The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-12-29
GENERAL NOTES.
CHICAGO has 500 churches and $500 saloons.

AMERICAN deer have been sent TO Krupp OF
Essen, who wishes to acclimate them in Ger
many.
| II you ask the average man what time il 2
three seconds after he has restored his watch 10
his pocket, he can't tell you.
"wHAT is Henry Ward Beecher's business
asks the Cincinnati Enquirer. If we remember
correctly, the jury disagreed.
A SAN Francisco merchant says that he picks
up from six to a dozen pistol bullets on his fiat
roof every year, striking illustration of the
chance shots fired in the city.
A YOUNG lady recently presented her lover with
an deliberately constructed pen-wiper, and was
astonished the following Sunday to see him come
into church wearing it as a cravat.
ONO has telegraphed to President Hayes:
please do not appoint any more officers from
this State just at present. We would like to get
a quorum in the Legislature. renew York Her
aid.
THE subject for conversation at an evening en-
tertainment was the intelligence Of animals, par
| ticularly dogs. Smith says: There are dogs that
have more sense than their masters "Just so, -
responds young Fitznoodle. 1--WE got that kind
of dog myself.
BOB INGERsoLL read the following in the news
paper: Hundreds of SHARED sheep froze TO
death in Texas" and remarked that he didn't
see much OF that "tempering the wind business
clergymen often speak of. Bob probably thought
the saying about tempering the wind was from
the Bible. 1t is, however, from Sterne who
though a clergyman, was by no means q sacred
writer.
A HUSBAND of very fashionable and laxative
/ vii al fa.r dox- wifi
tie girl, when he met friend who admired the
child very much. at is beautiful child" said
the friend, land looks very much like its
mother Maybe So" responded the husband
father, "but l have never seen its mouth at rest
long enough to tell what it looks ke."-Galves
ton News.
| A LITTLE Canadina blind boy amused himself by
building miniature house inside of four ounce
vial. The house is OF wooded blocks glued to-
gether. The stopper of the bottle is large at the
top to prevent it from falling in, and on each side
of the other end of the stopper a small wooden peg
has been driven projecting into the side of the
bottle so that the stopper can not be removed II
/ is said to be curious and incomprehensible as
any japanese work.
Two hundred and fifty -four years ago Charles l.
| of England wrote to the Duke of Buckingham as
follows: II can say but litell yet, Yrelande
tIreland) being the onlie egg we have yet stten
upon, and having thike shell we have not yet
Matched it," This prompts the Toronto Globe to
remark that ever since the King wrote that letter
England has been sitting upon that egg and has
not yet Matched it," Mr. Gladstone is now in
charge Of the hen, and from present indications
he will be no more successful than his predeces-
sors have been The trouble, however is, and al
ways has been, more with the hen than with the
egg.
A PAINFUL incident is related by the Congre-
gationalst. well-dressed good-lookng woman
was walking along one of the principal streets of
Boston the other day, when the passers-by were
shocked TO see her stop, turn round upon two
poorly-cIad children behind her and swear at
them terribly, while they, poor, dismayed little
things fled from her in alarm into the street.
They did not seem TO belong to her. to have
provoked her in any way. and whether she was
insane, drunk or only sayagely angry was not APP
parent. But that she actually should have
cursed those little ones, and frightened them bru
tally from her, was fearful thing indeed,
vITRIoI throwing is still popular diversion In
the home life.of France. The Paris papers have
long accounts of one Of the most recent outrages
of this kind. An oyster dealer after serving a
large restaurant in the Champs Elysees. asked a
waitress to breakfast with him in the eating
room. They were at the table when a highly
excited woman who had been watching outside
burst in and reproached the man with having
abandoned her ard young child. He STAN
mered excuses. She took bottle out of her
pocket, and flung the contents at him and the
oyster girl They uttered piercing screams. The
waiter rushed forward and held the woman's
hand. She tried TO push him off, and in the
struggle fell. The vitriol remaining in the bottle
went over her face. The corrosive action was
frightful
THE Medical Record derives very little comfort
from the fact that, notwithstanding the wide
spread prevalence of both diphtheria and scarlet
fever the types of the diseases not unusually
severe at present Ii contends that this is by no
means a subject for congratulation at this early
season. in view of the reasonable possibility OF
the increase of both diseases during the winter
and spring. and the probable increase of their
malignancy. Very few physicians have lost so
per cent. of their cases thus far. Even 20 per
cent. would be very high figure Still, the
prospect of the continuance of this comparatively
low ratio of mortality is far from promising. At
least, the wise practitioner must be on his
guard, and do everything he can,
not only to treat promptly and efficiently all cases
in hand, but prevent their increase, Whatever
can be done by the physician to narrow the
chances of the spread of the contagion, lessons
the chances of mortality even i'm mild epidemies.
Concerning the spread of both dlphtheria and
scarlet fever, there are certain well-established
causes. Whether one can believe in this or that
theory of infection is not essentiol. The physi-
clan can always afford to be on the safe side by
giving his families the benefit of the doubt To
this end he should see to ii not only that the
houses properly ventilated, but that the
priyies, water-closets, drains and cellars are in
good condition. A personal inspection regarding
these points has often been rewarded by tracing
the causes of disastrous mortality In certain
houses that no special pleading is needed for it.
A knowledge of principles of good plumbing and
proper drainage is as essential to the physician
is that of any other preventive of disease.
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