The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
VAE7ETIES.

There is widow in Birmingham, Ala,
thirteen years old, and she attends the public
school.
James Gordon Benefits yacht. Naouma,
has Just been provided with one 1T he dense
air machines which is able TO pIOduce I 900
pounds of ice day.
A boy of youthful years advertises in a
New York paper for a pOslIion with a
plumber. Young America manifests de-
re to accumulate wealth early in life.
The lart est bill manufa stured by the United
Ststes Government is OF the denomination
of SO 000 1t Is the same size as the dollar
bill, and has andrew Jacksons picture in
the corner.
According to the new catalogue of the
British Museum. the library ban 1850, 600
printed books and $4,000 manuscripts. max
ing il, next TO the library of Paris the largest
in the world.
1t has been thought that Tourguenef was
the fret to use the word "Nihilist," but
somebody has discovered that ii Is fifteen
hundred years old. There is nothing new
under the sun.
A London million are. Mr.. Damiani, offers
TO bet q 000 sterling that ghosts are not sim
pie shades; that they manifest themselves
ia the flesh, shake hand- and have their
photographs taken.
The destruction OF Northern forests, sug-
gests the Chicago Herald, is perhaps the
cause Of our terrible spells of c1ld weather
The forests tend to moderate and regulate
temperature as we'll as moisture.
The farmers of Southern California have
found that it pays to raise grapes and b g to
feed TO their pigs and other growing amin ais.
4 diet OF that sort, with clean pen, would
almost reconcile pork hater to pig meat.
The forests ofCalfoTnia are doomed, Mich.
igan lun Der merchants, having nearly de-
nuded that State of forests. have been pros
psotiDg in California and Oregon, and it is
reported, will invest So, COO 600 in the virgin
forests OF California as soon as the title can
be perfected.
Georgia has thigh license" that is h gh."
In several counties the price Of liquor Ii
cense "a been fixed at So 600 in 9th re 50 =
eco. aud in two or three cases $4,000; and
Ow comes Parnesville with charge OF
500 600 for license. This method of c1rb
ing the traffic is in many PLACES more effec.
i've than prohibition.
Massachusetts, has been legislating upon
the liquor question. and for thirty years has
tried to suppress its use. Now the venera bic
Amos Lawrante declares before a Massachu
sits legislative committee that Bottom to
day represents Sodom and Gomorrah,' on
account OF its liquor traffic.
1t is said that there are seventy-ive srte
saD wells In the great desert of sahaya, which
have a combined flow of one thousand gal
lens a minute. Two not uncomfortable villa
ees have been built up, one hundred and
fifty thousand palm trees have been set out,
and one thousand gardens introduced in the
midst of what was before an uninhabitable
countrv.-Christiau Register
cTbe annual report of Mr. Spoford the Lii
brsrian Of Congress. was submitted TO the
Senate last week. II says the library con-
taiDs 544 6S7 volumes and 1S5 600 pamphlets,
an increase of 81, 246 volumes over the pre-
vious year. The library included in the
above statement contains GO 265 volumes.
THE copyright Office" the report says, still
shows an increased business notwithstand
ing commercial and industrial Depression