The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18

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That the girl had left on the topmost stair.
And what to him was hope ana joy,
And what to him was sorrow or care,
For his feet flew out like wild. fierce things,
And he struck each step with a noise like drum,
And the girl below with the scrubbing things
Laughed like fiend 70 see him come.
Mrs Ralph Waldo Emerson gave 500 TO
the fund being raised in Boston for the
widow of John Brown.
Large bouquets of shaded roses are worn
on one side of the corsage and few roses
in the hair for full evening dress.
With gingham suits next summer, it will
be the thing to wear collars Of white linen
embroidered with small dots to match the
color in the dress.
Donald: whats this?" Waiter "Broth,
sir" Donald: Hoo ayl Yisi A peas
here and a barley's there and the wan
whustlin to the ither Where are yo-o-op"
Say, girl, do you know why the fellow
you inveigle into proposing is like a Private
Secretary? It's because he's man-you-wins.
sis. We feel awful degraded when we read
that over-BostOn Post.
When little girls play with matches their
mothers forbid them, but when they arrive
at manageable age the case is very much
altered, and matches are the first thing their
mothers recommend.-Baltimore Every Sat
urday.
A French lady sent her maid to buy some
fesh-colored stockings. The servant girl
returned with stockings jet ack. The
anger of the mistress soon gave way To
laughter when she recollected that her maid
was lady of color
A Roman Catholic Priest at Leicester,
Mass, broke up a recent Sunday cock-fght
by jumping into the ring and wringing the
| necks of the fowls. He means TO carry out
the Bishops recent DEGREES against Sunday
amusements-and cruelties.
Seventeen members of the New York As
sembly had front seats at the BLACK Crook"
| performance the other night. They went
merely TO see if it was anything that law
orght to be passed prohibiting. They
couldn't quite make up their minds and
will have to go again.
| An exchange says: "Of the GOO young la
dies attending Vassar, no two can agree as
to what they would do in case they saw a
| bear" Now, this is a libel on the ladies,
| for were he we'll dressed aud respectable,
$50 of them would wait with curious impa-
thence to see if he proposed to hug them.
| George Sumner, who was very intimate
with the Disrael family before Benjamin
became great, in lecture on him which he
delivered here, said that the direction i'm
parted to his earliest steps in life was de-
rived from his accomplished eldest sister
who laughed him out of many of his youth
| full eccentricities, and showed him the way
| to safer paths.
In Berne, the Capital of the Swiss Con-
federation, there are $50 distilleries and the
consumption of spirits alone amounts an
nually to thirteen and a quarter gallons to
each adult. In Geneva there are consumed
each year ffty-ive gallons of fermented
| liquors to every man, woman and child.
The average yearly expenditure OF intoxi-
cants amounts to about $50 per capita of the
population.
Rev. DIR. Beach. of st. Peters Episcopal
Church, New York, says: IL object to tee
| total methods We have sins enough
already without making one out of the
drinking a glass of wine. i counsel total
abstinence To the man who can not drink
without becoming drunk, but can not find
that the temperate use of wine is to be re-
garded rs a sin upon Biblical or any other
grounds"
Cathcart Hill, the British Cemetery in the
Crimea, where are buried many of the
famous six Hundred" is said TO be in an
extremely neglected and dilapidated state.
The encircling wall is broken down in many
places, and within, on the very graves of the
dead, cattle are sometimes stabbed, and
wandering Tartars make their encam pments.
The neighbOring French Cemetery, on the
other hand is well cared for and presents
an attractive appearance.
| Mrs. Mary j. Studley, physician and
author of some note, threw herself from the
] steamer Kathadin, while on the passage
/ from Boston to ROckland, Me-, on Thursday
evening last, and was drowned. She has
recently resided in birmingham, Mass. and
was a member of the Faculty of the Normal
School there. She left note to the purser
= the steamer instructing him to send her
. lggage to birmingham, and in another
note, addressed to her friends in Framing
ham, alluded to herself as hereditarily in
sane. Her body was recovered.
Jim Webster went on spree yesterday,
and invited large crowd several times into
a Brooklyn saloon He was about to repeat
the insult, when cOlored friend said %
him, aemonishingly: Look heah, jim;
money am mighty skurse, and you am jest
frowin' it away. You ought to be more
keerful wild yer hard-earney money" 81