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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-11
LATEST FASHION FAos.
3477-Red-tape.
I41S-AuetiOn.

Monograms are now embossed on bon
bon boxes.
A good sized gold pen has thermom-
eter attached to its inner side.
A solemn owl mounted on plush shield
serves to conceal a whisk broom.
Even the ungainly hippopotamus, done
In bronze, is utilized as paper weight.
Plush and celluloid have met and united
in handsome writing table and toilet table
decorations.
A big kalsomine brush, with brass
handle and gold plush bristles, forms the
stand for clock.
An ink fount is in the shape of a cedar
pail, with brass hoops, clasped in the arms
OF diminutive monkey.
Waste paper baskets have appeared
embroidered in cOlors after the style seen
on scrim and drawn work.
A little engraved silver clip mounted on
a celluloid or ivory base is convenient
article for the writing desk.
Lovely cases for newspaper extracts are
made with outside covers OF painted Gel
luliod tied with ribbons and appropriately
lettered.
The scarlet tint of the lips is intensified
by wetting them with perfume, and when
that has dried touching them with cold
cream to soften them. This treatment
should not be applied very often, as the
delicate membrane of the lips may become
hard and dry.
Powder on the face shows less if applied
with bit of chamois rather than a puff,
or If a pun is used the powder should be
rubbed gently into the skin with kare's
foot or a small soft brush such as Is used
on babies heads.
Just why it is so much more shocking to
use bit of color on the cheeks than any
amount of powder on the face and arms
and shoulders is bit difficult to compre-
bend, but such seems to be the prevalent
opinion among conservative woman
Eyebrows are wonderfully improved bv
rubbing good brilliantine into them and
then cOaXing or training them into proper
curves with a fine-tooth comb or the fin
gers. The brilliantine does away with the
need OF the actor pencil as it darkens the
hair.
Some one wise in the arts suggests that
the appearance OF the neck aud arms is
always most pleasing in evening dress
when they have been sponged with per-
fumed tepid water, thoroughly dried, and
then bathed with lotion composed of
equal parts of glycerine and rose water.
While this is still damp a thick coating of
powder Is applied with puff and left on
until the last moment. If it is then
rubbed III thoroughly but gently the skin
will seem beautifully white, and all traces
of powder will have disappeared.
There was once famous lady who tint
ed her cheeks with mashed strawberries
washed off with milk, but the inexpensive
and easily obtained garden beet will give
the cheek as fair and natural bloom and
can in no sense be construed as rouge or
paint The homely vegetable is simply
J cut W tn a knife and lett to drain its juice
out for beauty's use. The liquid should
| be applied with a camel's hair brush and
| toned down after it dries with a coating of
powder. But the woman who uses it must
| have such artistic aspirations and nicely
of execution that even her most intimate
friends will never imagine that she is
"made up" or the whole process will result
| in disastrous failure.
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GLASS MADE BY LIGHTNING.
Tubes In the Sand That Tell the Diameter
az the Bolt.

Tubes I'm the Sand That Tell the Diameter
ofthe Bolt.
"Did you ever see the diameter of a light
! ming flash measured?" asked a geologist
of a Washington Star man. "Well here is
| the case which once enclosed n flash of
| lightning, fitting it exactly, so that you
can see Just how big it was. This is called
a 'fulgurite' or 'lightning-hole, and the
| material it is made of is glass. will tell
you how it was manufactured, though it
took only fraction OF second to turn
| it out.
"When bolt OF lightning strikes bed
! of sand it plunges downward into the sand
for a distance less or greater. Transforming
| simultaneously into glass the silica in the
material through which it passes. Thus.
by its great heat, it forms at once glass
| tube OF precisely its own size. Now and
| then such q tube, known as a 'fulgurite,
/ is found and dug up. Fulgurites have
| been followed into the sand by excavation
| for nearly thirty feet; they vary in in
terror diameter from the size of quill to
! three inches or more, according to the
| bore Of the fash.
"But fulgurites are not alone produced
in sand they are found also in solid rock,
| though very naturally of slight depth and
| frequently existing merely as a CLASSY
coating on the surface. Such fulgurites
occur in astonishing abundance on the
| summit of Little Arsrat in Armenia. The
rock is soft and so porous that blocks a
foot long can be obtained, perforated in all
directions by little tubes filed with bot
tle-green glass, formed from the fused
rock. There is a small specimen in the
National museum which has the appear
ance of having been bored by the teredo,
the holes made by the worm subsequently
| filed with glass.
''>ome wonderful fulgurites were found
by Humboldt on the high Nevada de
Toluca in Mexico. Masses OF the rock
were covered with thin layer OF green
glass. Its peculiar simmer in the sun
led Humboldt to ascend the PERCEPTIONS
| peak at the rick of his life"
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A BOYS OPINION OF CATS.
OTHER STORIES FoaYouNe PEOPLE
The Boy on Our Parma Black Cat With
Five Kietens-shs Deserves . Med
a. - JuveniliR - Some Very
Knotty Problems.

