The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22
vAH.lETIEs.

1nele are ooV newspapers ID iowa.
Wheat eighteen Inches high is now to be
seen in California.
Many women are becoming CONNER cial
travellers in England.
Two Buffalo women h ave been made crazy
by the stories told them by a fortune teller.
DruDksIds now form 30 per cent. of the in
sane persons in Paris asylums. In this fact
lies a whole temperance sermon.
The entire family of children. sixteen in
humber, OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbaait of New
Chicago, NJ. T., have died of diphtheria.
There Is nearly as much difficulty in get
ting straight news from KhsrIoum as there
is in finding out anything about Albany.
There are three bundled and forty.seven
female blacksmiths III England. all of whom
actually swing heavy b. miners and do meas
work
New York barber claims to have accom-
plished the unprecedented feat of shaving
seventy i've men IN one hour and twenty
two minutes.
II anything is harder to find than an hon.
est gas meter, Il must be something You
have put away so carefully 1t Will never
more turn up.
ssThe yearly consumption of meats in the
Uniied States per capita Is l20 rounds; in
England. 104 pounds France, "A pounds
Germany, 90 pounds.
A favorite >py set by writing teachers for
their pupils Is the following, because it Goa
tains every letter OF the al alphabet; "A
quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog"
There was heavy falling of in Engl 30
exports OF iron and steel products last year
rhe returns Just published giving for 1882
Sl57 99l 500; 1853, sli2 SOL, $50, and 1884
1922, 43S 345.
Travellers in Iceland do not adopt all OF
the customs of the country. An Iceland
custom ia that 8 man kisses every woman he
meets. There are some exceedingly ia
kissable women mp there.
person sleeping on his right side &C.
cordipg TO a celebrated French psychologist
will have iDcoherent and absurd dreams, out
when slee ping on the left side the dreams
will be OF an intelligent nature.
Two human monsters "a man and woman
have been arrested in France for enticipg
two boys Of eight and ten from their homes,
and then snbjtcting them 10 tortures ia or.
der to make cripples OF them for begging
purposes
The London Eaily Telegraph nets it's own
d million dollars year and runs ten
Hoe presses OF the four original propri
etors the sole survivor is the owner of
country weekly, and another died in the
poorhouse.
The frat thing to be done in any private
or pu bic charity movement Is to beat the
newspapers TO the extent OF making them
advertise the scheme free. After the show
- over, the beats will ask the same paper to
publish free card thanking the beats for
their work In the cause.
In Japan, where ridiculous and injurious
custom prevails OF having the eyelds daily
turned inside out. and then rubbed over,
affiliated and polished with "A smooth patuls,
the ratio Of the blind 10 the, whole poDula
ton II one TO every four hundred In the
city OF Yeddo. IL is said. there are no fewer
tnan 20 600 penons without sight
To reach Khsrtoum you travel through
detert by camel or dromedsry after leaving
the second cataract. From khartoum for
many weary miles between these two forks
OF the Nife Ii in nothing but n dense morass,
where all creeping and singing things abide
and where malaria is truly king IL Is 80
deadly To white men that ut GondoAoro,
which In some hundred or more miles up the
river, II 10 considered that no white maa eau
exist ten days.
Mir. Lincoln's manner while signing the
emancipation proclamation on New Years
night 1863 IL thus described Ia current
item "As he took up the pen he said 20
Secretary Slant ton My arm IL numb TO The
shoulder from SO much hand'shaking IL
my hand trembes thew will say 10 WI, be.
euuse was afraid. Then he threw out his
unialterng signature. "A Lincoln, that
gave freedom TO over Goo, 900 blacks.n
1.-THE ohloral habit says the Baltimore
Underwater. sis steadily on the increase.
not only among sufferers from constant In
somons but among persons subject 10
milder forms o. nervous irritation, to the
strain and excitement OF speculative ven
lures. or 10 the wsnr and tear OF late hours
and fashionable dissipation This nepenthe
y more seductive 20 people OF refinement
than the Juice Of the poppy, and habltual
surrender to its domination Ia harder To
break than the opium habit. To the usual
questions In the application for life insur-
81 &C as 10 the use or abuse OF alcoholic drinks,
tobacco and opium. may well be added scru'
tiny a. 20 hy drnts OF chloral, for many per
sons who never use the former would have
20 plead guilty 10 more or less frequent re
course 10 the latter"
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