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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
A Fight with a Big Porpoise.

Bob Tanguey, the veteran Rochestersports-
man, who has several times appeared in
these columns in interviews on fishing and
hunting has been spending the winter in
Florida, enjoying his favorite occupation
and pastime. He favors the Democrat and
Chronicle with the following letter:
ST. JOINS RIVER, Fla. Feb. 26.-You have
often asked me for great fish story, so will
write you of my last struggle with a large por-
poise. Yesterday. as was rowing up In what we
call the witch. tide" this monster came run
ming between me and the bluff. / struck him
on the head with my oar; he gave a sudden dart
and went ashore like Jersey lightning,
him. Then he rushed for the deep water
again. but ehanced to open his huge mouth
That was my chance and rammed the oar in
his mouth and down his throat Then came a
tusseIe-he pulled and / pried. After long
struggle he quieted down. ran for the boat and
got my largest sword. With IL gave him cash
I'm the throat which made him wild with pain.
After while got chance 10 make him fast 10
the boat with line around his tail. man came
IN my assistance, and we pounded him with
clubs until he was dead. We waited for the next
tide, rs ii was hard work TO row dead porpoise;
he doesn't float when dead. By hard
work we got him ashore ara to
camp. Then we measured him. He nine
feet ten inches long. two feet three inches in
diameter. and would probably have weighed
Ions OF his OIL Our dogs did not weep fong over
the corpse. Tel my friends ] am well and viii
soon be home to my business. This is the coolest
winter Florida has ever had-cold, rain an dwlnd
day after day, aud the thermometer Is low az "a
degrees / have scribbled this on q log in the
land OF the palmetto. r. K. TASGUEY.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Absence of Mind rs a Sign of Incipient
Mental Disease.

The Medical and Surgical Reporter has
some suggestions and statements in the arti-
Gle below, which are of interest and impor-
lance to a good many people:
1t is essential to skill that the muscles of
the body should work unconsciOusly, but
the moment they assert, as il were, their in
dependence of self-consciousness and prompt
to the initiation of efforts outside of what
they have been taught diseased condition
is begun which we call absence of mind"
Such a habit begins OH little things, more
generally by an omission than a commission.
Thinking of something else while dressing,
part of the toilet is overlooked, the neck
tie is forgotten, the wrong coat is put on and
the hair is unkempt.
Soon, as the habit increases, absurd and
even harmful acts are committed. The col
lections of anecdotes are full of stories of
such follies We know of an able young
lawyer who, instead of pouring a tonic
from bottle on his desk, carefully emptied
the ink from his inkstand into q spoon and
swallowed it. Another, an ex-Attorney
General of the United States, went on fort
night trip TO attend an absorbing legal case.
His wife packed half dozen shirts in his
portmanteau. On his return there was no
shirt visible. Pushing her inquiries, she
found that her husband had regularly a
clean shirt every other day, but had forgot
ten to take off the soiled one, and now re
turned wearing the whole half dozen. An
authentic anecdote of the great political
economist, Adam Smith, tells US that when
called upon to sign q contract, instead of
writing his own name he made an elaborate
imitation of the signature of the other party,
which had already been affixed.
| Such incidents tend to depreciate man,
though perhaps unjustly, in the opinion of
those with whom he does business. They
become also grave annoyance 10 the indi-
vidual himself. In sense they are mental
weaknesses, which, pushed to a certain de-
gree, pass into mental diseases. Senility and
insanity are not infrequently marked by
automatic actions, carried out without the
will or consciousness of the doer The abb
sent-minded one, like the sleep-walker, per-
forms actions without the knowledge OF
them, and neglects duties which are press
ing Justly, therefore, it is asource of anxi-
ETY. with every thoughtful person when he
finds himself falling into this bad mental
habit. 1t is usually gradual in its onset,
stealing over one in moments of intensest
occupation. Unlike other mind weaknesses
it is not the foe of the idle man so much as
the busy one. Yet habits of revery and day
dreaming may also bring it about Those
who feel this habit creeping over them will
do well to make an early and special effor
to resist it. 1t can be conquered by habi
of attention, and by severe self-chidins
j when the mind yields TO il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