The cat lives in the house what time
she does not live over to Jones' barn. She
is real handy to throw stones at and to
null her tail and make her squawk. L
make our cat squawk ten or six times
every day, and the backs of my hands is
drawed out in lines like map, where her
foe-nails has got hitched.
If I had invented a cat should have
made her without them nails. Cats is
full of music. They have concerts every
night in our woodshed, and no tickets to
nav for. The rich and the poor alike are
welcome to hear 'em.
Cats live on mice and what cream and
beefsteak they can steal ont OF the pantry.
Sometimes they catch chickens, and that
makes the old hen mad, and the old wOm-
an that owns the chickens madden. And
she goes for the cat with broom, and the
cat climbs tree and sits there and lafs
at her, and goes to sleep and dreams she
is in a kitchen again, till it comes night,
and then she climbs down back end fust
and goes off to a concert to see the other
cats. Thomas cats has the best voices and
can sinS bass and tenor both at once. IL
Is nice to hear 'em, but when you sleep
alone and wake suddenly by hearing of
tsem there Is something or ruther that
makes feller's flesh creep and the cold
shfvers run down his backbone.
Cats can climb telegraph-poles and set
on the ridge-poles of four-story houses
without being dizzy headed, and they can
sleep with one eye open and lay awake
with both eyes shut, and they can walk
as soft as feather and they can run like
chain lightning. They don't like to swim,
and never do except it's an old cat that
you want to get rid of, and you do her up
! in bag with some bricks and throw her
into the mill-poud off the bridge, and
then she'll burst the bag and swim ashore
and kite for home, SOS to be there to well
come you when you sit there, SOS you
won't feel lonesome.
Cats like TO get on the spare bed, among
the shams and things, and paw 'em all
down into a nest, and they like to go to
sleep in your best coat. 1 expect they
enjoy the fun of hearing you swear the
next day when you brush it. should if
] was a cat.
Kittens is cats when they are first born
and there is an awful sight of 'em. They
keep coming right along withOul regard to
wind or weather.
They are dreadful cute and can unwind
more thread and tear up more fancy GIN
cracks that the girls make than any other
known animal.
1t ant lucky to kill a cat. 1 don't know
why. 1t is good luck to have one come to
Won If you keep her. You get rich right
away, or poor, forget which. Every cat
has nine lives, and they don't never die if
let alone unless they have fits, which most
of EN- has. A cat in fit will beat a whole
circus all to nothing, and the first thing
YOU know she'll come right out of it and
90 to eating milk just as il nothing had
happened.
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THE CAT MOTHER.
Her Manifestations of Devotion to Her IL
fer NJ

Her ManifestatsOns of Devotion to Her Lit.
ter OF Kittens.
One of the blacklist cats / ever saw was
Topsy, says a writer in the New York Her
ala, and she was cute as she was black.
When mice and rats were scarce around
the house and in the barn in which she
lived she had novel way of letting peo-
pie know that she was hungry.
First she would find a small piece of
wood and carry it in her mouth to her
young mistress. After dropping it at her
feet she usually made pretense of eating
IT, and then mewed so piteously that food
was soon forthcoming.
One day Topsy became the happy
mother of five black kittens. They were
born in big, empty feed-box in the barn.
Under her tender care they grew strong
and thriyed. Topsy's life was wrapped up
IN them. When they became large
enough to partake ofsolid food she brought
succulent, wee mice for them to eat and
each kitten got one daily.
i For ten days she pursued this practice,
until people wondered where Topsy found
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so many tid-bits for her darlings. Her
fidelity TO these little, black, animated
bundles of fur was touching, and it was
with pang of regret. that learned one
day that she had been robbed of her
young.
Singly and in pairs they were given
away TO admiring neighbors until none
We're left to receive the ministrations of
the young mother. Still, with pathetic
regularity, she continued to catch mice
and bring them to the big box. There
she dropped them in, one at time, until
each of the absent kittens had been pro-
vided for.
TOpsy never seemed to doubt that they
would return. Finally somebody nailed
the box cover down and Topsy could not
get inside, but for some days she visited
the spot and mewed most dismally. Then
she seemed TO become resigned to her
loss and once more became like her former
self.
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Jnvenitia.

