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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
OLD AGE.

Whist Is YOUTH bold gamesterl who stakes
sgaiusf Feie
A.e table OF swindlers in Church or IN State:
He filings b is last for fortune fame.
70 find one cheat and The other q name.
With dispeir IN his heart. and disdain in BIS eye
lie turns from he table. and turns but 10 die.
Hes toe eagle no more; he now envies the wren,
And pines fox the peace of threescore and ten.
When the sun pours the splendors of noon on our
eyes,
those splendors but veil the true pomp OF the
kkles:
It's but when ne sinks n the surges o. even,
That we see in It's grandeur the ster-strdded
Heaven.
The horizon OF fife thus gro rs clearer by years:
MsE Is freed from his fever Of hopes aud OF fears;
What was storm in the mountain is calm in the
glen.
And he ieels the true joys OF the threescOre and
ten.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

II is said that the wood on the north side
of tree will not warp as much as that from
the south side, and that if trees are sawed in
planes that run east and west, as the tree
stood, It viii warp less than il cut in the OPP
posite direction. However this may be, it is
certain that the tendency TO warp when
sawed into boards Is much greater in green
than in dry wood, and that the convex side
of the curve is always TO the heart. This
warping, due TO unequal shrinkags, aud to
the more open texture of the external por-
ton OF the tree is not found to occur in the
middle plank or board OF the log, excepting
as 1t may in slight degree reduce the breadth
This quality of not warping. which Is In
many cases absolutely indispensable for GER
tain uses. as, for example, in the sounding
beard of pianos is secured ia the case o.
spruce timber by hrst quartering the logs,
and then saving them with the angie down.
ws.d. Ii is then sawed into boards weary
nearly az right angles with the line OF
annual growth. and small strip must be
taken of to make the board square edged,
bat qualities OF stability and strength are Sc
cured that could 40 otherwise be had.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
She Thought She Would Change the Sub

She Thought She Would Change the Sub
iect.
Cisra-"I notice that tax is 20 be i'm.
posed upon all unmarried gentlemen in
France who have reached certain age.
What is that for George, dear?'
George who keeps himself informed on
current events -"Ihis tax, my love, has
been found necessary, owing to the growing
oecresse IN population"
Clara (thoughtfuily )-"Well, fail to see
how tax will remedy the matter"
George Ga little unessily Why-er-ycn
see that-er-rather than psy the tax they
will-er-marry. you know"
Clara (blushing and changing the sub iect)
II expect We will have q delightful time
OF the party, tomorrow evening. George,
DEAR
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Going Wrong.
TArkansaV Traveller. I

Black Dock, the proprietor OF the Gum
Flat brickysrd, is disappointed man. Dock
is . proud citizen-proud OF his social po
sition, and especially was he proud of his &C
complished daughter Tidy.
"Swar for de Lswd dot de social 'dition o.
dis country amt wuf er cent?" exclaimed
old Dock, in great wrath, as he hurried up
the street.
whats the matter, old man." asked the
Secretary of State.
BARS enuff de matter ter dribe or dull.
gent father inter de lunstic 'sylum. Nv
daughter Tidy hsb dun run of an married
de yaller Niger whut driv de mortar cart
Don't know whuts comin' ober de blamed
country. ALI de gals 10 marin below 'em
in ciety. De Ncrdern ladies is er msrryin'
hack-drivers, an de 6udern ladies is runnin'
way Wild men what dribes carts. Awful
tribsllatiou gwins ter o,me on dis lam"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Sweetheart Nell.

Sweetheart Nell, i We Mt to whisper
Something tender IN your ear;
Something and not the roses
Or the liste ming robins hear"
Never mind the rose or robin:
II you've something nice 10 tell.
Take girls advice and tell It,"
Answered laughing sweetheart Nell.
"Listen. then; / love you. darling.
More than any words can say.
II I'D make you understand Ii
/ must find some other way.
Love must find better language
Than mere spoken words to tell
Al its passion, all its longing"
Find II them" laughed sweetheart Nell.
sI have often thought that kisses
Were the language Of the heart,
when lover to his maiden
Would his tend'rest thoughts impart
could make you know in kisses
What in words csn not tel"
"Tben II I were you I'd do II.
Laughed bewitching sweetheart Nell.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

They were lunching one day,
In handsome cafe,
And she happened TO say,
AS she noticed the way
That he and ice cream were in unity,
''Can You eat ice cream with impunityr
And he made the reply,
With a wink of the eye.
mo, but can with q spoon"
But her triumph came soon;
AS they left the saloon.
He gave her good opportunity;
and now, Bessie, dear,
AS the weather is clear,
Can you take walk with tmpunityf"
Her smile was as bright as the moon,
And deiiciously shy
Came the mocking reply,
mo, but csn with q spoon"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
What the Republican rouu,:.

