The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-24
VARIETIES.

A man may smile and smile aud be pro-
hibitionist.
Good wines can be bought at Naples for
six TO twelve cents per bottle.
There were about 81, O00 deaf mutes in the
United States when the last census was
taken.
A circus man out West has been sold out
for debt. He's good deal like BUTTERFLIES
got no show.
A fruit grower of Visalia, Cal, has thirty
six apples, weighing in the aggregate fifty
one pounds.
Henry Irving states that the Americans
eat with more intelligence than any other
people on earth.
Tue records of the War Department show
that there were SOC, 600 deserters from the
army during the rebellion.
1t is figured that 100000 sermons are
preached to Americans yearly. This does
not include Caudle lectures.
1t isn't the foreign count who threatens
havoc TO our American giTls-it is the dude
Waterman who wears the cockade.
An English scientist has discovered an
animal with II, 600 eyes. 1t would be good
kind of watch dog to put in bank.
Professor Proctor says that in about 15,-
0C0, 900 years every trace of water will have
disappeared from The face of the earth.
Almost everybody in China smokes or eats
opium, and physically, mentally and finan-
cislly it is the degradation OF the Chinese.
An Englishman had red-headed girl aw-
fully mad the other day by asking her if
she wasn't glad the rain had cooled the
hair.
1t is now said that the crazy quilt origin
sted with country editors wife. She got
the idea from the patches on her husbands
clothes.
So many women are now doing work
formerly done by men that the male sex is
being driven into matrimony as q means Of
support
Henry Jeifries, nine years old, shielded
in Baltimore few days ago He felt bad
because his parents had not taken him with
them on an excursion.
According to the results of the finest in
strumental tests, as to the propagation OF
electricity, an electric signal travels at the
rate of 10000 miles per second.
us that your boy Smith?" Eyes; do you
think he takes after me?' "He might have
the disposition to do it, bat after you'd had
a chance there wouldn't be anything left for
him to take"
We mist grow old, and when old we are
flung aside for younger men. Some old
birds retire to Well-feathered nests, others do
not but it is sad TO be compelled TO retire
even to soft retirement.
In the Empire of Morocco there is only
one subscriber 10 newspaper. He is the
Emperor. AS soon as there are two or three
more it is likely some Yankee will happen
along and start paper.
An English architect asserts that houses
| can be made of timber which will last longer
than brick or stone. In many English towns
houses of OAK and plaster are standing and
in daily use tBat were built 500 years ago.
"Bah Jove" sadly remarked young Angus
tus De Cook, as he gszed in admiration at
| the bearded woman; Its doosed funny.
| y'know. I caun't understand it, WEAKLY,
and he stroked his upper lip discouragingiy.
The wealthiest man in the world is the
| Chinese banker Han Qua, of Canton. He
pays taxes upon an estate OF 5O,OO0,OOO,
| and is estimated to be worth billion taels,
which, in our money, would be about Sl4,-
| 600 0O0,000.
The latest cause given for famines in East
India is the existence OF en- excessive num-
Der of goats. The theory is that goats de.
stroy the trees. and the consequent decay OF
forests decreases the average rainfall. There
are II, GOO 0O0 goats in the Madra Presidency
alone.
On the two fields of Waterloo and Linden
| splendid crops of crimson peoples appear
every year. The ground which nourlshes
them is packed with the remains of soldiers
The preparations of opium derived from
| these peoples have been used in the form Of
laudanum and paregoric.
A workman in a gold mine at Mishima
eori, Japan, recently found stone which
ne preserved on account of its lustre. He
subsequently sent il to relative in Toxic
| wso in turn took it to an English jeweler II
| Yokohama. The ieweler pronounced the
stone to be diamond, worth upwards o
$500 600. The lucky finder has quit mining
| and fc rrlh uaU tn