The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-12
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured the Skirmish
Line.


The Bell telephone patent was granted in
1876.
California has an estimated colored popu-
lation OF 1900.
General Grant smoked his last cigar No
vember 20, 1884
An asparagus diet is now recommended
for certain forms of kidney disease
Dallas, Tex, claims to be the most striking
example of growth in the Southern States
1t has been calculated that the free lunches
in New York saloons cost ST., 800 600 annu-
ally.
An American scientist says the ivory of
Central Africa will give out in ten or fifteen
years.
A curiosity at Rockford, Ill, is a young
negress with a luxuriant growth Of auburn
ringlets.
A bed of pure marble has been struck
1900 feet below the surface in Atlanta, Ca,
by artesian well borers.
New York City gives $4,000 every year TO
the blind who do not beg and are not inmates
OF homes and asylums
The typical baby walks in forty-seven
weeks. kisses in twelve months and Jumps
In twenty-seven months
John S. Wise, Republican candidate for
Governor of Virginia, is the greatest admirer
of dogs in the State, and never misses a dog
show.
A Canadian order of Trappists subsist
largely on soup made by pouring the water
in which cabbage has been boiled over some
pieces of bread.
In Saline County, Nebraska, two weeks
ago, woman closed her husbands eyes on
Monday, buried him on Wednesday. and
married his successor on Friday.
In France in the summer of l70j nobody
ventured out of doors between noon and D..
m, and people cooked their dinners by lay
ing the meat on plates in the sun.
A Missouri editor, soliciting subscriptions
to his paper, declares that a neglect to take
interest in reading the news of the dav IS an
lnfallible symptom of early death.
An American expert who has travelled in
both countries. asserts that the speed of
English trains is, on the average. one-fourth
greater than that of American trains.
The alleged largest diamond in the world
was found recently in Africa, and it is to be
polished in Amsterdam, where a special shop
i being constructed for the purpose. 1t is
said to weigh 475 caratS, which Is 195 carats
MOgul.n
When the ropes with which oil wells are
drilled are worn out they still have their
uses. They are purchased by junk dealers
thoroughly cleansed of oil and reduced to a
pulp. which forms the basis of the heavy
paper of which -four sacks and wrapping
paper are made.
The negroes are going West as well as the
Lot
along the thirty-ninth parallel, the former
are keeping step along the thirty-second.
The center of white population is now near
Cincinnati, while that OF the black pOpula-
ton Is near Macon.
A Stratford Conn., woman, who is a men,
Der of the Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals, accuses local Christians of
going to church to hear OF the glories of an
other world and beat down Satan under their
feet, all the while having horses outside
fighting thousand devils in the shape of
flies and mosquitoes.
Actors returning from London report that
in all the theaters remaining open the au-
diences were ''thinly scattered to make up a
show" There are plenty of Americans
there but they all dine late, after their sight
seeing during the day. and seem to prefer
after dusk stroll and cigar on the Thames
embankment to a visit to the play.
A Lake Keuka trout was sold at Penn
Yam recently, the weigh. of which was fif-
\ teen pounds Soon after it was left at the
y market il was opened and a quantity of
gravel stones were taken from its stomach.
They had been forced through its mouth,
and added pound and half to the weight
of the fish.
Owing to improved machinery and cheap
labor the average cost of harvesting grain in
California is less than 1t has ever been. One
farmer in the San Joaquin Valley pays four
cents a sack for harvesting his crop. Under
old methods the cost of threShing alone has
been as high as fifteen cents
very clever invention just brought ont
has been shown a New York manager. BY
simply turning the handle of a machine a
sound is produced resembling the clapping
of number of hands. The applause, by
means of a large funnel, is projected into
the front of the house. II is a French pro
auction.
A locomotive and train can be run from
the shores OF the Pacific across the continent
to the distant Nova Scotia coast on terra
firrna or a stable roaslway-that Is il the To-
connective and train keep to the southwark OF
Lake Erie. There need be noudelays in the
running. except for water and fuel. The
great rivers are bridged-sidal streams and
all-the Missouri, the Mississippi, the Ohio,
the Susquehanna, the HUDSON, the Niagara
and the ST. Lawrence.
Though the laws Of propriefy are 50 rigor-
ously strict in Mexico that gentleman may
not ride in the same carriage with the lady
to whom he is betrothed, vet most desperate
sfiirtations are openly INDUCED in TO an ex-
tent which would put to blush New York,
Chicago or San Fiancisco Following a
senorita up and down the promenade and
staring intently in her face is an accepted