The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Skirmish
Line.


of New York.
There are in England 49, ragged schools
which are attended by $4,000 children.
Nearly 6OOO, 900 shad hare been Matched at
the Connecticut State hatchery this season.
The number OF children of school age en-
rolled in the United States is estimated at
Ii, 100000
The Secretary of the London Swimming
Club submits the theory that salt water is a
cure for lunacy.
The potato introduced in England in 1900,
was first eaten as q sweetmeat, stewed in sack
wine and sugar
Since l776 the Executive Departments and
Congress have published no less than $4,000
volumes and pamphlets.
J. H. Hewitt, of Baltimore, is said TO be
the oldest living graduate of West Point He
belonged TO the class of 1918.
Oil in large quantities, it is reported, has
been struck in Saratoga County, New York,
at depth of ninety-tiye feet
The opinion is expressed by Canadian
physician that 80 per cent. of all diseases
arise from the use of stimulants.
Many Chinese at Winnemucca, New, live
In caves dug out of steep banks, .hus secur-
ing both cheap and comfortable dwellings.
The Indians on the White Mountain reSer-
Walton, Arizona, are reported to have some
200 acres of land under cultivation this sea-
son.
An Albany (Ga.) woman who took it into
her head to destroy every photograph of her.
self sent nearly thousand miles for the last
one.
A man in Livingston, \. Y, tried to fire off
bunch of red bananas, to which he applied
luciferS, under the impression that they were
cannon crackers.
The thermometer reached 120 degrees in
the shade in some places in Tulare County,
Bernardino County, 125 degreesiin the shade
is reported.
Berlin has hospital for horses, in which
overworked or sick animals may find rest and
regain their health. 1t is under the joint man.
agement of veterinary of the first class, an
ex-Captain of artillery, and a farmer. The
grounds have an extent of nearly 100 acres
with excellent pasture land, clay and moor
patches, water and bathing facilities. In case
of need the patients have ambulance wagons
sent for them to transport them to the hos
pital.
week, unanswered her way into the White
House with six small children in tow, and
made most affecting plea for an appoint
ment which would enable her to support her
widowed brood. 1t was neat bit OF strate-
gy, but il wofully miscarried when she was
recognized by one of the attendants. She
was never married at ALL and the squad of
juveniles had been borrowed for the occasion.
The author of so ingenious a device almost
deserved success.
A simple cure for sleeplessnesS has been
advised by a Partisan physician for an
American who has been travelling through
Europe who suffered from wakeful nights.
The remedy was complete cessation of men,
tai exertion in the evening. and the forma-
ton of habit of retiring at the same time
each evening. No letter writing, no reading
of eXcitable books was allowed, and the
mind was placed in as passive a state as DOS
sible. The American, who had been VIC
tim of sleeplessness for years, returned home
cured.
A special feature of the approaching cele-
bration of Concord's 25Oth anniversary is to
be the placing Of many inscribed tablets on
the towns historic spots. Some of them
have been completed. One to be placed on
huge bowlder has this inscription: ION this
farm dwelt Simon Willard, one of the found
ers of Concord, who did good service for
town and COLONY for more than forty years.
Another says: 1.-THE British troops retreat
ing from the old North bridge were here at
tackled in flank by the men of Concord and
neighboring towns and driven under hot
fire to Charlestown."
The daughter of Judge Kelley, of Pennsyl-
vania, writes to the Philadelphia Times that
la1
and the teachers underpaid. Pupils to the
number of so to 800 are placed in charge
of a single teacher often boy not more than
fifteen or eighteen years of age. The pay of
the teachers is wretchedly inadequate. Most
of them are forced to seek outside employ
ment in order to get enough to live on. So
unattractive is this profession that there is a
want of teachers to fill the schools. In 1868
there were in Prussia 595 teachers and 414
assistants positions vacant. There. were
school districts where there had been no
teachers for generation. 1t is worth while
TO add that in the year in question $40 teach
ers and SD assistants employed in the yolks-
schulen were boys.
The ssrunner-bird' of Arizona, which is q
special enemy of snakes, destroys them in a
peculiar manner. 1t selects as the moment
| for operation the time when the snakes are
asleep in the hot sun, and begins cutting of
| twigs of the most thorny species OF cactus,
which grows everywhere in profusion. When
| enough are obtained they are dropped in 9
circle about the reptile. This is continued
until the fence is strong enough to serve the
| purpose. and such is the dread of the serpent
for the sharp prickers on the cactus that 1t is
said to prefer death from starvation rather
than attempt to escape through the circle OF
thorns, which bristle at il from every direc.
| ton Although the snake is frequently
| known to die in these Enclosures from heat
and famine, it more frequently falls prey