The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
ALL SORTS.
March,.
man.

Month which the warning ancients strangely
styled
The month of war,-as if in their fierce ways,
Were any month of peace!-in thy rough
find no war in nature, though the wild
Winds clash and clang, and broRen boughs
piled
At feet of writhing trees The violets raise
Their heads without alright, or look of maze,
And sleep through all the din, as sleeps a
And he who watches well, win well discern
Sweet expectation in each living thing
Like pregnant mother, the sweet earth doth
In secret JOY makes ready for the spring;
And hidden, sacred, in her breast doth bear
Annunciation lilies for the year.
-Scribner.
Tactic acid is known to possess the power
of removing or destroying the incrustations
which form on the arteries cartridges and
valves of the heart and as buttermilk
abounds in such acid and is an acceptable
kind of food, its habitual use, it is urged by
Mr.. Robrieg, French chemist, will free the
system from these affections and permit
everybody to become centenarian.
NJ. Amaux, Partisan artist of some emil
hence, who twice carried off a medal at the
Salon, and was well known as a painter on
porcelain has been convicted of stealing en-
cravings from the National Library to the
value of 5000, a step to which he was driven
by poverty, and to obtain money to bury his
two children. Notwithstanding the pitiOus
circumstance, he was sentenced to imprison-
ment for two years
Richard Wagner announces to his 'devo-
ted admirers his return from Italy in an
epistle which is likely to become somewhat
celebrated. He commences by declaring
that there is but one real description of
music-his own; but. foreseeing that he
may find refractory spirits in this world he
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pose he has invented a means as cruel as it
is ingenius; namely, to exclude from his
future representations at Bayreuth all those
who do not bear badge with the inscription,
"Wagnerian enthusiast" He will not, at
any price, allow his enemies, whom he terms
his 'calumniators,' to be present on those
great occasions.
TOO muchee smartee," was what the
moon-eyed child of the Orient said to the
ticket-seller at the wharf, when gold was
demanded for three tickets to Stockton, at
$3.50 each, making $40 so. TOO muchee
smartee; you no cashee gold allie time"
Yes, John, must have gold for these tick
ets-ten dollars and a half. Come out"
"How muchee one ticketT' ''Three dollars
and half" "Allee light, me takee one,"
and he paid his three dollars and a half in
silver; then bought another one and paid
three dollars and half in silver and bought
third in the same way, having paid out ten
dollars and hal. in silver without showing
any gold. With look of triumph, the
mild-eyed son of Confucius gathered in his
last ticket, and said, TOO muchee smartee. :"
An eminent physician, writing to the
London Times, says he is so impressed with
the benefit of pictures, bronzes, art decora-
tons, sculpture, ETC., in medical point of
view, that he is ready TO give f100 toward a
fund to cover the naked walls of the London
hospitals as he is confident that the con-
temptation of works of art is beneficial to
the recovery of all classes of patients
The news comes from California of the
discovery of a mine of mineral soap, which
can be used for all purposes to which man.
ufactured soaps are applicable. The dis
coverer found it when prospecting for coal,
and used it in his family year before an
nouncing it. 1t is now, however, taken UP
by company, and will be brought into
commerce. The mine, which is situated in a
somewhat inaccessible part of the coast, is
in the close vicinity of stream, and it was
from the fact that pieces of stone which fell
into the stream was observed to melt away
that the properties of it became known. The
soap is described as narbled or parti-colored,
like CASTLE soap, and the extent of the mine
| is said to be very great. The soapis in the
| neighborhood of slatestone and sandstone,
and near it is a mountain OF gypsum, which
| appears to have been turned up on its edge.
The whole country round bears evidence oil
| volcanic action, and the mountains near ap-
pear to have been once under the sea, az
shells and other marine products abound on
the highest points, "a '.,s'... = ...r..
1t is the correct thing in this country fol-
duced TO q newly arrived guest, to shake