The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-10
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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superior instruction show improvement.
Ohio has 800 coal mines, from which
$1,000 men annually produce over 5000, 600
tons of coal.
New Mexico has organized an industrial
association, and will have her first exhibit
Iion next year.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake was
commenced "a years ago, and the walls are
now only IA feet above ground.
1t is said Lady Dixie left distinct direc-
tions in her will that her body was to be
burned "as a scientific experiment"
\ stock company with 500. 900 capital is
being organized to construct machine shops
in Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska.
We are told that "the smallest hair throws
a shadow" And so it does. 1t throws a
shadow over your appetite when you find it
in your victuals.
a Belgian has started an egg farm, near
Marietta, Ga. He has eight hundred hens
and fifty cocks. The business now yields
% 1000 eggs and :, 120 chickens per annum
The number of railroad accidents in the
United States for the year ending with Sep
TENDER was 9s7; the number of persons
killed was 2O1, and the number injured, $40.
81 am a son of Mars" proudly exclaimed
a West Point cadet at an evening party.
"Does your mar know you are Out?" asked
the young lady to whom he had just been
introduced.
It is less than fifty years ago since the
world began to build itself railways, and
now it has $4,000 geographical miles of them,
equal to a construction of two miles a day
since the beginning.
A new horticultural garden, fifteen acres
in extent, has just been opened in st. Peters
burg. It is under the patronage of the en-
peror, and will be used as a promenade both
winter and summer
Five drops of sulphuric acid in a tumbler
of water, to be taken in small doses at in
tervals, will cure diptheria by coagulating
the diptheFia membrape, which may then
be easily coughei up.
The Saturday Review declares that it is
next to impossible to obtain in a London
restaurant hat which can readily be OBJ
tanned in continental cities-a good lunch
con or breakfast thoroughly well served.
1t must, indeed, be dry in Kansas, if is be
true, as a local paper says, that "the suffer
ing catfish lies stranded on the blistering
bottom of its late happy home, waving his
tail in the crisp breeZes as a signal of dis
tress."
To diminish envy let us consider not what
Others possess, but what they enjoy; mere
riches may be the gift of lucky accident, or
blind chance, but happiness must be the re-
suit of prudent preference and rational de-
sign.-COlton.
a newly married couple in Connecticut
recently started out on the wedding tour &C
companied by a small sized two-year old in
fant, which they had hired for the purpose.
deluding the public into the belief that they
were old stagers.
Raoanf raDOrtS show that tho avarana rofa
of fire insurance in Prussia is 20 cents for
500, against 81 cents in the State of New
York. When we learn to build better, our
insurance in this country will be $50, 000, 900
agar cheaper.-Springfeld Republican.
A conspicuous article on exhibition at the
Cumberland, Maryland, fair is a mammoth
lump OF coal, which weighs 3, APO pounds net,
or sixty pounds more than a ton and a halt.
II was mined half a mile from the opening
of the mine, and perhaps one-fourth of a
mile from the surface.
Passenger traffic on the English railways
has recently undergone a great developA
ment. In 1870, the number of passengers
on the lines in England and Wales was
2S9,000,0OO. Last year it was 401 900, 900, and
the increase is chiefly due to the improved
condition of the working classes.
Mr.. Bsecher replies to an inquiry in the
Christian Union, as to whether he thinks
God enjoys praise, in this way: "We do not
think that God is pleased with the perfume
tory laudations OF long prayers, or anthems
executed without feeling, or that he would
be delighted by the insertion of his name in
the constitution of the United States. God
can not be praised by joint resolutions"
The discovery of immense beds of sulphur
in Iceland bids fair to make a material
change in the trade in that substance, the
italian mines, according TO recent accounts,
having become to a considerable degree ex-
hausted. An Englishmau MI. Locke, has pur-
chased six square miles in the region adjoin-
ing Lake Myvantn, in which are mountains
of almost solid sulphur, the yellow color of
which is visible at a great distance.
A correspondents of the Savannah CGa.)
Advertiser, writing from Atlanta Of the
fair, says: "a baby show is going on in
the hall beyond, where such incompetent,
unappreciative Judges as cid bachelors sit
in judgment on the merits OF twenty tiny
atoms of humanity. Such a funny little
show-babies in laces and blue ribbons-ba-
bies in soft wool and ~pink-babies in caps
and babies in bonnets-bald headed babies
black haired ~babies-babies with little soft
rings of yellow down on their small pates-
laughing babies-crying ~babies-cooing ba-
bies-babies sweet as great Jumps of white
-sugar-chubby brown babies worth their
weight in goldl"
Everybody is to be able to wear diamonds
now, as a process has been invented, we are