The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-03

ishment of the readers, who had already
mourned his loss but as the author killed
him off again few chapters further on, no
body's feelings were hurt.
Should war between England and Russia
break out, one of Englands royal princes
will go out and another come home. The
duke of Edinburgh will return to England
rather than fight against his wife's father,
but the duke of Connaught has asked for a
command in any expedition that may be
undertaken against his sisterin-law's father.
There must necessarily be good deal OF
bitter feeling on the subject in royal circles,
as there was Ii years ago, when the father
in-law of the queens eldest daughter was
invading the country of the father of the
queens eldest daughter-in-law.
tasteful woman can make garnet beau
tiful and homelike at little cost; for the
beauty of home depends more on educated
and refined taste than upon wealth. fthere
is no artist in the house it matters little if
there is large balance at the bank. There is
usually no better excuse for barren home
than ignorance or carelessness. A little
mechanical skill can make brackets and
shelves for the walls. A thoughtful walk in
the woods can gather leaves and ichens and
ferns for adjoining the uDpictured rooms. A
trifle saved from daily expenses can now and
again put new book upon the table or
shelf. The expenditure of few dollars can
convert the. plain window into a conserva-
tory.
The Rev. Mr.. Pentecost recently startled
the good people of Hartford by announcing
in the rink that the Rev. Mr.. Crane a popu-
lar preacher who has just been called to the
First Baptist churce, Boston, had left Sun
day evening inquiry meeting and stopped on
his way home to get glass of lager beer,
Mr. Crane justified the act last Sunday, in
sermon from the significant text For John
came neither eating nor drinking, and they
/ a hail avil Tba of
eating and drinking and they say, Behold a
gluttonous man and wine bibber, friend of
publicans and sinners" He declared that
he had had occasion to spit upon the inter-
ference of Mrs. Grundy in this matter, and
he stood ready to maintain his right to take
a glass of beer or wine, If his bodily ailments
demanded it.
Edward Wheeler, late of Nashua, n. H,
who had all his life been a most economical
person, lately astonished everybody by the
directions which he left for his burial. He
had acquired S11 900, and directed his ex-
ecutors to spend So, 600 his funeral, IN
Guiding the cost of fitting up his burial lot
Whether they were able to do this or not is
not stated, but the body of Mr.. Wheeler re-
= posed in heavy black walnut coffin covered
with broadcloth and mounted with silver
rods. 1t was placed upon wooden blankets
at Mr.. Wheeler's particular request. Before
his death he had a gold coffin plate made at
Il
on it; but this was not used, as he willed it
TO friend. He gave his native town of
Merrimac 5000, and the town OF Nashua
800. He seems to have been quite success
full IN creating the sensation which his
dying soul desired.
A not undramatic incident in Partisan
pocketpicking is reported. A well dressed
gentleman, wearing d lustrous diamond ring
enters the omnibus. The lady sitting beside
l.. ~ l. IL.
vehicle 10 avoid scandal. She subsequent
y feels for her purse, but it is gone, and IN
It's place she finds the obtrusive gem. Ii has
slipped from the thiefs finger as he was Sc
curing the portemonnaie. The lady hastens
to the police office TO tell of her loss and the
exchange, and there she finds the well
dressed gentleman arrested by a ieweler.
who has lost diamond ring He is about
to be released, in the absence of proofs, on
the plea that the accuser has made mistake
when the ring so strangely obtained by his
second victim is produced and confounds
him. The moral is that ladies should wear
narrow pockets
Mr.. John Mccullough will sail for Eng
land in the latter part of May. He says that
it is quite probable that he will play at one
of the London theaters, but he has decided
not to positively close any engagement until
his arrival. The actor says OF his first season
in Philadelphia in 1876 81 was a utility
man, and my salary was only SO per week;
but al last i was an actor and was happy.
The ambitions which l cherished were of the
highest, but / wisely kept them to myself,
except upon one occasion, when l remarked
to fellow actor that hoped one day to be
able to command $l5 per week. This seemed
to me to be a wild, vain aspiration, and l
was completely extinguished when he re-
piled: You internal fool; you'll never
again get as much as you do now My
cynical friend, | may remark, is right where
ne was 20 years ago."
Here are two young gentlemen, one of
whom will become emperor OF Germany:
las to the personal character of the two
august scholars, that of the elder is described
by the Constitutional quick and imag
NATIVE. He is a proficient in languages,
especially English, which he learnt before
German, and is particularly fond of history,
politics and the military art. He is unfor-
tunately manned in the left hand from his
birth, but not so badly as to prevent him
holding bride or a gun. His younger.
brother is not of so industrious spirit or so
serious a turn of mind, and did not follow
so assiduously, or indeed to any great extent,
the academic lectures and exercises. His
favOrite pursuits were drawing and carpen-
tering, in which he was quite proficient,
and he was fond of a lighter species of liter
allure than his brother, and of more playful
and boyish associates"
Wewant religion that softens the step, and
tunes the voice to melody, and fills the eye
with sunshine, and checks the impatient
exclamation and harsh rebuke-a religion
that is polite, deferential to superiors, cour.
teous to interiors and considerate to friends;
a religion that goes into the family. and
keeps the husband from being cross when
dinner is late and keeps the wife from fret
ting when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes him mindful of the scraper and the
door mat; keeps the mother patient when
the baby is cross, and amuses the children as
. well as instructs them; cares for the servants
. besides paying them promptly; projects the
honeymoon into the harvest noon, and
makes the happy home like the eastern fig
tree, bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
of the tender blossom and the glory of the
ripened fruit. We want religion that shall
, interpose between the ruts and the gullies
, and rocks of the highway of life and the
sensitive eOnla that are travelling over them.