recent years, that in the suburbs of
great towns you may pass whole rows OF
tenements in which you may distinguish
pleasant parlors, with Towering plants
filling the windows and the sound
OF pianos clashing all down the row.
Still, in special cases, the name of parlor yet
survives, and of these / would say few
words. The parlor or parloir Latin, para
bolare; French, ''paroler, a. ''parler, y as the
name indicates, is place wherein to con-
verse The waiting-room of Club Is essen
tally parlor; in less formal, but more
real, sense so is the smoking-room The old
lady was perfectly correct in her allusion-
which, however, was hardly 10 be expected
of her-to public houses 1t would have
been more decent If she had talked about
tayerns And what glorious talk there has
been in tavern parlors before nowi We think
OF Ben Jonson at the Mermaid and Sam
Johnson at the Turks Head. There are
still a few wits and scholars who haunt the
sanded parlOrs of hotels about Fleet street:
when all his warm heart. sherris-warned,
Flashed forth in random speeches"
Such men have felt and said that there is no
throne like the easy chair of tavern parlor.
Perhaps there are other attractions besides
wit and liquor for tavern parlor know a
great irm that advertises for pretty bar
maids, and, and always sends them home at
nights in special conveyance, to be intrust-
ed to the charge of most respectable mat
ron.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Parlors.
London Society.l

The word ''parlor" is the remnant OF a
by-gone state of things. The days are gone
past when Sir Charles Grandson made his
stately bow in the cedar parlor. There are
no parlors nowaday, my DEAR" said an old
lady, whom we may call Mrs Darlington,
except, believe, in the public houses"
We have dining-rooms, drawing
rooms, studios, Libraries, smoking-roOms,
but the parlor in the ordinary British
mansion has almost become a thing OF the
past 1t remains, in highly fossilized con-
dition, as a venerable institution priIed by
the lower middle class. "Will you walk
into my parlor? said the spider to the fly"
and always recognize the wretcheS feelings
of that suicidal fly when am invited into
what people call parlor. Very probably
il is only used on state occasions. The
family may burrow in some sabterranean
apartment in the basement. We perceive
by hundred signs that such parlor is not
living room, but dead room. 1t is full
of stiffness and angularities, hard chairs
and still harder sofGs. The region in
which the parlor retains any vitality
is the agricultural region. In multituaes of
farm houses, and in some vicarages, this
kind of apartment is still found. But the
British farmer follows hard on the track of
the squire, and gives up the humber for
the more ambitious nomenclature. 1T the
better class OF laborer and the thriving
artisan who arenow aiming at the possession
of parlors. Among them the parlor Is
really happy and an educating influence,
SO prevalent have been peace and plenty o.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
DimcuIty in Breeding.

The American Cultivator says that one of
the most difficult matters in the whole
science and system of breeding is that of
crossing different breeds of pigs, or rather
perhaps in what might be called their n.y.
brdization. In breeding from a Chester
White sow and Suffolk boar, one-half of
the progeny had all the characteristics of
the sow, the other of the boar. In no case
was there any appearance of any combina-
ton of the two breeds. On breeding from
those which had the appearance of Suffolk
sows with Suffolk boar, the progeny had
the points of a Chester White rather than OF
the Suffolk. In breeding from recently
established breeds il should create no sur
prise to find frequent sports that is, occa-
sional animals of the progeny will run back
to one or other of the breeds from which
they emanated.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Spring Flowing.
Prairie Farmer.l


