The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
GENERAL NOTES.

THE housewife now taketh the towel
And tieth the same bout her head
And goes for the wood work and windows
While hubby partakes of cold bread.
Regarding proceedings, however,
Not even a word by him's said.
But he says to himself in a whisper,
81 wish the good Lord was dead
SPRING birds are everywhere making their
appearance.
SIX Electric Lighting Companies are now organ
lied in New York City.
THE bill to prevent bribery at elections has
been indefinitely postponed by the Connecticut
House OF Representatives.
ONE of sothern's last requests was that his
friends should not attend his burial as people
catch such colds standing about in graye-yards
with their hats or"
If all Europe were to become prison, America
would still present lOOp-hOle Of escape; and
God be praised that loop-hole is larger than the
dungeon itself.-Heinrich Heine.
GENERAL JOSEPH Z. JOHNSON heartily approves
of the attack of Senators Hill and Brown and
VOORHEES, on Eahone, and expresses the opinion
that Malone merited everything that has been
said of him.
THE Connecticut House of Representatives has
passed bill providing that text books in the
public schools shall not be changed except by a
twO-thirds vote of the Board of School Visitors or
School Committee.
THE Texas Court of Appeals has just decided
that the Fourteenth amendment renders null the
laws, several of which remain on the statute
books of New England. prohibiting intermarriage
between the black and white races
CARLYLE once wrote of music: 1.-The meaning of
song goes deep. Who is there that in logical
words can express the effect music has on us? A
kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech. which
leads to the infinite and lets for the moment
gaze into that"
THE sun is greatly agitated and is sending out
/ tongues of flame. and the Providence Journals
able astronomer C, ntinues to connect the dis
turbances with disastrous meteorological phe-
nomena on the earth. Jupiter is regarded as one
of the disturbing influences on the sun.
VIZ hear Of a Baptist city Church where a reso-
luton was passed beginning thus: whereas. it
has pleased Almighty God to destroy our Church
building by an iucendiary." The Star and Gov
enant suggests that when that incendiary get
caught the indictment will read. "iustigated by
the Devil"
Marian Harland in a newspaper article. Well
we'lrtell you. Marian. When Charles Augustus
Edward Frederick, and the rest of the boys call
around to see their respective girls on Sunday
evening, pack the mothers off to bed about
| ocloek-Norristown Herald.
Two strangers who had been spending a fort
night in Brooklyn were exchanging opinions a
to the religious condition of the community
Pm sure you can't complain of that" said one.
Brooklyn Is known throughout the country as
the City of Churches" That's just what dc
complain Of" replied the other. there's so man,
Churches there isn't godliness 10 I'LL them
Brooklyn Eagle.
THE Detroit Free Press says: "Of course,
party Of great moral ideas is justified In sitting
through midsummer heat ana December SHOWS
rather than give up the right for which thel
have fought, bled and died. to make Gorhan
Secretary and Riddleberger sergeantst-Arms. o
course they put principle above .anC
believe In the grand old doctrine enuncisted b.