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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25

A Series of Interesting Experiments
to Find the Amount of CarbOuic
Acid i'm the Air.
London Standard

London Standard.
Autumn has become so generally asso-
ciated with the recurrence of English
fogs that one does not have to look far
for an explanation as to their cause,
which may with pretty fair certainty be
generally attributed to the earth being
warmer than the air with which it is in
contact, so that by physical law vapor
is constantly passing into the air from
the surface of the moist ground, or from
the surface of the water by the silent
process of evaporation, and by reason OF
the cooler air the vapor near the surface
of the earth is rendered visible.
Another primary cause of fog is the
contact of different currents of air of
varying temperatures, by the informing
ling of which the vapor in the warmer
current, which was invisible, is rendered
visible by the mere process of being
cooled down. England is especially sub
ject to fogs, since the sea by which it is
bounded is, during the winter months,
warmer than the cool winds which so
often blow from off the Continent of
Europe, and when such winds are gentle
they pick up in visible form moisture
from the warmer surface with which
they come in contact.
For the most part London fogs are
generated on calm and clear nights, and
are associated with what, from purely
scientific sense, might be called the fin
est of weather, since the atmospheric
conditions which mostly favor the for
nation of fog in the metropolis belong
to that class technically known as anti
cyclonic, and with such conditions we
have high barometer readings, absence of
rain, and calm or light winds, and very
commonly a perfectly cloudless sky; in
deed, usually when London is wrapped
in one of its densest fogs in the suburbs,
or at all events, in the open country, the
most beautiful weather is prevailing.
Doubtless much yet remains to be
learned with respect to fOgs, and es-
pecially of the class usually termed dry
fogs, between which and certain cpl
denies there would seem to be an init
mate connection, which points very
strongly to the one as the cause of the
other.
DIR. Angus Smith, in the elaborate
series of experiments which he carried
out, shows that ten thousand volumes of
ordinary air, charged with ten volumes
of carbonic acid, when inhaled for half
an hour, had the effect of lowering the
pulse by two beats per minute, which
Is equivalent TO diminished circulation
of many gallons of blood per day. This
amount of carbonic acid is not exception
ally large for an ordinary dense fog in
London.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
POstmasters' Salaries.

There are about $4,000 postofices
in the United States. Two thousand
two hundred of these are so consider.
able as to be filled by the appointment
of the President; the others are filed
by the appointment Of the Postmaster
General. The salaries of the $4,000
pOstnasters vary greatly. Postmaster
Parson, of New York City, who is
a son-in-law, of ex-Postmaster General
James, gets $4,000 year. No other
postmaster gets as large salary. All the
"non-PresidentiaP postmasters arelpaid
upon the basis of business done at their
Offices This is determined, not by count
ing the stamps, nor by counting the
number of pieces handled, but by count
ing the number of stamps Cancelled. For
ty-seven postmasters receive 81 a year as
sa'ary; eleven receive twenty-five cents
a year; one receives nine cents; one six
cents, and one five cents a year. Post.
master Sloane, of Perilla, White Co.
Tenn, is the five cent man. He enjoys
the distinction of receiving the smallest
salary paid to any OF Uncle Sans civil
servants. In all we paw the postmasters
of the country about SIC, 900, 900 a year
SO, 10000 goes to the ''presidential"
Postmasters,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25

