The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07

The western gale blew wild and dark with
foam,
And ali alone went she.
The western tide crept up the strand,
And round and round the strand;
And Ger and DER the strand so far as eye
The binding mist came down and hid the
land,
And never home came she.
Oh is it weed, or fish, or floating haIrr
Il tress of golden hair,
A drowned maiden's hair above the nets at
Was never a salmon that shone so fair
Among the stakes on Dee.
They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel crawling foam, the cruel hungry
To her grave beside the sea.
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle
Across the sands of Dee.
George Kingsley.
The passengers on a Kentucky railroad
train became so interested in an clipping
couple that, when the father of the girl came
aboard at station to take her home, they
forcibly elected him.
An intimate friend of Mr.. Long fellow re-
marks: II have heard him make but one al
fusion to the great grief of his life. We
were speaking of Schillers fine poem, The
Ring of Polycrates, and he said: 1t wasj just
so with mel was too happy. l might
fancy the gods envied me-if could fancy
heather gods
President Elliot, of Harvard college, is in
favor OF taxing the parents of children who
go to high schools to pay certain proper
ton of the cost of maintaining them. He
would have grammar schools for the poor,
and open the high schools to all who could
not afford to pay, but he would impose a tax
of $40 or $50 a year upon tn, children of
wealthy parents.
An EAglish factory inspector says that
cleaning machinery in motion continues to
lead to very numerous and painful mutila-
tons" In the half year ending April, 1876,
126 persons were killed In England by fac
tory accidents 4Sl amputatiOns were neces-
sary, there were 260 fractures of limbs or
bones and 2,193 other injuries-in all 2,497
males and 769 females.
The little town of Offenburgh, in the
Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. has re-
Gently erected statue and monument to Sir
Francis Drake, as "the immortal introducer
of the potato into Europe" The brave old
admiral of Queen Elizabeth has at last had
his services to the garden recognized by a
grateful people, who thus show their rever-
ence for his good deeds.
Professor George l.. Vose, of the depart
ment of civil engineering at Bowdoin col.
lege, says he can put his hand on one rail-
road the managers of which are assuming a
fearful responsibility in running trains over
old wooden bridges which have been con-
demned for years, but which are under the
inspection of no competent authority. The
Springfield Republican demands the name of
the company.
In looking over volume of Selections
from Macaulay, the query rose why so many
readers who have never read a page of this
historians works are sharp buyers of the
new novels. In the whole range of English
literature there is nothing more engrossing
to the attention or more splendid to the eye
OF the imagination than Macaulay's histori-
cal works. One who has time to read novels
ought to be ashamed to confess that he has
never read Macaulay or Kingsley.
The long promised autobiography of
Harriet Martineau is to be published by
0sgood early in March. 1t will make two
large volumes in octave, and will abound
in "reminiscences and portraits of her con-
temporaries. Miss Martineau had some rich
personal experiences in America, the record
of which we may expect to find in these
volumes. Another notable publication will
be the life of Charles Sumner, which is
promised by Roberts Brothers.
The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the follow.
ing bit of history in answer to the in
quiry of a subscriber: The expression, Pull
down your vest was first heard in this
country in l763 A New England deacon
named SpilkiDs had a vest which was too
short for him. When in a heated debate or
controversy his vest would work up under
his chin. People who were listening to his
discourse would interrupt him and tell him
to pull down his garment, and in this way
the expression came into use as a means of
checking bores-
Notices are In vogue in Paris on every
thing that will admit OF their use, stationery
being favorite place. For example, paper
for the use of widows during the early days
OF their bereavement, in the design OF dying
embers round which flourish is the faint
smoke struggling upward, a Latin text that,
literally translated becomes 81 weep be-
cause he died, while must live" A lady,
celebrated alike for her beauty and her in
consistency, has had her lemon-colored note
paper engraved with a weather cock in one
corner, about which are assembled the four
winds, while the shield below pithily re-
marks in Latin, ''if the winds did not alter
the weather cock would never change" An
other young lady has selected for daily use
flying swallow bearing the scroll, Pour
chercher mieltr."
ATLAS" in his contribution to the London
World, says: Doubts were naturally enter
tanned whether the pictures sent to the in
ternational exhibition at Philadelphia might
not be injured by the double voyage across
the Atlantic. The extreme heat of the
weather in the United States might have
affected them, and the vibration of the
steamer in which they were transported
might have had an equally bad effect For
tunately. no appreciable damage has been
done, and Mr.. yopling deserves no small
credit for this. He succeeded better in tax
ing good care of the pictures than in per-
suading the United States commissioners to
agree with him in all things. He was sim
ply an accomplished artist whereas they