The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
VAB1ETTES.
Spectator.

sins.
The London Times ras one hundred years
old January first
q pearl has been found on the western
Australian COST, valued at $40, 600.
The name of God in the Hindoostanee
language is Rain. In PeFsian, Sire.
Statistics show that clergymen live only
tgo years longer than the wicked lawyers.
Australia hes ninety-thrte species of
snakes, aud drinks are regulated sceor iiagly
There are 72z, sol school children in the
State, CT which Marion County claims A.
During the fourteenth and iftee ath CEN
turies IN France guilty animals suffered
death on the gallows.
The percentage of voters who did not vote
at the late election runs from seven in Indi-
ana to sixty-one in Georgia.
There are 623 newspapers and periodicals
published in foreign languages in this coun-
try. OF these 4S3 are IN German.
a Philadelphia doctor is treating thirteen
cases OF spinal disease, which he says have
been brought on by bicycle riding.
Philadelphia enters the new year with
COCO saloons, not to msntion many good
citizens who keep sdemijohn at home.
Daring the cholera epidemic in Paris the
number OF deaths among married and IN.
married men were 402 and 936 respectively.
Life on this planet, according to treatise
brought out by Mr.. Scribner ex-Secretsry of
State, New York, began in the polar regions.
A cent Of 1907 is worth Sll. People who
gave their pennies TO the poor in those days
are now Kicking themselves for their extrey-
sgance.
Notwithstanding the great advantages of
citizenship IN the United States and Terri
tories, 2S5, 100000 human beings still live
under British rule.
England imported S25 600, 600 worth of
cheese last year. The English are deter
mined 10 keep up reputation vi being the
strongest nation on earth.
Two years ago q man in Maine received q
legacy Of sac U0o, aud the other day he paid
GOT his last nickle for whisky and rolled into
a enowbank 10 freeze to death.
The tree 10 japan from which the varnish
for the famous lacquer work is made is
disappearing, and the country is threatened
with the loss OF one of ITS greatest indus
tries.
The Bishop OF Melbourne has ordered
prayers to be offered that rabbits may not
become mothers, all endesvors to extermi-
nate them having proved fruitless. Whist
next2
Kentucky tailor, taking g measure for
trousers to customer)-"Will you have one
Tailor-"PInt or quart size2" Customer
'Qasrt"
The expression commencement exer-
cises' js applied TO the concluding exercises
of 3 college term, from the fact that thew
mark the commencement" of the gradu-
ete's independent life.
The electric light is pronounced by an
English scientist who claims TO have ex-
baustively examined into the subject, the
10 nv "
atmosphere is not vitiated-
A huge lemon has recently been picked at
Penasofkee, Fla. 1t measured twenty-four
inches in circumference one way, and twen-
ty-two inches the other, and weighed four
pounds and thirteen ounces.
Ohio is the wickedest State in the Union,
Having had more murders committed
therein during the past year, than was com
mitied in any other State. There was 189
murders; Texas comes next with 1S4.
The Postoffice has the largest amount of
patronage at its disposal The number of
Postofces is now about 81, 0O0. OF these
about 600 are Presidential appointments
that have to be confirmed by the Senate.
The balance are made in the departments on
political recommendations.
In the manufacturing towns and counties
OF Scotland the proportion OF persons who
marry il given year is as high as eighty
five in every 10 600 OF the population, while
in the rural DISTRICTS II is only thirty. Mar
risges are not only more infrequent in the
AGRICULTURAL districts, but they occur later in
lie.
A typographical error is not always pro.
ductiVe of evil. In an Eastern TO En fhe
printer made the announcement of q prayer
meeting TO be held that night. resd as f5l-
lows: The prayer-meeting at the Moth ID.
ist Church will be hell tonight" This ex-
cited the curiosity Of many and the no Use
I'D II, he, sv.sc u
vantage and opened the doors OF the church.
The result was there were seventeen access
sions, which was the beginning OF a grand
awakening and religious revival.