The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15
VARIETIES.

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Straws show which way the mint julep
To the victers belong the postofiees.
Life.
Japanese law compels people to sell fish
alive. They ara vended in tanks.
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere
long thou shalt sell thy necessa les.
Ifcrying babies had any sense, they would
never take their mothers to matinees.
The Jsekass would net hide his ears i he,
could. He thinks they look well enough.
A Connecticut jury places the value of
mans ear at 81 600. The man wanted Sl0,-
600.
The King of Siam is not yet thirty years
of age, and is credited with having Dos chill
dren.
The newest application of electricity is
for electric lining to mats 10 nourish the
brain.
There are reported 10 be 20, 900, 900 people
| in Austro Hungary who never read ne rs
paper.
Darwin rays birds sing only for love. but
| this feet never occurs TO 8 man who is waved
| up by canary st 1 a. IN.
"a gigantic engine of national demoral-
| izstion,' wss Lord Beaconheld's detlaition
OF the tuIf in one of his novels.
| The skull of Rchelieu, carefully pre-
| served in a velvet case, is said TO bs 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
| il.
Teal favored with cinnamon and cloves
| and sponge cake stepped in pineapple rum
are among the German Kaiser's fay0rie
| dishes.
| A Hungarian Jew sent to Vienna paper
| grain of wheat on which be had writ.
| ten 800 words taken from Tissot's book on
| Vienna.
The largest tree in California, although
| dead and fallen, has a traceable height of
| 462 feet, and measures 1l2 feet in diameter
| at Its base.
| Patent medicines are estimated by lesd-
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 all the candy now sold is white clay
|! which looks like sugar. 1t comes from Sta.
ten Island and is called terra alba.
| Acc lrding to the official returns OF the
| Health Department of New York there ware
reported in the ten years ended with 1888
| 81 697 cases of diphtherie, Of which 10 COZ
proved fatal.
Women constitute over a quarter OF Gar
many's agricultural laborers. In the last
| census 1902 3iS persons ware returned as
| engaged in agricultural work, of whom ], =
230,OSO we femsles.re
A Belgian editor recently insulted rival
| editor in the morning. fought duel and
killed him in the afternoon, and came out at
| p. N. with special evening edition de-
| scribing the encounter.
as the girl your SON is going to marry
| highly accomplished" asked the Younger
Of the elder. Highly accoplished?' echoed
the elcer. well, should saw so. She is
| the best and most graceful skater a. the
| rink.
The Englishman who said that American
| girls aid not know what to do with their
AIMS, certainly never had much experience
in American parlors with the gas turned low.
| They are very accomplished in armatOry
| exercises-sO We are informed.
The United States has IL, 900 dentists, who
use 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 il
this country is s. 20. Colorado. Pennsyl-
vania, South Carolina, Rhode Island Wis.
consin. charge nothing; New Jersey, twelve
cents; New York, twenty. five Msssachu-
sets, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut fifty,
aud so on, up to Maryland, the highest of the
lot, 81 so.
The kisser bss been caught at the trick,
but it WANT General Sherman or Governor
CritteDden this time. The kisser was an
ingenious invention of spiritual medium
posed and is now lsnguishing in jail, with
his little imposture held as mute but elo-
| quent witness against him.
Statistics show that the butter product OF
| Iowa increased from 1852 l79 pounds in
1870 to So. 4Sl, 95S pounds in 1880. The pro
cuct for last year is estimated at SO 45l, 737
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. II I die would I be an angelo
asked little Emma. yes dear" "And ii
I'd die would be an angel, too?" asked
Johnny. mo. think not You are too
wild" To Wild Good golly, woman, that's
Just the hind what makes the fastest flynn
angels. Look at the wild birds, see how fast
they kin fly. I'll bet could leave Emma
away behind. "-Kentucky State Journal.
A man, a sleigh,
pretty girl.
Two horses gray.
| AWAY they whrl,
| she lestles close.
| His useful arm
4 Round her waist goes,
| Drawn by loves charm.
| The sleighbells ring.
| The sun shines bright,
| The runners sing
| Ger snow so white.
Through village street
| And country road
| The tIotters feet
| Speed with their load
little hill.
saekened rein,
| A quiet thrill
| fr-tree lane.
| whisper low.
| throb of bliss.
1 A hug so.
| And then kiss.
Saving Souls in Iowa.
Have you got any dynamite?'
No. sir, we don't keep it. None OF The
regular stores in Chicago do. What did you
want it for2"
Business"
"WeiI, we haven't got any. What kind oil
business do you want il for?'
Church business
"Whst?r
Church business. You see, there's BIZ
rivalry between two denominations in my
neighborhood in the business of saving souls
The one l belong to is getting left. The Other
fellows have got the bulge on Us, and we held
1 a ChuIch council last veek and dacided tr