The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
CURRENT NOTES.

THERE are thirty UIIud Inen in New York who
sell newspapers most of whom own their own
stands and do good business,
THERE are 500 grls in New York who are copy
lists, type writers and stenOgraphers. They bid fair
to outnumber the school teachers.
CHOICE grapes are selling in California at 10 per
ton. An acre OF fair land there will produce six
tons. while fifteen 10 twenty per is not an
unusual crop.
YOUNG nurse in Denver confessed to a very sick
that she was to be her successor. Fatal
confession! The sick woman became so mad that
she got well
PICKING grapes for raisins has commenced through
out the Santa Anna Valley. in California. 1t is
timated that there will be about $1,000 boxes of
raisins made there this season.
FIREMAN, who poisoned some cold meat to
settle" dog. and then ate it with his luncheon
has got new and improved memory since the doc
tors succeeded in getting the meat back.
THE vast population, traffic and turmoil of the
worlds metropolis strikingly suggested by the
simple statement that 200 trains leave the railroad
stations of London every twenty-four hours.
BOB TooNBs furnishes another funny item for
the Atlanta Constitution. Some one asked him If
he thought the inspection OF fertilizers was pro.
"that can take a sack of sand and drak polecat
through it and fool the best inspector they've got"
1T doesn't pay to carry on a conversation with q
Judge when he is on the bench. John Kerwin,
Just after sentence in Albany to four years i'm
prisonment for grand larceny turned and shouted
at the Judge: 81 would like to murder you. 1
hope you will rot in your grave" The Judge gave
him another year.
about to swear a Jury. he opened a book which
supplied by the landlord of the tavern at which
the inquest was held, and discovered that instead
of the New Testament it was copy Of "Tristram
shandy." 1t was some time before copy of the
right book could be found.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman who had not been able
to stand upon her feet miraculously cured the
other day. A bad boy threw a mouse into the
room, and in less than eight seconds the invalid
bad hoped across the room on three chairs and
was standing on top of the bureau with her clothes
wrapped around her ankles.
EUGENE AYREs. of Milford, Pa, writes home to
his wife from an Iowa town that he is "penniless
and ashamed" The trouble with Eugene is that
he had petty quarrel with his vile two weeks
after marriage and thinking to spite her. he left for
parts unknown. She has sent him money to come
home with.
THERE is now q boat on the Thames which is
successfully propelled by electricity. The expense
about the same as that of steam but the conven-
fence is much greater. and there is heat
smoke or cinders That oil crieity is to be the mo-
tor of the future on the water as well as on the
land there is very little doubt.
THE sky-larks introduced into this country few
years ago by the pull iisher of the New York Sun
are multiplying and heading Southwark to escape
The rigor OF the Northern winters The sky-lark
religious bird. and mounts the heavens at early
dawn to sing the praises OF the Lord. Going sky
Iarking,p in the accepted Specification OF the term
means an altogether different thing.
Mrs. FURLoEG, of Westmoreland County, Viz
ginfa, who is In WASHINGTON on a visit. says she
owns the horse that J. Wilkes Booth rode after he
assassinated Lincoln. and on which he escaped to
Virginia. The horse. though twenty five years
DID, is very lively. 1t generally supposed that
Booth killed the horse he rode and left him in
swamp before he crossed the Potomac from Mary
land to Delaware, but Mrs. Furlong says this is
nCt 50.
THE Brooklyn N. W lady-Mrs Fagan-who
married the wealthy Oshkosh lumber man, S. l..
Paige has in press the story of her life, which will
shortly be issued. 1t is destined TO create sensa-
ton. Paige is chiefly known to fame by offering
IS. 900 for the rescue of his former wife from q
burning hotel and then refusing to pay the reward
and his recent disastrous failure for upward of
s., 700 600. He had always lived at Oshkosh, but
moved to Dubuque. Ia, shortly before his death.
six months ago.
THROUGHOUT the Empire of Morocco there are
villages where the eldest members of the adult
population follow professionally the pursuit of fat
ten young girls for the matrimonial market of Bar
barry. The Mooors, like the Turks. give decided
preference to "moonfaced' wives over lean ones.
and are more solicitous to the number of
pounds which their wives weigh than about the
stock of accomplishments which they possess. The
fattenipg process begins when the girl is about