The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-26
VARIETIES.


the price ola dozen eggs.
There are ninety-four varieties of wine
grapes grown in California.
One good point about Grover Cleveland Is
that he never was in Chicago.
A pearl necklace of only one row lately
brought s35, 900 in New York.
Never before have there been so many un-
employed men and women in Philadelphia
The decline OF the silk industry in Switzer-
land Is driving artisans and manufacturers
TO this country.
The police force OF London numbers r.
662. making it more than half as large as the
regular army of the United States.
Shskespeare's daughter could not write
her name. II Was thought that the old man
did enough scribSling for the whole family.
"a man may drink and no be DRUNK;
A man may tight and no be slain
A man may kiss bonny lass.
And sy be welcome back again"
Robert Burns.
Handmade envelopes cost originally FIVE
cents each. The envelope.making machine
now turns them out so that thousand are
sold for thirty cents.
The bread now baked at Naples is of pre-
cisely the same shape as the losves found at
Pompeii that were put in the oven two
thousand years ago.
New York City is borrowing money on
long time bonds, carryi ing 81 per cent. in
teIest per annum. such eonds are selling at
l per cent. premium.
EJohn North Of Portland, Oregon, has OBJ
lained divorce from his wife on the ground
of cruelty, she having pulled him out Of bed
three times by the whiskers.
The Democratic party, twenty-five years
out of power but never despairing, Is good
deal Of an old widow herself She has the
best kind of luck with old bachelors.
In Germany they don't call it the honey
moon. They limit the period of the newly
married couples bliss aud ter N it the "Flit.
terwoche," literally the "spangled week"
a fashion item says: "a polonaise for din
OF course. but We want no polonaise for orr
dinner, no matter how il is cut. We'd Just
as lief eat a princess oveTskirt on toast.
Thomas Stewart, who has Just died q
peaceful and natural death in Berrien
County, Georgia, in his time had been badly
"chawed" by tiger, bitten by q moccasin,
struck by lightning and tried for murder.
In Hamilton, Ont, poor woman whose
son had gone astray through drink knelt in
the street before q saloon and called down
the curse of God upon the traffic. For this
che Was fined 81 and costs, or ten days in
Jail.
III year <.3OO, JOScpu LUX says, tuc
population of this country will be 3. 200, COO :
COO. Those of cur readers who contemplate
going to the circus that year will DO we'll to
purchase tickets at the downtown Office and
avoid the rush at the wagon.-Burlington
Hawkeye.
Just what the horse of the future will have
10 do is problem the breeders of the Blue
Grass region will have to solve, as French
man is about TO apply electricity TO the ope-
ration Of road vehicles. 1t may even come
about that the cavalry" charges in the wars
to come will be made on wheels.
A man started to ride home from San Jose,
Cal. His road lay for miles through fields
of pumpkins and squashes. The constant
pumpkin panorama finally dethroned his
reason, and he reached home a maniac, crY-
ing: "See the sQuashesi See the squsshesi"
BE had to be straight-jacketed and cent to
the asylum.
A Bostonian writes 81 cured myself of
an annoying habit of stammering By inhal-
ing deep breath between every few words,
aid by never allowing myself to speak I'M
less the lungs were fully inflated. A little
caYesul attention soon made the habit prac-
tice habit, and now I never stsmmer I'M
less much excited"
OF all European countries Germany is the
country where suicide is most frequent, and
in Germany, again, Soxon takes the lead. In
1872 the number of suicides in Saxony
amounted to 6S7 1855 to every 100000 in
habitants). Last year 2,001 persons thus
ended their lives. In England, In 1892 the
suicides were 1, 446 men and only 5l9 females.
A Glove. Lemon, and a Lump of Sugar
met the other day. and business was dis
cussed. 81 think I'll 90 into the liquor bus
mess this winter" said the Lemon. 1T &C.
ours to me that shall also resume my con.
nection with the bar" remarked the Lump
81 10 10 1ofy coid
the Glove. ''but my theatrical engagements
will not permit. I've singed to do a single
turn between acts for the entire season."
A heavy wheat train pulled into Fargo by
one engine few days ago, on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, consisted of ITO cars loaded
with wheat. This would make, allowing $50
bushels TO the car, a weight OF 100000
pounds, while the cars weigh 2.729,0O0
pounds, making $3.50, 050 pounds pulled by
one locomotive. or over 8, 100 tons. The
train was over three-qusrters of mile in
length.
All who are interested in the welfare OF
the children will be pleased ths. the Ameri-
can Sunday School Union has gathered 1913
new Sunday schools in the Northwest since
the season opened, and induced 1881 teach
ers and u 977 scholars to attend them, be-
sides aiding 702 old schools, which have q
membership OF 2,26S scholars. 1t supplies
3,26S persons with Bibles and Testaments,
and placed in these communities religious
literature valued at S4,042,
A cure for felon: a lady correspondent
OF the Rural New Yorker says that she cured
felon with which friend had been afflicted
for two weeks as follows: saturated bit of
wild turnip, the size OF bean, with spirits
of turpentine, and applied it to the affected
part. 1t relieved the pain at once. In twelve
hours there was hole IN the bone. and the
foIop uvea daatr0vad I ramoved the t1rniD
dressed the wound with healing salve, and
the finger is now well. Having myself nearly
lost finger with q felon, appreciate this
emedy. and would benefit Others.