The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24

That leads TO the beautiful city,
Whose bnilder and maker Is God.
Louise Chandler Moalton.
There has been 4 greatly increased sale
of postal cards within the past six months.
The people are too poor 10 write full-priced
letters.
Mrs. Amelia Berrian, photographic
writer, of New York, wrote the other dav
the extraordinary number OF ,O54 words in
four minutes, an average of 263lS words
minute. She wrote $40 words in one min
ute of the four.
"The English and Americans" saws the
Spectator, ARE great people, with genius
for mechanical Inventions, but they can not
build theater so that spectators can get out
of it, or a railway train so that it can be pa
trolled from the outside, or a street so that
il shall be at once silent and safe for horses"
In England they are getting nearer to the
root of that dreadful disease, drunkenness.
At a recent temperance meeting in his dio-
cese, the bishop of Ely said he attributed
drunkenness in poor men not TO a desire for
liquor, but to the comfort OF the public
house and the discomfort OF their homes.
The Boston Herald is responsible for this
sharp notice: IF there is big job of white
washing to be done Doctor Deems is the man
for it-that is if there is money in it, lie
made Vanderbilt look like saint without
half trying, but that wasn't so bad case a.
some."
When Parson Newman returned from his
tour round the world he brought in his per-
sonal baggage a cask of old Scotch whisky of
peculiar excellence. There was more OF it
than he could consume, so he bartered it
with the proprietor of Willard's for thirty
gallons OF sherry; a barkeeper indiscreetly
let the secret out, and Hot Newman " is
the favorite drink at the capital of cold
nights.
The japanese toilet mirror is an entirely
new invention for seeing all sides of the head
at once. 1t hangs fiat against the wall by
gllt chain when shut; when open-with the
two mirror leaves on either side of the head,
and the third mirror in front, it forms the
best looking glass that can be had. and quite
supercedes the hand glass so long in use As
yet they have not been largely imported to
this country, but will be shortly.
A sad story of the ruin wrought in fam
lily by an erring son comes from Washing
ton, where a young man named Tyler, the
son of an old and respected physician, has
been convicted of forgery. The disgrace
killed his mother and the cost of the trial
ruined his father financially. 1t is said that
William w. COrcoran will defray the court
expenses, and present to DR.. Tyler the home
in which for so many years he has lived.
plea for Frank Walworth, the parricide,
who is now in the insane asylum at Auburn,
is offered by correspondent of the Albany
Times, who says that "Dr. Gray, superin-
tendent of the state lunatic asylum, IS re-
ported to have repeatedly said, and the
writer himself has heard him say, that
Frank WalwOrth never should have been
sent to prison, and that his eminent legal
counsel could have successfully vindicated
him had the defense been conducted solely
on the hypothesis of insanity.
Hugo has stopped over again-this time in
a letter to some great unknown who has
started paper at Marseilles. His letter is
as follows:
MY DEAR AND VALIANT PoEr: You found
journal. You put into il your mind, your
heart, your talent. To that the people will
add success
Marseilles is a noble city. She has two
profiles. the profile of Greece and the profile
of France; in these two aspects she expresses
the republic.
Where there is liberty there is poetry.
You prove i'll
Isqueeze your hand. VICTOR HUGo.
A few days ago. says the Sacramento
Record Union, Officer Jackson met China
man who had evidently been roughly used
by some one. as his nose was bleeding freely
and his clothes were covered with dirt The
officer inquired: What's the matter, John?'
and received answer: Heap dam Ilishman.
He hittee me down, so, you sable; he lun
away. My nose catches heap sick.n As the
assailant had evidently got out of sight
Jackson kept on talking with the celestial,
who proceeded to unbosom himself as fol-
lows: "Melican man and Chinaman no
likee catcbee fight; Ilishman heap likee
fight; sposem take two tousan Ilishman two
tousan Chanaman too, put EN- on lanch,
stlip em, everybody catchee knife, plaps
hatcnet. Ilishman lick Chinaman, China
man all 90 back China; Chinaman lick Ilsb-
man, all Ilishman go back where he come
fiom. Sable? think pletty good"
Never use a lady's name in an improper
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