The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-09
ALL SORTS.

Sir Charles Dixie says that Niagara is ter
rible and beautiful. but not sublime.
Thieves Honest Labor society is the title
of new reformatory organization in Lon
don.
Judge Spofford, United States senator from
Louisiana, is a brother of the librarian of
congress.
Mr. John Gilbert made his first appearance
on the stage in 1923, at the age of %, as Jaf-
fer, in the fremont theater, Boston.
The intelligent and persevering '1ady
special correspondent is already making
plans for dead-heading it this summer.
The fisheries of Iceland have failed for a
third successive year, and this will probably
compel the entire Abandonment OF the ISL
and.
Those who hunt around in the ruins of
the Southern hotel at st. Louis are rewarded
by finding now and then a valuable dia-
mond.
Judge John e. King has been appointed
customs collector at New Orleans. He was
Judge of the supreme court under the Kel-
logg-Packard reign.
By January /, 1873, the tunnel through
the Pyrenees which has been in course of
construction for several years, will be COM
pleted and France and Spain will be placed
In direct railway communication.
Missouri has new law forbidding officers
of banks to receive deposits after they know
that their institution is insolvent, and
making them individually responsible for
loans caused by neglect of this provision.
The London Standard says that in con-
sequence of the unexampled depression of
commerce four of the leading Liverpool
steamship companies have decided to de-
crease the sailing Of their steamers by one
half.
A notification from the Japanese govern
ment relating to mixed marriages says:
''Any woman of foreign extraction who
shall marry Japanese shall be looked upon
as a naturalized Japanese and be subject to
the laws of the empire"
A large beer key was recently seen float
ing away from Blackwel's island, bait it
was not until lookup time that they discov-
cred that prisoners head was inside OF 1T,
while the rest of his body fioated under
meath, one end having been knocked out.
Fashionable circles in Paris are at present
being scared by the spiritual developments
of an Italian medium. Napoleon III, the
Gar Nicholas and Count Cavour speak
freely. but systematically, at the seances,
while the hair of the hearers stands on end.
The dogs on Mount st. Bernard saved the
lives of forty persons during the past win
ter At the distance of an hours march
they can discover through their wonderful
sense of smell whether travellers are on the
mountain, and begin to howl as soon as
they do.
The owner of the American side of Ma
CARA Falls is to be classed either with the
great geniuses or the great lunatics of the
age BE proposes to sell the Falls to drive
cotton mills with, and he has written to the
governor general of Canada and Queen Vic
toria about it.
Generals Early, Fitzhugh Lee, Wilcox,
Long Alexander and Heth. the ex-confed-
crates, have recently contributed to the
Southern historical society papers relating to
the battle of Gettysburg, which. it is said,
will shed good deal of light on the incl
dents of that great conflict.
The Iron Age states that insurance com
panies are So well convinced of the advan-
tage OF iron rooted oil tanks for protection
from lightning that they have agreed to re-
per cent. to 3 per cent. where iron roofs are
substituted for wooden ones throughout q
district.
The New York society for the prevention
of cruelty to children is still fighting for the
possession of the child, Charles Rivers
whose father had him hired out to circus
company. He is but six years of age, and il
is claimed is TO be put back in circus by
his father as soon as he can get him out Of
the state
A route agent in Texas visited another
route agent and just to be "foolin'," took
the pack o. registered letters while unnoticed
and carried them little distance away
When he bad worried the agent some time
he returned the package. Now the one is
discharged for carelessness and the other i:
arrested for robbing the mails.
DIR. Cintrat, an esteemed Paris physician
has Just died. Attending a child for Group
be found an incisi0n in the throat insult
Gent TO save its life without sucking out the
infected matter. He did suck it out. In
the evening be felt symptoms Of quinsy
devised an excuse for sending his wife AND
three children in the country to prevent in
lection and procured the best medical aid
but died in five days.
Northampton man and his wife, says the
Easthampton Enterprise, agreed recently Il
learn q verse of scripture every evening anC
repeat it to each other for mutual improve
ment- The first night, however. her quota
ton happened to be Am / not thy rulerY
and his was to the effect that he d be hanged
II she was, and the only result OF the plar
50 far has been that be has taken TO drinl