The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-10
VARIETIES.

A spree in Japan costs only twenty cents.
There are now 126 34S Hindoo girls in the
native schools OF India.
New Mexico spent S45. 900 for churches and
st, ass, COO for liquor last year.
The inventor of bsrbs on fence-wire re-
ceives a royalty Of s12O 600 year.
About SIS 600, 600 worth of corsets were
sold in the United States last year.
There is an old saying in Germany that it
is good luck to meet hog. Here's q fine
chance for Jay Gould to become popular.
Two West Virginia farmers killed them
selves In dispute over COW. AS the COW
does not know anything about the trouble
she still gives milk.
The Troy Press states that lawyer of that
city gives as a reason for not going to Europe
this summer that a rich client of his has just
died, and he is afraid the heirs Will get the
property.
A clergyman has discovered that all the
salaries of religious teachers in this country
added together do not amount to so much as
the sum which the country spends annually
In keeping dogs.
The dairy products of this country excsed
the oat crop $3.50, 600, the wheat crop
S100.000,000 tne cotton crop 1920 900, 900, the
product of iron bars and steel $257, 600 600,
and the pig iron output $4,000. 000
In the largest library in the world, in
Paris, there is a Chinese chart of the heavens,
made about 600 years before Christ In this
chart ], AGO stars are found to be correctly in
serted as corroborated by the scientists Of
the present day.
Mr. Shropshire, editor OF the Costa RIGA
IN. Y News, is the youngest grandfather in
that section OF the country. He Is thirty-tve
years old. His wife is also quite youthful,
being only twenty eight. Her grandchild is
nearly year old.
The number of envelopes manufactured
yearly in Great Britain il estimated at 100,
100000, while in the United States they
amount to 2, SOC, 000 900. If hard labor were
employed to do the work now done by ma
chimes simply in making envelopes, taking
no account of the printing done by some OF
them, the services would, it is estimated, be
required of 275. 600 work-people.
A stroll through an emigrant train at Pitts
burg revealed Russians eating blackbread
sandwiches, evidently brought from the other
si6e of the Atlantic; Germans RECALLING them.
selves with wheaton bread, rancid butter and
smoked sausage, and Hungarians, Stunned
by their fellow travellers, devouring mus.y
bread and limburgsr cheese Of great age and
preportionate strength.
According to French medical journal toe
mortality of children brought up on the bot
tle' is frightfully large. OF 4 $40 infants M.
der one year who died of gastrointestinal
troubles ID Paris N lSoZ II Is l0QD0 0y recent
Investigations that very nearly the whole
number were victims of artificial aIimenta-
ton, wholly or in part, or had been fed pre-
maturely with solid food.
William P. Page, of the University OF
Pennsylvania, has by mis- phenomenal fsats
won the title of champion high Jumper. he
stands five feet six and seven eighths inches
and has a record of six feet and one quarter
inch. He shoots himself over q crossbar
- as-IA k1wr ovRA
''takeoff' is somewhere about nine feet, snd
he lands on the opposite side fully six feet
sway from the standards A noted athlete
says: I'm my opinion it is likely he can clear
more inches above his own head than could
any man that ever lived.