The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-13

has succumbed to the repeated disappoint-
ments he has suffered, and that he will
eventually become idiotic. boston Adyer-
| tiser.
Barnum's offer has resulted already in
new discoveries of Charley Ross, and 1t is
predicted that the boy will be restored early
/ in July. One report has it that all that is
necessary is the promise of the governor of
Pennsylvania that the parties having the
| boy at present shall not be prosecuted. That
promise should be given at once. The law
has tried in vain to restore Charley Ross. 1t
should at least refuse to stand in the way of
his restoration.
The monotony of existence at the insane
asylum of Pau, France, has been relieved by
q singular accident. A keeper put an insane
woman in a BATH her hands tied, she being
a violent patient. She complained that the
bath was cold, and the nurse turned on the
hot water; then, her attention being attract
| ed by noise elsewhere, she left the room
Result-a boiled lunatic and an official in
vestigation not yet concluded.
Professor Tyndall who was among the
| speakers at the recent meeting in London in
favor of the opening of the public libraries
on Sunday, unintentionally gave clergymen
| a severe slap during his speech. After al
| luding to Dean Stanley and several other
| clergymen who were present he said: I'VE
| do not desire to invade the time set apart
| for the pulpit; we only want half OF Sunday
| for intellectual improvement" The inno-
| cent implication that the pulpit had nothing
| to do with intellectual improvement caused
a roar of laughter.
A superior tramp made his appearance in
| Norwich, Conn.,, the other day. He asked
| for breakfast, and having received and eaten
| it he was requested to cut the grass in the
| front yard. He at once cheerfully went to
| work, and labored for three hours in the hot
| sun. The neighbors were called in to look
at this unprecedented phenomenon, and such
was the admiration which the spectacle ex
cited that the industrious tramp received
good dinner, Is cents in cash and tolerable
pair of pantaloons.
The western man who fails to discover a
new bug is not thought much of. Judge
| Stewart, of Iowa, is the latest heard from
| He contributes new pest resembling the
pinch bug which has destroyed all the
chestnut, butternut, elm and cottonwood
| trees on his place, and has commenced on
| the apple trees. Mr.. Stewart says there are
millions of them. In daytime they work
into the ground around the trees, and cover
| themselves up, about shutdown come out, as
cend the trees and go to work.
The sweat box in the Massachusetts, reform
school is thus described: 1T is an upright
| box about seven feet high. ten inches deep
seventeen inches wide at the top. There
are three Sits one inch wide cut in the
| front, to breathe through. The sides are
movable, and pressed in with kind of
wedge. 1t is located in an attic, having but
one skylght in the roof, and no other win
dow" A former master testiheS THE
assistant superintendent told me in presence
of all the officers that 1T could be so COM
| pressed as to crush the boys bones The
| officer said he had seen boys stsgger on COM
| ing out. Another said, in three or four
cases he had to take them out, and thu
| dropped down."
The unhappy Kentuckian, who bet on
every race during the week and lost every
| time, illustrates the freaks of fortune in this
respect. He had just $50 left, and in sheer
| desperation cried out in the crowd that as
sembled at the hotel after the races, CPL bet
| $50 can name two men here with twenty
| three fingers" When the bet was taken
| this child of fate Continued: "Anybody'll
do. Here, my friend, I'll take you. 1 have
| thirteen, and you have ten, that makes
twenty-three l knew there was one bet
| could not lose" The stranger gazed at him
a moment with plying expression, and
| then said, compassionately: "Well, I'm
| sorry for you. You have struck hard
streak of luck. 1 had three of my fingers
shot off at Chickamauga!"
A droIl discussion took place the other
| day in the town council of Musselburgh,
near Edinburgh. Bailie Smart moved that
the council spend e5 on the queens birth
day. Nothing of the Sort" said Treasurer
claimed the provost 1T would be better
for you" was the retort, 'if you were all
teetotalers. If you want to fuddle, have it at
| your own expense" After more sharp talk
| the provost said, with much dignity, 'In
consequence of the GOODNESS with which the
motion is regarded, and since we can not
observe the day in a manner creditable to
her majesty, we had better let the matter
drop" Your conduct" he added, address
| ing the council, us utterly contemplated
So the five-pound note will not be- distracted
| from the bosough funds.
There was a curious accident at Philadel-
| phia on Sunday. A Mr.. Shoemaker, about
70 leave the city for the summer, got a
watering-pot full of benzine with which to
| dampen the carpets and furniture and pre-
serve them from moths. Ip less than an
hour the gas generated by the benzine ex-
ploded with a fearful conclusion and the
room burst into flames The servant girl
was fatally injured, her clothes being
burned away and her body baked to a crisp
and Mrs Shoemaker was very dangerously
| hurt. An examination of the parlor after
the fire had been extinguished showed
| something of the force of the explosion and
the intense heat of the flames. The window
shutters were blown open, glass smashed
into atoms, wall cracked and the register
knocked to pieces. The heat was so great
that small bronze figure was actually
melted by it.
Oh. no. a man don't like to have his name
| in print 1t never fatters his vanity at ALL
The other day, while man from Norwalk
was doing up some Commercials, reporter
| said:
| ssAb nv friend We mt vonr mama in
print, did we?'
Then the Norwalker looked up and as
sumed an important, cynical air as he said:
my name in print Humphl I'd be