The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
VAB1ETIES.


town in she United States, for the simple
reason that not solitary young man in it
chews tobacco.
The ideal juryman has been discovered in
Albany, New York. They have found man
there wto keeps store but never advertises
nor reads news paper.
An athletic club OF yonng women has
been formed in q western city. Are they
training to WELD the broomstick, or to split
kindling and build fires?
The Government is to build soldiers
home in California. Congress has recently
appropriated 5000, 900 for the buildings, and
the State is TO buy the land.
Prohibition is evidently much desired by
the business men of Atlanta, Ga, sixty seven
firms there having declared their intention
OF closing on election day and working for
it.
Texas has Just laid the corner stone of its
new state house, which when completed will
be the largest state capitol IN the United
States, second only in size to the national
capitol.
The sexton of New York church died sud-
denly in his pew on Sunday. More of them
would die if compelled to breathe regularly
the air they supply TO worshippers IN the
church.
A sngularity about hymnology is that
many excellent hymns were written by per-
sons who were not religious at all, or whose
claims to religion rested on very slight foun-
dations.
In Philadelphia the police are compelled
to attend medical lectures, that they may be
able to assist and relieve sufferers in cases of
accident without waiting for the tardy arri.
val of physicians.
A Chinese resding,room, to be known as
the Chins Sc American union, has been
opened at Philadelphia. It's library is mostly
made up of Bibles, Testaments and hymn
books III both languages.
The Supreme Court OF Ohio has decided
that subscriber can not swear over his teie
phone wire when the company objects, The
girls at the central office will no doubt keep
a record of the telephone numbers that swear
at them hereafter.
A New York policeman who went down
| to Guatemala to organize the police force
| there is now the most powerful man in the
| Republic, next 10 President Barrios, and
gets a salary OF 81. 600 year, an immense
| sum in Guatemala.
Although Dakota is supposed to be land
/ OF billiards and byperoorean GOODNESS, a
Desdwood paper declares that ''all OF last
week farmers throughout the valley we're
busily engaged ploughing and preparing to
SOW their spring crops OF grain"
That IN autograph copy of the emancipa-
| ton proclamation is among the historic pa
! pers of the British Museum is not generally
| known. II was prepared at the request oil
| the British Government under the personal
supervision of President Lincoln.
country girl in Pennsylvania is Just now
| the object OF envy by city bellies because of g
| Unlocking hat made entirely of oatstraw
and corn shucks that grew on her fathers
farm. II is tastily trimmed with chicken
J feathers dyed in pokeberry Juice and blue
| writing fluid.
a recently discovered tin mine in Calhoun
| County, w. Va, is valued at $1,000 600
year ago the land under which il lies could
have been purchased at less than fifty cents
an acre. The output is comparatively small
but the quality is said to be excellent, and
the quantity far above the average.
There are number of soap trees growing
in tallahassee having yellowish, sapy 40
pearance, with hard black seed from which
the trees are propagated. People in Talls-
hassee boil the fruit to make soap, but in
Chine, Japan, and other countries the Der
ries are used as substitute for soap Just q:
they are taken from the trees.
Cincinnati has established a Labor yard
! where any man can have q ten-cent mea
after saving and splitting wood for an hour.
The tickets are sold to charitable people all
over the city ut fifteen for 81. aud applicants
for bread are given pasteboard instead
Over 81 200 worth Of tickets have bean solo
In a year, and the scheme works well.
Mr.. II. @. Kohler, Dakota farmer whose
father and uncle were the pioneer beet sugar
manufacturers OF Hanover, Germany. de-
clares that the conditions of soil and climate
in Dakota are very similar to those OF his
old home across the wster, and he believes
the man ufacture Of beet sugar will prove one
OF the best paying industries OF the North
west, because the per cent. OF sugar is 80 verJ
large in the roots raised there.
| a Rook of Nature
| The Winters book of poems,
| SOrrowiul Fantasies,
All pictured with empty bird nests,
Held in the lonely trees.
| The turquoise skies are the covers,
1 Begilt with sunbeams long,
| The drifts of snow are the pages,
And the moaning winds the song.
r. X. Munkittrick IN March Century Bric-a
Brae.
| The Funeral Craze.
In DR.. Hammond's recent novel entitled
DIR. GrattaD," that astu,e AMI observing