The Rev. f. ID. Neil, writing to the
the Episcopal Recorder regarding the
late Rev. X. NJ. Abercrombie, of Jersey
City, and his father, DIR. James Aber-
crombie, of Philadelphia, gives these
recollections:-On day, after the father
had reached fourscore years, the lately
deceased son took me into the study of
the aged man and showed me letter
which President George Washington
had written to his father, thanking him
for the loan of one of his manuscript
sermons. Washington and his wife were
regular attendants upon his ministry
while residing in Philadelphia.
The President was not communi
cant, Notwithstanding all the pretty
stories to the contrary, and after the
close of the sermon on sacramental Sun
DAYS had fallan into the habit of retiring
from the church, while his wife remained
and communed.
Upon one occasion DIR. Abercrombie
alluded to the unhappy tendency of the
example of those dignitied by age and
position turning their backs upon the
celebration of the Lords Supper. The
discourse arrested the attention of Wash
ington, and after that he never came to
church with his wife on communion
Sunday. DR.. Abercrombie, in a letter
which appears in the fifth volume of
Sprague's "Annals of the American Pull
Dit" mentions that he did not find fault
with the sermon, but respected the
preacher for his moral courage.
There is a story about Washington be-
ing found in the woods in winter time
in prayer by the owner of the house
which be used as his headquarters at
Valley Forge which would like to be
lieve were it not so improbable, and if it
had not been first put in print by the
eccentric and not very accurate EpiscO-
pal minister, Morgan l.. Weems.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25

Joaquin Mnler's New Orleans. lettsrl
These hundreds of miles of marsh and
mud are tropical grasses; the desolatiou
and solitude of the scene remind me Of
singulsrly good story told me by some
negroes in the cypress swamp, back from
the river and Gulf, up bayou, where
had gone to live alone with the blacks
and get at the bottom of their mode OF
life. And of all this, the coon hunts
and so on, shall write about later. But
the story refer to here is about the
white man only. | never heard OF 1t be-
fore. do not know that any one else
ever heard of it, / asked some white
people about it in the city, but 1t was
new TO them. And yet we must remem-
Der that many things transpired during
the war, many tragic and touching incl
dents that have no historian. Aud
these people down here, the Mexican
people, ignorant, too, at that time, as
compared to the people of the Eastern
states, never showed any like disposition
TO preserve their traditions and stories Of
the war. Maybe this was because they
were so hopelessly and entirely van
quished. Certain il Is, they would have
cherished many stories of yalor and dar-
ing that are now forgotten if they had
found favor with the God of war.
But this, in brief, is the black mems
story:
In pretty little village, since de-
stroyed, on boyou back from the river,
a great number of very old men had
been left by their sons and grandsons, in
this place of comfort and security, while
they went to the war Aud these old
men here, many of them veterans of
former wars, formed themselves into
regiment, made for themselves uniforms.
picked up old flint-lOck guns, even
mounted a rusty old cannon, and so pre-
pared to 60 to battle if ever the war came
within their reach.
Toward the close of the war some gum
boats came down the river, Smelling the
shore. The old men far back on the
bayou heard the sound Of cannon, and
gathering together, they set out with
their old muskets and rusty old canon To
try and reach the river over the old and
aoahuoneo SOAu'Ny AV"u eniousn WIG
cypress swamp.
The black men say they marched out
right merrily that hot day, shouting aud
bantering to encourage each other, the
dim fires of their old eyes burning with
desire of battle, although not one of
them was young enough or strong enough
to stand erect. And they never came
back any more.
Now, understand distinctly; do not
know whether there is word Of truth
in this story or not. give it just as
got it of the negroes. / tried to verify
the story. had them row me TO the
spot where the drowned-out village once
stood. They even pointed me out the
dim outline of the road through the
cypress woods.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25