A few words here upon spring blowing are
not out of place. Sandy or gravelly soils
may be plowed or replowed in the spring
without running much risk. but it is differ
ent with clay soils, and the rule should gov
ern that clay is to be plOwed in the fall or
winter To pursue q different course in
wolves a risk, especially with undrained
land. A clay loan which is underdrained
and has been well-cultivated may be treated
more like lighter soil; but even then pru-
dence is required, for clay soils are sensitive
and are often injured by starting the pillow
too soon after a heavy rain, showing the
effect in the yield of the crop. Stiff, adhe-
sive soils, whether clayey or loamy, can not
be plowed to advantage while wet or very
dry. However, such soils are improved by
frequent blowing, this reduces them to
that finely comminuted condition which is
favorable to the growth of plants. All tilla-
BILE land has more or less clay in it, and if
worked when too wet the result is hurtful.
Ii is in this way that disappointment occurs
in the yield of rich alluvial lands, which fail
to produce abuRdantly because the clay is
thus rendered comparatively useless.
1t may seem superfiuous To some of our
readers TO offer suggestions that are well I'M
derstoOd by them. 1t must not be forgotten,
however, that many OF our later readers are
young farmers, or men who have had little
or no experience in tilling the soil. Nor is
it out OF place to occasionally remind farm
ers of larger experience that much care
must be exercised in blowing and re-plow-
ing land in spring. In no small degree does
the success of the seasons crop depend on
| the farmers prudence in this regard; nor
does the matter end with a single season,
and this is one thing that is frequently lost
sight of at the time a farmer may be turn
ing over his land. While land is too wet TO
pillow, whether in fall or spring. TO turn IL
up so that ii will bake is to injure it ior sew
eral years, entailing much unnecessary loss
both to yield of crops, and of labor to re.
store it to a natural condition of fertility.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

should never be pastured. In the season OF
fresh grass they may be fed on newly-cut
hay, but then in connection with grain, or
cut straw and meal. While being worked,
most farm-horses get good care, faithful
grooming and nourishing food. 1t is not
then that they fall in strength; but after the
spring work is done, and they are turned out
in the fields to shift for themselves, or, as is
generally said, Ito rest" i have seen many
horses from city liveries that had gone
through this recuperating process, and the
result has always been that it took several
weeks of good feeding and light exercise TO
recover what was lost.
There is no doubt that the business of
breeding horses, if properly managed, will
be profitable in a large section OF country
The heavy draught. horses, Percherons, and
Clydesdales, have always a ready market at
good prices. With lighterbreeds, the business
Is more a lottery than anything else, andwith
"a undue proportion of blanks. Unless one
of these Night horses develops extraordinary
speed he is not wanted; and il takes horse
that will make his mile inside Of $50 To be
sure of a sale. There are thousands of
horses that will now travel inside of three
minutes, and if they do not happen to have
other recommendations. as many have not,
nobody wants them. But for heavy draft
horses, four or five years old, there IS al
ways a market, and for a matched team
highly profitable one Another important
advantage in breeding draft horses is that
they have stronger constitutions and are less
liable to accidents. The absence of ner-
vousness, which helps them TO grow large
and strong, makes them easy Keepers after
they get their growth, and save many acct
dents. Nervous horses are worth little at an
age when a good draft horse will have many
years of hard work. To be sure, Young
America" can not make so fine a plurge on
the road; but the Percheron horses are by
no means bad Travellers and for one who
values life and limb will always be pre-
ferred 1t is at least a comfortable feeling
while being drawn up a steep hill, or over
road. that your horse is not being strained,
or perhaps permanently injured, in the
OneratiOn.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
A Gift For the Heashen.
History OF Leadville.l

How much is the ante whispered Red
Gulch miner with a single $40 gold piece to
the deacon with the collection plate in the
Baptist Church at Black Run, Colo. He was
told TO contribute whatever he chose, where
upon he said he'd chip in dollar. and pro-
ceeded to take a chance The deacon softly
replid that no change was given. A struggle
ensued, the plate was upset, and the con-
gregation were in the act of jumping the
deacon's claim" when the minister, an old
Californian, leaned over the pulpit with =
large navy revolver, and observed: 'The
brethren will please take notice that I've got
the drop on them, and any brother who de-
clines to go to his seat or touches any of that
money will have funeral at his house to-
morrow at o'clock p. m. Our mining
friend from Red Gu,oh will kindly release
the deacon's throat or be is a dead man."
The $40 gold piece went to save the heather.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
JOSIAH


