Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-19
All SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS

The annual income Of Erastus Coming. Of
New York, IS 1886. $50.
There are IS, 900 laundre.ses aud washer
women N Paris-all on strike
AT pic mic at Albany, Oh Wednesday, two
wooden-legged men ran race for s2S.
The hotel keepers at Boston have agreed to
reduce their rates Of charges hfsy cents day.
"A silver cradle has been presented to the
Lord Mayoress OF Liverpool for her infant.
What = man desires in his YOUTH says
Goethe. THAT be ~ill be have TO fullness In his
old age"
Rosa Bonheur, through the grea, price that
her paintings command, has be-ome one of the
richest women in Europe
Able Guette supports the Bishop of OK
ford's statement that there are seven hundred
and fifty interdicted Priests driving cabs in
Paris.
The President authorizes the announcement
that the White House will be open to the public
every day, Sunday excepted, between the hours
OF nine and three
The freedmen's schools at Richmond have
been closed, in consequence Of the hostility Of
the white inhabitants. and the apathy, or worse,
Of Gen. Halleck and the officers.
According to DR. James johnson, so 900.
600 of men smoke different kinds of tobacco;
400 900 smoke opium and its compound; 300 900
hemp and hasheesh; l00,0 600 betel. and 10000
the American plant cocoa.
The ST. Paul Press is "glad to state that the
bloodhound stock is on the rise handsome
fund has been subscribed, and an agent is about
to be sent South to procure the animals. They
are to be used in hunting Indians.
The demand for farm laborers and domes
tic servants in Canadais now greater than the
supply. The emigrants who arrive there from
Europe do not usually stay in Canada, but go to
Illinois and other Western States.
The Boston Courier says it is a singular
fact that the eldest son o: President Tyler was
" Bobby" the eldest son OF President Lincoln is
Bob" and the eldest son of President johnson
is Bob" too. Three Princes Roberts in q
quarter of q century.
The wettest place in the world is Cherra-
poor. situated in the Cossya hills. $50 miles
from Calcutta. The rainfall at that spot is up
wards of 600 inches in the year, or twenty times
that of the very moist climate of Western Ire
land
The proposal TO erect great hall and asy-
lum for Free Masons in New York. has at last
assumed tangible form. The sight OF the church
property, corner of Grand and Crosby streets,
has been purchased, aud the subscriptions for the
object now amount to about one hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars
Pho New York Journal Of Commerce de-
scribes the wonderful strawberries of Rev. DR..
S j. Prime, of the New York Observer, at
Dobb's Ferry, on the Hudson. One root was
taken at random, and on IL were found to be 1871
berries on the single plant Among the berries
picked during the day we're many SO large that
they could not be passed through a common nap
kin ring.
"A Hartford plumber has accidentally dis
covered that the smoke from a little charcoal
fire under a tree will suifocate hundreds of worms
upon it little sulphur placed on hot embers
answers the same purpose. A small green worm
about three quarters of an inch in length, which
has never been noticed in Hartford before, is de-
vastating the pear trees
"A deposit of savon de terre has been re-
Gently discovered in Sangerfed Oneida couuty,
New York Manufacturers of woolens who have
used il (snd are now using it) affirm that the
article il superior for fulling and securing pur-
poses to the best English fuller's earth. and pos
sesses valuable properties not contained in the
latter. 1t brightens and preserves the most deli
cate colors. and softens the cloth as no other
known article can.
"A certain official in certain New England
city. the locality of which shall not in any
way indicate recently determined to give a little
party. He was discussing with his wife the de-
tails of the supper. +" think we must have
some sardnes," said he " Sardines," said his
faithful and excellent spouse; ." yes, but never
quite understood what sardines were" % Why,
you know" replied the husband you've seen
EN-. A sardne is slice Of beef aoith piece Of
bread each side Of ~
The Fenians in Ireland are very active of
late in certain operations annoying and costly to
the Government. The chief of these is the Illicit
distillation of whisky, which is increasing with
alarming rapidity During the past year there
have been over 5000 cases brought under the
notice of the police; and if we estimate one case
in ten detected, there must be 30 600 stills in
operation--enough to supply potheen for for
midable army. When the American branch of
the society lands in Ireland they may look out
for warm welcome and plenty of crater.
- The Philadelphia Ledger has an opinion
from New Orleans gentleman. that the whole
South will be in starving condition in less than
one year from this date. He had made tour
OF one thousand miles through the cotton States,
and reports that nearly the whole of the cotton
land was under corn culture; for distance of
seven hundred miles there was not single cot
ton field anywhere to be seen. Nor was the corn
very promising in its appearance--the absence of
labor being painfully visible in the rank over
growth of weeds that appeared everywhere to get
the mastery over it,