The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-09-10
GENERAL NOTES.


GENERAL NOTES.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Dakota to have
the Territory divided into three parts.
POLICEMAN JOHN COLLINS OF Chicago shot and
killed thief: whom he caught stealing, and
a grand jury decided not to indict him, al
though the homicide was deemed hardly
justihable. Later he dubbed a boy who was
noisy in the street, and when the lad ran
away fired at him, sending q bullet through
his coat. Contrary to what would have been
done If the outrage had been committed in
this city, Collins was thereupon dismissed
from the police force.
known desperate, was jocose when intoxf-
Gated, and especially delighted In frightening
folks by making threats of assault. His ac-
quaintance knew him too well TO attach
much importance to his drunken freaks. But
he went into the store of Mr.. Meyers, who had
never heard of him as joker, pointed pistol
at his head and told him that his time had
come to die. Meyers hastily drew revolver
and fired four bullets into Saunders, killing
him on the spot.
SOME time last winter a gentleman in the
northern part OF Smith county, Tex, on the
Sabine river, was riding pony, and as he was
bit the horse on the leg. The raccoon repeated
or continued Its attack until the gentleman
put the pony into gallop and ran of. A few
days ago the gentleman was leading the pony
out of a pasture. While he was letting down
the fence the pony suddenly commenced Bit
ing the rails furiously, had tit, fell down, and
In a few moments was dead.
OF medical novelties there is no end. One
DR.. Christian, not satisfied with any existing
'Pathies has proposed in the princapal Ger.
man and Swiss journals something which he
regards as better than water-cure, milk cure,
whey. cure, or grape cure, viz: Night-air cure.
"open your windows" says DIR. Christian.
"and allow the cool spirits Of the night to
enter your chamber and to sweeten and calm
your dreams." Some time ago Miss Nighting-
| gale advanced the theory that night air was
absolutely harmless to the sick, but DR.. Chris
| tian goes further, and declares that IL viii
make them well.
THE number of imprudent persons who
| have been killed since the Franco-Prussian
war in trying to empty the German shells
| that have been found unexploded In the fields
round Paris is extraordinary. At st. Denis q
fortnight ago a charcoal dealer, an old man of
6s, who had earned some celebrity in the
neighborhood by his collection OF German
! shells, was trying to empty another when It
| exploded and blew him and his shop to pieces.
| The remnants OF his body were found scat
| tered in all directions. similar accident Is
| also reported from the arsenal OF Belfort,
| where one artilleryman was killed and five
| wounded.
THE furniture in La Pierre Hotel, Philadel-
| phia, has been sold by auction for $4,000.
| which sum is far below Its value. The tenant
demanded repairs that the owners would not
make and the former summarily determined
| st.e a-ot Sel t, tl,t
try to put up prices above s2 a day, and used
to be very fashionable. The Centennial exhi-
bition caused brisk season in the Philadel
phia hotel business; but the reaction has
closed the American and West End, besides
the houses that we're built especially for that
season. The st. George, however, is open and
fiourishing, Notwithstanding the fact that II
was mistakenly named among hotels that
were shut.
THE following cruel disclosure OF one OF the
secrets OF the Chinese toilet In humble life Il
made by q correspondent Of the Celestial EN-
pire: 81 have lately discovered the way ir
which Chinese girls paint their faces in Pekin
They first take a quantity OF sugar candy
which they rub lavishly over their hands
They then smear this delectable cosmetic owe
their cheeks and forehead till they are as shin,
. as the moon and as sticky al though they has
! washed themselves In treacle. The surfac
thus prepared, they proceed to lay on tn
white powder, which they spread thickl,
from ear to ear; and then they put on tn
rouge. Their subsequent sensations may b
imagined. never heard them described"
/, A coLoRED man named Charles William
, was caught by a fish and was drowned q
. Lawrence, Kansas, recently. He was flshin
, In the Kansas river, and while attempting b
land a large catfish near the falls was draw
into the dOod droWnad In IA Cusfor
OF fishermen there to wade into the stream
and when they have found large fish,
spear, connected with q rope which Is al
tached TO the wrist, IL plunged into its bach
: Sometimes the fish, II he be a large one, make
! q desperate struggle before he IL landed. ThI
was one Of those cases. Williams failed I
: slip the loop which was about his wrist an
let the fish go. Catfish have been take
3 Weighing from l50 to 200 pounds.