The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-25
ALL SORTS.

A parliamentary fowl-The hen that made
a motion to lay on the table.-Puck.
German novelists are obliged to be careful
what they make their characters say. Guido
Welsh was imprisoned three months for say
ing something offensive to royalty.
A few ladies of fashion, and of sense are
having their walking suits made with a
single skirt short enough to escape the
ground, and with the Breton jacket.
Four men rode into Trio, Texas, few
mornings ago, saturated everything in the
court house with coal oil, fired it and rode
quietly away. The records were all de-
stroyed.
Cardinal McCloskey will consecrate Rev.
John Lancaster Spaulding as bishop of
Peoria, ILL.,, on the LIST of May. The new
see was created in December last from the
diocese of Chicago.
In New London, New Hampshire. "a
healthy girl child was born of Mrs. Edwin
Messer, September 3, 1876, and well deyel-
oped, living boy, January q, 1877, the births
being months and "a days apart"
At the graduating exercises of the Hart
ford high school Friday, Whang Kai Xii,
one of the Chinese boys being educated in
this country took the second prize in
defamation over six American boys.
An old Highlander with two sons-one
minister and the other doctor-being very
proud of them, said to friend, Had kent
ane o. my sons was gaun to be a medical
man and the other a clergyman, wad never
haze haen auld Jenny for their mither."
Whenever they speak of Attorney General
Devens as ''the bachelor member of the
cabinet it makes a stalwart six-foot son of
his gnash his teeth and wonder if he has
graduated at Hartford college and rowed in
the Harvard against Yale to be thus ignored.
st. Louis papers admit that there was a
fire in the basement of the Southern hotel
week previous to the night of the big fire.
1t was extinguIshed by the employees, and
no information was given to the police or
fire department. The insurance collected
on the damage done by this fire was 1925.
DIR. Dix, in writing of modern novels, says:
''In multitudes of cases, perhaps in the
greater part of them, the household sorrow
and the household wreck may be traced to the
working of poison distilled into the unhap-
DIV family through literature which ought
TO be driven like offscourings from every
respectable Library and every circle of honest
people. The teachings of goddess philoso-
ply filter in drop by drop; they make the
whole head sick and the whole heart faint
A Boston letter to the Chicago Tribune,
setting forth the great good accomplished by
the tabernacle movement closes with the
annexed anecdote: A few days since the
remark was made to a certain distinguished
theological professor in reference TO Moody
and his work here: What wonderful illus
tration of Gods ability to use weak instru-
ments to accomplish great results" The
characteristic reply may suggest its author
to many of your readers. II don't wish to
say anything to disparage Gods ability, but
Moody is a great man."
Three bloody cassocks hang in the church
of Notre Dame, Paris. The first belonged to
Archbishop Able of Paris, shot dead at the
great barricade of the Faubourg St. Antoine
June "a, 1S4S. The second was that of ST.
bour, cut down by the knife of Verger in the
church of st. Stephen of the Mount, Janu-
airy 8, 1857. The third was worn by Arch
bishop Darboy the day he was murdered by
the Commune. 1t is rent and cut into
shreds, although the blood and mud that
covered it when it was taken from the body
of the dead archbishop have been washed off
Deep Spring Valley lake, in California, is
wonderful in some respects. AT certain
times the ducks, which visit the lake in
great numbers, becrme so loaded down with
crystalization of borax, salt or some similar
substance, that they are utterly unable to
fly, and while in this condition become an
easy prey to the Indians, who wade into the
water and pick them up in their hands. In
fact this substance often collects on the birds
bills in such weight as to actually drag their
heads under water and drown them. Dur
ing the first stages the crystals are quite
evenly deposited over all the birds feathers
above water, sticking them together as firm
ly as il glued. Then il accumulates in
punches or strings, forming drags or RATS
with which the bird can swim but slowly
If at all.