The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-19
EFT CETERA.

Queen Regent Christina is suffering with
a tumor, but is in no immediate danger
Statistics show that in counting a young
man is most likely to lose his self-control
when he's just holding his own.-Philadel-
phia Times.
The State university of Tennessee has
opened its doors to women, and the wo-
mems clubs are organizing to raise money
for womans building in the university
grounds.
Miss Helen Gould recently said in an
swer about her large expenditures on
charities: ITO be wealthy and not know
how to enjoy money is to be in a wretched
state"
A party of japanese mechanical and civil
engineers are in this country on an official
mission from their government to inspect
and report upon our breweries, our system
of sewerage and water works, and boiler
making.
Mr.. Asa Hefner. a Maryland farmer re-
siding near Sykesville, gave his guests
wheat bread at a 6 o'clock supper on Fri
day evening that was made from grain
that was growing in his field at IL o'clock
that morning.
Princess Maud is an inveterate punster
She inherits the love of quips and cranks
from her father. the prince of Wales. who
dearly loves joke. Princess Maud is
more like her father than any of the
prince of Wales children.
1t is reported that Elias B. Dunn, famil-
iarly known as Sergeant" and Farmer, -
may be the next chief of the weather
bureau, II Prof. Harrington shall resign.
Dunn has been connected with the service
for twenty years and has been In charge
of the New York station for ten years.
The way of the tax collector is stormy in
Kentucky. Mr.. Alonzo NJ. Caps. who I'M
dertook to perform that duty in Mullen
burg county, where he born, is de-
nounced by one of the papers there as
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold, and
warned against returning TO the county.
Prof. c. X. Jenness of Stanford uni
versity, who has been going about Cali
fornia to a limited extent as an amateur
vagabond to study the tramps, has come
to the conclusion that 1t is not chiefly
whisky that makes tramps, but "ineffici-
encv both inherited and deyeloped." In
other words, they are born tired.
The use of electricity to bake bread and
burn brick is among the most recent
adaptations of the wonderful fluid. In
both cases superior results said to be
obtained and the heat of a highly salts
factory character. The old dream of the
Greeks to the Middle Ages of one funda-
mental element or force or power in the
universe seems TO be approaching realiza-
ton to day in the modern giant we call
electricity.
Joaquin Miller remarked once upon a
time that the sweetest feature a woman
could have was red. pouting lips. There
upon a lady suggested that white, hand
some teeth added vastly to the beauty of
the lips, and she believed that If she had
TO choose between the two she would
choose the handsome teeth rather than
the handsome lips. "Pooh-pooh, madameP'
cried the poet; teeth are not to be kissed
Teeth are to grind up victuals; they are
slaves TO the stomach Lips are sacred to
love and to the sweetest pledges of love"
The Royal Academy rejected a portrait
Of Princess Beatrice, painted by a woman
artist. The custom is, when a picture is
sent marked by command of the
queen" to ascertain IL the royal authority
is really given, and If II is to accept the
picture good or bad. In way the
letter OF the secretary of the academy was
overlooked and when the mark was not
verified the picture was promptly rejected.
And the queen is angry-perhaps more sd
than she was years ago when certain
anonymous poetical efforts of hers were
rejected by a callous publisher with
thanks.