smiled as he answered:
You've asked me a very frank question
and I'll answer 1t frankly. think should
have been very great actor If had not
been an author; and should have been
very great aut hOr if / had not been an ac-
tor" This is modest mans opinion of
himself.
Boucicault says American theaters are in
| fnitely superior TO those of London or Paris
They are better constructed, better ventila-
ted, and much more cheerful in their inner
surroundings. Besides" he said to New
York reporter, ''your audiences seem to
| treat actors better than ours. You are quick
| to see good point, either in the acting or
in the play, and you are generous enough to
reward the man who has pleased you with
enthusiastic applause. There is no doubt
about it, the American theaters are the finest
| in the world. AS for your scenery, L never
saw play put on the stage in England in
. so magnificent a manner as l have seen it in
New York.
The difficulty of lighting railway carriages
with gas has hitherto been found insur-
mOuntable-at least for journeys of great
length. In the first place the ordinary gas
reservoir was too cumbrous, and even is
this defect had been met by pumpinem"the
gas into strong retorts under high pressure,
so as to carry it in a smaller space, the light
ing power would have been considerably
impaired Herr Julius Piutsch, of Berlin
has now mastered the difficulty. He aban-
dons coal gas sltogethei, and makes his gas
| from oil. He packs il in iron retorts at a
pressure of so pounds to the square inch,
and supplies it TO the lamps through an in
| gcnious regulator Some few of the CONT
mental railways have already adopted this
| system of lighting. In England an expert
| mental carriage has been lifted with it on
| the London Northwestern railway, and has
been running some weeks.
This is one of the stories told of w. NJ
| Thackeray by a late English biographer- On
another occasion the pOssessor of an album
was much more fortunate. It-belonged to a
young lady of my acquaintance, and had
pleaded her cause so warmly that Mr.. Thack-
cray opened the book, and / pointed ont to
him the names of certain contributors with
whom l thought he might not object to be
thus associated. He assented, and took the
book home to his hotel, in order chat he
might have time to scan its contents. Among
these he soon discovered the subjoined lines:
"Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains
They crowned him long ago;
But who they got to put II on
Nobody seems to know.
ALBERT SMITH"
Under these lines Mr.. Thackeray speedily
wrote the following:
"A HUMBLE SUGGESTION.
"I know that Albert wrote in hurry;
To csitis Use scarce presume;
But yet methinks that Iindley Murray,
Instead OF who had written s Wv whom
The Rev. II. NJ. Wharton, a young brother
of NJ. B. Wharton, the pastor of the Walnut
Street Baptist Church, of Louisville, lately
was tried before the congregation of that
church on a charge of drunkenness. He
was ordained as a minister by this church
soon after graduating last spring at the
Greenville Is. Co. Baptist Seminary. Placed
| by the Louisville church in charge of con-
| gregatisn at Eufala, Ala, to this charge he
started last June, but fell by the wayside,
| in satiating desire for wine. He continued
/ imbibing alter his arrival at Eufal8, and was
| seen intoxicated and reported to the deacons
of his church. These wise men investigated
and referred the matter of expelling or sus-
pending him to the Louisville church.
| Wharton admitted that his fall from the
promises were made at his ordination, and
prayed forgiveness for his sin, promising to
| err no more. The Louisville deacons
| recognized his penitence, but thought an
/ indefinite suspension would help him to
keep his promise. And that is what they did
l with him.