cents per yard, while the new contract
price Is only 1887. That is quite q diff
ference, but besides the work is 20 be
measured in place instead of in the scow,
which will make the difference in cost
about one-half There is about one
eighth difference to the yard in measur-
ing in the scow and in place in favor of
the latter, for the materials is then pref
ty well settled. In dredging the /, 0OO,-
900 yards in the Washington channel
there will be a saving of some $50, 1000.
The work done last year was well done,
but tie contractors could not compete
with the new corners, their expenses be-
ing so much heavier. A few men can
work the hydraulic dredge aud accom-.
plish as much work as a big force of
men and a number of dredges working in
the old way.
"Of course / can't tell about future
contracts, but | understand that Benson
& Mckee, who have a right to use the
dredge under Col. Won Schmidt's pat.
ent, were preparing to build second
dredge in case they proved the successful
bidders in the contrast for dredging
one million yards in the Virginia chan
uel."
"How does the new dredge work?'
asked the reporter.
'1he material is pumped up through
suction-pipe twenty inches in diameter.
At the bottom of the river, near the pipe,
horizontal wheel, with three plows at
tached, loOsens the material. The sue
tion-pipe leads through powerful pump,
which forces water through the exit-pipe
at the rate of thirty feet per second, and
you can imagine that this would carry
along pretty stiff material. The exit.pipe
can be made of any length desired, and is
carried over pontoons TO the location
where the material is to be deposited.
when will the work under the new
contract be commenced"
"As soon as they can construct the
dredge, but | suppose that will be
very soon. The contract is to be com.
pleted by the lst of next September. As
it is, would be enabled TO make good
progress with the appropriation at my
disposal, but if there should be any more
contracts at anything like reasonable
terms, it will be all the better When the
estimates for the reclamation of the fats
were first made, they were placed at the
very lowest figures. 1t was even said that
the work could not possibly be done
within the estimate. Now, my great aim
is to bring the total cost within that esti-
mate, aud | am going to do it if it is pos
sible
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
COuldn.t Fit Him. aaA
New Orleans Times-Democrat.l

New Orleans Times Democrat
A negro, with nothing but a ragged
look and pair of big shoes to distinguish
him, entered Rube Hoffenst ems store at
New Orleans and asked to look at some
shoes.
"vst number do you vear?' inquired
Hofenstein.
Il don't 'zactly member" replied the
negro, "but it pears to me de number is
somewhat round fourteen" and he held
up broad, fat-looking foot, which shut
out the light from the door like screen.
"My gracious" exclaimed Hoffen-
stein as he gazed at the dimensions of the
negro's pedal extremity, "ef your feet
vas a couple uf inches longer, my trent,
dey would be a bair uf wings, I'm ven
Gabriel blays his drumpet all you would
hat to do is to work your feet und you
fys shust so good as little mocking
bird. My gracious, vat feet"
Look hyar," said the negro indignant
ly, 81 didn't come to dis store to be suit
ed. nebber talk bout anybody, and
amt gwine to low anybody to talk bout
me. God made dem feet, and 'pinted
me to tote 'em frew dis world, an you
amt got no right to find fault wild dem.
Foxes have mighty 'spisable ways desc
times, pears to NE"
mad, you know. If you see my broder's
feet vot vas in New Jersey: you don't
dink you vas nobody. Wy, if my broder
vas in New Orleans, und walk on his
hands in de summer dime, he nefer get
sdruck On the head init desun. His feet
would be dwice as much better as an UNI
brella. He vas brOud uf his feet, my
frient, und Everybody vot has been any
we're near him say dot dey vas his
strongest point"
al didn't come hyar to talk bout feet"
said the negro, 81 come fur de 'spress
purpose OBJ gettin' er pair OBJ shoes: if
you amt got any, say so, an I'm gwine
somewher else"
"Vait, my trent. Herman, come and
dake look at de shentleman's feet und
see if dere vas ANGLING in de store vot vii
fit him."
The clerk did as he was hidden, and
said there was not pair of shoes In the
house that was large enough.
eff you is all gwine to keep a shoe
store" said the negro in disgust, "why
don't you hab shoes on hand dat will fit
foxes"
"Vell, my trent" replied Hoffenstein,
Eve don't can afford to keep shoes in de
stock vat will Wit your feet. 1t would
pay US peter, you know, to put lid
und couple uf handles to desc kind uf
shoes, und sell dem for ledder trunks"
and with bland smile Hofenstein bow.
cd the negro out
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
KfS6inR.

