The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-01
SENTINELS.
Notes aud Items Captured ON the skirnnisl.
Line.


There are 1901 female students in the
American colleges.
There about dozen bridges over the
Thames at London
Eight per cent. of the sugar made in the
United States is boiled down from maple
sugar.
Henry III. of France had q passion for
dogs. which cost the State 100000 crowns
year.
The Kalamazoo celery growers are prepar-
ing for a still larger crop than they raised
last year.
The best time yet made between New York
and Liverpool is six days. nine hours and
fifty minutes.
The Grocers Company of London still have
a restoration feast on the day of the restora-
ton OF Charles H.. May ~.
The new city directory of San Francisco
contains 10000 more names than that of 1883,
and the population is now estimated at 325,
600.
Three Partisan manufacturers, who were
detected in artificialIy coloring tomatoes to
improve their appearance have been fined
for the ofiense
A child playing with matches caused the
village of Nemedi and made bankrupt the
whole population.
Nearly 2OO00,0O0 eggs are shipped across
the Atlantic To this country, chiefly from
Antwerp and Hamburg, during the summer
months of each year.
The redwood posts of y fence erected i'm
Napa. Cal, thirty-two years ago were recent
Iy removed and found i'm as good condition
as when first put into the ground.
Atlanta, Ga, must be the paradise of street
car conductors, according to the statement of
the Constitution of that city which declares
that there are two of the fraternity worth
So, 900 each.
Tommy Atkins is generally accepted
now the typical name for an English sol
dier, just as John Bull is for an Englishman,
and. curiously too, the first Guardsman
wounded in the Soudan was Sergeant Atkins.
Mr.. Arrowsmith has in hand for pubica-
ton work on America la Max O'Rell. 1t
is to be called Jonathan Home and is 10y
"Allen-a-l)ale, announced to be gentle
man on the editorial stag OF the New York
Times.
The value of the Derby won by Melton was
Ei.525. Last year il was 1890; in 1882
f4,775; i'm 1881. I'll, 925; i'm 1880. $3.50. The
don Stock Exchange, the first prize in which
WAS E2.UO0
Among the converted Indians of Arizona
and New Mexico, the real hero OF the Bible
Is Daniel The meekness and lowliness of
the Savior do not appeal to their imagina-
| ton with the force of Daniels experiences
among the lions.
The lakes and streams in the vicinity of st.
LII lost N-itl,
1900 land-loCkcd salmon. As many more
| of the fish will he put in the tributaries of
| the Connecticut River in the Green Mountain
| State
! One of the two free circulating libraries in
| Philadelphia. that OF the Friends in German
| town. permits no work of fiction upon its
! shelves. yet it loans nearly $1,000 volumes a
wear, and and about 5000 people come an
| nually to read in its rooms.
The Canton of Biaha, in the District of
Dardanellcs. whose population was estimated
at 20, ZOO before the last Turko-Russian war,
now contains about 5000 inhabitants. This
| increase is due to the influx of emigrants
| from European Turkey. who have given Il
| great impulse to agriculture and other enter
| prises in that canton.
A section of the famous Pere La Chaise. the
cemetery of Paris is devoted To the sepulture
| of the Mahometans who die in Paris, and an
extraordinary monument of Il fabulous value
| is now being erected in the section. The
| model comes from Grenada. Two thousand
pieces will be used in its construction, and
almost all are dissimiIar.
| The Berlin aquarium has at last accom-
plShed the difficult feat OF showing school
OF live herring in its saltwater basin. These
| fish are 30 delicate that when caught i'm their
native element even Il moments exposure 10
the air Will kill them. They had. therefore
| to he caught under water and To be carefully
! transported from the Seaboard
Austria is just now in the midst of polit-
zeal campaign. and the Vienna shop-kecpers
not so accustomed tonuiSances as Americans,
have posted in their shop windows notice
80 canyasscrs We pray you not to worry
! H. any more about the elections They are
new to liberty i'm Austria, and don't yet APP
| preciate all the blessings a. they should.
The only countries upon the globe to which
cholera has not been carried are the islands
of the South Pacific, Australasia, the Cape of
| Good Hope. the islands of the North At
| lantic. and the western coast of South Amer
| lea. These countries are all separated from
| India by wide eXpanSe of ocean, and have
| no commercial Intercourse with that country.
Tobogganing at Saratoga has become a
| summer as well rs winter amusement,
| showing American enterprise in a manner
| that must make original Canadian tobog-
| gamers blush with chagrin. The sledges are
| mounted on rollers and go rumbling down
| the sidewalks, where the streets are steep, to
| the great CONSERVATION of horses and pedes-
trians.
Browsing animals are proving as destruc-
| tive to California forests as fire is elsewhere.
Herds of sheep and cattle are driven up to
| the mountains every year to Craze, and they
| deyour every green thing from the foothills
| to the meadows on the summit OF the ranges.
| When the grass fails the young seeding trees
are eaten off, the bark peeled 50 that the
underground is entirely destroyed.
| Herr CHASER, the Austrian explorer, is
about to undertake new journey i'll South
ern Arabia. He will go first from Sana to
| Marib, and will then visit in succession
| Wadi-Davassir. Nedjid, 0maun and Had
ramaut I'm similar journey which he
| made some time ago he brought back 216 in
| scriptions of the Sabeans. who were regarded
in the time of the Ptoemys as the wealthiest
| people of Arabia.