The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-06
GENERAL NOTES.

Barber shops must be closed in Cleveland
on Sundays.
May FIske is lecturing in the West on
''What l Know About He'll"
ST. Louis has been taken in, socially and
financially by Captain Dalrymple Ding
valid of the British Army"
1t is quite wonderful how many things
there are in this world which you do not
want if you can only make yourself think
so.
Dr. Glenn, the largest wheat grower in
California, prOnounces the wheat profit so
small that he must seek diversity of culture
for his $4,000 acres.
Prince Bismarck says that Emile lola and
other French novelists are responsible for
the running away of his son Herbert with
another mans wife.
On its death bed, the Cory Daily Press
exclaimed: You might as well try to
drive a railroad spike with tack hammer
as to run nOnpariel newspaper in small
plea town.
1t is a very serious thing to break an old
friendship, for, like old china, it can never
be made quite whole again A broken
friendship may be soldered, but it will al
ways show the crack.
The leaders of Russian society in Paris
have decided upon observing three months
deep mourning, during which they will see
no company. The ladies are to wear coarse
black stuff dresses with very long square
trains, and long thick wells.
Cleveland has an ordinance against the
opening OF barber shops on Sunday; but a
Judge has decided that it can not be EN-
forced because an Ohio statute permits
necessary work. on Sunday, and he re-
CARDS shaving as that kind of work.
If the Nihilists really want to fetch the
new Car they should let bombs alone and
drop a banana-skin on the steps of the
Winter Palace. The next morning, when
Aleck rushes out to catch a street-car, there
will be a wild whOop, and the freedom of
Russia is assured.
Two peasants of San Reno, in the vicinity
of the fashionable gambling hell at Monte
Carlo, sold their entire earthly possessions
recently and staked the proceeds on the
green cloth. The dealer having raked in the
last cent, they went out and threw them
selves under the wheels of an express train,
and were killed.
There is nothing quite so absurd as a
hobby horse, and yet every man has larger
or smaller one in the family stable One
never attempts to ride il but he makes him
self ridiculous An illiterate preacher who,
among other falsehoodS, believed that men
are always right and women always wrong,
was wont 10 declare that the flVe foolish
virgins who had no oil in their lamps were
all women, while the five wise virgins were
all men.
The late Car of Russia was very steadfast
in his friendships and. unfortunately, his
friends were very greedy and corrupt set.
They were perpetually getting into debt, and
he was perpetuallv paying their debts. In
one case. having handed over large sum of
money to friend to free him from his cred
itOrs, he found that none of them had been
paid. On this he simply gave the same sum
TO a third nerson, and requested him to
settle with the creditors.
The cures which have been effected at
Knock; in Ireland, since the remarkable
vision of the Virgin, which occurred there
some months ago, are as wonderful as the
vision itself. Those who are undoubtedly
lame manage to hobble to the sacred spot,
and in many cases have left their crutches
and canes in the little chapel and gone home
with an BLASTING and springing gait, their
malady having somewhat disappeared.
Exactly what it is that occurs and exactly
how il occurs might be difficult to say.
Science puts on broad grin. as a matter of
course. when The story is told, and sceptic-
ism INDUCES in the luxury of a most cleo
quent and whitening sneer, and yet under
the mass of paltry and unreasoning super
stitiOn which always attaches to such
episodes there must be grain OF very curl