The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-11
VARIETIES.
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England has 90, 500 trading vessels
The King OF Dabomey has $500 wives.
The copyright on Iieine's work expires
next JANUARY.
Girls can marry al the age Of eleven years
In the State OF Maine.
Loves warning cry; Don't Jack YOU
hurt my vaccination
The GlenTocd (Col) Echo adyertises for
G6a girls for wives in that cou0try.
by new invention blind people can play
whist Us well as those who can sec.
A wife can generally hide any small ob-
iect from her husband by putting il in his
Bible.
A gun has Just been cast for the British
Government that weighs 200 tons and isfcrty-
four ffi long,
A man IN WiilIanspOrt, Pa. drank q pint
OF whisky ia ten minutes On wager. he
died in two hours
A wart taken from a mans hand and trans
ierTed 10 dog by st. Louis surgeon is grow
ing nicely in It's new quarters
Love may be blind, but in all the ages IL
has never kissed the girls mother by mis-
take, when il reached after thc girl.
circumstances alter cases" said an I'M
| successful lawyer, land wish / could get
hold Of some cases that would alter my cir.
cumstanees."
We have Just discovered why a man going
fishing always carries bottle with him. II
1 is in order that lie may have tlie cork 10 use
rs foat for his line.
a new variety OF honey bee has been dis
covered in California. Ii is said to be twice
as large as the common bee and 10 produce
twice as much honey.
There are said to be about l 500, 900 voters
in this country who cannot read the ballots
they vote. yet not one OF thent would go
past sign readinS 'Beer, cents glass.
An Arizona man has stopped taking On
agricultural paper. He wrote 10 the editor
asking how 10 get rid Of gnats. The answer
came in the next issue OF the paper, xii
Them"
Of 515 cases of consumption at the royal
intirmary, London, 90 per cent. is of persons
following indoor occupations. One man cured
himself by taking long morning and after
noon walks 10 his business.
Some Earthmen from the interior OF Africa.
now in London, are only four feet in height
They live almost entirely under ground and
subsist on insects. They use sign language.
These people are the lowest scale Of human
ity OF any yet discovered.
A big Newfoundland dog belonging to
man in san Francisco snapped at a child
who was pisgulng him The childs mother
upbr3idcd the dog, which SUNK away but
soon returned with n rose. and with very ex-
trayagant capers, laid it at the feet OF the
child. Then ii hurried TO its mistress for q
Caress.
Recently during the night couple of
young mice inserted their heads within the
open shall of an oyster. In the morning
they were found fast held by the closed
she'll, and Of course dead. The oyster con-
tinued It's firm hold on the intruders, and
the trio have been handed TO u Natural His
tory Society.
Gentleman. "Unc,e Rastus, I've got Job
OF wh!tewashing for YOU" Uncle Hastus:
"Wel, KANT do hit ter-day, sah.' "Gen-
tleman: Whats the matttr l thought you
We're anxious for work" Uncle Hassus:
$50 I is, sab. But yO' see, boss, dc Colored
Workin mems Amulgamated ISOLATION TO
dc pertecshun Of de laborin' man frum de
encroachnents an inrOads Oh capitalists
meets terday, and Ise been 'lected cha rman
Oh &c occashun. 30. 20 see boss, l hain't
got no time 10 spar
The percentage OF persons aged fifteen
years and upward who can read IS IN Ger
many 81, in Great Britain 81, in Austria SIS
in Italy "a, in Spain 90, aud in Russia 53.
Inc percentage OF those who can read, write,
and work out simple arithmetical problems
is in Germany So in Great Britain 81, in
France a, ia Austria -, in Italy G., in Spain
40, ard in Russia 49, The percentage OF
those who possess a far acquainticc with
more than one modern language is in Ger
many 60 III Austria 81. III Great britain 81
in France %, in Italy -, in Russia %, and
in Spain Is. And, finally, the percentage of
! those who have some knowledge of the
| classics is in Germany y, in Great Britain
| ~, in France %, in Italy Is, In Austria l3,
| in Spain :. and in Russia ..