The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-24

Mr.. Moody's sermons have been translat
ed into Arabic.
The Wabash system now includes 2,47
miles of railroad.
Nearly 5000 immigrants landed in New
York during September.
A narrow-gauge railway is to be built from
DeadwoOd to the upper mining camps.
All the railroad lines between Chicago
and St. Louis now involved in the rival
~.
Horse flesh still forms one OF the staple
provisions of France. Last year / 982, 62C
pounds were consumed.
The total amount of grain shipped from
| New York the past ten months, Including
! flour, was III 600 900 bushels.
The accumulation of grain at Baltimore
has caused glut, and many outside build
ings have to be used for storage.
Several learned professors of the Kasan
University, Russia. are preparing to translate
Shakespeare into the Tartar language
When it was found last Tuesday that the
State credit party had carried Virginia the
State consols advanced at Richmond from
COZ to So.
There are 10000 more females than males
in Rhode Island. Now let woman exert her
strength and capture that little kingdom.
Libby Prison, at Richmond, in which Fed
eral soldiers were confined during the war,
has been sold for Sc, 275, to tobacco manu-
facturer of that city.
The Treasury Department has Just pur-
chased 515, 900 ounces of fine silver for deliv-
cry at the minis of Philadelphia, New Or
leans and San Francisco.
The enormous immigration of September
was increased during the month of October,
when it reached 30,697, the largest number
which ever arrived at the port of New York
in a single month. The grand total for the
ten months of the year is 2S5, 327. For the
corresponding period last year it was
1922
There are in the United States 727 paper
mills making 1900 tons a day OF all kinds
of paper. but the writing paper used is not
less than 200 tons daily, half of which is
manufactured at Holyoke.
1t is reported that in his next annual re-
port Secretary Sherman will refer exhaust
lively to the silver law, and will recommend
that the weight of the new silver dollar be
increased from 4121< to 425 grains.
Engraving on wood was practiced in China
many centuries before it was known in Eu-
rope; and whether Italy or Germany has
the better claim to the honor of the inven-
ton or of the earliest productions in this
line of art. remains an unsettled question,
the preponderance of evidence being rather
in favor of Germany.
The oldest specimen of pure glass having
anything like date is a little nodded lions
head, bearing the name of the Egyptian
King of the eleventh dynasty, in the Slade
collection of the British Museum. That is
to say, at period which may be moderately
placed at more than 1000 years ago b. c.,
glass was not only made but made with a
skill which shows that the art was nothing
new.
Out in the White Pine District stands the
City of Hamilton. In 1869 there were &c, 600
inhabitants there. Now there are less than
100 Great brick and stone blocks stand
tenantless, and rows of wooden buildings
are vacant. Every family has q whole block
to itself, or can have il it wants tn. A De-
troiter and his friend rode on horseback
through the deserted city and all the in
habitants turned out to see the wonderful
sight of real live man on q real live horse.