The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15

years old, was lost Saturday night, and the
search made for him was fruitless. In the
morning he was found asleep on the roof Of
the tall building where he and his mother
had been visiting. He had gone up to get
good view of the fireworks and fell asleep.
The actual cost of what are usually sold as
five cent cigars at retail is thus stated by one
who claims to be informed on the subject:
Actual cost of tobacco namely, what the
tobacco raiser gets for it, for LOCO cigars, 81;
cigar boxes, 81 wages for 1000 s.; packing,
81; stripping, 80 cents; total cost OF produc-
ton, S12 80, or IA cents cigar.
patriotic citizen of Vacaville, California,
who detests the Chinese, recently refused to
sell native of the Celestial Empire lot for
81 900, but sold it to esteemed Yankee
friend for $500. With an eye to business, the
Yankee sold it to the heather, and pocketed
a profit of 500, and the original owner now
has "Chinese washee" sign floating next
door.
''The Great American Desert is a thing
of the past. The quadrant which this
"desert" once occupied on the map once en-
braced the area now occupied by the States
of Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas to the Indian
Territory-'an area in total equal to nine
New England" The grain product of this
desert" in 1880 amounted to 6i2, 4l6, 200
bushels
Cholera germs show decided affinity for
human lips; therefore fruit from infected
districts is dangerous. The orange especial
ey, or any fruit which. like this, is washed
with water before shipment, is very likely to
transmit the germs. To touch the body OF a
cholera patient and afterward accidentally to
touch ones own lips with the same hand.
would probably cause cholera to the person
so doing.
A young Scotchman, whose father has
made large investments in farming lands
throughout the country has just hired him
self out to an Illinois farmer, at the rate OF
SIS per month for the purpose OF learning
the American methods of farming. Ne exc
poets 10 devote two years to this object, and
then take charge of one of his father farms,
consisting of 100000 acres, in Southwest
Missouri.
The virtus OF the hardy mOuntaineerS of
Switzerland being sapped by drink. In
the matter of brandy alone the population
which, all told, including women and alil-
dren, numbers but 9, 500, OOO-consumes %,
100000 litres per annum, litre being pretty
well equivalent to an ordinary wine bottle.
This is an average of thirty bottles of brandy
to each adult male. Large quantities OF wine
and beer are also consumed.
The true landed aristocracy of the United
States is composed of the red men. There
are about 49, 900 Indians, and their land res
ervations amount to 10000 square miles.
Each Indian has, therefore, a little more
than two-thirds of square mile of land.
The reservations of Dakota, Montana and
the Indian Territory comprise $4,000 square
miles, occupied by about 127 900 Indians, or
less than one inhabitant to the square mile.
A lady of New York City, Mrs. Harriet
Maxwell Converse, was adopted by the Sem
ecas at the Cattaraugus Reservation last
week. Mrs. Converse is the daughter of the
late Ex-COngresSman Thomas Maxwell, of
Elmira, who was adopted in 1892 by the Sen
ecas because of his great friendship for Red
jacket. Mrs. Converse, his daughter was re-
ceived as the step-daughter of Red Jacket
with all the ancient ceremOnials of the SEN
ecaS.
Last autumn bookseller named Meyer of
Bonneburg, tied waterproof label under the
wing of a swallow which had occupied a nest
at his house, and had become comparatively
familiar. On it he wrote query in German
to the effect that he wished to know where
the swallow would pass the winter. The
bird returned to its former nest bearing an
exchange label similarly fastened saying in
German also: I'm Florence in Castellari's
Zerah Balbett and wife, of Norfolk, have
had six daughters says the New Hartford
Comm Tribune. The first death in the
family was the father, at the age of eighty
four years. then followed the mother at the
age of eighty-nOthing 50 remarkable in the
age of the parents, as the six children who
survive them. The circle was not broken
until July 8, 1885 by the death of Eliza NJ.
Humphrey wife of Deacon James Hum
phrey, at West Norfolk, at the age OF seventy
one the combined age of the six sisters being
420 years.
The Duke of Cumberland, who is erecting
castle in Gmunden, on the Traunsee,
ordered the whole of the iron work for the
dollhouse from aLeipSic manufacturer on con-
ditiOn that none OF the men employed there
on should be either native or naturaliZed
PrusSians, and that no engineer engaged in
experimenting the work should have passed
his State examination in a Prussian institu-
ton or he in any way connected with the
Trussian State. The chief engineer was even
| Obliged to present his baptismal record.
The National Museum at Washington has
received some relies of the first iron furnace
in America. This was at Falling Greek, in
Chesterfield County, Virginia, a few miles
below Richmond, but on the opposite side of
the James Inc works were begun IN lDlJ
but in 1922 were destroyed by an Indian
massacre. They were never renewed and
the next attempt to manufacture from was
made by Governor SpOttswOod, near the
| present site of fredericksburg about 1926.
To this the plantation of George Washing
tons father, Augustine, contributed much
/ ore.
AT Funfkirchen, in Hungary, terrible ex-
plosion has just occurred, in which the in
ventor of a new sort of dynamite has fallen
q victim to his own invention. The man, a
| German named Iisch. resided with his aged
| mother in an isolated house, in which he was
accustomed to carry on his dangerous trade.
! He had sold the patents for his new explosive
/ in America and elsewhere Just prior to the
explosion he was engaged in mailing up a box
| containing a consignment of the material,
when suddenly the whole blew up, unroofing
the house and burying the inventor and his
mother under the falling ruins.
Some of the Salyationists indulge in a free
and-easy style of morality. Marcellus Rouse,
J