The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-28


teeth were like ivory and cashmere bouquet
smell permeated the atmosphere surrounding
him."
GEORGE SELwrS was one day travelling by
coach when q persistent stranger kept annoying
him by polite questions. How are you now.
sir?' was the inquiry at brief interval AT length
selwyn, I'm order TO reply at once for all, said
'Sir, am very well, aud intend to remain SO all
the rest OF the Journey"
IN three of the principal Hospitals of Paris the
Sisters Of Charity. numbering about q hundred,
are at once to be replaced by ordinary male and
female attendants. This step has been forced
upon the administration of Public Assistance by
the Paris Municipal Council, who have made the
continuation OF their annual endowment of
100000 of francs conditional upon its execution
Mr.. J. p. BRADLEE. who owns large wooden
mills st Ballardvale Mass. supports at that place
free Public Library. ten-pin alley and temper
ance pool-room. He also maintains a Fire Engine
Company of fifty members, and every winter
furnishes funds for of public lectures and
entertainments These are held in han given
by him to the village and admission is always
free.
JUSTICE JOSEPH p. BRADLEY was In Paterson, N
J., on Sunday as the guest Of his son in-law
extensively circulated to the effect that Justice
Bradley was about to resign his seat on the su-
preme Bench in favor of Secretary Frelinghuysen,
versation and he said It the first time that he
had even heard of the report, and that it was ut
terly without foundation.
TIE Denver Inter-Ocean says: at isn't any o
our funeral, but the man Copplnger (ColoneD
AZ -
Washington, is not good man to have in the
family unless Miss Blaine feels disposed toward
missionary work. Colonel Coppinger is in the
regular army as Inspector General. He is bald
and gray, with pensbpng' for good whisky.
He has been making love TO all the mother. and
has chaperoned all the daughters at Fort Leven-
worth these many years back"
COMMITTEE to plan an industrial school at
Springfield, Mass. have decided to teach the rudi-
ments Of trades, and rot to turn out finished
mechanics. The desire is to give the boy knowl-
edge that will enable him to choose pursuit for
which he recognizes his own adaptabllity, So that
three or four years Of his life may not be wasted
after he leaves school in trying to determine how
he win earn his living, and finally drifting
through ignorance aud necessity into work where
manual labor, not brains, is needed.
YOUNG BRUEHLEE, of Cleveland, courted pref
ty fair maid whose magnifcence of dress attract
ed the attention Of persons cognizant of her lin
tied resources. Bruehler was q kmall-salaried
clerk in dry goods house. Goods, valuable silks
were continually disappearing from the stock in
the store. A detective connected these facts, ard
arrested Bruehler, and irf his room found large
quantities Of silks satins, ribbons laces and silk
hose, with which he doubtless would have de-
lighted the heart OF his lady love.
A GEORGIA woman who is the mother OF TWEEN
ty-one children. one day when storm com
ing up blew the horn for them to come in, and
stood and counted them as they entered. Some
how she made the number twenty-five. This
mystifed her, and she declared she couldn' re
member having but twenty-one- To satisfy her-
self she turned them all out in the storm and let
them IN one at time, and visitor keeping tally
as she recOunted them. There were but twenty
one, and the anxious dame felt relieved.
Advertisement In the TTanscontinental Ca
zette, at Nice, January 10: 'Notice-To whom it
may concern: Having visited the Leaning Tower
at Pisa, Italy am fully convinced thai the archi
tectural grandeur and beauty of this ancient and
colossal relict of past ages can be wonderfully
improved. hereby offer tocontract to put this
immense structure in a perpendicular position,
aud raise it to a level of the ground for the sum
of 5000 ESQ., the terms of payment aud time Of COM
pletion to be agreed upon, the time not to exceed
ninety days. Austin Savage, Yankee Engineer.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is toll man with large
frame, and 6 students stoop in his broad shout
ders He has large hands good-sized foot and
big head, which. on top, is destitute of hair
a baby's cheek. A twoinch fringe of hCe gray
locks surrounds this oasis of badness, fading |
away into the full white beard which covers the |
side and the lower part of his square intellectual
face. His forehead is broad and high, and his
bald spot back of it terminates in several blunt
cones at the crown. His eyes are steel gray, and
they shoot out at you from under heavy brows Of
bristling white. His nose is large and slightly in
clined 10 be Roman.
WHILE the cargo OF the Peninsular and ORR |
entail Compsny's steamship Malwa was being dis
charged at Calcutta few weeks ago one of the |
cases was accidentally broken open. The Custom |
House officer looked at the contents and promptly
them as indecent" and the case |
was conlscated and removed. When the officials |
came 10 examine the contents at their leisure |
they found several porcelain slabs, each contain.
ing a representation of nude female figure. and |
at the bottom Of the case, to their amszement, |
they found porcelain vase with the Viceroy's |
on one side of IL. The consignment |
Il turned out. for Lord Ripon, and the |
pictures were copies OF famous masterpieces |
They were forthwith dispatched to their destina-
ton.
THE Colored Baptist Church at Bristol Pa, has |
been stirred by a revival this winter. and many |
sheep have been gathered int the
fold. The flock Is leo By a shepherd who follows
the Baptist creed without deviation, and thinks |
that immersion is all the more eficacious when
the water is cold Last Sunday three men and
two women were plunged into the Delaware near
Bristol in the presence Of the congregation and OF
q noisy crowd of curious spectators. AS the
pastor stepped into the icy water he yelled to the
faulterers on the shore; IBIS am the sort Of self
sacrifice you oughter larn, and don't you forgit
IT," few weeks ago several converts were i'm
mersed through q hole in the ice. which was
thick enough to bear the congregation assembled
to witness the ceremony.
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The President and Its branch of Repub-
licanism seems to be "peteriDg'' out. A New