The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-06

The altar and the hearth,
Have gentle ways and loving words
How beautiful Is earth!
Says the Troy Times: Those who adver-
tise now are sure to get the best of existing
trade, and they are besides sowing seed for
the harvest to come"
In England the women always purchase
the groceries and provisions for the family;
if man should attempt such thing some
housewife would pin dishcloth to his coat
tail.
The senate committee on commerce will,
according to present indications, report adj
yersely on the nomination of Judge William
son to be collector of customs for New Or
leans.
All the churches and schools of Topeka,
Kansas, have been closed on account OF the
alarming prevalence OF scarlet fever. There
will be 20 more public gatherings until it
abates.
"In choosing a wife, says the Phrenologi-
cal Journal, "be governed by her chin" The
worst of that is, that after having chosen a.
wife one is apt to keep on being governed in
the same way.
The difference between noted men and
noted women is said to be that the men al
ways like to see themselves in print, and
that the women prefer to see themselves in
silks and velvets.
A man in PeeKskill, n. Y, has tried to get
up an old maid show and made miserable
failure of it. A thorough canvass has de-
monstrated that the Oldest unmarried lady
in Peekskill is 23.-Boston Post.
Lace mittens are coming into style, but
the STRIPPING who is presented with one goes
home with soul as fell of bitterness as his
father did in the long, long ago, when he
got one of the old fashioned blue yarn kind.
"what is the best remedy" asked a preach
er of shrewd observer, for an inattentive
| audience?" "Give them something to attend
to- was the significant reply; hungry
sheep will look up 10 the rack if there is hay
| in It."
The state dept of Ohio is S6,479, sos. The
local debts of counties and cities $50 32S, 900.
| The total receipts for school purposes, with
| balance in the treasury, amounted to Sl1,-
632, 600. Paid in teachers salaries during
| the year 81 So, 900. The number of teach
ers in the public schools is % 00S; the num-
Der of pupils, $4,000; the value of school
| property, 81, 145, 900. Such statistics are
| honorable to the Buckeye state.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Cows pastured on rye will fatten and give
/ a greater quantity of milk than they will
when pastured on the wild range or fed corn
in the ear. Even in winter the butter has
|
early on well prepared land rye will afford
more pasturage to the acre during fall win.
ter and spring than the blue grass timo-
| thy. Rye pasture is cheaper and easier to
be had in winter than root crops, and grows
| faster in the early spring than the usual
| pasture grasses Sow in May for summer
pasture, and in the fall for spring PASTURE
New York Herald.
The darkey's philosophy is sometimes
Il Al IL l.
orthograDhy he expresses the general sense
of the community in the following lines:
Oh, bless us. Masser, chen eff wes doin' wrong
tonight.
Cos den we'll need de blessin' morn eff we's
We always tends to do all right; but de debbil
he is strong,
An den befo' we knows it we is dom what is
wrong.
De Masser up above He knows how berry
An He'll hab little mercy when we gets our
dander riz;
| It's easy huff To talk about de peace you wish
you had,
An quite anodder thing, you know, to smile
wen you is mad.
The extraordinary times upon which we
| have fallen demand everywhere faithful
and impartia. execution of the laws. Men
who are guilty of fraudulent practices must
be hunted down and punished. The spirit
war is, happily. about over. But in many
| directions terrible vices yet remain, and
gambling and disSi patton in all our large
cities yet prevails without any proper efforts
| on the part Of the authorities to suppress or
! to, at least, restrain them. The young men
| of to-day, who occupy responsible positions,
are to become the business men of the near
| future, and the business men of TO day
| should exact from these strict observance
| of a code of morals following which they
will grow up honest men.
Cincinnati claims to be the Paris of
| America. No city will wish to dispute the
claim, and, in fact, Cincinnati herself begins
to question the propriety of many of her
customs. She has 3 900 liquor shops to 132
churches, Catholic and Protestant; 400 gam
bling bells, 500 houses of ill fame and theat-
ricai and other shows of every name and
nature running daily and nightly Sundays
included, some of them so shamefully in
decent that the police have been compelled
to violate Partisan liberty" and arrest the
actors and managers. All this is breeding
crime, domestic wretchedness, pauperism
and ruin with hotbed rapidity, and the bet
| ter classes are moved to stretch forth the
hand to save the city from its hell holes and
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
Anybody can make a telephone useful at
| a distance of over 100 yards if he follows the
directions given by Professor Barrett in
recent lecture. The materials needed are
cheap and easily obtsined-two wooden
tooth powder boxes, two disks of timed
sheet iron, two bar magnets, two small silk
reels and some iron WIRE Cut hole about
the size of half dollar piece in the lid and
bottom of one of the wooden boxes, place
one of the disks of tin on the outside of the
bottom of the box and fix the cover on the
tin; on one end of one of the bar magnets
place the reel and wind on the reel the iron
wire, leaving the ends loose; and, lastly,
attach the other end of the magnet as near
as possible to the disk, but take care that it
does not touch the disk. One end of the