The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-23

must have been twenty feet in circumference
The wood, which was blue in color, was very
hards ard the boat SO heavy that two bull
locks could not move it.
Seven out of every ten swell Englishmen
who visit this country manage to beat New
York or Boston tailor out of a suit of
clothes
\ cheap slipper, made of wool and bound
in imitation fur, with the sole three in thick
nesses of white felt, is new thing in Eng
land.
A Cleveland bride tainted at the altar just
as the ceremony was concluded because her
husband started to lead the way in leaving
the church.
This has been the most profitable season
for summer resorts ever known in Maine
The hotels have been full, and the cottages
and tents are all occupied.
The Tennessee schoolma am who put on
pair OF 81 stockings to as'onish the natives
got her walking papers next day. Natives
couldn't stand such extravaganza.
Dogs at Hotel Humarock. on Scituate
Beach, made for the patrolmen from the
life saving station when they began their
duties this season. The landlord had to in
terfere.
Recent statistics demonstrate that Eng
land has 60 square miles o: colony to the
square mile of her own area: Holland. 81:
Portugal, 20; Denmark. ESQ, France. 100,
and Spain O.o6 sqaure miles.
From 1871 to May, 1891, inclusive. the
French Government has expended on the
purchase of pictures and sculptures by liv-
ing artists -. 700 Alb francs, averaging more
than 900, 900 francs per annum.
Ii igniting by detotation or conclusion can
be prevented, chemists assert that shells can
be discharged with an explosive so potent
that one of them. bursting alongside of an
ironclad, would shatter the strongest armOr
aoat.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Weston has built
a log cabin on the summit of Mount IVES
ton, in Dalton, Mass. 220O feet above the
level of the sea- 1t is 24x1S feet. and con-
tains fireplace five feet long 50 that cord
wood can be burned.
A woman in Allentown, Pa, goes to sleep
every evening at o'clock and sleeps sound
ly until o'clock the next afternoon and
has been keeping up this practice uninter
ruptedly for eighteen months past. Her
health is of the best
novelty in advertising is found on the
North Italy Railway. There is a pocket to
every ticket, and searching within the pas
senger finds advertisements OF hotels shops
and the like along the route. The company
thus makes f24 on every 10000 tickets.
Extensive pottery works have been estab-
lished at Aiken, s. c. The enterprise is I'M
del the direction of several Northern men of
capital, with experience obtained elsewhere
in the business which they seek to build up
in South Carolina, and they predict success.
A member OF the Council of the Gaelic
Some of the camels taken to Texas in ante
war days with view to breeding them for
army transportation contracts have per-
petuated themselves in a herd in Bastrop
County, whence showmen make frequent
purchases
A paper presented before the French
Academy of Sciences estimates that man
at fifty years of age has slept an aggregate of
5000 days, worked the same length of time,
eaten p 900 days, walked 800 days, and been
i'll 500 days
The ministers Of the Methodist Episcopal
Conference in Cincinnati have declined the
invitation to visit the cyclorama of the bat
tie Of Sedan, on the ground that they could
not countenance place of amusement that
kept open on Sunday.
The Evenement complains that the Morgue
is "un-P araisian and lifeless," and that il
lacks gayety, and is unworthy of a city
where cemeteries are gardens, funerals are
festivals, Criminal courts places of entertain
ment, and executions spectacles.'
G. J." Thomas, of Albany, y. y, is said to
own the largest mastilf in the world. His
name is Senator, his age is thirteen months;
weight, 160 pounds; height, 3519 inches over
the wethers; length from tip of nose TO end
of tail, seven feet eight inches, and he is
valued at $1,000.
AT a breakfast given here by distin-
guished Judge 10 Mr.. Irving, the host asked
Matthew Arnold, who was present, why he
did not take the title Of Doctor, which he
had seen conferred on him at Oxford.
''There can never be but one DR.. Arnold"
was the answer.