The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-12

mode of compliment gratifying 70 the re-
cipieTt. but fraught with danger 10 the.
adorer, If she happens TO have other devoted
swains, and il not unfrequently happens
that duels are the result She being pre-erli-
nently tlie belle who can boast she greatest
number OF such encounters. Il
A sportsman attempted to fire Colts navy
revolver efter the first cartridge had Iogded
near the end OF the barrel for want of a
sufficient charge to drive i. out He kept on
shooting, not knowing whether the bullet
had escaped or not and the barrel finally
ripped open 1t was sawed in two Longitude
ina.iy. and inside were found fourteen bullets
wedged one into the other, and 50 tightly
compressed by the successive explosions that
some OF tn EN- looked like fiattened dies.
The total number of men in the Union
army in the rebellion was BOTS, 55S. THIS
includes colored troops and those drafted for
service, and is an aggregate of the troops fur
nished for all periods. from three months TO
three years standard. the whole number of
troops enlisted was 2, $40, 272. The losses, in
Guiding those .sho died of disease or in
prison, were 1886 on the Union side, and
1873 sd on the Confederate
Bishop Turner, a prominent colored
Georgian, urges the young men of his
race to seek homes in the Government lands
OF the West instead of clinging to the East
ern cities, and engaging In occupations too
often servile. He says: "You might take
the brightest young man in Georgia and let
him come out OF Harvard or Yale with a
diploma as large as a bed sheet, but after he
has blacked boots for three months at hotel
his manhood is gone for life"
A patriarchal couple named Ledger, who
have done much TO make up for shortcom-
ings of many of their countrymen and women
in repopulating France, are now living at
Rozoy- Belval in the Aisne. They have had
twenty-seven children, of whom twenty-five
are living and three are serving in the army
IN Tonquin The father and mother aged
respectively seventy-three and sixty-eight.
cultivate farm. aided by six other sons. OF
their twenty-seven children, twenty-one were
boys.
The term broken heart. as commonly APP
piled to death from excessive grief is not
vulgar error. but may arise from violent mus
cular exercise or strong mental emotions.
This affection was il is believed, first de-
scribed by Harvey: but since his day several
cases have been observed. Morgagni has re-
corded few examples. among them that of
George H.. OF England, who died suddenly
of this disease in lT60, and, what Is very Gu
rious, MOrgagni himself fell a victim 10 the
same malady.
A man of seyenty-nine and a woman of
about the same age were married recently in
the vicinity OF East Greenwich, II. |. The
couple are old lovers, having been engaged
to each other more than half a century ago.
but quarrel ensued and they separated.
Each, however, married, and has raised a
family. Death broke into both families, and
the old lovers were again free, which fact
having come 10 the ears of the groom, he
hunted no his early sweetheart, a meeting
was arranged for, and their marriage was the
result.
Techs marsh, in Nevada, is the most pro-
ductive borax field on the Pacific coast. Its
deposit covers ten square miles of surface,
and is said to include chemically pure COM
mon salt borax in three forms, sulphate of
soda and carbonate of soda. The basin of
Nevada in which il is situated is covered in
many parts with dry, effiorescent salts.
washed in course OF ages from the soda field
spar of the volcanic rocks and ridges of yell
low lava which cover the country for miles
The waters of the lakes are heavy. appear
like thin oil, smell like soap possess great
defensive qualities, are caustic as potash and
easily soporify.
1t is comfortable in these days of heat, to
read OF 50 cool place as Labrador" which
will be the subject of the leading illustrated
paper in the September Harper's. Mr.. c. III.
Farnham will tell the story of his cruise in
the canoe Allegro about that part of the
coast of Labrador on the Gulf of ST. Law
renee between the Saguenay and Belle Isle.
One of his curious adventures was his meet
ing with the County Courthouse afiost
on the bay-the yacht Ruby, in which the
Circuit Judge makes his yearly rounds. The
article will be fully illustrated from Mr.
FaTnham's sketches.