The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-29
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] Maurice Thompson in December Atlantic.
. naked baby Love among the roses,
Watching with laughing gray-green eyes for
me,
Who says that thou art blind? Who hides
4 Who is ii in his foolishness supposes
That ever bandage round thy sweet face
closes
Thicker than gauze: know that thou canst
| Thy chances are more swift and far more sure
To reach their goal than any missile Is,
Except that one which never yet did miss,
Whose slightest puncture not even death can
Whose Stroke divides the heart with such a
bliss
As even the strongest trembIes to endure
Thine arrow that makes glad the saddest
weather
With the keen rustic Of its purple feather.
1t pays to make people happy, and it can
be done on small capital.
Patent book-binding to stand 600 degrees
of heat Is a recent invention.
The woman-wOmen claim that at the re-
cent election in Massachusetts, 10, 600 votes
Were recorded for woman suffrage and pro
hihtion-an increase of 90 per cent over last
ysar.
Before this century," says Lamartine,
"shall have run out, journalism will be the
whole press, the whole human thought.
The only book possible soon will be news
paper"
Mr.. William Black has lately been over
whelmed with epistolary entreaties that his
story, "Madcap Violet" might have happy
ending with the hero and the heroine
united.
1t is related that during recent public.wel-
come given to General Butler at Bangor,
Me-, there was stretched across street a
flag bearing the motto: welcome TO Cen
eral Butler, the Hero of Five Forks and
God knows how many spoons"
seedy looking Chinaman with two COM
panions waltzed into a Denver bank on
Monday morning, and inquired: How
muchee sallee gold?' "One nine." was the
answer. Alice light, me takee eight thou
sand dollar" The bank didn't have enough
on hand to supply the seedy looking Celes-
tial, who is going back to fatherland.-
Cheyenne Leader.
The little daughter of a noted eastern poll
tician, who likes to travel on his war record,
the other day unwittingly furnished the
Opposition with good joke on her papa.
A One-armed soldier came to the house
begging assistance and the little girl, in con-
doing him, said, lispingly: MY father
wath tholdier, but he didn't get.hurt. He
wath prudent tholdier."
The old South church. Boston, in its new
role of museum, is attracting considerable
attention, its collection or revolutionary
relics being remarkably fine. At one side OF
the church are dining room and kitchen,
furnished exactly as they might have been a
hundred years ago; the Bullets are gay with
pretty china, elaborate candlesticks adorn
the mantelpiece, and in the kitchen the gen.
uine old pots and kettles hang on the crane,
and the long handled frying pan hangs by
the chimney. In the center of the church is
a case containing silver made by Paul Re
we're. Portraits hang along the gallery, and
back of the pulpit is the portrait of General
Warren, hanging where the window used to
be through which he climbed, when he made
that famous speech for liberty, in presence
of the British soldiers, and the Immense
crowd through which he could not force his
way to the pulpit, and SO had to get to it by
| a ladder on the outside. Other portraits and
memorials of the Warren family are gather
| ed about that of the general The case con
tains dresses, curtaiEs, ornaments. embroi
| derry, coins, arms, and many valuable auto
| graphs and papers of the time. There ar,
also portraits by Copley. Stuart and other ar
lists of the revolutionary period.