The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
SENTIN ELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirmish
Line.

A nine-year-old girl took the first prize for
oil paintings at the recent Los Angeles, Cal,
fair.
The English lead mines are giving out.
Within few years 1859 mines have been
closed and &C, 600 men thrown out of employ
ment.
Women are sections in the English Church,
Berlin. 1t is said to break their hearts to
have anybody leave before the collection is
taken up.
Bathers in San Francisco Bay are much
troubled over the frequent visits of man.
eating sharks. The last caught was over ten
feet long and weighed 500 pounds.
Captain Hanna brought up from San Pc
dro. Cal. on his last trip, potato weighing
about seventeen pounds and measuring
thirty-three and three-eighths inches around
the largest part
An Ohio farmer named Hayes has, by
process of selection, obtained hen that will
lay two eggs a day. The hen. however is
not allowed to work on Sunday. Ruther-
ford is good man.
Multitudes of Cinnamon are now on their
way home to celebrate their New Year hol-
idays and if they are not careful about their
about getting back
Philadelphia contains more dwelling houses
owned by their occupants than any other
city in the country, beating New York by
more than 10000. Philadelphia is growing
at the rate of 5000 houses per year.
Toronto has a club of forty tobogganists.
A floating bar-room now plies up and down
the Savannah River, in Georgia, supplying
such of the thirsty as care to journey to the
craft in small boats which the proprietors
will send ashore for them.
A Newry Me-. farmer was attacked by a
bear while in the mountains with yoke of
oxen. 1t was a stern chase between the cat
tie and the bear. The farmer jumped for the
plug in the yoke, and dangled there until
the oxen had carried him out of reach rhe
bear tore the oxen fearfully, but could not
reach the farmer.
A colony of lepers is located at Tracadie
New Brunswick, in Gloucester County, on
the shores of the Gulf of st. Lawrence. There
is another small settlement of lepers in the
British Provinces which is almost entirely
unknown. 1t is situated in the western part
of Cape Breton, near Lake Ainslie, the men,
bers being natives of the highlands of Scot
land.
ten cent piece with an air of offended dig
nity): 81 can't take that" Passenger:
''Why?" Conductor: Because they won't
take them from us at the Office" Passenger
with feigned surprised: "Good gracious
you don't mean to say that if you take that
from me in payment for my fare they'll ever
see 1t at the Office, do your
A touching scene was witnessed at Daven-
port, Iowa. Saturday. After separation of
five years an honest German and his two
children were happily united The father,
named Mueller, left his two little children
in Germany four years ago on the death of
their mother, himself coming to America.
He lately bought tickets for the children
and they made the journey of 1000 miles
alone. They were ticketed and had tags at
tackled to them, with full directions for reach
ing their destination.
Bismarck, Oak, has a sensation. At -
o'clock, in the dead silence of the night a
phantom appears upon the waters of the
Missouri. The figure of a woman, deathly
white, clad in floating garb of snowy
purity, stands in an lmploring attitude in a
small, shadowy boat. The little vessel can
distinctly be seen, even beneath the muddy
waters of the river. glowing with phos-
| phOrescent ngnt. In spite OF the rapid cur
rent the boat with the beseeching figure in
it never moves, but rocks up and down mys-
teIiously on the gentle ripples that glow
with faint white light The whole appari-
ton is enveloped in a halo of light, the mys-
FERROUS figure waves its hand three times, the
] silence is broken by a trembling sigh, and
the unhealthy embodiment fades away into
| darkness. Various theories are out to ac-
count for this strange appearance. One says
| it is the ghost of an Indian maiden
that long ago was here sacrificed by
] the native tribes to appease the
anger of the Great Spirit. Another
asserts it to be the spirit of the State of Da-
kota, riding in the ship of State, and that It's
sigh is evoked by the weary waiting of a
Democratic Congress. Still third declares
that it is the spirit of an aged spinster, who
was allured to Dakota by Colonel Pat
| Domains delusive eloquence. But be that as
| it may, the apparition still appears, and Bis
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