The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-23
VARIETIES.

There is one insane person to every $50
Americans.
Japan has more newspapers than Spain
and Russia combined.
In Genoa the policemen wear silk hats and
carry silyer-headed walking sticks.
The electric current on a telegraph wire
would traverse the length of the earth's equa-
tor in two seconds.
They are now manufacturing fire-prOof
writing paper. This makes it all the more
dangerous to be statesman.
A French newspaper advertisement reads:
Wanted-A conspicuously healthy-looking
man to be 'cured patient in doctors
Office.
a tramp went into a house in Missouri and
spit on the parlor carpet. The woman was
sick in bed, but she got up and broke his
collar-bone and ran him to the woods.
Nothing bothers modest but hungry old
hen so much as when she has made hearty
breakfast off an old shoe-lace and finds the
unfortunate shoe still at the end of it.
In China they pile weights on a murderer
and slowly crush him 10 death. 1t may do
you good to know that it takes over 1000
pounds 10 crush the spirit of a strong man.
Customer-"Have you some good, inn
ported cigars New Clerk-'Not just now,
but We shall have i'm about an hour. The
labels now.
Custom compes an Icelander in his native
land to kiss every woman he meets. 1t must
make an lcelander mad to discover his wife
bearing down on him from the opposite side
of the way.
a glass bedstead has been made at Bir-
mingham, Eng, factory for a Calcutta mill
lionaire. 1t is of solid glass, the legs, rails,
etc, being richly cut. The king of Burmah
also has one.
The father, mother and two sons of Ryan
family of California are doing penance for
their several misdeeds in the State prison-a
notable instance of how crime is pr0pagated
by contagion.
\ husband in Vermont was in the habit of
putting a porous plaster over his wife's
mouth TO stop her CAB, but the court called
TIA case of assault and he must now either
blister her tongue or submit to her talk.
"He died willingly in the hopes of saliva
ton" You may think this refers to
clergyman who had served God for hall
century, but is wa5 not. IL refers to New
York State murderer who chopped uD his
wife.
In an English town an infant fell from an
upper story and landed upon the hustle of
lady dress. A gentleman who was walking
behind caught the little creature before il
had time 10 roll oil. The child was un-
harmed.
Anyone who has ever heard Il woman talk
about tooth she has Just had pulled, while
She displays the interesting souyeneir TO her
friends, will be willing to admit that men
are not the only or the best stump orators
in the world.
The hearing of the horse is more &C ute
than that Of man, and yelling at him only
tends 20 make him more difficult To manage
You may always be sure, says Bartholomew,
the trainer, that the louder n man shouts at
horse the less he knows about him.
Rattlesnakes have been found in Bland
ford, and two Springfield young ladies
thought they heard one while out berrying
there the other day. They fed precipi;ately,
but one of chem afterward discovered ii was
the rattle Of the pillbox in her pocket
Homestead.
"Say," said the editors smart little son. as
he entered store; do you keep knives?'
ooh, yes" responded the store-keeper;
"wc've kept them for years" Well" re-
turned the boy, starting for the door, you
ought 10 advertise and then you wouldn't
keep them 50 long" - Norristown Her
aid.
The tropical gooseberry, which is cult
waited in Florida, grows on handsome tree
from ten to fifteen feet in height. The fruit
is rather smaller than the Siberian crab APP
PIE, anu lut sldllc Hdltcucu biOp'' II Nuil-
tains one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is ornamen-
| tai.
The population of London in 1881 was A.,
76i, 312 the increase since 1871 having been
22.6 per cent. There are now every week al
| most twice rs many births as deaths, to say
| nothing Of the immigration. One would,
| therefore. not be far out of the way in de-
claIing that there are in London 100000
inhabitants.
A western man who was touring through
| the East, in passing a meadow heard the
| driver say: Abandon the direct progression
to the straight thitherward, and deviate by
| inclinatory and aberrent dextrogyration into
! a dextral incidence II was an amateur
| Boston farmer saying "gee Buck 10 his
| yoke OF oxen.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
] One hundred years ago there were 5000
/ inhabitants in st. Mary's City, Md. To-day
4 the town contains two buildings, one OF
| which is an Episcopal church and the other
| is female academy. Nearly all the remains
| of the lost city are vanished, but the null
| berry tree under which Lord Baltimore
Offered prayer on his arrival 25l years age
| still stands.