The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-09
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirmish
Line.

Florida is three times as large as Massa-
chusetts.
The Penelope is a new white dahlia with
purple tipped petals.
In Siam the cats have their tails banged
and are dyed yellow.
One of the stylish jackets worn now and TO
be worn till October is of white pioue
In Arizona grows the mesquite tree and
upon that tree coffee has just been grated
successfully.
A snow storm in August was breasted by
some 200 tourists who climbed to the sum-
NIT of Mount Washington on Wednesday.
Out of $4,000 prosecutions by the English
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails during the last twenty-five years 30 900
have been successful.
A shooting match took place recently in
Canada between twenty-five smokers and the
same number of non-Smokers. The smokers
won by twenty-five points.
Is it true that when washing their faces,
men always rub up and down and snort,
while women apply the water and then
stroke gently downward?
Alpaca goats have been discovered in Asia
Minor whose hair excels that of the South
paca fabric results from its manufacture.
Nebraska has now about 10000 acres of
growing forests, in which have been set 6OO,-
600 young trees. Besides this there have been
planted more than 100000 fruit trees.
Ladies as poor law guardians have found a
legitimate sphere of public work, and in
England and Scotland there are now no less
than fOrty-six. In London there are sixteen
and in Edinburgh nine.
The fashionable game of the mighty HUI
ron race of Indians near Quebec this summer
is crOQuet. The young braves send the balls
through the hoops with as much vigor as
their ancestors used in welding the toma-
hawk
The.wits of the people in England 90 wool
gathering just as they do here, it seems.
Last year there were $4,000 letters posted in
England without any address upon them,
and in 1000 OF them coins and money were
inClOsed.
Genesta, the name of the crack English
yacht, is the botanical LATIN name for the
broom plant The latter was the symbol of
the line of English monarchs who began with
Henry II. and ended at BOSworth with Rich
H., planta genesta.-Plantagenet.
y pulley thirty-four feet in diameter and
weighing eighty-three tons has Just been
made in England. 1t has gOOveS for thirty
two ropes, which, together, will transmit
,2S9 horse power, and the rim will have a We
locity of more than a mile minute.
'Hiawatha,' told in words by Mr.. Long
fellow, is being put into carved wood by Win
thTOp Pierce, artist, at the fine new house of
George Slater of Norwich Conn. Mr. Sla-
ter inherited about S15,O00OOO from his
father who gave 81 900, 900 for the benefit of
Southern freedmen.
Knoxville, Tennessee, publishes no paper
on Monday, thus allowing the printers to
keep the Sabbath day strictly. 1t is said TO
be the only city in the United States. having
10000 inhabitants, with railroads, steam
boats, telegraphs and telephones, that has
no Monday morning paper.
The Fuegians are the lowest human beings
in the scale of existence Their language
contains no word for any number above
three; they are unable to distinguish one
color from another: they have no religion
and no funeral rites. and they possess neither
chiefs nor slaves Their only weapons are
bOne-pOinted spears and rs they grow Meth
er fruit nor vegetables and their country is
naturally barren, they are obliged to live
entirely on animal food. Even these saw
ages possess, however, some social virtues
They are not cannibals they ill-treat neither
women nor the DID, and they are mOnog-
amOus.
In the revised Bible, published at Oxford
only three printers errors have as yet been
discovered in all the editions. In the pearl
/ 16mo edition there is an error i'm Ezekiel
xviii, 26, where an ''e'' is left out of right
eous, and the word is printed right Gus"
/ In the parallel SvO edition there are two
mistakes. In Psalms, vii, 13, ''shatfs" APP
pears instead Of shafts and in Amos, v.
| "a, in the margin. Overlooking should be
"everfowing" The usual guinea will be
/ paid to any person discovering a printers
error in the book and pointing it out to the
Controller Of the Press before any other dis
4 coverer.
Fresh Compilations.
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