The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-03
VARIETIES.
The baby's fayorite anne / tours.

The oaby's fayorite anne fours.
"Hsnging on the ragged edge" is now rem.
dered ''tottering on the slippery brink"
The fellows who are waiting for the Office
to seek the man are getting swfully tired.
According to the London Times, the price
of diamonds has steadily fallen from SO TO
1913 per karat.
University Press OF Oxford and Cambridge
more than 100000.
A young lady who keeps an autograph al.
bum expressly for male signatures refers 70
it as her him book"
A'noted Arabian chieftain, Abd-el Kadsr,
always maintained that the two gre enc
emies Of the horse we're rest Snd fat.
France and Greece have 100 holidays an
nuRIly; Russia 66. Belgium 90, England 81
and the United States 90, Theae include
Sundays.
A scientist now declares that the tip OF
tie nose is the home of the soul. 1t has cer-
tainly often shown whore departed spirits
have gone.
a jamestown, D. T, justice decides that
profanity is not punishable at law when
caused by neighbours hens scratching up
the defendants garden.
YES" observed the widow. sit was rather
3 disgrace to have him hanged, but you don't
know what relief it is for me to know
where he is at night time"
A Cincinnati girl drowned herself lust be.
fore she was going to be married. No reason
was given for the deed other than that she
was engaged to 8 Cincinnati man.
Halo, old man. what on earth are you
going TO do" Dine, of course Dine?
Why, it's only three O'Clock" II know, my
boy, but it's eight IN London."-Life.
When a woman is giving her husband
DIT Of her mind he should try to imagine
. L., 1.
and was having seventeen such bits served
up TO him.
There are about 100000 commercial trsv-
elei in this country. Their average salary
is 81, 800 year and expenses. Over % COO
belong to associations for mutual protection,
life insurance, etc.
Fifty four unfortunate gamblers have de-
stroyed themselves at Monaco thus far dur
ing the present season. The Princes con-
science must be an uncomfortable bed
fellow If he ever considers the source OF his
income.
Two girls in Sacramento, Cal, who
thought it would be fun to black their faces,
unfortunately got q cOloriDg preparation
that won't wash of. II acts like dye on the
skin, and chemists say it will probably
not wear of for months.
1t has been we'll announced that anybody,
on eithtr side, prominent or likely 20 become
so, in Afghsnistan was of Irish descent.
Now Dublin paper states that General
Komaroh's grandmother was an Irishwoman
Of the name OF Mcnamara.
Out of every 600 people born in this world
Of sin and SORROW, 500 either do rot know
good story when they hear 1t, forget ii sitter
they have heard it, or do not know how 10
rspest II themselves, or haven't good juig.
ment about when to introduce it.
On the streets of Calhoun, Ga, recently
there were three old men talking together,
ali members of the Baptist church, who had
been married seven times, and the aggregate
age Of the three was 240 yesrs. All are active
and IN good health for men OF their age.
In russia a man must pay his taxes before
he pays the preacher, or e0ct0r, or under
taker- An American simply moves q few
miles out OF town and the tax gatherer can't
touch him. II is for such blessings as these
that our forefathers fit in the revolution.
The lumber for 4s 600 clothes-Dins cost S.,
and the clothes pins are worth S3S5.50. Four
kinds OF saws q revolving polishing cylinder
manUfsctuTe, and the posr cresture who
makes them has only 90 per cent. profit
when he sells them for one cent.
The length of the projected railway from
London to Bombay is estimated at nearly
1000 miles, the route contemplated being
through Paris, Madrid, Gibraltar. Tepgiers,
Tunis. Tripoli, Bsssorah, Kelas to Kurrachu
and Bombay. II is expected that the jour.
ney Will be made In nine days, or an average
of thirty-five miles per hour.
1t is estimated that the total stock of gold
in the world in use as coin, or as coin, or as
banking reserves in one shape or other, is
about ~, SIS, 500, COO of which total England
has S6l2 800 coo; France, $3.50 $50 600; Ger.
many. S3SS 500 600; and the United States
S447, 100 600. Other nations come in tor
shares varying from S3SSS 600 in the case of
Holland, to Sl47. 744 900 inSpsin.