Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-24
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

/, The fashionable colors for the winter arc to
be red and yellow.
$3.50 900 worth a watch springs may be
produced from bar Of iron originally valued AZ
FIVE dollars.
The GoTernors Of all the Northern States
have appointed the 2ilh of this month as a day
OF thanksgiving
Eighteen clrgvmcn we're elected 10 the Leg
islsture Of Vermont What sheep their cOngre-
cations mus, be.
Robert Hall was once asked What he thought
o. an elegant sermon, which bad created great
sensation. Very fine. sir" he replied, "but
man oan't eat flowers"
There l. a story afoad sbroad. that the
illustrious diplomat Tslleyrsnd is the descend
ant OF family. who in the eighteenth century,
settled on the Penobscot river, in Maine.
An urchin. suffering from the application of
the birch, said Forty rods are said to be fur
long. know. better: let anybody get such a
licking as have had and he'll find out that one
rod makes an acher."
The Rev Dr. Coke preached sermon in
BROOKLYN the other day. in which he proposed
union Of Episcopsans. Presbyterians, Metho-
dists, MOravians and other sects. on the common
basis of the Nicene Greed.
Amos Green. Of Paris, III was arrested
in Cincinnati on Sunday evening by the militsry
authorities as a political prisoner Thus is the
second time Mr. Green has been arrested by the
Government authorities
The assessed valuation OF the taxable prop
erty of Albany County and City is S39 1874 AL i,
and this property is already pledged 10 liquidate
a debt Of $50 DAT 200 Thus it will be seen
that during Lincoln's Administration more than
half tho taxable property has been wiped out
The Sons Of Liberty who were arrested a
ieg months ago, aud ordered into the COnteder
ate lines by way of Memphis, returned to the
city yesterday. after long Imprisonment in one
of the military institutions on the Mississippi
! river All the Kentuckians, with the exception
of Judge Bullitt, are nov 10 the city. We did
not understand whether they are here on parole
or not-Louisville Journal.
The subject OF j universal language is now
exciting considerable attention in England. a
code Of symbols has been invented which Is de
clared iltallible The symbols are thirry-four in
number, and have been tried in most OF the
European and Oriental languages, Ii is said
that a person of common intelligence aud edu-
cation can learn them in few days study.
One New York publishing house runs forty
three steam presses Of the largest size. snd uses
an average Of "a ,675 reams of printing paper per
annum. equivalent to 100000 duedecimo vol
umes of 240 pages each, or $50 900 volumes OF
$50 pages each Another house in philadelphia
sells books annually to the amount of $4,000,
000 and the number OF pack geS they send out
of the city yearly is between II 900 and 200
The question of the origin of mint iuleps
recently agitatei in Virginia, and il was
r ascertained hat the idea vas conceived by an
editor who kissed pretty girl after she had
eaten some mint, and who was so much intoxi-
Gated with pleasure, that he devoted several
months in attempting 10 produce substitute, or
, counterfeit. which would approach the original
as nearly a. possible
The friends of emancipation predict great
results from the abolition of slavery in Mary
land On this subject the Washington Chronicle
remarks In the region of Maryland where
slaves have been lost 10 their planters by legisa
ton or enstments. there is disposition to sci
their real estate at low figure ProprietoTi
cannot readily adapt themselves to the free labor
system, aud therefore are desirous of exchanging
the present uncultvated field tor greenbacks
II is also understood at the Department of Ag
ricnlture that large numbers of the best class Of
German farmers stand ready to migrate TO Mary
, land and Virginia, when the war is over expect
ing in this latitude (which is favorable to>th,
raising of wines well corn 20 find une1
ampled returns for investments
Improved farms. with good buildings. etc. il
the immediate vicinity OF Washington or Balt
{ more bring large sums; it may be stated tha
others. less favorably situated and improved. sci
for twenty dollars per acre Probably improved
{ plantations NAV be bought for twenty thirty
dollars per in the lower counties, where thu
soil is diversified and suitable for planting OF
stock raising and particularly for the cultivation
, OF fruit and vegetables of ali kinds.