The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-24
FNERALNEWS
and plate

Hon. S. s. Cox finds that the tariff on snuff
is fifty cents a pound.
There are only about a quarter of a million
school-teashers IN this county,
An official census of Japan shows a popu-
lation of thirty-three millions.
Brownlow .avors expansion. Expansion
oflntellect is what he needs most Boston
Herald.
The Philadelphia North American sums
up the fashionable situation: "False hair,
false teeth, false words, false everything"
Missouri thinks enough OF the train rob-
bers to offer two thousand dollars apiece for
them. They are cheap at that for hemp
stretchers.
The people of Minnesota are trying to
solve the fuel question. A commission Is to
be a~ppointedt to show farmers how to prepare
and use peat.
During a revival at Green Bay, a citizen is
reported to have arisen and asked to be for
given for having been a subscriber to the
Chicago Times for nineteen years.
The Hoosiers like work when it is dis.
guised as fun. The other day twenty of
them handled over thirty five cords of wood
to get at a rabbit, which escaped after ALL
New York Sun.
Sacramento and other California cities
complain that sheep raising is keeping back
their prosperity. Immense tracts, which
should be broken up into small farms and
planted with orchards and vineyards, are
used only for the raising of sheep.
1t is proposed to place in the holds of YES
sells, whose cargoes are liable to spontaneous
combustion, boxes filled with limestone
dust, into which pipes can convey dilute
%sulphuric acid. The carbonic acid gas set
free, being heavier than air, can easily be
retained in the hold of the vessel.
All a California editor has to do this cold
weather is to tantalize his Northern brother
by writing of the bright, warm sun, which
is now shining through bur Office window,
which WHITES dormant nature and makes
termination proceed apsce, as though it
were balmy spring, through field and grove
and thorny brake.
A careless Burlington Qowa) man recently
took a cinder from his Office stove and
theughtlessly tossed it out of a second story
window; and, the local paper says, it struck
a candidate for mayor, -four candidates for
city marshal, and twelve candidates for al
dermen. A large number OF candidates es-
capped the missile by running into doorways
and crawling under wagons; but the entire
supply of wagons and doors was far less
than the demand.
A remarkable relic of the past was recent
ly found near Valentine, Ireland, supposed
to have belonged to the Spanish Armada
wrecked near that spot. It is an instrument
for observing the altitude of the sun. When
discovered it was enclosed in q case. which
on being touched fell to pieces. The gradu-
atoms were very carefully and accurately
made, but there was no makers name OF
date. The instrument was of a most print
tive kind, being intended to be suspended
from the Observers thumb while he made
the observation, and no such instrument
have been used for the last $50 years OF
more.
There are about three hundred tow boa
daily moving in the harbor between New
York and Brooklyn and Jersey CITY. Their
average daily consumption of coal is three
tons each. This gives a total of nine hun.
dred tons daily, or about two hundred and
eighty thousand ton a year. About one
quarter of the original coal becomes refuse,
hence about seventy thousand tons are
yearly dumped into the rivers. The large
steamers throw in many thousand tons
more. The grounding of large vessels has
recently become of frequent occurrence In
the habor where danger has least been looked
J for by the pilots.