Things has come to a pretty pass
The whole wide country over,
When every married woman has
To have friend or lover;
1t amt the way that Was raised,
An haiu't no desire
To have some teller pogin' found
Instead of my Josiar.
Inever kin forget the day
That we went out walkin',
An sot down on the river bank
An KEEP on hours a talkin';
He twisted up my apron string
An folded IL together,
An said he thought for harvest time
Twas Gurus kind OF weather.
The sun went down as we sot there
Joslar seemed uneasy,
An mother she began 10 call:
"LoweeZy. oh. LoweezyP
An then JoSiar spoke right up,
As was just a stariin',
An said, ''Loweezy, what's the use
OF us two ever partin'?'
It kind o. took me by surprise,
An yet knew twas coming
I'd heard IL all the summer long
In every wild bees hummin';
I'd studied out the way I'D act,
But lawl couldn't do IL;
meant to hide my love from him,
But seems as IL he knew it;
An lookin' down into my eyes
He must a seen the fire,
An ever since that hour I've loved
An worshiped my Josiar.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
The Agritural Appropriation Bin.

The agricultural appropriation bill, as it
finally passed Congress, covers an aggregate
of $3.50, 800. Among the items are $4,000
for experiments in connection with the cul-
ture and manufacture of tea; $25, 600 for the
investigation of the diseases of animals, Of
which $4,000 is to be devoted to the investi-
CATION of pleuro-pneumOnia among cattle /;
$4,000 for the continuation of experiments
in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum
etc. $40, 900 for the continuation of expert
ments in the manufacture of sugar from
beets; s., 900 for continuing the investiga-
ton of forestry; 5000 for examination and
reports on woods; $40, 600 for experiments in
the reclamation of arid lands; $1,000 for
chemical Investigations; $4,000 for ento-
biological investigations; $40, 800 for the col
lection of statistics; $4,000 fer matter for
the report; about $4,000 for salaries, and
$50. 900 for seeds, one-half of which shall be
distributed by Congressman among their
constituents and the remainder by the Com
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

There is parrot in aesmall tognin Renn-
sylyania, which, when.it sees freight train.
coming, will yell at the top of his voices
Switch off, Switch, Off" The eauncisr
ton is so distinct that it ncl infrespently
happens that the train will be switched 70
avoid a supposed danger, The same bird,
when it sees a passenger rain, will yell
IAN aboard" and thereby cause q. scamper
aboard by the passengers, who, NAY be on
the platforms.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Ca-l Preitsel's Contemplasons..

Offer it don'd vas your principal to pay der
interest. it should been to your interess to
pay derbrinoipal.
Dere was no probability about der we'd
der dis winter, IL was cerdaindy sure.
Dat vas much easier dot camel could
walk out NIT needles eye IS a man could
lif by his mDdder by law.
Der Lord sees all tings," und il vas con-
selling thought to some of Ger boys dot der
Lord don't viii tell.
Some of our preacher shendlemans shtndr
so much Edernidy aboutdot dey hafe no
conceptions of time.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
SuHering Wamau.

There is but very small proportion of the
women of this Nation that do not suffer
from some Of the diseases forwhich Kidney
Wort is specific. When the bowels have
become costsye, headache torments, kidneys
out of fix. or piles distress, take a package.
and its wonderful tonic and renovating
power Sfll cure you and give new life
WatchRan.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Keno in Texas.


1t is all nonsense trying to induce the
Legislature to suppress the game of keno
Members of the Legislature themselves
take hand at the game, and may be seen
sny night fighting the tiger" in some
gambling SALOON on our public thorough
tin Church made his money in this way,
and now loans it out at heavy interest,
while his victims struggle along as best
they can.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

INDIGESTION, Dyspepsia. nervous pros tration
and ali forms Of General Debility relieved by tax,
ing MESsMAN's PZPToSllED BKEP Tonic. the only
preparation OF beef containing its entire
properties. It is not mere stimulsn mt. like the
extracts of beet but contains force
generating and DEMONSTRATING properties; is in
valuable in ell enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work, or acute disesse; particularly If resulting
from pulmonary complaintA CA8wELL HAZ-
ART AGO., Proprtetors. New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
Two Careers.
New York Tribune.l

Nearly twenty-five years ago citizen Of
Brattleboro, VT, was surprised one day at
finding the figure of an angel nodded in
snow standing on one of tho streets. 1t was
discovered that BrattleborO youth, Laakin
G. Mead, had done the work, and he was
helped to pursue his artistic studies. To-day
at his studio, in Rorns, this American
sculptor is making for kTattleboro a amarillo
copy of the snow angel which first brought
hiRl into notice,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
American Butter in Foreign Lands.

