The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-11-10
GENERAL NOTES.

In the public schools of Cleveland, o., the
cost OF instruction per head is Sl5 5l.
The loss occasioned by the late typhoon at
Hong Kong is estimated at el, 100000.
Recent experiments have shown that
Texas is well adapted to the growth of the
grape.
The new elevator of the Wabash Company
in Toledo, o., the largest in the world, holds
100000 bushels of grain.
The endowment fund of $4,000, which
was being secured for the Central University
of Iowa, has been fully made up.
A petrified butterfly was found in a Du-
buque quarry the other day, and all the del
icate outlines as perfect asin life.
An apple, said to be the largest ever ri
pened in the United States, has been picked
in Nebraska. It weighs 29H ounces.
Six establishments, with an aggregate cap
ital OF s., SOC, 900, are manufacturing oil and
oil cake fromscotton seed in New Orleans.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
lately in session at Chicago, numbers 10000
members; or, according to another authority
100000, and its rate of increase is said to be
1000 a month.
The Paris Figaro says that $1,000 green
finches are blinded every year in France to
make them sing, and that this cruelty is
practiced generally by the little boys at the
primary schools.
In an article upon American watch manu-
featuring, a contemporary states that it rep
resents a capital of nearly S5,0O0,0Oo, and
that the annual production of watches in
this country is about 100000.
In Massachusetts S6,476, ,927 65 was raised
by taxation Tor public schools alone in ISL
~. Private contributions increase the sum
TO So $50 GOO, or go So for each school child in
the State. and 81 SO for each person in the
population.
In Egypt the school attendance is only II
per 1000 OF the entire population; or, taking
into account males only, strong prejudice
existing in all MahOmmedan countries
against the education of females, the proper
ton is 81 for LOCO.
The building for st. Augustana College,
Rock Island, H., is progressing. 1t will ac-
comrodate 100 students. The college was
fOuEded about IL years ago by six Lutheran
ministers. 1t has 100000 in funds and pos
sesses some real estate.
Delaware still remains without any State
supervision of schools, and in her two lower
counties some improvement is observable,
especially in methods of instruction and
provision for the education of colored chill
dren. There is no provision in the State law
for the education of these children.
A census lately completed by the local
authorities in Minnesota, gives $50 900 as
the present population of the State, and
rates the taxable value of property within
its borders at S217 900 G00-an average of a
fraction over 1898 TO each inhabitant.
1t is stated that an exceptionally large
group of spots is now visible on the surface
of the sun. They may be perceived with
smoked glass without the aid of telescope
According 20 Mr.. w. f. Denning, of Bristol
England, the spots cover an area of nearly
$1,000 miles.
In repairing the pavement OF the cathe-
dral at Rouen there has been discovered, in
the center of the nave, heart enclosed in
leaden box. NJ. Deville, the historian of the
tombs of the cathedral, thinks that the hear
may be tnat of Sibylla, wife of Robert III.
duke of Normandy.
The largest vessel ever constructed for the
freshwater lakes is now on the stocks in
ship-yald at Toledo. She is to be four
masted schooner, 2i5 feet long. 40 feet beam
Is feet hold, double decks, 800 tons dis
placement. Her carrying capacity is so, ,00(
bushels of wheat, and her cost will reacl
So, 900.
One of the large houses engaged in the pro
ductiCn Of ehromos in this country employ
acapital of s5O0,OOO $4,000 of which is repre-
sented in the shape of photographic stones
Twenty-Five printing presses are employet
to do the work of the establishment, Will
fifteen artists, one of whom receives $1,000
year, prepare the drawings.
An American millionaire has given al
order to Dresden for a dinner service. l
consists OF LOO pieces, into which 90 differ
ent shades and colors are introduced. Tn
plates and dishes for each course are of dii
ferent pattern, and in the center of eacl
plate is an enameled landscape, and on eacl
dish a COPY of some celebrated piece O
statuary. The cost is e1 900.
According TO an English journal, the diff
Guilty of removing hard putty from a win
dow sash can be obviated with great readi
ness by simply applying piece of heater
metal, such as a soldering-iron other sim
liar implement. When heated (but not red
hOt) the iron is to be passed slowly over tn
putty, thereby rendering the latter so sof
that it will part from the wood without an.
trouble.
Mr.. Beecher, speaking on the subject c
prayer the other day, said, in regard t
praying az stated times in the day: Yo
might as well be a soldier under the com
mand Of a martinez, and have to turn on
1or so many drills whether you liked or not
You might as well have to kiss your chil
dren punctually so many times a day, N
matter what your temper or preoccupations
NO; we want liberty, personality, breadth
variety IN prayer; little when you need
little, none when you want none.
The new Roman Catholic University Col
lege at Kensington, England, was opened O
the morning of October Is, in presence {