The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-01

formed up in circuit with the bell and bat
tery 80 that when the bell is in action, with
it, contact intcrrupting the current. the tele-
phone or electromagnetic will emit a musical
note or hum, which, being heard by the per
son ringing the bell, Informs him that the
bell is ringing-always supposing. of course.
that the current l. strong enough
A piOuS Bostonian. under the head. "Truth
Wanted" advcrtises his willingness to pay
$1,000 TO 1.-THE person who will prove by St.
James version of the Bible without Bible
contradiction that any man. or woman can
be saved and 60 to Heaven without being
baptized by immersion siWhen the ex-
ce>~iYe rarity of ''St. James version Of the
Bible" is recalled the offer will be seen to be
cminently safe.
Il have sold hundreds. might almost say
thousand, OF lots to Germans" said a Buffalo
real estate man, land have noted one signifi-
cant fact. The moment a German takes to
whisky he's gone. He may swallow beer,
ale. wine and cider enough to float ship.
and yet pull through and pay for his lot but
old rye Will lay him out. When whisky
! drinking German wants to deal with me
say no with an emphasis that makes his
teeth rattle"
In the year 1900 there were in the United
States 5000 Evangelical Churches; in 1850,
1908; in 1870. 7O,1 and in isSo. 81, 09O,
gain of 1900 in ten years. ending in 1880.
The number of COMMITMENTS i'm Evangelical
Churches in the United States i'm 1900 was
$4,000; in 1850, 2.529.000; in 1870. 6,673.OO0.
and in 1850 lO.O65OOO Taking thu. whole
country through. there was in $50 one Evan
gelical COMMUNICATE in every 14ls inhabi-
tantS; in 1850. one to every 81: in 1870 one
to every 80, and IN 1880 one TO every :.
Many have attempted To scale Cotopaxi.
the Hottest of active VOLCANOES. but the walls
are so steep and the snow is 80 deep that
ascent is impossible. even with the scaling
| ladders. On the south side of Cotopaxi is a
| great rock. more than 1900 feet high called
| the "Inca'S Head" Tradition SAYS that it
was once the summit of the volcano. and fell
| ON the day when Atahuallpa was. strangled by
| the Spaniards Those who have seen Yesu-
] yius can Judge of the grandeur OF COtopaxi if
| they can imagine a volume 10 QUO feet higher
| shooting forth its fire from a crest covered
| by 5000 feet of snow with a voice that has
| been heard 600 miles.
Some persons are apt to look upon Mexico
as half-ciyilized nation. journalism in
| that section varies from the sensational work
| put into some American papers. A murder
| is briefly announced, with only the leading
| facts and names, and with no artistic elab-
| Grafton OF details. The taste of the Mexican
| reader does not incline toward crimes. Still
| less does he delight in the miseries of unfor-
| tunatc families. The family circle Is the last
| place the reporter invadeS. The rattle of the
! family skeleton is rarely heard and when it
| l., truth i rarely lost sight of in an unscem-
| ~ scramble to be the first to exhibit it.
! 81 dislike to see you eat cayenne pepper"
said wholesale grocer to friend who was
putting the stuff on some raw oysters.
Why" said the friend The grocer busted
little OF the pepper on the open page of his
notebook and drew his finger over it. A
| number of small red lines showed where
| grains OF pepper had been drawn over the
paper. Because half of this stuff is not
pepper. The real article pure and strong,
comes from the West Indies. Ii is regularly
| adulterated for restaurant use by mixing it
! with rice flour and ground mustard husks
which have been colored red with red lead
| Those red lines on the paper are pure red
| paint.
The first Continental Congress assembled
at Philadelphia September ), ia; the second
at Philadelphia, May 10, ITS; the third at
Baltimore, December 20, 1776; the fourth at
Philadelphia, March 4, 1777; the fifth at Ian
easter. Pa September %, 177T7; the sixth at
| York, Pa September 80, III; the seventh at
Philadelphia September >. 177S: the eighth
| at Princeton. y. j., June 80, 1883; the ninth
at Annapolis, November 26, 1888. and here
| December - 1873 Washington resigned his
office a. Chief of the army;
| the tenth at Trenton, \. j.. November 1,
| 1884: the eleventh in New York. January IL.
1855, when the new government was organ
| lied and Washington, the first President was
/ inaugurated. The Federal capital remained
at New York until 1890. when twas removed
To Philadelphia remaining there until 1900.
when it was permanently established at
| Washington. ID. D., Congress first assembling
in that city November Il, 1890.
In 1879 distinguished surgeon of Paris,
| DIR. Tarnicr, visiting an establishment for
Matching chickens. established in the Garden
| of Acclimation in Paris was struck with the
: idea OF using the same sort of apparatus for
+ infants born prematurely, or having very
weak constitution This brooder, or ICON
/ veu>e' was destined for the Maternity Hos
/ pital of Paris, where il was first put into use
1 in November. 1881. The results obtained are
worthy OF attention. From November, 1881.
To July. 1883. there were treated by this
method l5l infants of whom 81 had been
/ prematurely born, and the others very feeble.
( 4 healthy infant born at full time weighs
I about $500 grams. Those infants which at
! birth weighs less than 1000 grams are consid-
/ cred az very feeble; that i. ii i more proha-
! BILE that they Will die than that they Will
! live Statistics show for such infants NOR
tality of about 10 per cent. With the con-
ycue>e. out of the 81 infants prematurely
born 81 died and 81 lived. The time which
! an infant is kept in he conveuse varies from
! one day to six weeks. according to its condi-
ton. One infant, born nearly three months
before full time. was kept forty days in the
conveuese, and lived.