The American Consul at Ceylon, Mr..
Morey, deprecates the packing of butter in
tin for shipment TO warm climates. He
states that butter arriving at Ceylon from
the United States thus packed has become
deteriOrated from the corrOsion of the tin, or
the use OF impure salt used in the packing,
and that there is not only loss to the ina
porter, but he implies that it naturally
brings discredit upon the producer and
our Nation. He saws: 1.-The French are
sending to the East large quantities of Nor
mandy butter, in one or twO-pOund bottles,
with mouths about two inches diameter,
glass stoppered and secured with hard,
white cement, so as TO be perfectly air-tight
The butter is fresh, but after being packed
about one tablespoonful of white pearly
salt, almost impalpably fine and exqsisitely
pure, is put into the neck of the bottle and
the stopper applied. This butter retails al
most unlimitedly at sixty-five cents gold per
One-pOund bottle and fifty-five cents gold
per pound In two-pound bottles. As our
country has now become famous for its ex-
cellent glass, and there can be no question
about the conservation of butter in vessels
of that material, see no reason why our
exporters should not only initiate the French
in using it for packing butter, but for cheese
also, thereby securing preservation and a
never failing market for those commodities
in this Oriental hemisphere"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
IChicagcT Tribune /

Nearly twenty-five years ago = citizen Of
Chicago was surprised one day at finding
himself slugged behind the ear with a snow
ball. 1t was discovered that a Chicago
youth had done the work. To-day, in his
studio at the Joliet PeniteAtiary, this Chi
cago boy is making shoes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
MANHOOD RESTORED

A victim Of early inarldence, causing nervous
debility, premature decay, etc. having tried IN
vain everT known remedy, has discovered sim
plemeans OF selfcure, which he will send free to
his felle8-sufferers. Address j. II. REEVES, 42
Chatha-n street. New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
How to Granulate sorghum Syrup.

DR.. S. ID. Philbrick, in the Des Moines
Register says there is no trouble in making
sugar If we neutralize the phosphoric acid
and destroy theglucose in the juice. He does
this by the use of soda. Four pounds of the
best super carbonate of soda will be sufficient
add this to enough juice to make barrel of
syrup. Put the syrup in long, shallow boxes
and set in a room of about seventy degrees
and granulation will be accomplished in two
or three DAYS.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

The sentence imposed upon Alexander Nicol-
aievitch on the 26th ohAugust, 1879, was executed
March 49, 1881. At last After two years of effort
and heavy sacrifice. work has been crowned
with success. Many times did we give notice to
the tyrant yet he continued pitiless This he
proved recently by the murder of our comrade
Kwiatkowski, who was hanged in the for sEess.
To the new Czar, Alexander Ill, we thus adj
dress ourselves: Russia can not remain in her
present state. She needs intellectual expansion
Evenly violator of the national Willis a national
emery, and the death of Alexander II. shows what
punishment attends this crime. We also address
ourselves to the society Of Russia and ask il 70,
the means of action in case we become obliged 70
engage in a struggle against Alexander III.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

Take the news home to- Mary ana tell her
that nay COugh has gone, and that a, twenty-
five cent bottle of DR.. Balls Cough Syrup
did il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

missioner. The Senate added an appropria-
ton of $500 to pay John l.. Hayes for his
report on sheep husbandry in the South,
published by resolution OF Congress
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
The Nihiiists and the New Car.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE CON
lCourrier das Flats Unis I

The last number OF the secret Russian
journal, the Narodnaia VOLTA, (Will OF the
People) has the following communication:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

Dali pain in the limbs, nausea, biliousness, ara.
symptoms Of approaching fever and ague. Use
without delay Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
substitutes for the chilly sensation a genial
warmth regulates the stomach, and imparts tone
10 the liver. The bowels, the stomach, and the
hillary gland being restored 10 a healthy condi-
non, the disease il conquered at the outset. For
sale by all druggists and dealers generally.