Earl Lytton, ia the Nineteenth Century,
In one of the letters written by him
from England in the reign of Henry
VIII, Erasmus dwells with immense
relish on the English custom of kissing
ladies at first meeting them, and de.
scribes the custom as delightful, because
maidens as we'll as matrons kissed all
visitors both when they came and when
they went.
One of the courtesies appertaining to
this usage was that partners kissed at
the close of dance Thus the King in
Shakespeare's Henry WILL" (act l.,
scene w. when he sees Anne Bullen for
the first time and dances with her, says
to the lady as soon as the dance is
over
at were unmannery to take you out
And not to kiss you" Kisses her.
Manifestly this custom familiar to an
Elizabethan audience, is assumed, though
not expressly indicated, in the dancing
scene in "Romeo and Juliet" If we saw
all the partners kissing at the close of
the dance we should understand at once
that Romeo's kiss is not "unmannerly,~
as it certainly now appears to us.
1t may be objected that a modern
audience would be shocked by sHh an
unlimited and promiscuors quantity of
kissing. But l do not think that would
be the case if the business were properly
managed.
The dancing is of more or less stately
character. The general salute at the
end of it would be equally ceremonious.
The special character of Romeo's action
would then be felt in its right relation
to all that is going on around him. For
he has an express title to kiss Juliet,
since he is not recognized visitor, but
an intruder and an enemy. Neither can
he claim the privilege of a partner, for
he has not danced with her. But under
the cover of a prevailing usage, and the
general kissing that is going on all
around him, he approaches Juliet with
the devout reverence appropriate to her
assumed character, and Graves permission
10 pay a holy palmer's homage to the
shrine of his devotion. This is demand
ed by the spirit of the scene, which un-
der these conditions (but these only) be-
comes graceful aud poetic. The kissing
between all the partners at the end of
the dance leades naturally up to the kiss
ing between Romeo and Juliet; and in
stead ROmeo's first greeting of Juliet be-
ing marked by vulgar familiarity. it
takes the character of a peculiarly
deferential homage.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
The Whole Race I'm the Garden
Of Eden.
prof. Swing. /


We are all in the garden just as was
Adam, and before us as before him hangs
the fruit of good and evil. 1t is a pity
to charge upon Eve the follies of our
lives.
Poor mother of US all, she had sorrow
enough of her own; why must we lay up.
on her name any blame for our misfort-
unes? We are in the same garden where
she stood, and have exactly the power
she possessed of making the wiser choice.
We are equipped with full power to
choose the good or the evil.
1t is high time for us to conclude that
If Adam did badly in the Garden of
Eden we are at liberty to do better in
the same place. We all see the situa-
ton better than it was seen by the first
man. He felt that perhaps the forbid
den tree bore sweet, good fruit; We all
know that its fruit is the gall of bitter
ness.
1t Is OF no moment that our garden of
trial is not 5y the Euphrates. The little
spot of ground through which four
branches of a river spread out and COW
ers all the continents. and Adam and
Eve stand for the human race. We are
all in the inclosure, some SHINING aud
dying, others obeying the Almighty and
advancing to eternal ''f~.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25

The High and Low Of the Game OF
Getting Happily Married
LSan Franclsco ChronIeIe.


