The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-12
VARIETIES.

Loves sacrifce-taking the small plate of
ice cream.-Boston Post
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Z. Howe, Jr., 1876.
There were over 5000 600 inhabitants in
Ireland in 1915; there are less than 100000
now.
The Lights o. London" are 100000 gas
Jets, consuming nightly 100000 CUBIC feet
of gas.
Nine Presidents and ex-Presidents of the
United States have died since Lincolns first
election.
There are 1000 coo women and girls in
China, nearly all of whom are uneducated
and ignorant.
The average annual consumption of coffee
in the United States is twelve bounds for
each inhabitant.
A straw is not very strong, but it is Won
derful how IL viii chain a man TO a tumbler
on an August day.
The production of cotton seed oil has
grown in the last ten years from 3,45O,OO0
gallons to 20000,000
Baseball players are permitted by the code
to say they receive $500 per month when the
real figures are SIPS.
The British Bible Society issued a New
Testament at two cents a copy. In nine
months $4,000 have been sold.
A Methodist conference in Georgia has
forbidden church members in its jurisdiction
TO attend the base ball matches.
The New York sun prints list of seventeen
women who have become pirates. Nothing
is too sacred for that sex 10 NEEDLE with.
Did YOU ever hear of girl printer giving
a fve-cent cigar from time to time to an edi-
tor out of pure friendship for hin.-Sunny
Cline.
If all the railroads in the world were Join
oil 10 how erna no
earth on its longest circumference more than
zen times.
No japanese bank was ever known to fail.
This is because the stockholders know they
would lose their heads when depositors lost
their cash.
Its ascertained that the number of Amer
lean wemen exceeds the entire foreign-born
population (both men and women) in the
ratio of three TO one.
No more through trial and tribulation
chat with her j. gained,
Her par is of on his vacation,
The bulldogs safely chained. --
Boston Courier.
Singular, isn't it, that you never see half as
many baldheaded men in the front seats of q
church as you do in the front seats of a va
riety theatre?-Hotel Mans Guide.
Edmund Hoyle, the patron saipt of ohl-
fashioned whist players, was born over POO
years ago, and lived to the advanced age of
ninety-seven, dying in Cavendish Square,
London, in 1863.
A three-year-old girl was asked by her
father if she would be a schOol-teacher when
she grew old enough. NO" she said. Il
will have husband;" and after a little re-
Election added, Il hope he won't be a cross
one"
The venom of bee is said and to neutral
iZe its effects an alkali should be used when
possible. Finecut smoking tobacco is said
TO be good remedy. A pinch of it mois-
tened and applied to the wound like q sponge
gives relief in five or ten minutes.
July has been Il fatal month for Presidents
and ex-Presidents. John Adams and Thorn
as Jefferson died July 4, 1926; Monroe, July
4, 1881; Taylor, July 9, 1850, while in office,
and Grant, July %, 1885, while Garfield re-
eeived his death wound upon July >, 1881.
An extraordinary instance of the depreci-
alton in the value of land in England is
noted by the London World. In 1875 Pewit
Island. near Harwich. containing go acres of
freehold land, was bought at a cost of 81, 900;
and on Jnly 16 it was sold by auction for
1870.
When the telephone was taken to England
by the agent of DR.. Bell all the patent rights
connected with ii were offered to the Post
Office Department for 100000. The offer was
declined, but not long since the same officials
offered $40, 600 for the exchange in London
alone.
According to the statistics of the past year
upto the age of fifteen more males die than
females. From the age of fifteen to forty
five more females die than males. From
forty-tive TO ninety more males die than fe-
males At ninety the mortality of males and
females is the same.