The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24
CURRENT NOTES.

ANTHONY TRoLLors's pen earned him over
$4,000.
A BOSS" carpenter of Jacksonville Fla, is one
of the gentler sex.
SENATOR BEN WADE used to say that religion
without hell was pork without salt.
TEN thousand looms, 100000 spindIes and thou
sands of employees are idle in Philadelphia and
vicinity.
NEARLY Sl40O0,0OO worth of cattle are now
grazing in what six years ago was wild Indian
country In Texas.
AN exchange says that there is a pronounced re-
vival of the prohibition sentiment in Kansas.
There generally is after the holidays.
GLOVES are now made from Goldfish skin. Three
seven-pound cod6sh skins make a close it for
Chicago girls paw.
sALvISI was entertained in Philadelphia, on
Tuesday evening, by the Penn Club. About $50
prominent gentlemen were present
SENATOR ANTHONY afirms that the practice of
placing drunken Naval officers on the retired
list has made that list almost al Inebriate Asy
lum.
MAJOR BURKE, OF the New Orleans Times
Democrat, went to work in a stone yard as COM
mon laborer Just after the War. He is now sup
posed to be worth s5OO,oOo and 10 be looking
toward the United States Senate.
THIS country managed to dispose OF 100000
gallons of beer last year. 1t cost $3.50 ooo but
nabody thought OF tina. until the beer was put
away. It would be interesting to know how many
of the beer drinkers feel whit better for their
potations.
REV JOEL BURLINGAME father OF Arson Bur.
lingame, died last week In Illinois, at the age of
eighty-three years. So well preserved were his
faculties that only two days before his death he
was able to take a walk os several miles, and
transact business usual.
REV. DR. HICKS, of Washington City. who fur
nished spiritual consolation to Guteau in his last
hours is still holding to the sssassins skeleton,
and is demanding 5000 from the Government
Medical Museum for the same. He should be
permitted to keep the precious relics.
THE Academy of Sciences decided that raw
meat is easier of digestion than that which is
cooked. In prescribing 1t preference should be
given TO flesh that has been frozen, as very low
temperatures destroy the eggs of the many
parasites, which often infest meats of all kinds.
Mr.. EUaEsE BIvoRr is striving to organize
direct express trains throughout Europe. He
proposes that the whole rolling stock Of these
trains shall he uniform. and placed at the dispod
ton of the different Companies. who would have
to supply only engines and drivers. All changes
of carriages would be obvia.ed.
PRESIDENT BoNNEY, in annual address to
the Illinois State Bar Association. insisted that
the Jury system had become yitisted by anoma-
lies and absurdities, which have become incor-
porated with that method of adjudicating. He
pronounced emphaiically against making Juries
the judges of law In criminal cases.
THE genial Robert Collyer has been trying to
tell the New Workers How to be young at
eighty" What the men of that rspid-paced city
need is q prescription for being young at thirty.
There are more prematurely old, gray, bald head
ed burntout, used up" men of thirty or forty In
that city than in any other In the world.
THE King OF Portugal, has had Aiuda Palace.
his town residence, connected with the Lisbon
Telephone Exchange. and may claim to be the
first European monarch who has become sub
scriber to public Telephone Exchange. A spe-
cial private telephone system Is now being estab-
llshed between the Kings library and the various
Ministries and the Opera.
THE Australasisn Medical Gazette gives &C.
count of the warm springs at Rotorus, New Zes-
land, which are said to benefit rheumatic and
equity people. At all events the delighted pa
tients have discarded the Maori names OF the
neutrality-suspicious.. Pupunifsnga, etc.-and
substituted 1.-The Pail killer, /" Madame Rachel"
1.-THE Lobster Pot" PRIESTS Bath" aud 1.-The Oil
Bath" The resident medical officer says that
the number of visitors to the waters is doubling
each year.
THE town of Lapgholm, In Scotland, was long
famous for q curious iron instrument called the
Branks, which was fitted upon the head of q
shrew, and, having prong which projected into
the mouth. prevented her speaking. Tradition
in Lsngholm goes to show that Its application
was attended with excellent effect, and DR.. Plot,
the antiquary. says that he much prefers II to
the ducking stool, which not only endangered
the patients health, but also gave the tongue
liberty between every dip.
Mr. GUSDERsoN, Vice Consul TO- Sweden and
Norway at Bordeaux, has hit uuon novel way
of sending messages from the sea- The ancient
bottle is always liable to breakeage, and the re-
cent pretty inventions of ships or buoys are found
too expensive and troublesome In practice. Mr..
Gunson employs the small colored balloons made
for children, which cost only a shilling dozen
and can be carried empty. Hethrows the message
inside and throws the inlateds balloon overheard.
| 1t travels rapidly before the wind, keeps the
message perfectly dry ana is a striking object at
some distances great advantage as regards the
chance of being picked up. One was recently
| tried, with letter inside, of Dover, where one
of the inventors ships was aground. and two
hours afterward the letter was posted In Dover BY
| an unknown hand.