The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22
CURRENT NOTES.

or the class of thirty six who recently graduated
at Bowdoin College only two propose TO enter the
ministry.
SALVADOR convicts are chained in pairs, and are
sent out 10 seek work. II they not earn or beg
their food they must stsrve.
THE convicts in the Penitentiary at Laramie W.
T., are employed in making brick, and turn out on
an average 9O00 brick per week.
AJURY in London forbade a woman the admin
straton OF her own affairs, because OF the peculiar
bird-like formation OF her head which they be-
lieved was an indication of insanity.
THE people OF Klsgenfurt in Carinthia have wit
messed splendid solar halo. As usual the space
between the sun and the surrounding ring was
quite dark. The inner portion Of the ring was OF
a rose color, fading toward the outer circle into
pure white.
A WRITER 10 a London newspaper says that
after spending months among the poor OF the city.
he has come to the conclusion that large numbers
of them have hatred and ferocity toward wealth
and aristocracy which could not be surpassed by
any Russian Nihilist or French Communist
THE managing editor of the Cincinnati CONNER.
cial Gazette is undergoing a new experience. He
says "A man who's father for the first time never
feels so utterly helpless and wretchedly delightful
as he does when the nurse hands him a s0usl'ing
mite of humanity. bundled up in a blanket, and
tells him to hold it for moment
THE police of Toulouse. France, made descent
upon the house of grocer named Rouzoul, and
rescued from cellar man and his son in the last
stages OF starvation They were the brotherin -law
and nephew of Rouzoul, who hsd kept them in
durance while he sQuandered their fortune of s1O-
Oc0. They were found TO be entirely bereft OF
reason.
Two brothers near Wheeling W. Va, conspIred
10 ruin young girl. Que paid her marked atten-
ton and she accepted his effsr OF marriage The
brother personated a clergyman aud the marriage
took place. A few weeks later the fraud was ex-
posed the girl aud the arrest of the conspirators
followed. The alleged sutton got three years in
the Penitenrary. and the blgus clergyman was
fl. ed $500 aud costs
THE battleHag OF the Third Iowa Infantry.
which was captured before Atlanta by General Pat
Cleburn and presented by him TO Miss Laura }.
Massengale. then living near Columbus. Ga. has
been returned to the Acjutant General of Iowa
BIZ that lady's brother The flag was accidentally
found in chest where II had lain undisturbed
for twenty years. ana is back Just in time to
receive an ovation from the survivors OF the regi-
ment. who 20 hold eanion at Cedar Falls on
September II.
AT Charleroi Belgium, a young clerk of bank
there was arrested for having forged a check for
$1,000 An uncle, clerk in the same bank. was so
much affected by the event that he resolved to kill
himself, with his wife aud two children. They
fist tried to open their veins, and then TO suho-
cate themselves, and finally they dropped into
cistern. O0e of the children escaped and called
the neighbors. The wife was found dead, and her
daughter MORALLY wounded. while the man, who
was saved has since disappeared, and 1t is feared
that he has drowned himself.
THERE lies in the State House rotunda at Col
umbus, o., apiece of half-rotten oak log about
six feet long, In the centre of which stands still
more rotten piece of hickory elm tree, more than
a foot in diameter and about two feet high, on
which is a card bearing the inscription Flagstaff
OF 1898. Erected by General Anthony Wayne at
Fort Recovery. Ohio. where General st. Clair was
defeated in l79l." The upright pole was mortsed
into the log, which was buried in the ground. II
was found eight or nine feet under ground while
digging well on the site of the old fort, in 1876
ahd brought to Columbu, few days since to be
placed in the Relic Room.