The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

elevations OF over fifteen thousand feet.
The Boston Herald predicty that
the Hub win have popglation of one
million in 1900.
Tennessee has great natural -
sources, including ten thousand squaf,
miles of timber rs yet untouched.
There are now nearly seven million
children in the United States who do !
not know their letters. = CAscaos-
Herald. a 8
Josh Billings says he has discov.
cred that there is one thing that can
be said Of dyspepsia-it makes maa
forget all his other sorrows. -
AN advertisement can not reach
the general public so surely and effec-
tually in any other way as through tia
columns of a newspaper that is widely
read and trusted.-Erchdnge.
A new rose, possessed of manifold !
attractions, perfect in form and color.
unequaled in fragrance, hardy in habit.
and a perpetual bloomer, has been
named by its originator The American
Beauty" kl&t# "a
The town of Westboro, Mass, did
not have fire during the year 1884.
The fire department was called out
once to put out fire in a freight-eas
en- route through the town, which was
stopped for the purpose.
A juror at Cumberland, Nd, the
other day hung his coat over one q
the heaters in the courtroom. When
he put it on after adjournment he dis
covered that some apples he had in his .
pockets were roasted.-Baltinlore Sun.
An earthquake shock travels about
twenty-five miles a minute through
hard substances. but soft substances
such as sand and gravel, or clay, retard
its rate of progress, and, of course, in
water it gets on much slower STILL
Chicago Times. =
A Georgia negro, named Gabe
Walker, tired of sowing his bachelor
wild oats, married the other day at the
age of ninety-five. ''Gabe's" father
lived to be one hundred and ten and
was in fair way to live forever when
q wagon ran over him. -.
| In China, according to the CornAiR :
Magazine, they value eggs according
to their age. All eggs are put in
L "
come black throughout. The egg a
wealth and luxury in the flowery king
dom is forty or fifty years old. ssa
| Perhaps no association has done
| so much toward enlightening the pub
| lie mind in reference to the condition
of the prisons in the United States and
the necessity for some general improve
| ment in their management. as tia
| National Prison Association Chicago
Inter Ocean.
i'm Brooklyn recently an old man
was arrested for begging. but ct de
hearing it was explained BY the daugh-
ter that he was possessed of religioas
mania and gayeNwhat he realized from
begging to some needy institution or
dropped it into the poor box at church.
Brooklyn Eagle.
On Cape Cod and in many districts
along the New England coast it y
| firmly believed that sick man can not
die until the ebb tide begins to run
Watchers by beds of sickness anxious
ly note the change Of the tides, and Il
the patient lives until the flood begins
to set in again he viii live until the
next ebb.-Boston Transcript.
| 1t seems that Japanese prison man.
agement is rather ahead Of ours. A
large variety of trades are taught in
the prisons. such as tailoring. cooking..
type-setting, printing book-binding,
shoemaking, porcelain and painting.
The prisoners have an allowance Of
three cents . day and fifty cents .
| week put to their credit and paid to
them ON their discharge. - Boston
| Herald. -
Those learned. editors who arc
writing about ''dynamiteurs and "dy-
namitardsn ought to be taught that an
English word Is better for their readers
than foreign one, and that ..dynar
miters" is good enough to describe the
new class Of cowarily criminals. WIZ
Irishmen operating in England should
be described by French words in Amer.
lean papers can not be explained
Philadelphia Bulletin. s
| An exchange says that under the
laws of Pennsylvania bakers cannot.
by law, collect bin for the sale OF
bread; that all bread shall be sold by
the pound; that bread scales shall be
kept on the counter or in some con-
spicuous place in all bakeries; that nm
less the bread be weighed the sale y
illegal and the seller liable to fine O.
ten dollars and costs for each ofiense.
and that half of this sum shall go 70
the informer.
One night Admiral. then Commp-
dore, DE Horsey, returning from 2
dinner party in Jamaica. was ch.i-
lenged by a sentry and asked for ne
counter-sign. He could not give e
and rather pompously said: STAND
aside, fellow, and let me pass. ! -
Captain De Horsey" To which ne
sentry replied: "Captin De Horscys
Captin De Donkey. Go in de box.
The sentry would not be placated, ~
into the box the officer went, to remas
until the relief guard liberated him.
Two bright citizens of Covingtsn,
} Tenn, who were impecunious DIs
thrifty, bet two hundred thousand aos.
lars on the last election. and depos'!ee
two large bundles in the safe o.
local hank In nav the wager. On -