The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-10
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Nashville has 1S9 lawyers.
Atlanta is still suffering from her walking
match craze.
The Good Templars have seven thousand
members in Virgins.
Nevada prohibits boys under twenty years
OF age from carrying dangerous weapons.
The Bostonians are kicking terribly against
the enforcement OF the new law curtailing
drinking hours.
An enterprisiDg hsn belonging to +. l..
Pardin OF Hewkinsyille, Ca, las produced
quarter OF q pound egg.
Three physicians of New Haven, Conn,
utilize the bicycle as mode of conyeya1 ace
in making their daily calls.
A see gull measuring I a. feet six inches
from tip to tip of wings was caught in trap
on Wolfe island, Quebec, few days ago.
South Carolina re pie complain that they
are unable TO buy go1d rawbsrries ia their
markets for the reason that the best are ship.
ped North for better prices.
A child ives born in Nspa county Califor-
ME, which weighed but two pounds. 1t is q
boy, perfectly organized and formed. An
ordinary iDger ring could be slipped over
HE hand ana clear up to the elbow. His TO.
tai length is not over eleven inches
Here is a problem.that has puzzled some of
the best arithmaticisrs: "If man puts 500
N Lapk the day ne il twenty-one years of age
what sum must he add TO ii il yearly to have
$4,000 the day he is Atty years OF age, recsiv.
ng 6 per cent. compound interest on his
money.
Florida newspapers loudly denouncs the
experimenting By government engineers
with dynamite and other explosives in the
st. Johns River. IN addition to the destruc.
ton of properly caused by the explosions, the
water OF the river is being polluted by i'm
mense numbers OF dead fish.
There is said to be a superstition among
rtsl-estate men that when q man come to a
broker with property to sell, and every pa
per is in tiptep shape. cat aud dried and
plenty of red ink. there are ten chances to
one that the real.ettate man will be sus-
pic'ous. But II the pspsrs are gotten up
with seeming carslessness no doubts will be
entertained.
One of the prodce firms Of Castle, Wyo.
ming county, n. y. purchased quantity
OF apples last fall which were sold to b os-
ton firm this spring. Ii has now been dis.
covered that the center of the barrels were
stuffed" as it is called, with poor grade
OF apples, known as cider stock, and not
| filled Is represented by the farmers from
whom they were purchased. The firm has
brought suit for damages against the
| farmers.
The trout is better protected than any Ash
in American waters. 1t is the pat of the Leg
| islstuIes. The law recently signed bJ the
| Governor OF New York makes IL illegal to
use net in trout wat2rs. Anyone can burn
net found upon the shores OF trout
stream. The clote. season is extended from
| having trout less than six inches long in.his
possession can be fined. This is the strictess
| fish law eyer enacted in the State.
A Stewart County, Georgia. fisherman, who
| put out his trout lines in the Nineteenth dis
trict, tells the Independent that one day last
week be caught q pound and-a half catfish
on one of his hooks, and left it during the
| night, and that on returning the next morn
| ing he found that on the same hook he had
caught an owl that measured four feet from
| tip 10 tip OF Its wings. There Is no section
OF country in the world except the dark
Nineteenth where owls dive after sh.
A gentleman In Germantown, Pa, who was
greatly annoyed by colony OF sparrows that
bad taken up their quarters in q mass of ivy
| covering one side OF his house, got rid OF
them by q novel expedient. One day he
purchased half pound OF red pepper, aud
| going up to the third story. opened the win
dovs and sifted the pepper down through
the ivy. The alarm OF the sparrows was
evinced by the haste with which they left
their hiding places. Every bird took its
| departure. and his premises sre now clear OF
them.
| fifty years ago Meissonie r's inimitable
| drawings brought from 81 to So apiece. To-
day they are almost priceless. Ia order to
finish them he had tn spend half the day in
the "Bbliotheque Rationale" at Paris,
studying Indian engrayngs which afforded
subjects suited to the taste OF the dealer
whose orders the great French srtist-then
| unknown to fame-was executing. Meis-
senior has himself left 1t on record that his
lur oh then consisted of q Jaw apple, and his
| dir ner when he could afford one) of soup,
| flied potatoes and q bit OF bread. He could
| only afford TO sleep one night IN two and
for six months he claims to have lived on q
sum equal to $40