Jubilant Democrat to Republican, who is
not 30 iubilsnt- Hello, old fellow. Glad to
see you back so soon from that Salt River
trip How did you End the country up
there?
Republican-Barren, barren, nothing but
bsTrenness. The banks OF the stream are as
naked as the vaults OF the Treasury were in
1861, when the Democrats went out Of
power.
Democrat collapses-
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Very Soothing Sermons i.

A popular minister was asked the other
day how it wss DC ssible ,or him to preach q
new sermon every Sunday year after year
end To find something new to saw. Doesn't
il give on q great deal Of thought and
trouble?"
oh. no." was the reply. "Ips mere mat
ter of habit. My sermons have never kept
me awake five minutes"
''Ahi" said the other; THAT, then, is proba
bly, the reason why they don't keep other
people awake, either
The ensuing silence ives both chilling aud
embarrassing. Some peopls never know
when it is inadvis able to joke.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

An Amateurs Maiden Effort.
In the cleaning. oh. my darling"
So she sang one autumn day.
While her soul was filed with gladuess,
While her heart was young and gay.
an the cleaning. oh, my darling
On q lonely winters night
We were watching as her spirit
In sad silence took it's figat.
sIn the cleaning. oh, my darling"
When the wind Is sObOing low,
can feel your presence near me
Gently come and gently go.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Not Posted ON Swallow Tails.
Through Mail.

Through Mail
A countrymsn who has not been remark
able for the frequency of his attendance
upon fashionable blow outs, was present at
the soiree given by the Chicago Quartette
the other evening. The full dress of the vo-
calists struck him as being very peculiar,
and he was not slow in giving his opinion
OF the claw-hamtner coats worn by them.
Say" said he to his nearest neighbor. so
loud every body in the hall could hear every
word. THE Teller that done that orter be
bucked and gagged
Did whatr'
"Sheared off the corners o. them feller's
coat tails. They're nice coats, too-must q
coat nine or thirteen dollars"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
alwnxs a River to Gross.

There's always river to cross:
Always an effort TO make
II there's anything good 20 win,
Any rich prize 10 take;
Yonders the fruit we crave,
YOnder's the cnarming scene;
Bat deep and wide. with q troubled tide.
Is the river that lies between.
For rOugher the way that we take
The stouter the heart and the nerve.
The stones in our path we break,
nor e'ef from our impulse s9erve.
For the glory ve.hope 10 win
Our lsbors we count ne loss;
IT'S folly TO pause aud murmur be cause
OF the river we have to cross.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
The Gypsy Legend.

fHsrper's Masazine.l
An English gy psy tod Bir. Charles q. lie.
land the reason for using evergrsens on
Christmas 1t IS this:
The Ivy and holly aud pine-tree never
old word where eur Savior was hiding
himself. and so they keep alive all winter,
and look green all tbs year. Bat the ash,
like the cak. told of Hin wnen He was mid
ing, so they have ~ remain dead through
the winter. And so We gypsies ways burn
sn ash fire every Great Day.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
ssRum, Romanism ard Rebellion"
TWsshington Letter.

A distinguished ex-confederate officer
now q resident of Washington. used to drink
q great deal in bis wild and gilded youth.
He reformed and is now a sober business
man. He married the other day promi-
nent society lady who is devoted Roman
Catholic. The groom in speaking OF his
marriage said to one of his club friends: 81
have tried Rum and Rebellion. | an now
going in tor Romenism."
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Eve Defended by . southern Lady.

Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Merriweather that
always determined champion OF the rights
of her sex, takes 10 the cudgel against Tai.
mage on behalf Of Eve, her principal argu-
a jury would convict her of eating the apple.
II Mrs MerTiwesther will pardon the ex-
pre- ssiop, we will state that we regard this
as something of a stumper We wait Aux
iously to sea how Brother Taimage will
cone up on the second round.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Hoy Old. the, Trees Grow.
A.. iRoSson Heralr.1

The enlfnent botanist, De Candolle, gave
the age al an elm Tree at $50 years. The
ages of same palms have been set down a.
from 600 to zoo years, that OF an olive tree
at 700 years, that Of palm tree at 720, OF a
cedar st 500, of an oak at 100. of yew at
$50, OF taxodium at 600 and of baobeb
tree at 8, 600.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
TriHed with His Eyes.

TITLED with HIS Eyes,
"Hello. what's the matter with your
eyesY'
formulated lids"
How did you get it?'
well, you sea my eyes have been little
weak lately and the doctor cautioned me
against straining or exposing them. / took
in the sAdemiess Eden show and this is the
re ult Of my imprudence.n
1T will be q good Lesson One can not be
too care full of his health
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Jones 1reaIed

Jones was playing billiards 81 declare, :"
he said, addressing rimmins, who was iooK.
ing on, 'the more play the worse play. -
You've PLAYED q great deal, haven't
your asked Timmins, quietly. Jones
treated
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
For Late Corners.

A New Hampshire shoemaker makes
sQueaby shoes to order. and has all the work
be can do. They are ordered by men who
have pews near the pulpit aud plan to come
in late.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Fest Beyond.

= ar away, beyond lies restless fever,
There Is peace and rest;
Ana the sun shines on Undimmes forever,
In that home so blest.
Il the hopes that here are chilled aud blighted,
hind fruItion tOere:
With the loved OF other years united,
We are done with care.
Lila n, Cushrnsn.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
surerstitions Al,ont shoes.

superstftions About shoes.
Tip at ST the toe: live to see woe:
Wear at tire side: live TO be = bride;
Wear AZ the ball: live 80 spend all.
hear al the heel: live to save deal"
liza young lady wishes to dream of her 40
sent love she has only to dispose of her shoes
in the following manner:
"Hoping this night my true love to see.
place my shoes ia the form OF T."
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
A Family Diary.
rspr,ngaeld H5nes,esd

lsprlngfeld Homestesd.l
The diary which we command is book 10
which the affairs of the whole e ally are
succinctly recorded. Appoint one OF the
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

That Grover Cleveland fs TO be the next Pred
dent and that 100, 900 Office h0stsrs win sufs
render their positions 70 the party coming into
power. Fun informrtion how TO prcceef 10 op-
lain an Office or position ~ Government employ.
seBg postpaid on receipt O. &c.
HkDE s Co. AUGUSTA. NAME
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Front ana Back Pew.

Do you know Mrs, e.. no sits IN the pew,
That lady in black just in front OF your
She's a lovely person: for many year
She's been in our church a member here.
No, don't know her. ! We often thought,
AS time after time her eve I've caught,
] should like 10 know her, but you see,
No one has yet introduced her to me.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

DO yoH know Mrs. A., VINO sits in the pew,
(Witn her husband and childl right back OF your
They are strangers among Us, recently come:
j would like TO have them feel quite at home;
No; we have bowed to each other but that is all
OF our acquain lance that recall;
But I've often thought how glad should be
To speak, IL she'd only speak first to me-
john Z. Goodwin.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
RETIRED FROM POLITICS.

Why a Citizen of Wyoming Decided 1t Was
Not Healthy to Discuss the Political Sit
uation.
A politician and quiet-looking per-
SON sat at table in the Griswold House
dining-room, last night. The politician
turned to the unassuming stranger and
asked:
What do you think of the political
situation?''
81 have retired from politics. | never
discuss it any more
RETIRED? May ask when?''
lyon may. / was out in Wyoming
. month ago, and dozen cowboys and
myself were attempting to discuss the
merits of the National candidates.
touched upon the brilliant war record of
Logan, when cow puncher six feet
five interrupted me by saying that it
was lie; Logan never saw battle; be
was horse-thief up in the Laramie
country.
You denied it, of course. =
The modest gentleman laid down his
knife and fork, took a long draught of
coffee, wiped his mouth, and then gaz-
ing long and earnestly at the politician,
replied:
stranger, if you should ever talk
pol tics to gentleman in Wyoming
with a very strong aroma of bovine
about his person, and he should assert
that Arthur and Jesse James played
poker together, or that Brigham Young
anil Henry Ward Beecher ran on a
Presidential ticket in 1860, just agree
with nj and turn the conversation in
% other channels. Stranger, am go
NJ back to Wyoming. That's why
am out o. politics. Detroit Journal
Red hair is considered the most
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
"Old Isaacs. :.