"Now, Johnny" said papa, "who was
ADAM" "He was the man who discov-
cred the world" said Johnny.-Harper's
Bdzar.
at don't pay to be kind to pets" said
Johnny. II filed the goldfish globe up
with milk one day and the fish all died."
--Harper's Ba-ar
Tommy" said an anxious mother to
her boy, your uncle will be here TO din
ner today, and you must have your face
washed" Eyes, ma, but s'pOsen he don't
come. What then?"-Teoas Sytings.
Mr. Gazzam Ito his son)-"Well, hear
that Browns boy thrashed you soundly,
and that you took your punishment meek
w." Young Gazzam-"Took it, did L?
Not much! He gave it to me. "-Drdke's
Magazine.
Little johnnie Teacher. do the angels
wear any clothes?" Female Teacher
'No, Johnnie, they do not" Little john
nie-"They don't. Ell? Well, what do
they take off when they go in swimming"
-Teras SJit',gS
When Enos was a yOungster his uncle
one day drove q new span of mules into
the yard. As the children were standing
around admiring them one of the mules
suddenly gave vent to a most terrific bray.
The little fellow had never heard such
frightful sound before, and, badly scared,
ran screaming into the house. The next
day the mules were driven out again, but
EnOs refused to 90 near. and when asked
the reason he replied: us SO 'faid Uncle
David's mule will laugh at me again. =
VOice.
1t was IN a restaurant. A bright little
girl OF six or seven had Just finished her
1o.l. 1.
mother, the other her mothers friend.
The friend gave the little girl a small
parcel as they rose. "What is it?" asked
tie child. "a present for you, dear. 1
want you TO have it, but don't open it I'M
til you get home" "Well," piped the
child sweetly. in tones that brought smiles
TO the faces of a dozen hearers-"well, L
thank you very much, and I'm very
much obliged, although / don't know
whether it's peanut-shells or a thousand
dollars. Boston Transcript.
A friend of mine who has two bright
boys, about as smart and handsome as any
two boys in Newark, showed them for the
first time the other evening how their
names look in writing. He wrote their
names in chalk on a small blackboard.
Clyde is five years old and Willie is three.
They looked at the names on the board
very seriously for at least a minute Then
Willie, with an aggrieved look on his face,
pointed to the ~" in Clyde's name and
said: Il don't have no tail like that on
my name, papa Papa was for moment
puzzled what to say, but bright thought
struck him. He pointed to Willie's name,
saying: do you see those two IS with
the little dots over them? You have two
'i's" and Clyde has none" Wilhe's face
frightened, and no cried, clapping his
hands together: "Oh. yes; I've got two
eyes, and Clyde has only one tail."-N Y.
Star.
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DESERVES A MEDAL.
A Brave Little Girl Befriends au Ill
Treated Horse.

