The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-21
CURRENT NOTES,
TEXAS has 5000 miles of railway.

TEXAS has 6,OOOmiles of railway.
A CHINESE paper has appeared in New York
BOSTON is going TO light all her streets with
electricity.
LOVES labor lost is the elastic play daily per
formed by the tariff reformers in Congress.
In switzerland the authorities have prohibited
the evening meetings of the salvation Army.
ANOTHER river and harbor bill. but not of q
very extensive nature, has been reported in the
House.
CHICAGO has no prophets to stone, but she hal
killed six of her policemen in the last eighteen
months.
YOUNG Baltimore woman. sctuated by nc
matrimonial consideration. has renounced Meth
odism and made formal profession of the Jewish
faith.
CONGRESS will soon adjourn, but the Star Route
trial will not. 1t will continue all spring and
summer; the Jurors will get old and gray, but II
will go on, regardless of cost.
A FALL of ''red or crimson snow" Is chronicled
in paper published at Laramie, W. 7. 1t was
half an inch deep and covered all the country
tributary to the head of the Big Laramie River.
A WOMAN lay three days in a trance at Big Rap
ids Mich. On recovering she believed she had
died and come to life in another person. This
delusion can not be dispeled, though in other
respects she Is sane.
In many parts OF Sweden exist enormous guam
titles of bleached moses which grew many ages
ago. A mandatory of paper from this material
has begun operations near Joenkoeping, and
is said to be turning out a product of excellent
quality.
A GAS Company has failed in Paris. No par
iculars are given, but it is supposed they under
took TO supply their customers with a uniform
article of gas Of high quality. There is no dar-
ger of any Gas Company in this country falling
in that way
AN epidemic of vandalism is said to be playing
the mischief in and about the National Capitol
this winter. The colossal statue of Washington
is reported to be minus big toe; Roger Williams
has lost little finger, aud the Indian woman in
the Columbus group all five fingers of her right
hand.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago a clergyman in an Ala
bama town prayed one Sunday that the Lord
would send a wind and blow the ten-pin alley
down. The next Wednesday wind visited the
town, blowing down the ten-pin alley, and moth
else in the whole village. There has never been
ten-pln alley there since.
1T is stated as a fact that at least $1,000 OF the
people of Glasgow. Scotland, go to bed gloriously
drunk every Saturday night OF the year. II this
statement be true 1t is because there is In Scot
land a law prohibiting the sale of liquor the
Lords Day, and the brawny-Scot imbibes enough
on Saturday to last him until Monday morning.
MICHIGAN Judge. in sentencing prisoner to
five years Of servitude in the Penitentary, CON-
mented with severity upon petition signed by
number of women, spoken of as ladies' who
requested clemency In the case. Irssmuch as
the prisoners crime was rape of exaggerated
kind, the world at large is apt to applaud the act
Of the Judge.
A SIBERIAN traveller. who knew that glass is
very expensive in the Arctic region, was much
surprised at what he thought was the extraya-
gance of the peasants. whose house widow panes
we're, to all appearances, solid plates of glass
three inches thick. On close examination he dis
covered that the panes were slabs of ice carefully
frozen into the frames.
The champion mean man Of Boston was seen
in a horse car a few days ago. Noticing that his
neighbor evidently Woodworking, poor woman,
was about to pay her fare with six cents, he pro-
posed to her to use one OF his tickets and give him
the money, remsrking that he might as well make
the profit as allow the Company to make 1t. And
the most remarkable part of the incident was that
the woman accepted the offer.
THE treacherous nature OF all winter resorts
which are warmer than their mere relation to the
equator would make them, and which therefore
depend upon ocean currents and the "lay of the
land" for their extra heat, was illustrated two
weeks ago at Cannes In Southern France. For
several days the weather was bitter cold, and on
January Is snow and sleet fell, though for the
first time. be 1t marked, since December, $780,
THE Jews in Russia seem Electrically inclined
to a very abnormal degree, as indeed they are
everywhere. The burials of the persons burned
to death at the late circus fire of Berditschof com
prised those of $50 Jews 20 orthodox Christians
and 60 Roman Catholics. The Hebrew people
paid dearly for their amusement in this terrible
catastrophe, but they must certainly be suff-
GENTLY numerous In Berditschof to render their
patronage matter of no little moment.