.sOld Isaacsn is well-known disor-
derly character of New York, who
spends most of his time in prison. The
other day he received a ten days SEN
tence, and the next one called was a
pretty and well-dressed girl of about
eighteen. Drunk was the charge
against her. The girls tears failed to
soften the judge, and the customary
sentence of So was awarded Neither
she nor her companion had the money,
and the court officers were leading her
away sobbing as if her heart world
break when "Old Isaacs shambled up
to the clerks desk. and diving into his
inner vest pocket. drew forth dirt-be-
grimed wallet. from which he took a
carefully folded bill. laid If down on tie
desk, and said in half whisper.
There's the fine for her, jerking his
thumb toward the girl She's too
pretty to go to jail, and had dangh-
ter like her once Then, shambling
back, he took his place in the lire
again.-N. X. Times.
The barnyard is. the field for winter
work. Manure saved is manure made.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
THE GHouLS. BELL.

Ger the tombs OF plous people.
In a quaint and ancient steeple,
4 haunted belli 4
And ghouls do the knelling; .sses
And people tell
When the winter blast is swelling ~
Around each humble dwelling,
Or the summer sun is shining
Ger the tender vines enfwinings
How spirits dwell
And claim the ancient steeple as their own
And they tremble when the tone
OF the bell
Like the angry wind doth moan,
Like q grieving soul doth groan,
Thro' the dell
And they cross themselves, the people.
When they gaze upon the steeple-
And the bell,
Tie haunted beIll
And at midnight when it's swaying
The people tell
Their beads, and keep on praying,
A plea for mercy saying:
And they hear the ghoulish laughter
Ringing from each dusky rafter
And In each hollow knelIi
They hear the Erl king mutter,
And his mdledictions utter,
And they swell
On the dusky folds of night, -
With the speed of elfish might,
ThFo' the dell!
And the simple village people,
And the quaint and ancient steepIe,
And the bell,
The haunted belll
That ghouls are ringing,
Still do dwell,
Where the fiowery vine is swinging,
Where the tender buds are springing.
Where beauty is in hiding
Meath the German skies a biding,
And the knell
Echoes DER an azure river
Where the golden sunbeams quiyer.
And the smell
Where the violet pale reposes
Near the open hearted roses
Fills the dell
Alfred Ensign.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06

Red hair is considered the most
beautiful in Turkey.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06

The barnyard is the field for winter
work. Manure saved is manure made.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06

"A curious question of jurisdiction
has risen in the case of the sunken Brit
ish frigate Hussar, which is said to have
gone down somewhere about 1880 in
Long Island Sound with $4,000, 900 of
gold on board. Recently the Secretary
of the Treasury transferred tho contract
of raising the wreck from New York
man to a Providence firm, the Govern
ment to receive all relics and ten per
cent. of the money recovered, and now
it is claimed than the State of New York
owns the alleged sunken treasure and
that the National Government has no
rioht to meddle with it.-N. z Nail
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
VOLCANIC RELICS.
Curious Natural Formations to he Seen II
Northwestern New Mexico.

Curious Natural Formations to He Seen In
Northwestern New Mexico.
During the past summer Captain G.
E. Dutton, of the geological survey, has
been studying some remarkable relics
of ancient volcanic action in the north
western portion of New Mexico. They
consist of a multitude of needle-like
peaks rising out of the broad valley
bottoms to attitudes varying from | 900
to 2,200 feet. They are called CHM
neys by the residents. They are COM
posed of black basaltic lava, having a
beautiful columnar structure like the
basalt of the Giants causeway. They
are remnants of lava which once rose
up out of the earth through the strata
and CONCEALED in the volcanic pipes or
vents. In later periods the strata which
inclosed them have been dissolved away
and removed by the general erosion of
the country. leaving these basaltic cores
projecting many hundreds of feet in the
air, as casts of the volcanic pipes or pas
sages through which the ancient towers
rose to the surface. The proof of this
origin is conclusive. Around the val
leys in which they stand rise lofty ta-
bles or plateaus known in the west as
mesas. These are capped with heavy
sheets of basalt, and beneath them are
the stratfied sandstones and shales of
the western coal fields. In the walls
and upon the slopes of these mesas may
be seen many of those chimneys in
every stage of partial disinterment,
some nearly excayated, some half dis
entombed, and some just beginning to
appear, as the mesa walls still have
remnants of the old cinder cones upon
their SUBMITS, while from those which
are wholly or in the greatest part exca-
waited all traces of the cinder cones
have disappeared. Thus the yeritable
roots of the ancient volcanoes are un-
earthed and laid open to the inspection
of the geologist. The locality where
these volcanic ''necks'' (for this is the
technical name given them by geol-
ogists) are seen lies along the eastern
flank of Mount Taylor, one of the great
extinct volcanoes of the west. Ii is
about sixty miles west of Rio Grande,
and seventy miles northwest of Albu-
querque. Boston transcript
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-18

