The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-07
VARIETIES.

Portugal IS recpenlng the slave trade.
The Gar eats only one meal day and is
afraid to eat that.
There have been now about 10000 deaths
from cholers in the South OF Europe.
The amount annually paid to the teachers
OF the United States Is see 600, Oo0, an average
OF about 800 apiece.
A young lady in Hartford gained exactly
POS pounds in thirteen years. She is fourteen
year old and prodigy Of ponderosity.
The patron saint of whist, Hoye, was born
oSer two hundred years ago, aud lived to
the advanced age of 81, dying IN CayendiSh
square, London, in 1869.
One of the strongest men in the world is
the Gillian miner. lie lives principally on
tie ientil. tho cheapest and most nutritious
food known for its weight.
The United States has only thirty-nine
shiJs in its navy, but it has 100 doctors. l2o
paymasieTs and 242 engineers. There are
also seven Rear AdmiralS and forty-fiYe Cap
tains.
The prominent sheep-raisers in Tennessee
have resolved to abandon the business, Ow-
ing to the want OF dog law, asserting that
10000 sheep can not be maintained against
jC0000 dogs.
More than 1000 kinds of tumblers are
known to the trade. There is a great variety
in beer glasses, the smallest being those used
at Coney Island, and holding one-third OF an
glass
On the island OF Marago, at the mouth Of
the Amazon, there is a four-footed bird In
its growth one pair OF legs change into wings
by process that is similar TO that OF the
tadpole into the frog.
There are 15T professors at the German uni
versitics between 20 and 60 years of age, OF
these l22 deliver their lectures as usual. The
oldest is the historian, Won Ranke who is
now in his Goth year.
As the sting of bee is acid, to neutralize
! its effects an alkal should be used Fine
cut tobacco is said to be good remedy.
| pinch of it moistened and applied to the
! wound like sponge gives relief in five or
/ ten minute.
Less than four out OF each hundred Amer
! leans lived in cities in 1870. The city popn-
lation had increased in 1910 to eight per
cent, and is now twenty-five. There are
only seventeen States with more people than
New York city.
/ Tears stood in the eyes of a wee lass when,
at Madison, Wis, the other day she stood up
before 700 veterans and was received with
cheers as the "Child of the Iron Brigade" Ii
| was little Daisy Force, and many caps went
into the air when she sang them song.
The embalming of Lincoln's and Garfield's
remains failed. Some of the most successful
embalmers maintain that it is impossible to
preserve q body for any length OF time unless
tie method adopted by the Egyptians is fol
lowed, which requires primarily the removal
of the entire internal organism.
''Can YOU direct me to the Apollinaris
spring." inquired lady at Saratoga. 'The
Apollinaris spring. ayes, my husband goes
there every morning before breakfast, and
would like to see it." ''H-m. You will
find the Apollinaris spring, think. in the
basement of the States hotel, N. y. sun.
New Jersey chicken farms consist of chick
ems incubatOrs and sunhower fields. When
the chicken comes forth from the incubator
| il is placed upon diet of suntiowcr seeds,
which are full of oil and very fattening.
Some farmers plant three and four acres of
sunfowers, and the fields have particular
| ~ brilliant effect.
1t is suggested that "a man might even go
fishing on Sunday and still be Christian
| Yes, he might; but the chances are against
1 it. If he were to get his hook fast in a root
| and lose half his line, he wouldn't require
4 pint measure to carry all the fish and religion
| he would take home with him. pious man
/ should not go fishing on Sunday.
! The type used upon one issue OF the news
! papers of this country weighs G,70O,000
! ! unds, and would set up 2,S75 ordinary
/ 12mo. books. The composition done on dai-
! lies in one year would fill 10000 volumes of
the size of Appletons's Cyelopedia. Eight
/ thousand presses are required for the press
work and the proof slips, pasted end to end,
would much more than cross the continent.
/ IA teacher in the Girls High School hay-
/ ing exerted in vain every effort to induce
{ her class to read Shakespeare, at last asked
/ all who had done so 70 raise their hand.
Only one responded, and that one said: 81
have read all of Shakespeare works but one
| tnaminG IT'D and that papa won't allow me
to read as it isn't proper" Beio-e week
was over not Il member of her class but was
familiar with at least one of Shakspeare's
plays.