The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-09
and exhibits a willingness to sleep in the
wood shed nights.

West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body of timber of any state in the
Union. Professor Fountaine estimates that
the area still covered by forests is between
1900, 600 and 10000, 900 acres and that the
value of the surplus exportable timber is
fully SIS, 000,0 600 as it stands in the forests.
The oak, walnut, cherry. ash, poplar, maple,
elm, sycamore and locust attain a size there
not surpassed on the American continent.
The statement that p. p. Bliss last hymn
was mot Knowing" which began Il know
not what shall befall me- is denied. 1t
seems very hard to deny this, for the poem
was wonderfully appropriate as a last hymn,
and particularly the last hymn of the sweet
singer who lost his life as he did, but the fact
is that it is the production of Miss Mary g.
Brainard. of New London, Conn, and ii was
written many seven years ago.
France during the last four years has been
accommodating large stock OF gold and silver
preparatory to resumption of specie pay
ments by the Bank of France The average
gain in specie of that institution has been
about S55, 600 900 year, one-third OF which
has been silver. The declared imports and
exports of gold and silver of the republic for
the first two months of the present fiscal
year show gain of $40, III 400 in gold and
s., 594 $40 in silver about one-half of which
went into the bank.
Mr. A NJ Palmer, of the Union Square
theater, has received a letter from Mrs Ag-
mes Ethel Tracy, who is now in Italy, ex-
pressing her grief on learning of the death of
Matilda Heron, and offering to contribute
$500 toward the erection of a monument
over her grave, and also proposing to pay
the expenses of Bijou Heron's education if
she should leave the stage and "be child
for the time" OF Matilda Heron she says:
81 feel that a great actress, a large minded
and r,ohla haartaH has neSSp1
May she find rest"
Burlington Hawkeye Nothing breaks
down a mans faith in human nature and
the mercful dispensation of things so much
as to fit up the spare room just beautifully,
with a new bed, Easllake paper, Brussels
carpet and Spitz dog, and advertise a fur
nished room to let, with board" and count
upon having about sixty dollars month
out of that room, and then the very next
day have these country relations come In
with pillow slip full of gnarly apples, to
stay three weeks.
The memorial window presented to Trim
ity church, Boston, by Harrison Gray
Richie, and dedicated to the memory of his
mother, has been placed in position. 1t is
Is feet in height, the subject being The
Ascension" The figures, about ten in
number, are life size; the draperies are
gracefully disposed, and the coloring is rich
and pleasing in effect. The window is the
work of 0udinot of Paris. and is perhaps
the finest specimen of stained glass in
Boston. Underneath the figures is the
legend, 81 ascend unto my Father and your
Father, and unto my God and your God.
The longest lived people, according to the
Jewish Chronicle, are the Jews. Among
them, it remarks, hereditary disease is very
rare; scrofula is scarcely TO be found. their
freedom from intermarriages preserving the
initial purity of their blood. Their exemp-
ton from infection in such scourges as
typhus, choelra, the plague, has often been
remarked, but it is attributed to the scrupu-
lousness with which the vast majority attend
to The hygienic prescription of their ritual.
The average length of life, according TO the
Chronicle, exceeds the Christian average by
Ave years.
The investigation of the reform school at
Westborough, Massachusetts,, continues to
pan out interesting facts as to the philan-
thropic methods pursued in the institution
in retaining the wicked boys therein con-
fined. Judging from the testimony, the
sweat-box was the most usual disciplinary
agent, and four hours confinement in 1T was
considered gentle rebuke for wrong-doing
For the heinous offense of taking piece of
gingerbread to a hardened criminal of ten
who was doomed to bread and water, an in
FAINT malefactor of twelve was severely
logged with a strap. The most surprising
thing is that in the midst of such ameliorat-
ing surroundings the boys didn't really be-
come any better Several of them testified
to learning about all the known bad habits
IN the school.
The talk about reviving the old wing
party, which has recently been set going,
recalls to the Tribune an anecdote of the
late John Van Buren,. On one occasion,
during the presidential term of Mr.. Buch-
anan, Vice President Breckenridge was
breakfasting with the prince and the late
Colonel Peter A. Porter of Niagara Falls,
when the conversation ran upon politics
and parties. Besides the three
gentlemen named there was but one
other person present at table-the landlady,
young widow, who was Lively, chatty and
| agreeable and not disposed to be merely a
listener at the entertainment. After some
little chatting the lady said, well, I've
no sympathy with either of the two parties.
I'm an old line whig." Prince John imme-
diately laid down his knife and fork, and
| in the most serious manner, said, "Mr. Vice
President, you are now enjoying one of the
greatest opportunities of your life -ole
which will, probably, never again occur. l
1 Al. l. II.