The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-11
SENTIN ELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirmish
Line.

recently that cost 5000.
Circuses are charged $3.50 for the privilege
OF exhibiting in Macon, Ga.
The second crop OF green peas Is on the
Wilmington, n. c. market.
Costly living is given as the cause OF the
loss of students at Yale College.
A cows horn, five and half feet long, IS
one OF the curiosities of California.
Cotton has been successfully grown this
season in Shasta County, California.
A man at Lancaster, Pa, is picking his sec.
ond crop of raspberries this season.
The manufacture of fur from feathers Is a
new and growing industry in New York
Poultices OF tar applied TO the soles Of the
feet is the latest remedy for rhematsm.
miniature copy Of the Capitol at Wash
ington is being btTilt for the State of Georgia.
The Supreme Court OF Texas has decided
that a will scrawled on q candle box i 4 le.
gal instrument.
The system Of selling pecr people be auc-
ton still prevails Ia Nova Scotia. The low
! est bedder gets the pauper.
An old man on Broadway, New York,
makes living by carving peach stones into
various fantastic shapes and selling them at
from three TO five cents.
There are about a, 100000 cattle on farms
in this country, and 100000 on ranches
am ranges. The increase has been more
than three-fold in the last ten years.
The Sabbath is held in such great respect
at Thurso, Scotland that the cemetery is not
allowed to be opened on that day. Even
burial is considered dissertation.
Steps are being taken in Ireland to prevent
any further decline OF the cattle interest in
that country. One OF the plans proposed is
to establish q dead meat trade with England.
A New Jersey farmer. having no faith in
banks, went 10 the field to piow with $500
in his pocket. The money dropped ont and
he plowed j. under. II toek him two days
10 find 1t.
a short distance from ST PaHl j. 4 point
where the observer can look into five ccun-
ties. A town has lately started there, which
il Is expected will some day rival ST. Paul
and Minneapolis.
Boston, during the first twenty days OF her
experience with the immediate delivery sys-
tenn, averaged about 200 special letters a day,
giving about So per diem Tor twenty-five
messengers to divide
A Philadelphia has miniature on ivory,
which he believes to be a portrait OF Mary,
the mother OF George Washington. II was
picked up a short time ago on farm near
Appomatiox. Va, by an ex-Confcderate sol
der.
Engiand's business depression is very
great. Seven hundred thousand spindles
are idle in Lancashire. 5000 looms are
idle, and 5000 operatives earn nothing.
The situation in many other places Is almost
% bad.
Railway men are beginning 10 condemn
the locomotive headlight. which, by the
way is not in use in Europe. They say that
ii is OF little utility, and its powerful illum-
nation tends to render indistinct the colors
OF signal lights on the track ahead.
For boldness in aiglteraton the Russians
take take the palm. The new Government
| Inspectors of the provisions lately found
packages OF tea adultera,cd with 80 per cent.
OF pea shells. tea packing factory has
been shut up for repaclIing exhausted tea
leaves.
There is is a dog in McKeesport thai has
great reputation as a diver One day last
week brick was thrown into the river
where the water was five or six feet deep.
The dog promptly went down and brought it
up, carried il ashore and laid il al liis mas
ter's feet.
The latest way OF focusing customer in
San Francisco dive is 10 wet the inside Of a
glass with beer, puff tobacco smoke into it
until thick, filmy coating has been formed,
which is allowed to dry. Then, when the
fever has begun, the glass is filled with beer
and given to the victim, who keels over as
ifsmitten by club.
A case of smallpox having occurred re-
Gently in the town OF Eisinorc, Denmark,
the Chief OF Police issued orders that ali I'M
vaccinated persons must appear within two
weeks TO have their arms scraped, or pay
fine of 80 cents for every they went unvac-
cinated after that. In less than a fortnight
the smallpox had no terrorS Tor Hamlets
home.
The Toronto Mail mentions machine just
invented by which the exact standard time
of day can be sent over every telephone with
which 1T is connected every minnie. As 1t
operates by sound, man with n telephone
| in his room may 20 III the dark, in the dead
OF night 10 the receiver and learn the exact
hour, minute and second of his awakening.
| The machine has been tested and works
well.
A writer on paimistry says the hands OF
different nationalities differ. The German
| hand is thick, short-fngered short-nailed,
with a wide palm. The Spanish hand is
noted the world over for ITS tapering fingers
| and rare fleNSibility. The French and Italian
hand is long and capable OF close pressure,
| but the English and American hand is the
best-knit, frmly-set hand, blended with all
the variations of typical beauty known.
According to an official report, just issued,
there are six times as many lunatics ia Paris
as there were in 1901. A curious fact is that
down to the year 1866 the number Of female
lunaties exceeded that o. the male but since
! that date the men have predominated in an
increasing ratio, and now supply nearly So
per cent. of the total, against about u per
cent. OF women patients. The numbers OF
the married and the single are almost exact
ly equal. Excessive drinking and domestic
trouble are responsible for about 90 perez
| Of the cases.
There are number of historical clocks in
the White House. One OF them was once
the property of Napoleon. and by him pre-
sentod to General Lafayette. who in turn
presented ii TO President George Washing
| -, IL cfi1t toppq pQrfoCt time. IL y OF