The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
vAR1ETIEs.

LONDON has 129, 900 paupers.
In India it costs more to get married than
20 de.
Elephants won't take medicine unless 1t
bias drop OF the "crsythur" in it.
The King OF Siam is not get thirty years Of
age, and Is the father OF 263 children.
There are 600 professional beauties in Lon
don who perform no manner Of work.
The Germans are now making some of the
most delicate watch wheels from paper pulp.
There are 900 children in New York for
whom there are no school accommodations.
The San Bernardino, Cal, fruit growers
Rave used 100000 orange boxes this season.
There are sixty elephants in the United
s. aiss ranging in price from s.. 900 to $4,000.
One OF the New York papers has facili-
Ties for printing twenty six copies per Sec
1nd.
IAN ideslIy pure water explains chem
isf, "shoald be clear, colorless, tasteless and
cdorless."
Enough dynamite was made in this coun-
try last year to blow up the entire world, If
it could only be placed in the right spot.
Some one will find the spot yet
Ithss hitherto been supposed that the
word Iowa signihed "Hsre | rest" but q
writer in the Iowa Historical Record asserts
that it means The sleep people"
And now comes the report that Limburgsr
Oh csc is being largely adulterated. 1t
must have taken some one a good many
years to ind anything bad enough to mix
with il.
The desperate exremities to which devo-
tees of roller skating are carried is shawn in
the case of young lady at Watertown who
has traded her engagement ring for $3.50
pair of skates.
There are 100, 900, 600 women and girls in
China, nearly all of whom are uneducated
nd
and il is contrary to custom for stranger of
the male sex TO speak to one.
The Medical Journal states that few hand
fuls of common salt thrown daily into clos
cts. and an occasional handful into wash
basins goes far toward counterscting the
noxious effects OF the omnipresent Sc yer gas,
An old man in Allegheny County, Pc,
received 3 900 from his children on agreeing
not to marry fascinating girl OF seven
teen. Then he married her and gave
her the money, and she mas disap peared with
il.
WeEDderstand some elderly maidens ab out
town don't like because We occasionally call
then old maids. That's no tign we don't
ke them. Why, our own wife would be sn
. d maid II che weren't married.-Kentucky
State Journal.
There are ninety-nine rooms in Mr.. Til
den's house at YonkeFs. The view from the
top room IN the tower. 400 feet above the
is magnificent beyond description. The
house stands in a park OF 100 acres.
Whest, now the most important cereal
CROP cultivated in all parts OF the world aud
one Of the principal articles of human food.
was derived from wild form OF grass, and
can only De improved and maintained By
careful culture. Although widely dissent
nsied 1T is nowhere found growing wild.
book agent went into BARRIERS shop
end asked the proprietor il he could sell him
an ency cloDedia. What is it like?' asked
the barber. 1T is book that contains ex-
haustive Information uDon every subject in
the world. NO" said the barber with an
injured air, Il don't need it."-N. Y.
Times
Letters besring several stamps ara espe-
cislly easily robbed OF valuables The s.a N ps
are removed q slit made, and the whole Nv
cred again by the stamps In letters con-
tainiDg money and bearing more than one
ttsmp the French Government recommends,
in an order Just issued, that the stamps be
paced on the envelope about one-eighth inch
apart.
Major Follett, Brooklyn mechanic. has
invented q wonderful sewing machine, which,
IL is claimed, will do so per cent. more work
Than any machine now in the market. An
experiment with steam power m )ved it with
speed Of 200 stitches minute, aud was
started and stopped instantly. It IL simple
IN obstruction. is easily operated, and ssws
al kinds o. fabrics, from leather TO fine
linen.
Hes yer hsd yer boy baptized YETI. asked
y I'm webster CT Sam Johnsing, both colored.
Not yet. What's de resson2" "Bskass
The Rev. Aminidab Baxter charges 81 for eb
cry chile "A whols$2 Da. am wuss Al
highway robbery. De Rev. Whsngioodle
Baxter baptized bofe my twins, and be only
charged me twenty-five cents" Yes bat
Cat ar must be powerful unreliable kind
oh baptism wat only costs two for a Quar-.
Ter. wants cheap article myself, bat
amt gvine 10 come down so low as two for
a quarter"
Net Based on Experience.
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