The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-30

with mo. Whenever she wishes to go 70 New
Hanpsf ire to visit her relatives. she goes. and
always 60 with her. In that manner am trying
to make up 70 her what she was deprived Of dur
ing the days Of her sore poverty"
THE costodianship of Queen victorsa's gold
pantry at Windsor Castle. just rendered vacant by
the death Of Mr. Goring is Office of great trust,
as may be inferred from the fact that when the
Queen entertained the Emperor OF Russia, short
" after the marriage Of the Duke and the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh. gold plate to the value of some
$40 O00. 900 is said to have been used. At rough
guess the royal gold and silver services at Wind
sor Palace are probably worth s15.Ooo.OoO.
BRAVE boy who kept twenty Indians at bay
died of his wounds at Denver Col. few days
ago. 1t never happens that way in dime novel
of Indian warfare. The brave boy in the dime
novel would have kept the Indians at bay until
there was not an Indian left to bay at him, and
then he would have rescued and married, beau
tiful white captive, with long hair kissed by the
sunlight ripe red lips, eyes OF diamonds, mar
BILE brow, and good-natured father worth $780,
900. There is too much reality in the real.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Evening
Post writes that the gas meter in his house regis
tered s25 worth in November. $50 in December,
and sS5 in January. The last day of January he
turned off the gas and removed the meter, lock-
ing 1t up in closet: but there, like the silent
river which runs on evermore, 1t continued to
register, and showed ct the end OF February that
$40 worth of gas had passed through it during the
month. The victim has fed to boarding house.
1T was in the smoking-room Of an Atlantic
steamer that a worthy Teuton was recently talk
ing about weather forecasts. Look here" said
he, II dell you vat it Is. You peter don't take
no shtock in dem weather predictions Dose
beeble don't know noding. Dey can't dell no
better as can" But. my dear sir, said per-
son present, '.they foretold the storm which we
have just encountered" "Vell, dat ish 20" said
the Teuton. contAmplstively; "but dell you vat
it is. Dat shtorm would have come yust de same
If it had not been predicted
THERE is a picturesque story told concern
ing Secretary KirkwoOd aud a person of high
civil rank in Washington, upon whom he once
called. The Iowa Senator, who was personally
unknown to the official, waited his turn. After
Diminishing the several callers with such answers
as their business required, the great man
slowly turned his Office chair, and, looking the
Senator over from crown TO sole, said coolly:
well. my man. what can l do for you? You
look as though you would be more at home on a
farmI'
THE interesting fact is brought out in the census
reports that in the whole tier of States the At
lantic Coast. except Delaware, there are more
males than males. In Massachusetts, the excess
of females is $685.. The largest excess is in the
District Of Columbia, where there is 112,5Ol fe-
males to 1OO. 900 males: and in Rhode Island,
which has 107, S64 females TO 100000 males. The
relative proportion is not quite so great in New
York, but the large absolute population of the
Empire State allows an excess of 1000 females.
In the Mississippi Valley the excess is slightly on
the side of the males, while in the new Terrific
ries, such as Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Ari-
IONA, over two thirds of the inhabitants are
males.
IN Persia they bottle up their tears ss of old.
This is done in the following manner: AS the
mOurners are sitting around and weeping, the
master of ceremonies presents each one with a
piece of cotton wool. with which he wipes off his
tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed into a
bottle. and the tears are preserved as powerful
and eficacious remedy for reyIving dying man
after every other means has failed. 1t is also
plOyed as a charm against evil influences. This
custom is probably alluded to in Psalm wi,
verse s: "Put thou my tears into a bottle" The
practice was once universal, is found by the
tear bottles which are found in almost every
ancient tomb. for the ancients buried them with
their dead as proof OF their affection.