The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-01

If, ere the twilight come,
Love walk with sacred feet
Across our naked room.
The Herald's weather prophet predicts ex-
tended and severe storms right along
The Chicago school census. just complet-
ed. shows that the present population of that
city is about 400 ,66l
A Philadelphia jeweler has been detected
substituting imitation diamonds for real
ones left with him for setting
IL is reported that Joaquin Miller has
written play which will soon be produced
at one of the New York theaters.
The grain imports into Great Britain for
the year ending August 81, 1876, were H.,
194, 11S cwt., an increase OF nearly D., 900, 900
over the preceding year.
Daniel Deronda has so worked up the citi-
Zens of Chicago as to call forth a sermon on
the hero, which was delivered by a we'll
known clergyman last Sunday.
The rules governing the Forest Home for
invalid actors are so much like those of
common poor house that actors shrink from
them. The Forest Home is failure.
The negroes of South Carolina are led by
fanatic named Palmer, who claims to be
''the son of Christ, sent by the Father to
raise the blacks out of poverty and lead
them to riches.
who had lost his legs by leprosy, mounted
on the shoulders of one who had lost his
arms by the same diseaSe-the first men
ticned sowing grain, while the latter did the
locomotion.
A man in Paris, wishing lately to pass a
joke upon his wife, hired coffin and placed
himself in it at the moment of her return
after a few days absence. On seeing the sup
posed corpse, she fell SenSeleSS to the ground
and has since been a lunatic.
The custom in Eastern Turkey is to re-
move the boots and shoes on entering church
An American saw at Anital. Turkey, 200
boots and shoes at the door of the church.
presenting very curious sight. The men
go in barefoot, but keep their hats on
Nebraska has had fair, and at it pre-
MUM was offered for the best blowers on
brass Instruments The ladies brass band of
the state carried of the prize. 1t is COM
prised of young ladies of the best families i'm
the state, and as blowers they are Il success.
Captains and pilots of the Long Island
steamers say that the He'll Gate passage is
not improved. The rock all lie in the bot
tom of the channel, though in different po-
sitions, and the complaint is general that
navigation is more difficult now than before
the explosion.
The building of the Paris Exhibition of
1878 will cover a space of 1 1856, 900 square
yards, and will take the form of Pythago-
rean; i. e., If passed through in one direc-
ton the similar productions of different
countries may be inspected, while if crossed
i'm the other direction the various products
of any country may be passed in review
According to the Dramatic News the actor
James 0'Neil has photograph of Adelaide
Nelson. inscribed in her handwriting TO
the most admirable of RomeoS.r She gave
him the picture at the close of an engage
ment with her in the West, as a compliment
to his good acting; but Lewis Morrison has a
similar picture. similarly inscribed, and pre-
sented under similar circumstances. There
are several Romeos yet to hear from.
A correspondent of the New York World
attacks Gerome's picture of the Crucifixion,
now on exhibition in New York, for its.
''anachronism'' as he calls it. The ''anach-
renism" consists in making the sun set in
the east simultaneously with that remar-
kable phenomenon, the new moon rises in
the west while the rule heretofore has been
for the new moon to be beside the setting
sun instead of having all the distance from
east 10 west between them.
Last Saturday morning one of the officials
at the capitol in Richmond saw middle
aged, bronzed Irishman with bag on his
shoulder, walking through the square toward
Stonewall Jackson's statue. Arrived before
it, he threw his bag aside, wiped his face and
knelt. and was soosevidently deep in prayer.
When he arose and was questioned as to his
proceeding, he said: HE was my old gineral,
and l thought as was passing would stop
and offer a prayer for him.
The commission of army engineers ap-
pointed to examine the foundations of the
Washington monument, preparatory to its
completion. have decided to call for bids
from artesan well borers, for boring into
the ground on either side of the monument
to the depth of 100 feet, in order to ascer-
tain the nature of the ground and whether
it will safely bear the weight of the COM
pleted structure Gen. Gilmore, the presi-
dent OF the commission, thinks the portion
already built amply sufficient to Withstand
the weight to the added, if the soil proves to
be solid The commission win not be ready