The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-10

Many preachers seek TO impress their
hearers with the fact that life is short, but
forget il in their sermons
The Lacryme Christi wine made from
grapes grown on the lava-enriched slopes of
Mount Vesuvius is unusually fine this
season.
Andrews Americon Queen SAYS that "Mrs.
Swift went TO market yesterday on a side
wheel velocipede. The eggs will have to be
bought over again"
They who disbelieve in virtue because
man has never been found perfect might as
reasonably deny the sun because il is not al
ways nOon.-Hare.
Miss Clara Louise kellogg has been
highly successful in Vienna this season.
The Meme Freie Presse speaks of her per-
Torrance as colossal
A patent medicine advertisement asks 'Is
your stomach out of order%' No, it isn't
We didn't turn out with the last political
procession. Herald.
The Danbury News remarks that there is
one thing that the next century is going to
miss-the man who has voted at every Pres
idential election since the first"
Young man love your neighbor as your
self, but don't break down his front gate,
just because his daughter had rather talk
with you there than ask you into the house.
1t is a mean thing for handsome man to
go to town and give every indication of
being in the market until half the girls are
wild about him, and then send for his wife.
Boston Post
A hardy seaman. who had escaped one of
the recent shipwrecks upon our coast was
asked by good lady how he felt when the
waves broke over him. He replied: "Wet,
ma am; very wet"
The happiness of your life depends upon
the quality OF your thoughts; therefore
guard accordingly, and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue
and unreasonable to nature.
"There Are no Birds in Last Years Nests, ;,
is the title of song Probably not If it
were equally sure that there were no rats in
last years rat holes the public mind would
be more at rest.-Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes is said to have told a
friend in Boston that his Tom Brown was
intended as a portrait of Dean Stanley, and
that gentleman, now distinguished
officer in the East Indies, and the best shot
in the British ARMY, was the original of
East.
A colored man applying for a marriage
license in Cincinnati, was asked if he and
the lady were related. YES, sah,r he re-
piled. When asked how, he answered: II
thought you deluded to de tendey relashuns
CD luv what prevails between US at de pres
eat moment"
A Good Idea.-A Norfolk man has in
vented gas meter with price indicator
attached, which shows in dollars and cents
the amount due for gas. The Norristown
Herald says: "a good idea, but a meter
with gas bill-payer attached would find
more ready sale" o
Young men and maidens who are holding
back from getting married until they are
apouOb vhO..lH ,har hat
and Eve had no such squeamish notions
Buffalo Express. What ignorance! Why
they were the undisputed owners of the
whole world.-Philadelp Bulletin
The well-known Russian millionaire War
schwaski, has been arrested by order of the
Russian Government in Odessa and brought
to st. Petersburg. 1t is stated that evidence
is forthcoming to show that he defrauded
the authorities TO the extent of not less than
22, 100000 roubles by army contracts during
the late war.
Parisians delight in monstrosities of vari-
Gus kinds and have been crowding round
one of Chevers windows in the Palais Royal
to see an enormous mushroom, which. grew
in a wood at Versailles, and was brought to
to Paris with the utmost care as q positive
phenomenon. 1t is more than a yard in
circumference, and the weight is something
over twenty-four pounds.
Sure said Patrick, rubbing his head
with delight at the prospect of a present
from his employer; Il always name to do
my duty" II believe YOU" replied the
employer, land therefore shall make you
a present of all that you have stolen from
me during the year" 81 thank your honor"
replied Pat, "and may all your friends and
acquaintance treat you as literally"
SnThe late Lord Clifford, Roman Catholic
peer provided in his will that should his
younger sons, TO whom he left $4,000,
take holy orders their portions are to be re-
duced to S25, 900. In like manner the por-
tons of his daughters are to be reduced
from $50, 900 TO So, 500 should they become
nuns. Another Roman Catholic gentleman
of high position made similar provision
year or two ago.
When we read the statistics of education
in Russia we get new cause of the discon-
tent of the people, and lind another iustifi-
cation of the hatred of the despotic Govern
ment. A Russian journal of education
shows that if all the Russian people are to
be educated, there Will be 1000 new schools
wanted in the st. Petersburg district, 1900
in that of Novgorod, and, not to mention
other instances, as many as 5000 in that of
Charkow. I
T.. f. Loiseau hit upon the idea of press
ing coal dust and coal tar into small balls
for fuel. He patented the process and
formed stock Company. The manufacture
was begun in Philadelphia five years ago.
The pressed fuel, as it was called was far
cheaper than coal, and about good for
some purposes; but the public did not ac-
cept it readily, and capital of $500, 600 was
gradually lost. Having ruined himself
financially. and being censured by some of
the stockholders, Loiseau took so heavy a
dose of laudanum that his life was saved
with much difficulty.
There is girl under treatmentat Bellevue
Hospital New York, for inability to use her
| legs. She wore CATERS with Unfortunately
high French heels. The distortion of her
| feet and ankles caused an undue tension of
the cords and muscles of her calves. She
persisted, however, until her legs became
| misshapen, and finally she was wholly dis
ebled by lameness. She lies unfashionably
on her back now, with her unhandsome feet
and legs in shaping apparatus, enduring
great deal of pain, and uncertain whether
she will ever be able TO walk without
clutches.
l. A too jealous detective officer in Paris has
been made to suffer severely for mis- mania
for arresting innocent citizens. This Off
cial, who is endowed with herculean
strength, is in the habit of drinking too
| freely, and when intoxicated insists on ar
resting any individual who may happen TO
come in his way. About 2 o'clock one
morning he met with an artilleryman in