The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-04
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
The four large paintings, said to be by
Paul Verenese, which were discovered by
NJ. Marceile, in the lumber room of a hos
pital near Chartres, are TO be sent to Paris
to undergo the scrutiny OF competent
judges.
A private letter from London says that
the Rev. Phillips Brooks preached in West
minister Abbey, July IL. Bayard Taylor
and bis family expect TO return to America
early in the autumn. DIR. Hayes has been
verv handsomely entertained during his
visit to London.
The Trojan Marble Company at Brandon,
VT, are making 900 head stones for the
United STATES government, which will be
placed on the graves of soldiers buried at
Arlington, the name and regiment of each
being cut On the stone. The stone will be
sunk two feet in the ground and stand one
foot out.
, Under the new postal law, which allows
four pounds of merchandise TO go through
the mails for 81 cents, the forwarding of
samples, instruments, etc, by mail has
been largely increased. The highest postal
rate for four pounds is about as low as that
of the express companies to near points. and
much lower Than express rates to more dis
tant parts OF the country.
The st. Joseph MOO Herald gives the fol-
lowing in speaking of defective feminine
education in the West: \ young lady Just
graduated by Western seminary happened
TO be in Washington, and her attention
being called BY her escort to the unfinished
shaft of the Washington monument, he
made a comparison between the same and
Bunker Hill monument. Bunker Hill
Mr.. c., exclaimed the graduate, 'I wonder
if he was a relative of the Rev. Samuel Hill
who used TO lecture us on conchOlOgy."
The Enfield Comm Shakers are to be the
subject of little legislation. Some years
ago the parents of three children, which
they had placed with the Shakers, endeav-
ored to get them away, and carried the case
into court, but were beaten. The Shakers
afterward turned the children on the town
for support, and about year ago also turned
out one of their old and inhrm members
The town getting tired of this business, a
bill is now before the Legislature which will
obligs the Shakers to provide for their own
community, as father TOR son, or a son
for his parents.
The Spanish editors in New York, Jose
Ferrer de Comic and Juan Bellido de Luna
the former editor of Ell Cronista, the Spanish
organ of that city, and the latter editor of La
Independence, the Cuban organ-after
abusing each other in print, recently ar.
ranged FOR duel in Canada, but imforma-
ton given to poNece court by one know
ing of the proposed meeting, caused the issue
OF warrant of arrest and the postponement
of the fight for the present. Luna, the only
belligerent found, was held in $1,000 bail TO
Keep peace for six months.
The cOdiication of the statutes Of the Uni
ted States, embracing the revision and con-
densation of all the laws passed by Con-
gress from 1889 to 1874, has been completed
by the commissioners, Charles p. James and
Benjamin ID. Abbott, of New York, and v.
NJ. Barringer, of North Carolina. When
the work is finally completed it will be
printed at the governments printing Office,
and sold at the cost of composition, paper,
press work and binding, the proceeds of all
Bales 10 be paid into the treasury. There
will be only two octave volumes.
4 London correspondent says that previ-
Gus to his death, j. NJ. c. Bellew, the elocu-
ZIONIST. had suffered so acutely from heart
disease that he had not been able to lie down
for week. He was also so much wasted
away that none of those who saw and ad
mired him on the occasion of his tour
through the United States would have recog-
niZed In him the handsome elocutiOnist. His
remains were laid in the Roman Catholic
portion of the cemetery of Kensal Green,
most of the witnesses being old DarishiOners
of Mr. Bellew when he was in Protestant or
ders. The amount collected for his relief did
not exceed $500.
Notwithstanding the strikes in England
the wages of all, except farm laborers, are
going down. The GOLFERS of South Durham
have been reduced 10 per cent, and 10000
are in idleness in opposition 10 the measure.
The GOLFERS in the Burnley district have
returned to work at their masters terms,
after spending 100000 in idle +. sistance
The foremen in the collieries-men who are
paid By weight for the coal raised, and
make their own terms with the working
men. realize immense profits. In a case re-
Gently heard before a Warwickshire court
one of these fOremen admitted that his in
come averaged 800 week in gold.
left-hand writer in the Scientific Ameri
can gives some reasons why it is better to
write as he does. The hand is never in the
way OF vision. The pen point is always in
plain sight, and so is the paper to be writ
ten on. There is, consequently, no induce
ment to stoop forward or to turn the head sc
as TO throw the eyes out of the focus. 1t is
common fault with those who write much
that the left eye has a shorter range than
the right. IL is overwOrKed and com
PEELED TO adapt itself TO nearer vision. In
writing with the leit hand these evils are
avoided. An upright posture is the easiest
and the eyes are equally distant from the
paper.
a jury in Truckee, CAL, had been out foul
hours. when the judge sent the sheriff tC
learn whether they were going to agree. The
sheriff put an eye, then an ear, to the key
hole Of the room in which they were located