A Brave Little Girl Befriends an Ill
Treated Horse.
New York city was the scene of little
street drama lately, which the Sun thus
describes: A cart was delivering load
OF coal The willing horse tried his best
TO back the vehicle to the desired spot, but
even his great strength was not equal to
the task.
Then the driver began to beat the ami
NAL, and this quickly collected crowd.
He was big fellow with fierce look In
his eyes, and the bystanders were chary
about interfering, knowing what would
follow.
81 pity the horse, but don't want to get
into a row." remarked one.
I'm not in the least afraid to tackle
shim," put In young man with long
sneck, "but about the time get him down
Ialong will come a policeman and arrest
aus both"
The driver was beating the horse and
tnothing was being done about it, when a
pittle girl about eight years oldapproached
hand said:
( ''Please, mister"
swell, what yer want"
eff you'll only stop I'll get all the chill
Hren around here and we'll carry every bit
kof the coal to the manhOle and let YOU
FTest while we're doing it."
[ The man looked around in defiant
kway, but, meeting with only pleasant
Hooks, he began to give IN, and after a
Smoment he smiled and said:
"Mebbe he didn't deserve it, but Pm
bout of sorts today. There goes the whip,
land perhaps a lift on the wheels will help
him."
The crowd swarmed around the cart,
many hands helped to push, and the old
horse had the cart to the spot with one
effort
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SHE ALMOST SAW THE FIGHT.
The Denver woman I'm One of Tommy
Warren's Suits.

A New Orleans special says that some
thing of a sensation has been created in
aristocratic society by the rumor that one
of the leading bellies OF the Crescent City,
disguised in a suit of male attire, figured
among the spectators of Ithe recent Fitz-
simmons-Dempsey mill. Gossip has had
il that no less than five members of the
gentler sex witnessed the encounter from
points OF vantage on the tier of seats
which were open TO the general public on
presentation of ten-dollar ticket Of ad-
mission, but only one name has been
mentioned, and the relatives of this young
lady enter denial to the story.
Ii leaks out that the woman who man.
aged TO pass the outside guard and get az
far as one of the boxes, when her identity
of a prominent and extremely wealthy
citizen of Denver. Col, who at the time
was occupying luxurious suite OF rooms
at the st. Charles hotel. He knew moth
ing of his wifes intention, and was occu-
pying box on the other side of the ring
at the time OF the escapade. The natty
suit OF clothes that fitted her eXquisitely
formed figure like glove is said to have
been the property OF Tommy Warren, the
noted lightweight, and her chestnut
tresses were deity coiled on the top of her
head and there reposed in the recesses OF
jaunty silk tile
Had it not been for the few stray hairs
that had unloosened themselves and
fsllen down behind her ear, the disguise
would have been perfect, and the police
would never have pounced down upon
her in a hundred years. She was bailed
out late at night by Parson Davies of
Chicago, and there was an interesting
finale on the following morning when, ac-
companied by her husband, she drove to
the municipal court in close carriage.
The justice, on being appraised of her
presence, left the court room, descended
the steps to the sidewalk, poked his head
through the carriage window, heard the
fair defendant sWeetly murmur a plea of
guilty to the charge of violating the city
ordinances by masquerading, imposed the
usual fine, withdrew his head from the
window. substituted his hand, received
the cash, re-entered the court room, while
the carriage drove back to the hotel.
The lady most directly interested in the
affair does not propose to let her expert
ences deter her from endeavoring TO wit
ness some future mill, but acting on the
advice which is often rendered by slang
youths TO young damsels, she will frst
get her hair cut
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THE BOY ON OUR FARM.

The City Urohin Impressed By the Knowing
ness of the Country Lad.
The boy lives on our farm, esnot
Afeard of horses, nonei
An he can made 'em lOpe, er trot,
Er rack, err pace, er rum
Sometimes he drives two horses when
He comes 10 town an brings
A wagOnful o. Eaters Ben
An r0astin' an things.
Two horses is ga team, !" he says;
An, when you drive hitch,
The right un's a near horse, / guess,
Er "od"-I don't know which.
Ths boy lives farm, he told
Me, too, at he see,
By lookin' ~ their teeth, how old
A horse is, 70 att
I'D be the gladdest boy alive
IF knOwed much as that,
An could stand up like him an drive,
An just push back m hat.
Like he comes skaly hOotin' through
Our alley, with one arm
A-vavin' fare-ye-well TO you
The boy Lives our fArmI
JAMS WHIrcoAB Riley
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No. 3iS5-DIamond.
I Bitter SWIFT.

l. A letter q A military officers title (Abbr1
3. journal 4, 1heOrems 50 easy Of demonstrs-
ton as TO be almost self-evident. 8. Married. G.
One who surrenders. 2. A town OF India T. (Areh.l
An altar g. (Bot-1 Bristles. 10. An English
nOn-confOrmst and eminent Hebrew scholar. died
1915. IL. A letter. iEsPERUs.
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No. 34ss-Rhyming Answers.