Newourgh. There District Attorney An.
cnohy nad him examined BY two pbvsi-
elans. Miss Stewart also testified TO De
LanePs actions in following her, and ON
Tue report OF the physicians County
Suoge Brown committed him to the
MIoaletoWn Insane Asylum. Shortly
'slter"ard he was transferred to the asy-
lum on Wards island.
a haoeas corpus proceeding. referred
70 eX-Ju Judge Henry r. Davies, was drop-
Peu, out revived by Coudert Brothers.
Wno appeared for De Laret at the request
Oh the French Consul. The Frenchman
was declared by commission to be in
sane, and was sent home to France as a
chanee of being cured. For some time
nothlng was heard from him. Then let
ters came to Miss Stewart from France
ana ne reappeared In the city and annoy-
ca her. He was sent to Wards Island
Asylum again.
In October, 1881, he climbed through a
WINDOW OF the hospital and swan to a
small boat anchored in Little He'll Gate.
he remained in it for some days, and then
sot TO the mainland, though it was re-
ported that he had been drowned.
De Lanet Is also known by the name of
Earnest de Lacour.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-18
MAJOR MAoNEILL AS A SPY.
How MandaIay's FOrtiications were
6ketched.
From Me L0ndon TrnlA.

from tfte ksofOofb fruths
Among the wounded notice the name
OF Major Macneill; but / am glad to find
that ne is not seriously hurt, for the SER
vices of this officer must be Of great i'm
portance just now on the staff Of Gen.
Prendergast. His former visit to Man
dalay was under slightly different cir
cumstances. When at simla, some few
years age, as one Of the staff Of the In
telligence Branch, his special department
was Burmah. At that time-as, indeed,
we have more or less for the last 10 years
1--WE were expecting row with Thee
baw, and Major Macneill, who, by the
way, is an excellent photographer, de-
cided togo 10 the heart OF the country for
his data, the accounts received being
widely divergent. Accordingly, as the
Burmese officials were far from friendly
he passed the frontier, and appeared NJ
Mandalay as "Mr. MacDelll, photograph
err He was viewed with some suspiclOn
but eventually secured a small shanty on
the outskirts Of the capital, la which he
was jealOusly allowed 20 carry on his
adopted profession. During the day he
photographed ambitious Burmese bellies
Tor small sum, and be preserves as
mennonite very fine collection, the wom-
en- being decidedly well-fayored, and their
costume very quaint though not quite
likely 70 meet the views OF one Of our
bishops. In the early morning what more
natural, In sucn climate. than that he
should take a constitutional, and Ia that
way, by the aid Of a prismatie compass,
and by what Sandhurst cadets call shoot
ing a few angles, he, In few months,
made a complete plan OF the defenoes Of
the toHu
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-18
The Sun Reporter as a Democratic
Member of Congress.
From fhs Cincinnati hHqu'rer.


The smallest member Of the House OF
Representatives is Truman A. Merriman,
of New York. He was for years capa-
bic reporter on the Sun. During the
Presidential campaign he was generally
about the National Democratic Commit
lee headquarters. Merriman's nomina-
ton came 70 him very much as surprise.
the wings Of Democracy were torn up,
and the newspaper men aided Merriman
10 a nomination. He was IN three
sorr,ered 6ght and wan. Mr.. Merriman
Re hut little more than feet, aadof small,
atfenuoted frame. HIS head is well de-
welcomed. and seemingly oat Of sorts with
his snare body. He 10 not unlike Jay
Could in facial features, having a restless
black eve aud black moustashe and
whiskers. He dresses with exceeding
care. and has a captivating, eonhomie
manner.