The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
CURRENT NOTES AND GOSSIP.

a Tricycle. worked by means OF electricity
has Just been successfully tried in Paris. IL
worked smoothly and efficiently.
FACE messenger carrying the electoral vote
Of the several States from the capitals of
heir respective States to Washington re
oeives twenty-five cents per mile as compen
sstion.
The season in Rome this year is reported
The dulles. within the memory OF the Oldest
inhsbitant. The hotels are said 10 be empty
and two have been sold out for debt and
bought N by the Jesuits.
LosDoE is once more protesting vigorous
iy against the incesssnt ringing of church
bells and the ding.dong OF clocks that strike
so often that it is wholly out of the question
TO so much as guess the time of day after
hearing them.
A SHARK measuring fifteen feet four and
t~hree-quarter inches was captured by an
Italian fisherman in San Francisco Bay.
Upon being cut open it was discovered that
its stomach contained a boot, an old hat,
and q number of bones.
ACCORDING to the United States Surgeon
oCatA1- ahGR ACDOAbf tuO QCaLu Idl6 i II
colored troops has, for the first time since
their organization, fallen below that TO.
white troops. Their mortality from respira-
tory atfections-usually ~pneumonia-is more
than four times as great as that of white
troops.
a HOG was recently killed at Blooming
Grove, Sullivan County, New York, and
when dressed a thick wire fourteen inches
long was found in the lights and pressed
against the heart. Though twisted and
coiled in different shapes and forced into
the vitals. the hog was apparently as healthy
as ever.
TIE Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
speaking Of small medical fees, says that
there is, or was q short time since, in Boston,,
AN Institution, OF a quasi educational na-
iure, where there is a resident physician (fe-
ma . homeopathic whose charges for a con-
sultation, including medicine. are twenty
i've cents
AN ingenious continuance for preserving
the records OF ships lost at sea has been in
vented by q Mr.. Duncan Sinclair, a resident
OF New Zealand. 1t consists Of an inner and
outer case, the 10 yer ends OF which are open
and connected By a plate in the form OF a
ring. This has a cork filing snd q separabie
tube attached at its lower end to a cap
plate screwing into the bottom ringshaped
plate.
There is a recen, Paris plan for getting
confessions out Of prisoners: "As the cul.
pri. entered the morgue be staggered and
lad to De helped into the mortuary. He
was then placed in front OF his victim and
tainted twice. A restorative was then ad-
ministered to him, and when BIZ came to his
senses ne wept like a child and made a full
confession OF his crime"
TIE Indiana Pharmacist says that a wo-
man, who has her letters directed to the New
York postoffice, claims to cure cancer by
means OF a direct revelation from her "desr
Lord Her circular windsup with: "Praise
God. from whom all blessings FLOW; four
ounce bottles, s.; e%ight-ounce, S." The edi-
tor says: at will be seen that the financial
part OF the business is the big end of the
log"
FREDERICKSBURG LODGE No. 4, in which
General George Washington was entered
March II, 1853, passed August 4, 1T5S, .'and
raised to sublime degree OF Master Mason,
september l, 1893, has determined to attend
the dedication of the national monument at
Washington. February 2I, 1885. in a body.
This lodge attended the layingof the corner.
stone in 1888, and was accorded the place of
honor in the line. .
HITHERTO the two 600. 600 Bank OF En-
gland notes have been considered the largest
notes sxtant. The princsly family Of the
S~tarhembergs are the possessors OF a single
bond Of much greater value, namely of the
face value of ! 800, 600 forms about $50, 900
sterlingl, at which figure they sold some
years ago, their interest in the vast estate in
the Widen in Vienna. The bond, which
nominslly yields an annual interest of 75,-
600 forms silver is deposited with the Vi
ems District Court.
"0H, MY child. how did your lace become
so bruised? Cons 10 mamma and tell her
al about it?" I'LL was ovr cross the
road. playin' with Ms Howe's little girl J.;
boo. hoo-hoo-oo-oo.r And did she hurt you
like this?" Ivy es." well that was
real naughty in her. What did she do 10
little Georgief" ID she knocked me
down, pounded me w-wi-witl a
b roo nj tick" .0h, dear, what a terri.
he child. Well, don't cry any more. Geor-
gie- What were you doing when this hap
pened!' "Pl-pl-playing w-ve was mar
rl-ed."
EIeHTEzs HUNDRED years ago The Chinese
made paper from hbrous matter reduced to
pulp. Now each province makes its own pc
culiar variety. The young bamboo is
rhitened, reduced to pulp in . mortar and
sized with alum. From this pulp sheets o.
paper are made in a mold by hand. TIE
celebrated Chinese rice paper. that so resem-
blss voelen and silk fabrics, and on which
are painted quaint birds and flowers, is man.