The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-01

twinge came into his arm. Joe went tC
Church, and did a great amount OF hand
shaking before the services began. His arm
gave the warning when Andy Richardson
shook il. Joe went home, procured a long
knife. hid il in his sleeve, returned TO the
Church, and plunged the weapon into
Andy's heart. Whether this would have
brought about the cure promised by Old
Nell can not be determined, for the patient
has been hanged.
An amusing story reaches Us, says the
London Truth, about a noble lord, well
known in the theatrical world. At a din.
ner given at his house few days ago, his
servant mistook a very tall American lady
| for very tall, popular actress, and an
nounced her accordingly. The announce
ment greatly astonished the assembled
guests, especially her ladyship, who rushed
from the room, exclaiming, II thought il
would come to this at last" Fortunately
the footman's mistake was discovered be
fore any serious consequence ensued.
The old custom was to call young women
Miss and old women Mrs, the age of thirty
being about the dividing line regardless OF
whether they were married or not. Eliza
| beth A. Kingsley writes TO the Women's
Journal that the usage was right and ought
| to be revived. 1T is annoying" she says
ito be introduced to Mrs. Brown, a silly
superficial creature yet in her teens, and the
next moment to be presented to Miss Will
| liams, who at glance We perceive TO be an
| intellectual, noble, broad-solled woman OF
thirty-hve or forty, worth more than a dozen
like Mrs. Brown"
Ladies, never 90 to get photographed
when you are in hurry and fiustered. A
| red face takes black. The best mateials fol
ladies TO wear when about TO SIT for a pho
tograph are such as will fold or drape nicely,
like reps, winceys, pOplins, satins and silks.
Lavender, lilac. sky-blue, purple and French
blue take very light, and are worse for pic
ture than pure white. Corn-color and
salmon are better. China pink, rose-pink
magenta, crimson, pea-green, bluff, plum
color, dark purple, pure yellow, Mazarine
blue, navy-blue, fawn-cOlor, Quaker-cOlOr,
dovc-color, ashes-Of-roSes and slate-colOr
show pretty light gray in the photograph.
Scarlet. claret, garnet, sea-green, light
orange, leather-cOlOr, light Bismarck and
slate-color take still darker. and are excel
lent colors to photograph: Cherry, wine
color, light apple-green, Metternich green,
dark apple-green bottle-green, dark orange,
golden and red-brown show nearly the same
agreeable color in the picture. A black silk
always looks well, and il takes we'll If not
bedecked with ribbons and laces that will
take white.
James ID. Rhymus was a patient in pri-
vate Mad House. Mrs Bigelow, wife of the
physician in charge, took deep interest in
his case She believed that insanity could
best be cured by moral suasion and general
ly mild treatment, and she chose Rhymus
as a subject on whom to test her system.
He steadily improved. until at last sanity
was re-established. In the meantime Mrs.
| BigelOw had become a widow. She soon
afterward married Rhymus, and he became
physician. That was twenty years ago.
DR.. Rhymus made insanity a speciality in
his practice, and had charge succeSsively OF
many Asylums. He adhered to the theory
of mild treatment which had proved effica-
cious in his own case, and for the purpose o
putting it into thorough practice he leased
IA few weeks ago, the Grand View Hotel, near
Denver. turning ii into an Asylum. In order
to train his keepers by degrees he at first
| admitted only three patients, and these were
supposed to be only slightly deranged. Bu
he was mistaken in one of these, and one
morning found himself attacked by furi
Gus madman, who choked him insensibl,
and would have killed him if his wife haC
not fought heroically to free him. During
the commotion caused by the struggle the
two other patients escaped, and one of then
drowned herself. This bad beginning of th'
enterprise drove DIR. Rhymus insane again
and while out of his mind he slew his wife