The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Sl<irmish
Line.

tenths seconds.
Saratoga, with six thousond visitors, be-
ieves that the season has begun fairly.
Strawberries were profitably shipped TO
Boston this year from Southern Illinois.
The pine tree, says an authority, serves as
refuge for more than 1000 species OF insects.
Selling whisky from the rear end of bogus
emigrant wagon is a new industry in prohibi-
tory Iowa.
To prevent mosquitoes from Matching, oil
is thrown into the ponds and standing wat
ers of Florida.
Three young bantam chickens belonging
to Charles r. Hambright, of York, Pa, lay
eggs that are a pure white ON one side and a
beautiful strawberry on the other.
Fifteen tons of grasshOppers, comprising, it
is estimated, 100000 separate insects, were
captured at the Natoma Vineyard, near
Folsom, Cal, by drowning in the irrigating
bitches.
Curled maple is only an accidental form of
sugar maple, in which the grain is beautiful
~ contorted This form is highly priced by
cabinet makers, and $1,000 has been given
Tor single tree.
A justice of the Peace of Bowdon, Ga, has
served thirty years and has never had judS-
ment reversed OF sent back for new trial,
has been married three times, and has raised
twenty-five children
The largest apple tree in the United States
is growing at Cheshire Conn. 1t is sixty
feet high, spreads 100 feet, and yields from
IS TO 40 bushels of apples per year on alter
nate sides of the tree.
Peanuts never was so cheap as they now
are, the price per pound being from so
cents TO five cents. Last year prices were
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acreage and an Oyerfl0wing crop,
At EastOn a horse envied his master the
comfort of hammock, and while the gen
tleman was dining, the horse left his pasture
and took possession of il. The hammock
had to be cut TO pieces to get the animal
clear.
When Annie Leon left New York twenty
two years ago to attend her husband and son,
who were MORALLY wounded at Gettysburg
she lost her two-year-Old daughter. The
girl has just been found in a blind asylum at
Columbus, o.
Mrs. John Wood aged sixty-seven. and the
mother of twelve children, eloped from her
home near Toledo, o., with William Brad
ley, aged twenty-One, and went to Detroit
where they were eventually obliged to go to
the pOOr-house.
The son of a Scotch millionaire who has
become greatly interested in agriculture,
has hired himself to an Illinois farmer for
$15 month so as TO learn the American
methods of farming. He agrees to lObor two
years at that rate of pay.
A new appointee as United States Minister
to South America was asked by what route
be was going to his destination. After stam-
mering awhile he said: BLESSED if / know.
j never thought of that. / don't know how
Il. oil 10,
fessOr.
Ike Philkiss writes to the Detroit Free
Press denying that the bite of the tarantula
is necessarily fatal. The tarantula will not
bite unless he is cornered, and though his
sting makes one sick for a few hours, il is
not always falal. A man in San Antonio
was bitten by a tarantula last week, and was
in bed one day, and suffered from the pain
two or three days, but was never in any
danger.
When the Chattanooga Cadets visited Dali
ton, Ga, one of the galy-caparisoned young
warriors sat down on the umbrella of an old
lady, to the delight OF his comrades. The
old lady enveloped his neck with her right
wing, but him off from his supports and by a
mastery flank movement got him over her
knee, when she fell upon his unguarded rear
with the fragments of the umbrella and
routed him.
Fifteen million horses are now owned in
America, and more than 100000 year
must be bred to keep up the supply. The
largest portion of these are used for agricul-
tural and heavy draft purposes, and such
horses bring from S175 to $3.50 each. 1t
would be impossible to breed them if il
were not for importation OF Percheron
horses. Five hundred stations are now an
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States.
Under the Mexican law a creditor can have
a debtor arrested on the day when the debt
falls due. The prisoner is chained to post
five days, guarded. by an officer. At the end
of the time, if the money is not forthcoming
the mans labor is sold to the Government
for forty cents day for as many days as will
be necessary TO discharge the obligation.
The miserable debtor is sent to the silver
mines where he Is chained 10 a gang of
felOns and compelled to work under ground.
He sleeps under ground, and never sees day
light again until he is restored to freedom.
On Wednesday Frank Sm lie, drummer
was in Macon, Ca, and was handed letter
dated April 9, 1884, that had travelled thou
sands Of miles in hundreds of mail bags
while vainly pursuing him. A year ago he
left Cincinnati without a certain perfumed
letter that was expected, but he gave instruc-
tons to have il forwarded. II arrived the
day after his departure, and was forwarded.
1t kept right behind him, and followed him
into Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Missis-
sippi. All this time he wondered why ''she
did not write" About a month ago he read
a marriage notice in which the writer of the
misplaced letter figured as the bride.
A traveller pictures the guano coast of
South America as the most desolate region
on earth. On one side is the Pacific Ocean,
with its great swells sweeping almost around
the globe, as regular and constant as the
throbbings of the human pulse. On the
other side the impenetrable Andes rise in a
range whose altitude averages Is, 900 feet, and
whose peaks tower 10000 and 1900 feet
above the sea. Between the ocean and the
mountains for ], 900 rallies, with a varying
width from twenty to fifty miles, lies a strip
af drifting sand which no river water and