The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
VARIETIES.

Roller skating is the craze among the mid
de classes all over the United States lust
now.
twenty-five ex c IN federate officers ARE in
the United States Sen ate anu more than fifty
in the House.
Clevelands silence touching his cabinet Is
positively nausasting to gresJ many able
bodied patriots.
A ''chin.holder" has been invent I'd. IN
fortunately it is not intended for Congress
men. It is designed for violin players.
man who dropped a lighted cigar on
London bridge he osher day was arrested
end asked to explain why and wherefore.
Nineteen State Legislatures and Congress
are now in session yet people wonder why
We have so many wind storms at this season.
The Father of Waters" is peeping over
The levees at the New Orle ans exposition,
but the managers do not encourage bis curl
osity.
IN New York this year shirt is made for
two and one half cents. Next year the poor
woman will be require TO throw in a collar
button.
There is much less danger OF contracting
disease in sick-room If the mouth is kept
closed; also OF contracting black eye in a
bar room.
A MINNEAPOLIS man has accompli she'd
the much tried feat of eating thirty quails
IN thirty days by using lemons freely. he
won $50.
1t is said that chewing gum makes the
mind more active and bright. That must be
why so many men say: Put 8 little gum in
that, bsrkeeper."
TIE Louisville Post says every. twentieth
person in that city has the itch. We are
glad TO know that one in twenty of the
population OF that dead old town has EN-
ploy ment.
Vasssr girls eat i, ss9 900 pa ncakes in the
course Of q year, which would make mon
ument eight miles high. And yet there
are people who have no respect for higher
EDUCATION.
IL a woman goes to the theatre dressed
handsomely and newly, her criticism of the
play is always very Rattering; but Il the
woman next her is dressed still better, the
result is different.
1t is announced that an English firm has
recently begun the manufacture OF barrels
of steel, and that they are lighter than wood
and more durable. Barrels OF steal wouldn't
last long in this country, if Congress got Did
CT them.
Two Rochester men were arrested for max
ing and selling raspberry wine" without
Government license. Their plea was that
the STUFF was not wine, but combination OF
wafer, tartar acid, orris root, alcohol and
aniline coloring.
What shall give the childrenn / want
to make them a handsome present, you
know" said the railway magnate. Why
don't you give them some OF the stock in
your road?" asked his wife. What are you
| thinking of2' cried the r. m. in amazement
do you want to drown the children ;'
Boston Transcript.
The Connecticut savings banks have go
| AS depositors and S906l4,623 in deposits.
! In 1884 the number OF depositors was 81 $50,
and the deposits were s.. ,746. In 1864
| the depositors numbered 12l,6S2 and the
| deposits were $40, 10, 2SS. The number OF
| depOsitors now is equal to 80 per cent. of the
population, and the deposits amount TO IS
! per cent. OF the property assessed for taxes.
1t is an interesting psychological fact that
| stern and inhexible parents often tail to see
| those shining qualities in the young gentle
men whom their only daughters happen TO
meet "Evangela, my dear" said one OF
| these sharp sighted parents, this young
| gentleman ! saw you with doesn't seem to
! have great deal OF dynamite force in his
! Brain" "Oh, pa, he is truly elegant He ia
~ Decidedly the most insipid fiat Pye
| seen for many day. He hasn't anything
| in his head No. pa, know he hasn't,
but bis heels are poem a symphOny, bar
carene,--" His heels2' "oh, yes. pa,
dear, He is the most delightfully."- lovely
/ fancy skater at the rink"