1t seems, from all that can be learned
from the fair sex, that Worth and his
compeers in Paris charges a round
100000 francs, say $4,000, to outfit
a young lady for the matrimonial yoy-
age.
For this she is equipped from top to
toe; everything is one of the best and in
the latest fashion. OF course this is not
the limit.
Ladies in Paris occasionally spend
25O, 900 francs for their trousseau, and
are heard to complain few weeks after
marriage, that they have nothing to wear.
But still, for $40, 900 it is possible to buy
a good many clothes for one little person.
This does not include gloves, or boots, or
stockings These last, nowadays, may be
made to cost anything, even if the wear
er does not fall i'll with the latest fashion
of wearing one red and one black stock
ing.
There is a popular actress, who is said
to possess 300 pairs of embroidered silk
stockings, worth anywhere from SO to
$50 a pair. Adding these and the price
of knicknacks to Worth's bill, the father
of fashionable girl can probably reckon
himself fortunate il he gets her off his
hands for less than $50, 600. He is not so
well off as the African chief, who de-
mands COW and pig for his daughters
sutton before he lets her 60. But then We
are not in Africa.
What, then, shall we do? Because
Worth is dear shall there be no more
marrying and giving In marriage? Be
cause stockings are expensive shall there
be no more cakes and ale? God forbid
When it comes to the point, how many
gowns does girl need to make man
happy?
Some one, with thoughtful concern
for the depressed condition of the mar
ket, has lately figured that lady in
good society, marrying a man in good
society and anxious TO do him credit by
her appearance, could equip herself COM
pletely for marriage for $1,000. This in
cluded handsom me wedding dress, with
regulation lace veil, etc., becoming
travelling dress, a fashionable calling cos
tune, home dress and all the under
clothing which fastidious but reasonable
young lady could need. Even with wheat
at 81 10 GENITAL, papa ought to be able
10 squeeze out $1,000.
And if he can't, it is better, as st.
Paul says, to marry than burn. The
theory of a trousseau is that the young
bridegroom shall not prematurely be put
to the expense of dresses for his bride
that it shall be broken on him gently
that she is delicate creature, requiring
clothing. But if few yards more or less
of silk and muslin are going to stand in
the way of true love we had better make
IA holocaust of the dry goods stores. 1t is
not the clothes man marries, after all,
but the contents of the clothes.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
AFTER THE QUARRf



Hush my pretty onei not yet
Wait little. only wait,
Other blue flowers are a. vet
As your eyes outside the gate,
He has shut foreyer-but
Is the gate forever shut.
Jus; young man IN the rain,
Saying the last timeo GOOD night"
Should he never come again,
Would the world BE ended quite,
Where would all these rOsebnds g0g
Where all these robins? DO you know:
But he will not comet Why. then,
Is no other within calf
There are men, and men. and men
And these men are brothers all;
Each sweet fault Of his you'll ind
Just a. sweet in all his kind.
None with eyes like h-si-O-ohi
In divIner ones did
Look, perhaps an hour ago
Whose2 Indeed, you must not cryl
ThOss thought of-are not free
To laugh down your tears, you see.
Voice like his was never heardi
No. but better ones, | vow;
Did you ever hear bird.
Listeni one u singing now;
And his gl0yes-his gloyes-ahl we'll.
There are gloves like his to sell
At the play tonight You'll see
In mock velvet eloaks, mock earls,
With mock -jeweled swords. that he
Were a clown by Now, those curls
Are the BARRIERS pride, say;
Do not cry for them, pray.
II no one should love your Why,
You can love some other still;
Philip Sidney, Shakespeare-aye,
Good King Arthur, IL you will,
Raphael-he was handsome. too
Love them one and ALL do.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
The Upright Man.
lCarl PretzeI's weekIy.l


To delineate the character of an up
right man, man of integrity, is a plain
one, and easily understood.
He is one who makes it his constant
rule to follow the road of duty, as his
conscience points out to him.
He is not guided merely by afecta.
tiOns, which may sometimes give the
color of virtue to loose and unstable
character.
The upright man is guided by fixed
principle OF mind, which determines him
to esteem nothing but what is honorable,
and to abhor whatever is base and un-
worthy in moral conduct.
Hence you find him ever the same,
at all times the trusty friend, the affect
tomato relation, the conscientious man
of business, and the public-spirited citi-
zen.
He assumes no borrowed appearance.
He seeks no mask to cover him, for he
acts no studied part; but he is in truth
what he appears to be, full of truth, can
dor and humanity.
In all pursuits, whether business or po-
litical, he knows no part but the fair and
direct one, and would much rather fail
of success than attain it by reproachful
means.
He never shows you a smiling counte-
nance while he meditates evil against
you in his heart.
he never praises you among your
friends and then joins in traducing you
among enemies
You will never find one part of his
character at variance with another.
In his manners he is simple and un-
affected; in all his proceedings open and
consistent
Such is the man of integrity.