The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
ALL SORTS.
DreamIand Sea.
BY HANNAH NJ. BRYAN.

whose Isles In VlSlOneu beauty sleep,
And never ocean waves could be
So bright as thine, fair Dreamland Sea.
NV castle crowns the boldest steep.
By warning winds and waters SCARED,
That seaward leans, and DER the deep,
Keeps evermOre unceaSing ward.
Full-frelghted, with their wings Of snow,
The white ships come, the white ships go,
While i'm the shade of cliff and towers
dream away the gliding hours.
With names foam-fiecked and tossing free,
The waves, wild cOursers of the sea,
Race swiftly to the level strand,
And struggling die upon the sand.
The shells that sparkle at my feet,
Strange tales of wind and wave repeat,
The weird romance, the mystery
OF the dark caverns of the sea.
Ny fairy fleet that long has lain
Close mOored in some enchanted bay,
Borne by fair gales across the main,
Sails swiftly on its homeward way.
My ships, my stately ships see
Full many q royal argosie,
Like white-winged birds they speeding come,
And bring their gathered treasures home.
Pearls from the mermaid's watery cell,
Pure gold from sunny orient lands,
With many a roSy-chambered shell
And jewel wrought by elfin hands,
Crosses and amulets of price,
OF sandal-wood and sacred palm,
Embossed with many fair device,
And odOrOus with tropic balm.
''Men are like hymns" remarks an ex-
change newspaper. "Fhere are short-metre
men, sharp, blunt and hasty; there are long
metre, slow. weighty and dignifed; there
are hallelujah-metre men, mercurial, fer
vent and inspiring; and there are eights-
and-sevens men, gentle, genial and delight
full. There are also some peculiar metres"
A colored child was recently born In Bay
side, Talbot county, Maryland, of the tiniest
proportions ever known. At birth it was
only II inches long, and weighed one pound.
The only imperfectiOn about it is a total
absence of thumbs, not having even place
where thumbs ought to be. 1t has long
hair coming down over the shoulders 1t is
female child.
Philadelphia Times: The twenty-third an
nual report of Mr.. William ]. Mullen, the
prison agent, shows that of the whole num-
ber committed to the county prison during
the year sixty-nine were charged with
murder, or of being accessories thereto. and
that, with single exception, the prisoners
were under the influence of liquor at the
time the crime was committed.
Mr. Bliss, the hymnist, it seems, threw
his life away. He could have saved himself
if he would, but rushed into the flames to
die with his wife. And now it becomes a
nice question for Christian casuists whether
raising money for his family out of pious
regard for his memory is not putting a
premium on suicide. OF course death
may have been gain to him; but was it not
his duty to live and take care of his family,
and do his work in a manly way?
Is a resident of Texas Texan or a Texian?
That is the little question which the Texas
papers are now wrangling over. The pro-
nunciation of the hero of San Jacinto is re-
garded as settled forever Out of Texas it
may be Houseton, but in Texas it is always
Hewston. The most troublesome letter in
American nomenclature is the IS" If a
mass meeting could be held in st. Louis and
Louisville, or a special election be held, and
the question determined whether the So in
those names shall be sounded or not it
would be, in the language of the stump, a
precious boon to the whole commonwealth.
Five converts were immersed in the
Schuylkill, near Green Tree, Penn, on Sun
day last by the Rev. Jacob Gotwals, Dunkard
minister. The water was very cold. but the
current was so swift that no ice had formed
at the point where the ceremony was per-
formed. In accordance with the Dunkard
ritual each convert was immersed three
times-in the name of the Father, the Son
any the Holy Ghost. One lady nearly
tainted from the effects of cold and
exposure. Another lady, who was rather
stout was taken off her feet by the strength
of the current, and the minister was so cold
that when he caught her he had no strength
with her. Two bystanders on the bank
plunged in and rescued them Just as they
were on the point of being swept under the
the solid ice The converts had been urged
to wait until warmer weather but were un-
willing to defer the ceremony.
The following incident occurred during a
general review of the Austrian cavalry few
months ago: Not far from where 10000
cavalry were in line, a little child-a girl of
not more than four years, standing in the
front row of spectators-either from fright
or some other cause, rushed out into the
open field just as a squadron of hussars came
sweeping around from the main body. They
made the detOur for the purpose of saluting
the empress whose carriage was drawn up in
that part of the parade ground. Down came
the flying squadron, charging at mad gal
lop-down directly upon the child. The
mother was paralyzed, as were Others, for
there could be no rescue from the line of
spectators. The empress uttered cry of
horror for the child's destruction seemed
inevitable-and such terrible destruction
the tranpling to death by thousand iron
hoofs. Directly under the feet of the horses
was the little one-another instant must
seal its doom-when a stalwart hussar. who
was in the front line, without slackening
his speed or loosening his hold, threw
himself over by the side of his
horses neck, seized and lifted the child,
and placed it in safety upon his saddle
bow, and this he did without changing his
pace or breaking the correct alignment of
the squadron. Ten thousand voices hailed
with rapturous applause the gallant deed,
and other thousands applauded when they
knew. Two women there were who could
only sob forth their gratitude in broken ac-
cents-the mother and the empress. A
proud and happy moment it must have
been to the hussar when his emperor,
taking from his own breast the rich
ly enameled cross of the order of
Maria Theresa, hung it upon the
breast of his brave and gallant trooper.
Men are wanted. So they are. But boys
Such boys will make the desired men. Some
one has declared, ann truly, that these boys