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


The Cream of Interesting Incidents Con-
densed.
FIVE dressmakers have been detected wearing
hollow bustles filed with point lace while passing
through the Custom House.
THERE are over 5000 known languages and dia-
leets. How many more will be discovered when
Africa is fully explored is matter of conjecture
The man who painted the spire OF the Roman
Catholic Church in Omaha was photographed
standing on the cross, 2l0 feet IRON the pavement
THE immense travel and traffic OF London are
strikingly suggested by the statement that 2,2)J
trains leave its railroad stations every twentyfJur
hours.
NEARLY zoo vessels are at Philadelphia looking
for freight. They are nearly all foreign Italian
Norwegian, with three or four English steamers
Freights are low, seamen's wages low, and the
sailor boarding houses crov IL with idle seamen
1T would appear from numerous observations
that soldiers hit during battle according 10 the
color Of their dress in the following order: Red is
the most fatal color. Austrian gray the least fatal
The proportions are-red, l.; rifle green, :: brOwn
G; Austrian BLUSH gray. )
VIRGINIA is beginning TO mase flour OF peanuts
OF which she raises 100000 bushels this year
Peanuts. so called in the Old Dominion, were in
troduced from Africa, aud are known in NDrt
Carolina as ground peas, III Tennessee n g)Joar>
and in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi as plnl
ers.
Our national paner currency Is covered with
poison. Half dozen of the wonen clerks OF the
Treasury Depart are suffering froin poisoning
by arsenic as a result OF handling The new green
backs They moisten their fingers to facilitate the
counting, and the moisture brings out the arsenic
in the green coloring. II is Il serious case with
some of them.
1T isasserted that the Car OF Russia's famous
ride through the streets of Moscow when entering
it on the occasion of his coronation a snam,
and that he was personated by an officer OF the
imperial Guard, made up to resemble him. Ger
tain officials of the English Embassy discovered
the cheat and they have not maintained the
silence which was enioined upon them
AN uabroken line OF rail now exists from Port
land, Me-, TO its namesake in Oregon. A commits
sion house has arranged dispatch ten freigh. cars
filed with canned corn put up by Portland Me-,
firms direct TO Portland, Ore, without change.
Each car will be labeled from Portland, Me-, to
Portland, Ore, that they not fail to be no.
tced all along the route. The train will be photo
graphed before itstarts.
A Mrs. FURLoNG. of westmoreland County, Vir-
ginia, who is in Washington visit. says she
now owns the horse that J. Wilkes Booth rode
after he assassinated Lincoln. and on which he es
capped to Virginia She says the horse though
twenty-five years old, is still lively. 1t was gener-
ally supposed that Booth killed the horse he rode
and left him in a swamp before he crossed the
Potomac from Maryland to Delaware. but Mrs
Furlong says this is not so.
ELLA Hill, of Seymour, Conn, shot herself
through the body with double barrelled shot
gun because her step-mother insisted that she
should wear a dress that she had worn Monday.
Ella had been out in storm and got the dress wet
and wanted to put on her best dress, and when de-
MED the privilege she look curously at her step
mother for a moment. then walked slowly up
stairs. and. seizing the gun, placed the muzzle
asainst her heart and pulled the trigger with her
foot.