NO. 54SS-Eshyfnlng AnsWors
An answer Is required for each line, and they al
rhyme.
am sound you often hear,
Most welcome to a hungry soul;
vretehed slave now appear;
some take me ere they reach the goal.
often many people hold,
Although bitter thing, tits true;
lam place where goods are sold,
A pleasing entertainment. too.
[CHAELEs /. HOUSTON.
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No. 34S2-NumericaI.

An old lady who did not like the works OF q GER
tain writer (but mostly from prejudice account OF
his life) exclai med; 81 not Whatever in
dnced |, to T. ., writing !, 2, B. I, s. lie was
no sort OF I, . 3, T." She would listen to no re-
monstrances from her grandchildren on the subject
but would silence them with this unanswerable ar
gument: "ChidreD, knew him when he boy"
ETHEL.
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No. s4s4-Decap,ta,,,p.

No. 34S+-Decapitation.
There last no ais Of earth,
Hearts void OF mirth.
But waits q reccmpense,
when we 60 henos.
We shall know perfect love
And rest, above;
And like troubled dream
Our past shall seem.
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No. 3487-Charade,

lEWa OFOt-OEWFHUta
A iesden sky hangs over head,
quiet hush pervadss the air.
Tho flowers are all faded and dead.
The forests are now drear and bare
The queen Of winter holds her sway.
The lasting Jirst will soon pile high,
Aud totals round us will soon be deep.
When winter winds around us sigh
We wish that We might always keep
The sunshine of q summer day.
fCOuyT LESS
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KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

FOUR readers are Invited to furnish original suis-
mAs, chsrsdes. riddles refuses. and other "Knotty
Problems" addressing all communications reativeto
this department 70 L Il ChAdbourn. Lewiston, Il. 7
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No. 34S1-The Worlds Fair-A Conundrum
Where will the next worlds fair be held2
Why, in Chicago, all will say.
Yes TIL admit that IL the place
Where that great show will be some day.
But there's another kind Of fair,
IT'S this worlds fair the girls 80 sweet.
Now tell me where they re held the most
On Sunday nights when them we meet?
CHARLES /. HoUsroN.
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THE AMERICAN FARMER.
Wonderful Offer-Read Quick Act Quick, For Here Is
Truly Big Bargain
The INDIANA STATE SENTINEL 81 per year
And the AMERICAN FARMER 81 per yea
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to come here and fight Fitzsimmons. If
he does, and does the Australian, he will
bankrupt the sporting men of this country.
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THE AMERICAN FARMER

published monthly
the wdthe DOLLAR PER YEAR
without ideas their minds
No well
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So. a4se-Trnn.po.itior

OF power first is an emblem, and of command,
It's held by none except kingly hand.
In our own country IL is never seen,
Aud mildly Il Is svayed By England's queen.
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lis what no people in a land that's free
Would tolerate, or even wish TO see.

No one would wish to a second dread,
thing some say they've seen without head.
1 doubt 1t much. though persons wise,
Pretend they've seen it, but no doubt their eyes
Deceive them, or else deluded fancy
Made them think they saw what no one can see.
rNEIsoNIAN.
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30. s47e-An Ob,erved Fact.
No. 34SO-Anagram.

"CAS REMEMBER"
There's day "a memory's care
Wholly beautiful and fair,
Wholly blest.
Never shall there come again.
One so free from care and pain,
Full of rest.
No days but the past are ours,
Happy he whose past hold flowers;
Blest the place
In his past where lives page
Which no future, 10 old age,
Can sGace.
TASIsE LASG.
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No. s4s3-synoopstion.

No. 34s3-Syncopation.
It Injuries fame
Bad thing is whols,
For IL 10 shame"
IL harms the soul.
Good thing Is last,
Quite unlike rhols:
II l. held fast
Beneath q sole.
INrIsoNfAr
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EMPLOYMENT

To men and women IN every town and county, -
represent me upon newly patented Household Spec
allties. Exclusive territory free. Liberal par.
W. Z. BENERlDdE, Baltimore. Nd
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Castoria.

"Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children"
d.. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the various quack nostru1ns which arc
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hl1rtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them 10 premature graves"
Dr.. J. T. 6NcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.