The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-10


Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
Helen Hunt-March.
All in the wild March morning heard the an
gels call:
1t was when the moon was setting. and the dark
The trees began to whisper and the winds began
to roll,
And in the wild March morning heard them
-Tennyson-The May Queen.
THE sEALsKIN TURNED oBT.
The sealskin sacque that erst with pride was worn
By ladies in the winter on the street,
Is now regarded with kind of scorn
By people who are known as the elite.
And there are folks who say the cause this is:
The handsome garments have become SO COM
You can not tell servant from her "missis,"
Or a wealthy lady from washerwoman.
Boston Courier.
In Searsport, Me-, are 131 sea Captains
one to every three voters.
No fewer than eleven ex-governors of Con-
necticut are living.
In China the flesh of rats, dried and sailed,
is deemed an excellent hair restorer.
The pastor of church at Uniontown, Pa,
has been compelled to resign because he
rode bicycle.
Tho last American slave was sold in Vir-
ginia in the spring of 1865 for hundred
head of cabbage plants.
The Danes are making their second inva-
sion of Ireland. This time they are selling
in Cork butter made in Denmark.
A Canadian recently wrote to President
Cleveland asking how much it would cost to
take out license to sell washing machines.
The deposits in the City Savings Fund at
4aI % ooIo - oek l.
1896, 1880, an increase during 1885 of
S2,066,797.
An enthusiastic indorser of whitewash in
each colored resident of the town who will
successfully apply a coat of the wash to his
premises.
Ouray, Colo, has Just invested 81 900 in a
novel hearse. 1t is said to be q very gor-
geous affair, but it's principal feature is a
speaking tube leading from the drivers seat
to the interior.
Twelve thousand heads of families have
filed upon homesteads in the Garden City
land district, in Kansas, that will have to be
on their land within six weeks or it will be
open for contest.
Judge Peterby said to his colored servant:
"You will have to quit. You attend to
your work very well, but I'm always miss
ing things about the house, and every time
it is you who takes them" BOSS, don't
send me off on dat account Hit mus be a
comfort ter yer, when yer missing anything,
to know where 1t am"
1t is related that two little girls in Maine
school recently called their teachers atten-
ton to mistake she had make in ranking
them too high, and in answer to her sur
prise at such rather unusual manifestation
of conscience explained by saying that they
had Just been attending revival meetings
held in the town.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
An old game was worked in Boston last
week on an old country couple, who sig
nailed a hack to carry them to place of
amusement less than a square off. They
were ignorant of the fact, however. The
driver took in the situation, and, after driv-
ing his charge about mile or so, fetched
up at the theater, demanded his fee, and de-
parted.
The people of the Congo have no concep'
ton of a God of any kind, and worship moth
ing. They believe in charms to keep off all
evils. They do not believe in sickness or
death as natural, and seek out the cause
when any one dies or is taken i'll. Many
persons are thus killed in punishment, and
were it not tor this the populace would in
crease very rapidly.
The etymology of many Americanisms is
impossible to discover. Boss is taken from
the Dutch "bass," or master. and is quite
legitimate. Boom" some clever person
says, is derived from the nautical phrase ito
boom out, " as applied to vessel tearing be-
| fore the wind; and the origin of blizzard" is
enveloped in obscurity, and "bulldoze" has
vanquished all the etymologists in turn.
There is an irreverent story which wa:
once current in books of American humor.'
1t is about an incautious traveller who ex
plored certain parts of Polynesia. The ma.
tives, not being acquainted with white men,
killed, cooked and ate him-not from cruel
| ty, but to see what kind of an animal he
/ was. 81 don't mind his being killed." said
| the friend of his bosom, commenting on the
| incident, 'but hate to think of his being
fooled away over darned experiment"
Writing to the London Times from Bava
ria, a correspondent likens the Bavarian
monarch to fairy prince, and his sudden
| appearance in the royal sleigh at night tC
scenes from fairy tales. AS the sleigh ap
| proaches sit looks like a golden swan with
| wings displayed. Within one may see the
| pale-faced King reclining on the richly EN-
/ broidered blue velvet cushions. The in
| terror is lighted by soft but brilliant cleo.
l trio light. 1t flashes by the wondering spec
tator, who has hardly time to notice the
i agraffe of brilliants which adorns the artists
hat of the King"
There has been more than the usual num
Der of revivals of religion in Kansas this
| winter and one of them has been among the
| young Indians in the school at Lawrence. II
began in prayer meeting organized volun
tarily by few of the young men. The in
terest grew, and soon another prayer meeting
was organized by the Cheyennes in the
| school who could not speak English. This
| melted the Osages to start a prayer meeting
where the services were conducted in theil
language. Then the young squaws must
have their meeting and now there are
four daily prayer meetings, and nearly every
pupil attends one and often more. Over 8
hundred of the pupils think they have beer
4 Qonvortad and IN Sundau many Of them