The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
The Cream of Interesting Incidents Con-
densed.

The Cream of Interesting Incidents Con-
densed.
In 1850 there were seventy-fve female and 6i,O62
male lawyers in the United States.
COLLEGE students in Siam are allowed two
wives. This is the siamese way of hszing.
A New ENGLAND tooth pick factory uses 10000
cords of wood annually.
THERE are over 81 900 students in the Colleges of
the United States, and there are 1850 American
students in the German Universities
YOUNG man living in Dayton, o.. has COM
menced proceedings to ascertain by judicial decs-
ion whether the father of a young lady to whom
he was attached had q right to enforce with
horse whip his order to keep away from the front
gate.
They have in st. Louis an excellentIv appointed
hospital for horses under the charge of an expe-
rienced veterinary surgeon. and it is claimed that
horses are better taken care OF in that city than
anywhere else in the country.
ACCORDING TO figures furnished to the American
Par Association there were %, 939 lawyers in this
country in 1856: 4O,s76 in 1870 and 6fIs7 in
To-day there are 10000 in another fifty years
there will be $4,000. Alas! for their fees.
THREE Kentucky brothers were married the
same day two years ago, and they came as near 70
simultaneously getting divorces the Courts
would permit, the three suits being instituted at
one time, and the DEGREES being granted within
week OF each other.
JUSTICE CULLES. of the New York Supreme Court.
caused TO De sworn, one DAY last week, in Brook
Ign. Louis Abrams. aged six years. Juror OBJ
jecled. but TO no purpose. Louis the plaintiff
in tie case AGAINST street railway, aud testified
he was run over and lost five fingers.
AT the close OF the Revolution so peaceably
minded we're men there were only from 600 to 700
members of the legal profession. In 1880 there
seventy-fve female lawyers. sixty-fve of
whom were under sixty years of age, while eleven
were sixty and upwards The odds for the clients
must have been in favor of special pleaders under
sixty
IN Corca the social position OF women is very low
They count for nothing in the eyes of the law and
are wholly without influence. There is one pleas
ant side to this fact-they are not held responsible
for their actions They have no wedding ceremo-
mics, but as soon as man has paid certain sum
TO his brides father he carries her of and treats
her as he likes she having no redress whatever.
On the 30th OF June last the number OF paupers
in London exclusive of lunatics in Asylums and
of vagrants) indoors 49.7lS; outdoors. 35,s42
total. 1855 1t is assumed that of this enormous
number Gil, 900, or fully three-fourths. are made
so directly or indirectly through the agency of
drink. The number of gin palaces. public houses
and drinking resorts of the metropolis of England
has never been estimated.
PROBABLY the largest organ ever constructed
made recently at Ludwigsburg. 1t is in
tended for the Cathedral at Riga. There are in it
1900. with l24 stops, and pedals etc, proportion
ately numerous. II is sixtv-fye and half feet
high thrty-siX feet wide and thIrty-three feet
feet high. and by curious contrast the smallest
pipe is only little more than half an inch high,
and is attahed to the biggest one.
CURIOUS custom obtains among the Omaha In
dams with regard TO orphans. When the father
dies the mother loses all maternal rights. Each
child. unless OF very tender age is separated from
the mother and will so into the family OF some
one OF the fathers relatives. IL may hereafter be
claimed as mis- own child by the male head of the
family to which it has been allotted. This separa-
ton OF the children from a widow is permanent.
She usually marres again and in that event is not
burdened with her offspring by previous hus-
band or husbands but if she should remain I'M
married she would be expected to work for the
family that las adopted her children, rather than
for the children themselves If she dies when her
children young, they will probably forget en-
| tirely before they are grown up the name of the
| woman who bore them. The mothers do not APP
pear wanting in affection for the children of whom
| they are deprived; out the separation is looked
upon a matter OF course. none OF the interested
parties considering il as grievance or even hard