The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-31
CURIOUS COSDESs irIOSs.
The Cream OF InterestiDE Incidents Con-
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Washington varies from 200 to 80 miles
from north 10 south. and is breadth is about
SOD miles IL is one and a half times as
large as New York and Pennsylvania
curious fact of the census is that Ala
bama has $3.50 native mothers whose nus
bands are OF foreign birth. The mothers OF
foreign birth with native husbands are 1, 49,
while with both parents foreign born, there
are - 26S.
A negro woman in Henderson County. KY,
gave birth 10 4 mOnstrosity one day last
week. in the shape of q half human, half
ape. From the waist mp ii was a perfectly
formed ape while the lower extremities
were human in every Particular. IL was born
dead.
A young Michigan lover had a quarrel with
his sweetheart, who was also his cousin. To
get even with her lie proposed to her mother
"a widow OF forty, twenty-one years his elder,
and his aunt by marriage. She accepted him,
and the twO ere married to the great dis
comiture Of the girl.
The number OF years that a student has to
spend al a medical institution before obtain
ing a degree i: In Sweden, 10: Norway, :;
Denmark. =. Belgium, Holland, Italy and
Switzerland. 8. Russia, Portugal, Austria and
Hungary =. France, England and Canada,
A United states, . or .; Spain.
Mrs. G.idset Kelly has died in New York at
the az al IU3. She was Irish, and III the
revolution, OF l79S she minded the beacon fire
on Granite Hill aud melted lead for bullets
Tor the oniy blunderbuss in possession OF tue
insurgest- Her mother lived to be los, and
and her father rs, and an uncle died ia his
chair st the are Of ll5, after having done
good days work.
The Omaha Indians have curious custom.
When the father dies the mother loses all
rights in the children. Every child, unless
Il les TOD trnn fhE
mother, AID will 90 into tile family OF some
one of the father relatives, and may nc
claimed a. one of his own by the mail head
>)f the family. This separation Of the ether
and her offspring Is permanent
4 merchant al Beaver, Utah, who went
down iuto the Territory on business lately,
fOunU * difficult To get place TO eat or
sleep ara iOGnd that an order had gone out
from 10. fOrbiJding the saints to entertain
Gentiles ~ FOR years it had been found Tat
when saint With drove OF young wives
took one OF the ungOdly under his ROOF lac
had always lost one o. them.
A Willmautie factory girl wrote her name
and her address and her desire TO be married
ON a nice little note, which she placed inside
the band OF a nat she had just finished. Her
father Sought the hat On his way home
that evening he paused at plastering house
where they were plastering and obtained
lath. As the noyeliSts say. we will draw
The Santa Rosa (Cal.) papers report that 4
farmer some wears ago bad a lot of pumPkins
washed away By freshet down rayinc,and
Tor a number of wears the pumpkins were
observed " here the water had lodged them,
but hO One had ever thought they had turned
TO stone. until the other daya man attempted
to pick one them up, when he discovered
that il WAS very heavy, and had turned TO
stone About fifty more We're in the same
condition.
A Young man from Texas married girl in
North Carolina and then proposed to leave
her while he worked his way back to his
Texas hOn,r in the hope of there earning some
money to send for her. she said, however
that she preferred 10 accompany him on
foot They therefore made their journey OF
900 miles a tramps, but their good appear
ance gained Tor them considerable help along
the way. aud for the last fifty miles they rode
triumphauiiy in a carriage provided by an
enthusiastic admirer OF their pluck.
singular yerification of the old proverb
about guilty concience needing no accuser
was brought to light in New York the ether
day ia the case OF Albert Strittmatter a
young cie-i>. who forged the signature of his
employer 10 checks TO supply himself with
money. 4 detective. who was looking for a
man WhOm StEittmatter greatly reScmbled,
arrested St-ittmatter. The clerks guilty
cOuScieucc suggested only one reason
tectiye All about his fOrgerie>.
The WOmens department in the BOSi IN
Fair has created surprise among those who
think that women can not invent Some OF
the ContTivaGceS are ingenious. \ Calior-
MIA woman hss devised table bedstead.
There are double piano stool, bride rim
an improved chimney, birch bark life pre-
server yentilating screen life-size doll
babies, carpet Stretcher. hOOrclinging Il ist-
pans, kidney cures and stove hampers, n
photograph album, pan greaSer. a lock
against burglars, and an autumn leaf catch
er for ciSIernS
The Island Pond VT Herald tells the sub
Joined Among the parties oil divorce cases
heard at tie recent term Of our County
Court was couple who had been engaged in
an irresistible conflict of months and so bit
ter were they that they would not speak one
10 the other But as soon as the decree of
CivOrce was made and they left to take the
train. the en1ancipatcd man took the valise
oil his an"rette to the cars and showed her
the pO,iteSt attention, and although their
route lay ~ different directions he accom-
panied her thirty miles toward her home
when they went into the photographers
saloon and had their pictures taken together
and then went in opposite directions
James Hagar. of Maryland, saws that while
amusing hinseIfreading the advertisements
IN q news paper. an old tomcat came in and
Sprang upon his lap. Jim told him to lie
down and keep quiet but Mr.. Cat would not
do II. and insisted on springiug around. run
ming toward the door and trying TO bark.
Finally Jim told him to lead on ard where
ne led lie would follow. Tom took him
around the house to a closet. The door was
closed and hada rock rolled UP against it,
,COmcat became excited, and rubbed up
against Jims legs Jim opened the door a nd
was greeted with the peculiar singing OF a
TattleSnake, which Tomcat had corralIed.
barricading the door afterward The snake
was soon killed. Fifteen Iattles and five
buttons. The rock had hair on il. showing
where tue cat had shouldered it.
About Low Prices.