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

M. Worth, the man-miIliner of Paris, has
great dislike for perfumes, and his employees
are prohibited from using scents or even
wearing flowers.
Georgia can beat Kansas on sheep stories,
and tells of fifteen sheep locked together by
cookie burrs. Kansas raises too much corn
to cultivate cookie burrs.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of General
Robert E. Lee, was given reception by old
soldiers at Louisville Monday evening. The
blue and the gray united in honoring the
soldiers daughter.
Private Dalzell, who is said to be poor and
broken In health, is trying to have his PEN
father, eighty-five years old, is in Washing
ton looking after the matter.
Irate Customer Cat bankrupt saIe(-See
here. both the shoes you sold me are alike
neither are right; they're both of them left
Won Failsky (consolingly)-Vell,m atam,
it's a cohld day.-California Maverick.
A young gentleman in town started for
Bridgeport yesterday afternoon. Previous
to his departure, and unknown to himself
one of his friends affixed a check inside his
coat, requesting ''When full, return to DAN
bury."-Danbury News.
The best way to stop the carrying of fire.
arms is suggested by the New Orleans Chris
tian Advocate. Everybody is to be allowed to
carry arms, but every pistol must be three
feet long and worn openly. Wearing short
pistols is to be punished by fine of 81, 1000.
The Pail Mall Gazette seems to have pleas
ing variety of disagreeable acqaintances. 1t
says that it knows the compositor that did
this: "Ls no thin toast. Who dnts the
armour, onas .e mho Bake sit the off, bah
bledone'!' 1t is good Sunday puzzle to find
out what he meant to do.
Albert and Maria Harris, colored, aged
respectively seventy-two and sixty-six years,
were reunited at Marshall, Mo-, Tuesday,
after a separation of thirty-Seven years.
They were slaves in Kentucky and were
separated when sold, never hearing of each
other until quite recently.
The language of sealing wax promises to
supplant that of flowers. Red wax must be
used for business only, black wax for mourn
ing, and blue to signify love. Five tintS of
blue are made to express all the gradations
of passion. Pink wax is for congratula-
tions, and white is for wedding and ball in
vitatioHs.
Justin E. Dow, principal of a Houston
school, was very thoroughly horsewhipped
by a man named Chew last week. Chew as
sertS that his sister, young girl who had
never been to public school, went to Dow
to be examined. Dow seated her between
two negresSes, and began the examination.
She got low mark, and Dow got licked.
Lady physicians in France are in high
spirits just now. One of their number, Mime.
Sarrante, has been appointed by NJ. Tur-
quet, the Under Secretary of State at the
Beaux Arts, to be one of the official physi-
clans attached to the National Opera House
| in Paris. Such distinction has never been
| gained by lady doctor in France before.
Wideawake Georgians who really want to
drink fire water almost always succeed in
satisfying their wants, Notwithstanding the
prohibition movement in that State. A
countryman rode into Athens the other day.
and soon his horse showed every symptom of
being very i'll. He lay down and rolled, and
seemed to be in pain. A doctor was called,
who gave a prescription that included a
quart of whisky. Having got his whisky,
| the Georgian spoke to the horse, which at
once jumped to his feet and made off with
| his master on his back.
Bishop OConnor, of Nebraska, says his
| diocese contains population of 100000, of
| whom about 10000 are Roman Catholics. Of
| these the Bohemians number 80 000 the
| Irish come next, and the remainder are Rus
| slams. Eighty-seven priests minister under
| him. There are seven religious orders of
] women in the diocese, In Omaha there is an
| endowed college under charge of the Jesults.
| The climate is fine and bracing. The Their
| mometer rarely reaches fifteen degrees below
zero in winter, and only occasionally passes
100 degrees in summer.
There has been more than the usual num-
Der of revivals of religion in Kansas this
winter, and one of them has been among
/ II
1 1t began in prayer meeting 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 their 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 hundred of the pupils
think that they have been converted, and on
| Sunday many of them were baptized, most
| of the clergymen of the city being present
and assisting.
King Milan's Queen is said to be the most
beautiful woman in Servia, and by this
charm, together with her decision of charac.
| ter she has completely established her do
| mlnion, not only over her husbands heart,
but over his actions likewise. If Queen Ma
| italia may lay claim to be the handsomest
| woman In Servia, King Milan is far from
| being the handsomest man there, or any
| where else. His head is round and large
too large for his body-his cheeks fiat and
| wide, with a small nose and a little mouth.
| When at school at Paris he was thought to
resemble Prince Napoleon, and considered
himself fiattered by being complimented on
the likeness.
Anderson H. Jones, colored man who
went to Liberia six months ago from Mis-
souri,, writes home from Brewersville, vii
lage fifteen miles from Monrovia, giving
some account of the country. He says that
there are no horses, no mules and no oxen in
the whole settlement All the farm work is
done with the hoe, the rake and the ak. He
says: 81 have been all over the settlement.
| and found the largest number of people in
a suffering condition for something to eat
| and something to wear. There isn't any
| doctor in this settlement-the settlement is
too poor to support one. Calico is 25 cents
per yard. A common laborer, when he can
get any work to do, is paid % cents per day.
Picked pork is Is cents per pound; shoulder
meat, 25 cents per pound. All the -four and
meat used here is imported from England
| and America COrnmeal is 10 cents per