The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-29
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured ON the Slirmish
Line.
The Judge.


miliar: Don't"
In Denmark a drunken man is taken
home in a hack by the police, and the bill is
sent to the saloOn-keeper who sold him the
last drink.
A woman who had been fourteen years in
the service of Queen Victoria was convicted
at MiddesSex Sessions fortnight ago, and
sent to prison for two months for theft.
There is grim humor in the fact that the
bundle of Shapiro manuscripts, recently
valued at 81, OOO, OOO was bought on Thursday
for eighty cents by DIR. Ginsburg. who ex-
amined the manuscripts for the British
Museum.
Cigarette smoking. probably the most in
furious way of using tobacco, has been
rapidly growing in popularity in the last
few years. In 1876 100000 cigarettes were
manufactured. Last year the number was
SCO,COO,OOO.
That old story about the site of Chicago
having been once bought for pair of boots
is being revived in st. Louis. The Chicago
people retOrt that St. Louis could now be
bought for a pair of boots, If they weren't
very expensive.
Evarrice Manceau, of Lavenir, Quebec, has
a son six years of age who weighs 1O6 pounds,
stands four feet in height, measures around
the waist thirty-seven inches, around the
arm eleven inches and around the calf Of
the leg fourteen inches.
There are some thirty POstOffices men,
toned by Washington letter writer as pay
ing their incumbents less than 81 year
The Postmaster at Redalia, y. c., drew nine
cents last year, but under the twO-cent rate
1t Is probable he will not receive more than
six cents.
''Canting hypOcrite," ''loafing literary
BLACKBOARD" internal narrative" "gross
connection" and shameless creature" are
terms applied to the editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette and its work by its chief afternoon
rival, the London St. JONES Gazette. Some
fellow on the Gazette must have worked on a
Chicago newspaper.
Take a piece of ordinary writing paper.
fold it, hang it conveniently, fill it with
water, and place lighted candle underneath.
The water will boil in short time and the
paper will remain unchanged. Even if the
paper should not become damp, the heat
impaired to il on one side would be rapidly
conducted away by the other.
Children in Congo are the property of the
mothers relatives. The right of inherit
ance is from uncle to nephew and mans
slaves and real property go to the eldest son
OF his eldest sister, or the next of kin in
such line. A wise nephew usually leaves his
fathers house and lives with his uncle TO
keep his eye on his future property.
Miss Adele Field in a communication
made to the Academy of Natural Science of
Philadelphia, reports that the common
earth worm. after its head has been cut off.
has the power Of regenerating the whole OF
the diSmembered portion. She recOuntS her
experiments with such minureneSS a seems
to show that error in her conclusions was
impossible.
In Toxic there are seven large and five or
six small papers. The circulation of the
daily papers is about 1000 each. There are
also 1000 banks in the empire. The tax is
per cent on the value of real estate. The
annual income of the government is about
Sli6 600, COO the public debt about $500, O0O,-
600. on which interest is paid at different
rates, ranging from TO per cent
Some of the coast negroes of Africa still
worship the shark and regard its stomach as
the road to paradise. They offer it poultry
and goats two or three times year. and at
least once year try to propitiate il by offer
ing a ten wear old child. The little victim is
bound to a post in the sands at low water,
and as the tide rises mingles its shrieks and
screams with those of its mother until the
ravenous fishes drag it out OF sight.
A bushel of corn when compacted into
lard, or cheese, or butter can find its market
anywhere in the world where the cost of
sending the corn itself would make mar
ket for ii impossible. Beside this, in the
making of the lard or butter q manurial
residue is left on the land instead of being
carried away to fertiliZe foreign fields. This
is the kernel of the argument for mixed
farming instead of grain farming
Tobacco used to be regarded as a valuable
medicine and is prescribed yet by physicians
in occasional cases. Before the discovery of
chloroform it was used in strangulated her
mia to give complete relaxation, and in
courses where mercury was the chief medi
cine ii was added TO avert the after effects
As an ingredient in ESTIMATES, cigarettes
with belladOnna stramOnium, etc, it is en-
titled.to part of the credit of the remedial re-
suits.
General Lew Wallace has two new novels
in preparation. The plot of one is laid in
New Mexico and that of the other ia Con-
stantinOple This distinguished author has
the widest range of contemporary noyelists.
His greatest success has been achieved,
hitherto. in representing the life of people in
ing works, he shall essay to give picture of
some phase of modern life, that one will have
a special interest.
Richter said no man can either live piously
or die righteous without a wife. Malherbe
said the two most beautiful things on earth
are women and roses. Sayille considered
there was more strength in women's looks
than in any laws. Victor Hugo didn't be-
lieye that women detested serpents so much
from fear, but more through professional
jealousy. BOucicault wished Adam had
died with all his ribs in his body. The only
thing that consoled Lady Blessington for be-
ing woman was that she could not be made
to marry one.
A person struck by lightning does not
know it, the fluid being much quicker than
thought. The nerves which convey pain are
rather slow in their power to convey their
information. Stick pin in the tail OF an
elephant and quite a perceptible interval
occurs before the noble animal gives his
opinion of the man or boy at the other end
OF the nervous system on trial. Lightning
does its work before the victim knows any