The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-31
ALL SORTS.



Whose trees have branches gnarled and tor
tured
By slow west wiads that never cease;
For moss hung garners brown and ready,
Iall tokens OF the years increase;
Green lilly leaves whose parent river
Septembar winds forget to culver
In shallow silver pools of peace.
An autumn face, half gray, half rosy,
And finttering, like an autumn posy,
With hueless strips of fading halr;
firm, sweet mouth, whose utmost bliss is
To drink the light of children's kisses,
Half dreaming of the years that were;
Soft looks that melt all eyes that meet her
To something purer, something sweeter,
So kind they are and debOnaire.
a life whose silent day has wasted,
And left undreamed of and untasted
The fruits of all extreme desire;
A matron life whose ssonaiy fashion
Z HAS worn with tears scanned with fire
A life so calm that when il passes
It's fame must De as breath on glass is,
And ina stainless mist expire.
Young Dir. Dana, whom the poet Longfel-
lows daughter Alice is to marry. was cap
tain of the Harvard crew in 1875.
Hardly anything new in America. Even
ST. Augustine and Plymouth Rock are fresh
and recent; but a Detroit man claims to
have portrait of Washington which is 300
years old.
prescher in Arabia, having for his text
a portion OF the Koran-'I have called
Noah after twice repeating his text, made
a long pause, when an Arab present, think
ing that he was waiting for an answer, ex-
claimed: ''If Noah will. mot come call some
body else"
little granddaughter of the late N P.
Willis, only eight years old, has written a
play in four acts, entitled ''The Play of the
Two Lovers" in which she takes the leading
character. The language is said to be i'm
mensely funny and conventional, but en-
tirely original and was composed without
the least assistance.
Chlorate of potassium and iodide of potas-
sium are separately harmless medical doses,
but the Journal of Pharmacy warns physi-
clans not to administer them together, be-
cause in the stomach they combine to make
iodate of potassium-a poison. Mixed in any
other way they do not act thus.
Another OF the pope's neat little jokes is
recorded. A young American girl, six feet
high, had just received the pope's blessing
at reception, and as she rose from her
knees Pope Plus began to smile at her
height, and made her kneel again. Miss -
he said, Il shall have to give you blessing
and half"
Mrs. Jane g. Swisshelm, of Pittsbnrg, Pa,
publishes a remedy for hydrophobia and
which she claims to be a perfect cure for
that terrible disease She says: Take the
root of elecampane, boil it in new milk
fresh from the COW, and give to the patient
a dose every alter day 1t will never
fail in effecting cure"
Castor oil, in which small qua tity of
lampblack has been stirred, is an excellent
air and water proof composition for boots
and shoes in winter. 1t closes the pores of
leather, excluding both air and water con-
sevuently making the feet very much drier
and warmer. This has been tested for many
years and can be confidently recommended.
At one of the meetings of the New York
Central directors Commodore Vanderbilt said
he didn't see how il was that Jay Gould got
all the facts and figures about New York
Central ''I'll tell you how you can prevent
his knowing anything about your roads, -
said Sam Barger, one of the directors
a director" was the reply.
Some clerical errors are at once pardona-
BILE and amusing but others at times are
hard to endure. A parishioner who never
went through summer without complain
ing bitterly of the heat, much to the annoy
ance of his friends, at last took sick and died
His pastor was absent at the time and did
not hear of the sad event. On his return he
met the son of the deceased, and unwitting-
ly inquired, saying: "Well, my friend, how
does your father bear the heat now?'i I'm
agine his surprise at being told that the
father had been dead two months.
The Rev. c. F. Deems, d. D., of the Church
of Strangers New York, seems to have be-
come proud and Gifted up since Wander
bilt left him $50 900. He told his congre-
CATION last Sunday that his Monday recep-
tions were suspended. His house was
neither an intelligence office nor bureau
of philanthropy" If people didn't stop
asking him to get them work or give them
money she would move into the country"
Ali 10 think that $40, 900 should have stirred
up this good brother, once so meek and
humble, and as poor as he was kind and
gentle.
An institution for the benefit of nervous
persons is to be erected in Massachusetts, in
accordance with the will of Mr. Seth Adams
What the rules and requirments of the insti-
tuition will be is not known, but If the re-
strictions are not numerous the asylum will
be overrun at once. The lines will have to
be sharply defined if the home is not to be
crowded before it is really finished, because
there is an army within army of people
who will come under the head of nervous.
The idea of home for this class is so good
that Mr.. Adams ought to have imitators.
A son of Bishop Haven has been elected
class orator of the senior class at Wesleyan
university.
A Paris correspondent thus compares
Croizette, the famous French actress, and
the not less widely famous American ac-
tress, Clara Morris: "Croizettes repertoire
is quite similar to that of Clara Morris;
there are many points of professional re-
semblance between them. They both be-
long strictly to the emotional drama both
best represent fiery passion smouidering un-
der restriction and conventionality, the
f,oroo opfa,orsov,, hatw snfouoa r,tr1 ca
and artificial cor ditions. As parallels they
are an interesting study; they show that
woman is woman wherever found; that her
blood burns, and leaps and maddeRs on the
Hudson along the Seine; that while in
heritance, training and habit are different,
the mind and spirit are essentially the
same"