The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirmish
Line.

Mexico has over $4,000 miles of telegraph
line.
The Southern watermelon crop is said to
be short.
Englishmen are growing more partial to
gas stoves
British hanson cabs often run on Ameri-
Can wheels
Ten millions OF base balls are made and
sold in this country every year.
Drainage has diminished deaths from con-
sumption in Vermont one-half.
If 81 100000 women should clasp hands,
they could reach around the globe.
There has never been holiday, theater
or circus on the Island of Malta.
All Queen VictOrias children are fond of
the theater, and go there frequently.
There are few towns in England under 30
COO inhabitants which have daily paper.
The small volcano discovered about a year
ago near Santa Maria, Cal, is still burning.
A good base ball player in Rhode Island
gets a bigger salary than the Governor of the
State.
A professional wild beast trainer uses cleo
tricity to subdue the animals when they are
unruly.
Ten thousand Protestant children are now
attending Roman Catholic schools in this
country.
A Georgia youth gave his rival twelve
peaches to keep away from the girl he was
counting.
The average duration of life in Russia is
twenty-six years-the lowest of any Euro
pean nation.
Cotton cloth, the Fall River Herald says,
has fallen three cents a yard-the lowest
price ever reached.
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, is the oldest living
sovereign. He has reigned fifty-three years,
or since he was six years old.
Two men were recently sentenced in Mex
leo, one to ten years imprisonment, the other
to be hanged for burying woman alive.
An oil well is to be sunk in the city of Los
Angeles, Cal. 1t is expected that the oil
stratum will be tapped at less than 800 feet.
San Francisco Chinese are not content
with the monopoly of the laundry business
of the city, but they contEol 9O-1O0 of the
pork industry as well.
The annual sale of Cologne water in the
United States is about 50, 100000. The total
value of the water exported from Cologne to
this country in 1884 was S23, 134.49
A prudent woman at Fairfield, Mich, has
provided herself with full summer toilet of
mourning including a stylish bonnet be-
cause several of her folks are delicate
In Banks County, Georgia a few days ago,
two brothers married two sisters under per-
simon tree by the roadside, and all went on
a 'bridal tour 10 the cotton patch next
morning.
California papers report the discovery of
vi, fl,o ittic
of soft ripe peaches 1t is said to be the
finest favored and most delicious wine ever
discovered.
A deliver in matrimonial statistics has dis
covered that out of nearly COO graduates of a
prominent college for young women less than
200 have secured husbands the remaining
twO-thirds being hopelessly fixed in the sim
gle state.
1t appears that they grow to green old age
in Surrey, England. Recently widower of
eighty-fOur was married to a widow of eighty
seven. The bridegroom was attended by
grandson and the bride by couple of great
granddaughters.
Young man, says an exchange, it is the
girl who viii pass ice cream saloon with
out looking in who will make you good
wife But beware OF the girl that can look
in without going in. She is too strong
Tor the average man.
A Western citizen who had been worsted
in fight was told that he could collect dam
ages. Il did collect damages he replied
mournfully. Il collected everything but
piece OF my left ear and two front teeth l
couldn't find those"
More is required OF young ladies in society
than of young men. A young man need not
be beautiful, need not sing, play or say any
thing intelligent. He may be positively i'd
lotto and yet get on well in society, as is
shown in numerous instances.
A recent prize man in one of the leading
New England colleges is said to have paid
his way through college by buying old clocks
and other bric-a-brae in back country towns,
and selling them at fancy prices TO New
York and New Haven collectors.
A girl ten years of age has just reached
San Francisco safely after having travelled
alone from Harwich, England, via Liverpool.
Philadelphia, Chicago and Omaha. She tells
= of nothing but kindness experienced at the
hands OF the officials all through her long
journey.
A man who owns farm in Georgia is sell
ing off his dwelling house by piecemeal, a
room at a time. Half the building and two
chimneys are gone He began on his cabins,
then his barn went, his Clubhouse, and now
the house IS disappearing. he gets 81 10 So
for room.
Five miles west of the city Of Jacksonville,
Fla, a site has been selected for proposed
British colony, to be known as Roxburgh,
from its influential friend and patron. The
land is said to be of the best quality for or
ange growing and truck farming, and rail
road, water course and frequented public
highway are close at hand The Florida peO-
pie extend a warm welcome to the new pro-
iect.
Two Indians in a village near Quebec were
recently discussing the form of the earth.
One affirmed that it was round because men
had travelled in a straight line and come back
TO the same place. TO this it was replied
that men were apt to travel i'm circles, as they
often do when lost Then it was urged that
white men said 50, and they knew more than
the Indians; but it was answered, white men
often lied, as the Indians very well knes. A
practical philosopher solved the whole diff