The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10
ALL SORTS.

Queen Victoria consented very reluctantly
to Prince Leopold taking holy orders.
A lawyer, who wanted a postponement:
appealed to the judge to ''let the broad axe
of justice be swung by the hand of mercy"
1t was swung.
Bergh has compiled statistics to prove that
than any other race, while the French club
their dogs, the English beat their wives and
the Americans cripple their cats.
The Washing Capital says Mrs. Sherman
does not really object to round dances so
much on account of her accom- plished daugh.
ters as on account of her awkward husband
he does look so like the old Scratch when
he skoots around.
By an ingenious instrument the officers of
the Royal observatory at Greenwich, Eng.
land have been able TO register the exact
number of hours of sunshine during the last
year, In the u months ending with the 10th
of February the sun was above the horizon
at London 4, 454 hours, but the amount of
sunshine during that time was only l,2S6 10
hours.
Preserve the privacies OF your honse, mar
riage state, heart. from father, mother, sister,
brother, aunt and all the world. You two,
with Gods help, build your own quiet world
with you will form party and stand between
you two. This should never be. Promise
this to each other. Renew the VOW at each
temptation; you will find your account in
it. Your souls will grow, as it were, to-
gether, and at last they will become as one.
All il many young pair had on their
wedding day known this secret how many
marriages were happier than-aias.-they
are.
The following is from a Hart county, Ky,
paper: I'VE have in Hart county, Ken
tufky, man blythe name OF William Bow
man, who was thrown away in the Appal-
achee mountains North Carolina, when an
infant and was found by al old bear and
adopted as a cub. At the age of about 10
wears he was captured, tied hand and foot,
and then his capiors found that he could
not talk, nor could he be persuaded TO take
any food but milk, which he sucked from 8
bottle, showing that he had lived solely by
the nursing OF the bear. Bowman Is now q
farmer near Omega, and any one doubling
the truth of this statement can have it veri-
fed by seeing him."
A black man named Vitalo, living in
French Guiana, impressed few years ago,
with the idea that the neglected gold mines
of that region would yield hand somely, he
gan to work one with capital of only 81, ,000
which, before the year was over was in.
creased to $40 900. The next year he cleared
500, 000, and the next $160,000. Last year
he became richer by $4,000. Two years
ago Vitalo visited Paris and accepted an Of
of $500, 900 for his mine. On returning to
Guiana the sight of the mine and the gold
washing caused him to regret his bargain
and he threw SO many technical obstacles in
the way before signing the contract that the
French capitalist relinquished the sgree
ment.
This singular scene, occurring at the exc
cation of the three "Molly Maguires'' in
Pennsylvania. March %, is related by the
Philadelphia Times: Mrs. Hester, her
brother in-law, her married daughter, her
son-in-law and her baby grandchild waited
for the body of her husband to be brought
from the prison yard. AS the coffin passed
through the gate the crowd yelled and
hooted. The Reading railroad company had
placed a special train at Mrs Hester's dis
posal TO convey the remains TO Locust Gap.
| accompanied the mournful little party as
far as MahanOy Plain. At the foot OF the
coffin Mrs. Hester had placed her husband's IS
hat aud coat, and upon these she rested her
head as she sat beside the body. She would
allow no one to usurp this place. She is
still comely woman, with an honest kind
hearted look. She but rarely cried. She has
passed that stage of grief, appearing too be-
wildered to think or talk. Her daughter
placed the newly born babe in her arms.
She smiled and then leaned her head on the
foot of her husbands coffin, and thus with
the little one lately come on her breast, and
the man in his prime lately gone lying beside
her, she slept for few moments.