The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-03-18

VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
man, sleigh.
pretty girl.
Two horses gray,
Away they whirl,
She Hestles close:
His nseful arm
Round her waist goes,
Drawn by loves charm.
The sleigh bells ring
The sun shines bright,
The runners sing
Ger snow so white,
Through village street
The tIotters fleet
Speed with their load.
little hill,
A sscEened rein.
quiet thrill
A fr-tree lane.
whisper low.
throb of bliss.
A hug or so.
And then kiss.
StIaws show which way the mint.julep
To the victors belong the post-ofices.
Life.
Japanese law compsls people to sell fish
alive. They are vended in tanks.
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere
long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Ifcrying babies had any sense, they would
never take their mothers to matinees.
The Jaekass would not hide his ears if he
could. He thinks they look well enough.
A Connecticut jury places the value of
mans ear at 81, 900. The man wanted S1O,-
600.
The King of Siam is not yet thirty years
of age, and is credited with having 200 chill
dren.
The newest application Of electricity is
for electric lining to hats TO nourish the
brain.
There are reported to be 10000, 900 people
in Austro Hungary who never read news
paper.
Darwin says birds sing only for love. bat
this fact never occurs to man who is walked
up by canary at a. N.
ga gigantic engine of national democrat
ization," wss Lord Besconheld's definition
OF the turf in one OF his novels.
The skull of Richelieu, carefully pre-.
served in q velvet case, is said TO be in the
possession of Paris publisher.
The oldest known tree in the world, at
Mount Etna, is hollow, and large enough to
admit two carriages driving abreast through
it.
Teal favored with cinnamon and cloves
and sponge cake stepped in pineapple rum
are among the German Kaiser's fsYorite
dishes.
A Hungarian Jew sent to "a Vienna paper
a grain of wheat on which he had writ
ten 800 words taken from Tissot's book on
Vienna.
The largest tree in California, although
dead and fallen, has a trseeable height of
462 feet and measures 1l2 feet in diameter
at its base.
Patent medicines are estimated by lead
ing English journal OF medical matters to
cause the death of a hundred and fifty thou
sand persons every year.
A New York confectioner says that % per
cent OF al the Candy now sold is white clay
which looks like sugar. II comes from Sta.
ten Island and is called terra alba.
According to the official returns OF the
Health Department of New York there were
reported in the ten years ended with 1888
"a, 697 cases of diphtheris, Of which 10, 697
proved fatal.
Women constitute over quarter of Ger
many's agricultural laborers. In the last
census 4 692 34S persons we're returned as
engaged in agricultural work, of whom l,
230,0S0 we females.re
A Belgian editor recently ins1lted rival
editor in the morning. fought q duel and
killed him in the afternoon, and came out at
p. m. with special evening edition de-
scribiDg the encounter.
us the girl your son is going to marry
highly accomplishedF' asked the younger
/ of the elder, Highly accOplishedr' echoed
/ the elGer. We'll, ] should say so. She is
the best and most graceful skater at the
rink.
The Englishman who said that American
| girls Gid not know what to do with their
arms, certainly never had much experience
in American parlors with the gas turned low.
| They are very accomplished in armstory
eXercjses-sO we ara informed,
The United States has II, 600 dentists, who
1 use a ton of gold and five tons OF other
metals. and make 100000 artificial teeth
annually. Only one American in eighty is
found to have perfect teeth, aid one.third of
the population make more or less use OF the
artificial product.
! The average cost of a marriage license IN
this country is 81 20. Colorado, Peunsyl-
vania South Carolina, Rhode Island, Wis
consin, charge nothing; New Jersey, twelve
cents; New York, twenty-five; Massachu-
sets, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut fifty,
and so on, up to Maryland, the highest OF the
lot, $3.50.
The kisser has been caught at the trick,
but it WANT General Sherman or Governor
| Crittenden this time. The kisser was an
| ingenious invention of spiritual medium
| performing in Philadelphia, who was ex-
posed and ia now lsnguishing in jail, with
bis little imposture held as mute but elo-
| quent witness against him.
Statistics show that the butter product Of
Iowa increased from 27,512179 pounds in
1870 to 90, ASH. 95S pounds in 1880. The pro-
duct for last year is estimated at SO, 45l, 49,
! pounds. II is said, moreover of this thriv-
ing State, that her general products last year
| exceeded in value the gold and silver pro
duct of the world for the same period.
Mamma, IL I die would be an angelo"
asked little Emma. Eyes, DEAR" "And il
I'd die would / be an angel, too?' asked
Johnny. mo, ! think not You are too
wild" ITO wild Coed golly, woman, that's
just the kind what makes the fastest hyin'
angels. Look at the wild birds, see how fast
they kin fly. pll bet could leave Emma
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