The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPlGS-
Butter exports are increasing daily.
Berlin has 10, 900 social democrats
Delaware cowhides prisoners officially"
Our silver plated ware finds an increasing
sale in England.
A team was attacked by wolves few days
ago in Highway. Mimi.
Five of a family are immured In De Kalb,
Illinois, for stealing bees.
Four Hindoo women have been graduated
from the Madras Medical College.
The trouble in Scotland is showing itself
in serious fall in real estate in Edinburg.
There is cry for game protection in Mich
igan, where deer are slaughtered by the
wholesale.
The tide of Immigration to Texas from
Germany is said to be heavier this year than
ever before.
Ten thousand dollars IN bills was found
sewed in the dress of a woman who died in
Norton, Mass.
A broken legged Montana Indian. dislik-
ing the pain caused by the setting of the
bone, shot and killed the physician.
Mr.. Forbes letters from India cost the
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| are telegraphed to England at the rate of
S1.12 word.
A Silesian sculptor has enriched the town
hall of Konigshutte with bust of the emperor
| chiseled out of common coal. 1t is an ex-
| cellent likeness and well executed.
| The Boston police officer who drew S., 600
| in lottery hes been dismissed from the
| force, the commissioners refusing to wink at
his violation of the law in buying the ticket.
| In court at Bennington. VT. the defend
ant asked perm ssion to pray before opening
| his case. The judge said that it was not Gus
tomary, but as the plaintiff did not object
| the prayer was made.
The home of Herr August Wilhelmj is at
Biebrich on the Rhine, where his father
owns a number of large vineyards. The
elder Wilhelmj is said to be, after the en-
peror, the largest vineyard proprietor in
Germany.
A telegram from Ceara, in North Brazil,
reports that the deaths in the capital from
| small pox number six hundred daily. The
distress in the interior of the province is ap-
palling. The people are devouring carbon
and corpses.
/ There are at Logansport, Ind, according
| to the Chronicle, IS ex-preschers, Of whom
| four are carpenters and two lawyers, one is
! a blacksmith and the other a dead beat.
| what they owe"
The Galveston News says that lemons
brought to its office, grown by Mr.. Beats of
Dickson Bayou, lately, weighed liz ounces
| 1t has lately been found that the tide wa
| ter" district of Texas is unsurpassed for
/; raising oranges and lemons.
A seaman on the bark Pauline while on
the voyage to Tybee, fell from the topgallant
mast yard arm 10 the deck, distance of 80
| feet, and beyond a severe cash on the fore
head escaped unhurt and was able 10 dis
charge his customary duties.
William Michigan saw great deal of Mr..
| Robert Bonners great horse, Edwin Forrest,
early this season. and thinks him the fastest
| trotier in the world. He predicts if Mr.
! Bonner will give him trial over Fleetwood
Park next year, that he will trot the first
half mile of the track, which is very fast, in
one minute.
One of the most astonished boys of the
period lives in Roodout, New York. He
| had heard that powder would burn, and
wishing TO make the ire blaze he poured the
contents of his fathers powder horn upon
the GOALS He will not kindle any more
fires this winter for the flowers will come
| again before he receivers.
Satisfactory experiments have been made
with the electric light in Paris, during a
| night snow storm, and additional ones will
! follow when the next thick fog occurs, in
which gas will be of little or no avail. Should
the electric light render objects visible to
the distance OF even sixty or seventy feet, 1t
will be used henceforth at all the most pop
ulous points of the streets.
The long tunnel through solid rock to
carry water to Baltimore is being cut in
nineteen sections. the plan adopted being
to sink shafts to the proper level, and then
work in both directions The calculations
must be very exact in order to make the
headings meet precisely. Thus far the en-
gineers have been remarkably successful,
five sections being joined without foot's
deviation from straightness.
A veterinary surgeon in Virginia City,
Missouri, has removed from the side OF the
J Jaw of horse q hard and smooth stone about
! two inches long and one inch in diameter.
The material of which the stone was formed
appeared to be the same as is found in the
lucrustations on the tubes of boilers. 1t is
thought that a grain of barley pierced the
| skin of the horses mouth and imbedded
itself IN the flesh, and that the saliva then
deposited upon it limy matter. The stone il
as hard as marble, and the annular markings
are very distinct.
Names once prominent industry, ship
building, gives employment to constantly
decreasing number OF persons, not half the
work having been done IN the season jns
closing that was done in the previous year
Indeed only Ii ships were built IN the state
! and of the SO vessels constructed the average
tonnage was only 425, or, taking out the
ships, less than 300. The prospect is that
Less ship building will be done In 1879 thar
!. IN any single year IN the last 30.