The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
vAR.7ETIES.

A sentimental xplosion-5arsting into
tears.
OF the $40 suicides in this country in 1884
but loo were women.
A dollar of 1904 is worth $500. A dollar
OF 1884 is worth eighty five cents.
The most accommodating woman wa have
yet heard of was one who shot her hu.band
tor burglar.
A marriage took place last week at Elgin,
Ill, between q groom of ninety and bride
OF twenty-thTee years.
There are 347 female blscksmiths In Eng
land, all CT whom actually swing heavy
hammers and do mems work.
After much elaboration Wisconsin Jury
decides that kisses are worth one cent piece
when taken at wholesale rates.
Steel needles, If delicately suspended,
even IL not magnetic to begin with, will
become magnetic from the action of the
earth.
In the average newspaper report of q
charity bail there are about four lines of
charity and four columns of description of
6nery.
They have grand opera in Paris in which
1927 girls wear ballet dresses. Even a
Frenchman is bewiidered trying to look AZ
all of 'em.
President Folks was the only inaugura-
ton day on which it has rained in Wash
ington. He stood under an umbrella to read
his address.
mind reader tried to divine the thoughts
OF dude, but gave up the job in despair.
He said he must have some material to WORK
on as q basis.
An Illinois debating society has decided
that there is more pleasure in seeing man
thrt ad needle than in watching a woman's
attempts TO drive nail.
Germany's relations with Italy are OF the
most cordial and confidential nature. The
fierce sauer-kIaut and the gentle macsroni
lie down together. as it were.
An absent husband telegra phed to his
wife: Il send you kiss He received the
reply: Spruce young man called and de-
livered the kiss in good order"
In Siam it is the custom of husbands TO
gamble away their wives. Every SORT OF
plan has to be resorted to where there is no
well equipped system OF divorce.
The rates at public telephones in Paris are
ten cents for i've minutes conversation, bat
then Frenchman can talk more in FIVE MN
utes than any one else in an hour.
Fashion has decreed that the face must be
clean shaver. What will the dude amount
to when his most expressive features, the
mustacne and earwhiskers. are gone?
Twenty thea res in Europe are in receipt
Of State aid. The Paris opera heads the list
wsth Sl6O 600 year, and the Carlo Felice,
at Genoa, comes last with s., 900 year.
A number of dishonest Treasury officers
have committed suicide in Russia This
comes of living so far away from Canada.
They don't kill themselves IN this country.
The latest libel on the Chicago girl is to
the effect that the dor OF the lafgs st skat-
ing rink in that city will accommodate 6fty
Chicago girls at one time, or 800 Indianapo-
lis girls.
The model OF an apparatus for lifting YES.
sels over shoals, for which patent was IS
sued in 1S49 to Abraham Lincoln, will form
portion OF the Patent Office exhibit at the
New Orleans Exposition.
E naughty man who had the contrib utinn
book showed under his nose Just after al
appeal to srIiVe to enter in az tue strait
gait. said that he supposed they wanted to
make sure of their gate money.
A Mormon editor of Sslt Lake City had
the following in a recent number: 1.-The uu-
known woman who was killed at this place
about three months ago by the cars proves
to be one OF the wives of the editor of this
paper"
Touching extract from a sensational newell:
Casting herself between ner brother and
her intended victim, the fair Inez exclaimed
in voice that vibrated with agony: 'Rr.
dolpho, do net kill him, for if you did he
would surely die
The man who hammers his thumb nail
while putting down carpets, or who is vio-
leDtly caught under the chiR by clothes
line when he goes out in the yard after dusk,
should remember that in the revised edition
Of the New Testament the words have been
changed to "hades" and condemnation"
Upon the keys south of Dsytona there
grows veritable upas tree, called the man
chineel. Any one taking shelter under ii
during rain or sleeping under it when the
dew falls is sure to be poisoned. One who
experienced il says: st swells fellow up
and makes him feel as if he had been skinned
and peppered."