The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-28
and GERMAN parentage

Although decree OF 1868 has strictly pro-
bibited the use in official papers of the word
"Jew" as a title in addressing Isr@elites in
Prussia. the German officials still sometimes
indulge in the use of that epithet, and only
recently Jewish lawyer received ap onnciaI
paper from the city court, entitleo 1lo sne
jew" rafaf ar tE
That Philadelphia is 'the mother city OF
Freenasonry in America" is thoroughly well
proved by an elaborate article in this weeks
keystone. written by Mr.. Clifford p. Mccall
/ Ia He gives documentary evidence of the
/ existence of the order there in l74O, three
wears before its advent in Boston, which has
heretofore been claimed as e:the-m mother
city," The article is interesting to all Free
masOns.
| Up to this time over 10000 people have
| paid to see Holman Hunts picture of 'The
Shadow of Death.n That amounts to $500,
which Is a great deal more, in my opinion,
than the picture is worth. The painters
idea of Jesus Christ is that he was tolerably
good-looking red Indian, and although he
| has not attempted to paint the face OF The
Virgin, and has shown us only her
| back he has given the idea that she Is ser
want girl engaged in clandestineiy examin-
ing the contents of her mistress plate chest.
London Letter.
The Chicago postoffice deserves honorable
mention for institursne enc of the most i'm
portant postal reforms of the day. Post
Office letter boxes have been placed en- all the
cross-town cars that traverse route between
five and SIX miles in length, through both
the residence and business districts of the
west and south divisions. As each car pass
es the postOffice a carrier in waiting removes
the box and places another on the car with
out stopping the vehicle, and the first box is
i OF ~ Of III into the mail
bags. The advantage, particularly to peo-
pie living at a distance from the pOstoffice is
simply incalculable, and the statistics show
that the travelling boxes are rapidly driving
the lamp post boxes out of fashion.
correspondent writes concerning the
new Catholic church of Per1 Hyacinthe:
''Five of the priests are already married, :,
and the Others are looking out for wives.
'Confession is no longer obligatory:" the
election of the clergy by the laity is fixed
principle, and the new church has obtained
possession, by the aid of the authorities, of
! Jour of the edifices which belonged TO the
| Roman Catholics, these idolaters being now
compelled to worship in barns or in halls
hired for the purpose. The whole influence
of the present Swiss government Is thrown
/ in favor of the new church, and it IS rather
astonishing that its progress has not been
more marked than it appears to be. Per-
Il
made bishop it will spin along more mer-
/ rily.
| have already informed you of the ar
rangement which they have made tor MAX
/ ing slavery systematic feature of the new
government to be established on the west
coast of Africa. Let it not be thought that
there is anything half way in the matter. |
The Government was cross-examined on the |
iarf laof rofr M mo
sentiments, bit 1t gave no promise of any |
intention to alter its plans. The ugly fact |
remains that the slave-trade really goes on |
| in the west of Africa under the same flag |
which is engaged in suppressing 1t ON the
east side. The Fantees and the Astantees |
have reopened their trade, and tn slave
market is under the shadow of Cape Coast |
Castle, the British headquarters. The Brit
ish Judge at the castle is assessor for the ma 1
tive population, and one of his occupations |
is to return fugitive slaves. If a newly !
purchased slave rms away, the English |
Judge issues to the master a warrant for its |
apprehension.
The experiments made at Springfield, |
Mass, to ascertain the quality of the
milk sold at that place have, doubtless,
proved more curious than gratifying to pur-
chasers. Almost all the samples brought
for inspection. were found to be locked of
tuClI pIOpOIJlOu OI cI0dID, anu increased
by much more than their fair proportion of
water. One sample showed eight parts OF
water to II of good milk. Another was one
third water and had lost one-third of its
cream. Another specimen had but one-fifth
of its proper supply of cream, and was alto
gether, in the indignant language of the off,
cial inspector, "a miserable sample of
skinned and adulterated milk" The sam
pies from the Clark Institution for deaf
mutes, at Northampton, had been robbed OF
one-half their cream, and impoverished by
the addition of from one-third to one-fourth
their bulk of water. The milk sold by one
Davis, of Chlcopee, proved on analysis to be
not only One-fOurth water but GLADLY
adulterated with foreign substances
European pedestrians are remarkable not
so much for their rapid walk as for their
powers of endurance. 1t is true that they
are not trained for That special pur pose-in
fact, they are not professional men at all,
and have no other training than their habit
of walking often to attend to their ordinary
business. Thus, lately there arrived IN
Paris peasant from the Spanish side of the
| Pyronees who had walked nearly one thou
sand miles in very short time, and not
! knowing single word of French. More
recently Dutch gentleman, III. Dudock de
| Witt, who had already spent some wears i'm
/ visiting, stick in hand, the two Americas.
japan, China, and Cochinchina, has arrived
also in Paris, after having walked, in nine
days, the 405 miles which intervene between
Amsterdam and the capitalof France. There
he has become acquainted with Orteig, the
Catalan peasant, and both of them will soon
start to undertake walking trip of three
months duration, from Paris to Russia, and
then throughout Russia itself.
! They have printers ''strikesr and
unions" also in England. A correspondent
of the Boston Advertiser says: Hitherto
the printers have excepted the dali y news
papers from their demand for higher pay,
but at last have combined against them. OF
the London morning journals the Times and
the Morning Post are free of the printers
nninn and aran commemorative