The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-21
TABLE GOSSIP.

A short tragedy in four words: Boy, toy
pistol: lock-jaw; Heaven.
Hearts nay be attracted by assumed
qualities, but the affections are fixed only by
those which are real.'
Al recen. aristocrstic marriage In Eng.
gland several of the gentlemen wore plain
gold earrings. The dear thingsl
Brown bread and butter is now served
with raw oysters at commencement of din
ners given in imitation of the English
style.
1t would do the inmate of a poor-house
good to attend charity ball and see the
diamonds and good clothes that are worn by
others for their benefit.
The average duration of schools in Indi-
ana, last yesr2 was 1873 days. Only three
Counties fell below 100 days. Washington
and Orange each had ninety.nine, and
Brown ninety-four days. Union County
leads with les days.
"The sun should not set upon our anger,
neither should he rise upon our confidence.
I will not be revenged, and this / owe 10
my enemy; but 1 will remember, and
this owe to myself
The most popular building material now
employed in our cities is Scotch sandstone,
qusrried near Carlisle, Scotland. 1t has
fine grain DOS not scale, and is easy TO
work The Vanderbilt houses are of Indi-
ana limestone. Brown stone has fallen some.
what into disrepute. Our climate is very
severe on this material.
DR.. A. A. Julien, in a lecture before the
New York Academy of Sciences, Monday
evening, predicted that thousand years
hence, owing to the lack OF weather-resist-
ing qualities in stone, not single modern
building will be in existence. Even the
limestone piers of the Brooklyn bridge will
probably be affected by mollusks and
spodges.
The Italian Iag-pickers of New York
number about FIVE hundred, are possessed
of thorough esprit de corps, and earn
from few cents day up to 81. so, the lat
ter amount being rarely earned. The aver
age earnings are about So cents day
These Italians live very chesply, and it is
said that excepting those who have just
landed, all have bank accounts.
1t is narrated of the great sculptor Mich
ael Angelo, that when at work he wore
over his forehead, fastened on his arti,t's
cap, lighted candle, in order that no
shadow of himself might fall upon his
work. 1t was beautiful custom, and
spoke a more eloquent lesson than he knew
For the shadows that fall on our work, how
often they fall from Observation-Disclosures
Intelligencer.
Mr.. Ssrjeant Ballantine tells the story of
foreign Prince who complained to his
steward that bis horses looked thin. "The
corndesler will supply no more oats till he
is paid" said the steward. "Who will trust
us2" asked the Prince. After deep and
long consideration, the steward said that he
thought they still had credit with the pastry
cook. "Feed the horses upon tartsP' said
the Prince.
n. Y. Sun: Observers at Washington
have not failed to remark the habits of the
Senate, in one respect at least, are worse this
winter than they have been for years. 1t is
said that even New England has given way.
Will it become necessary for those senators
who still have the dignity of the body at
heart to draw up the form of pledge of
total abstinence and circulate it among their
erring brothers for signatures2
The divorce statistics of Maine for the
past five years give an unpleasant picture OF
home life in that State. There have been
AON@NN0
during the period in question, and thus
nearly five thousand persons have been re-
leased from the bonds which were assumed
with at least nominal solemnity. The ratio
is probably one divorce to ten marriages in
Maine. The ratio in Massachusetts, in 1879
was one to twenty-one.-Lsw Journal.
John Burroughs in the Critic contrasts
American and English woods to the advan-
tsge of the former. He says that the Eng.
lsh forests have no wood spirit, no wood
air, as with US; that they are rather fields
tbickly planted with trees and suggest
perpetual picnic" No one thinks of camp
ing out in the English woods. There is not
one purely wood voice or sound or odor.
Sour woods suggest new arts, new pleasures,
a new mode of life." They are another world;
they are woodsy.