The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS DRIFT
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


VIII Siclxles lecture, is the query.
American cranberries are to grace Vic
tOria's table.
Germany ia constructing a number OF
ironclad gunboats for the protection of the
Rhine frontier.
The Swiss women, like the young idea, are
all taught how to shoot.
\ Newburyport mother and her ten chill
dren weigh. together, ton. The badly tips
the scales at L50.
Love Is a thing of four letters, yet some
times in breach of promise case hundreds
are produced.-Judy.
Sir Garnet Wolsely finds the women on
the Gold Coast much more valuable allies
than the men. What man doesn't?
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
speaks of ladies anxious to be taught the
way to salvation In trois temps time"
Every white man in the Indian Territory
who marries squsw is given 100 acres of
land. and thereby becomes a squsw-ter
sovereign
People don't care for small pox in India
a funeral of 10000 persons recently fol-
lowed the remains of an Indian princess, in
Cashmere, who died Of that disease.
England proposes to construct an eighty
ton rified gun. The largest ever yet made
there weighs only thirty-eight tons. The
caliber of the new gun will be about seven
teen inches.
1t is related that Massachusetts, man felt
so badly about the recent Cuban outrage,
that he erected guilIotine in his poultry
yard and beheaded all his Spanish fowls. 1t
relieved him.
A Cincinnati woman owns two bouncing
pairs of twins. she was triplet, her mother
and father both being twins, and her grand
mother the mother OF five pairs of twins.
Malthers Was right after all.
"NeatIy finished shirts furnished to order
by express c. o. ID. on furnishing the color
of the hair and circumference of the
thumb. Boston Post. II these data be not
accessible, tintype of any of your wife's
relatives will answer.
Great Britain has torty-six colonial gov
ernments scattered over the four continents,
the West India and Pacific Islands, under
twenty eight Governors, eleven Lieutenant
Governors, one Inspector, two Administra-
tors, and four Csptain-Generals.
The Chinese are not book-worms by any
means, yet they like their cosy little library
with encyclopedias and books of reference.
The new enciopoedia, begun 100 years ago,
is to contain when completed, 10000 VOL
umes Seventy-eight thousand seven hum
dred and ten of t; ese already out, and
the others are forthcoming. The publishers
hope to introduce this neat little work into
every well regulated family.
The Amazon is 1000 miles in length and
$50 miles wide at its mouth. Thirty-five
miles inland it is ten miles wide, and $500
miles from its mouth its width measures 500
yards. Il exceeds in length and breadth
every other stream in the world. There are
now three monthly lines of steamers from
Para to Hsvre, Liverpool and New York.
Within twenty-five years Para has arisen
from nothing to populous city of 10000 in
habitsnts. The Amazon is now navigated
the Brazilian and Peruvian steamers, and Is
constructing ten new ones for the same trade
upon the Mersey Of various burdens, from
367 to ISL TONS Such rapid growth OF COM
merce could not be stimulated in q
wilderness without the presence OF the
greatest natural facilities.
Henry Ward Beecher thus beautifully
symbolives the purity and innocence of I'M
sullied youth, and its fragile character:
"Over the beauty of the plum and apricot
there grows bloom aud beauty more ex-
Quisite than the fruit itself; a soft, delicate
flush that overspresds its blushiug cheek.
Now, II you strike your hand over that, and
it Is once gone, 1t is gone forever, for it never
grows but once. The flower that hangs in
the morning. impesrled with dew-arrayed
with jewels-once shake il, so that the beads
roll on, and you may sprinkle water over Ii
as you please, yet IL can never be made again
what It was when the dews fell lightly upon
it from heaven. On a frosty morning you
may see the panes of glass covered with
landscapes, mountains, lake and trees,
blended into beautiful fantastic picture.
Now lay your hands upon the glass, and by
thescrstch of your finger or by the warmth
of the palm. all the delicate tracery will be
oblItersted."