The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-24
SENTINEL

The whole number OF visitors to the New
Orleans Exhibition was l, i5s, $40. The show
was open nearly as long as the Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia. which was
visited by 9,9i0966 persons.
A new reformer has arisen among the
Wahabits in Arabia. Like the Mahdi, he
breaches return to the rigid simplicity and
unselfshness which characterized the early
days OF Islam. The refOrmer'S aim seems to
be the formation of separate Wahabit
Kingdom.
Tie Prince of Wales has fixed Saturday,
the 4th of July, for the ceremony OF opening
the Albany Memorial and other buildings OF
the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and
Epileptic, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. The
Prince and Princess Christian have sgniiicd
their intention to be present
Referring TO the recent interviews in which
Sir Peter Lumsden arraigned the British
Government for its policy in the Afghan
matter, the Pail Mall Gazette says he dis
cusses matters with newspaper correspond
ents sin a fashion that would have made the
hair OF Lord Palmerston stand on end
movement is on foot To erect statue in
honor of one of the fathers of English music,
Orlando Gibbons The fame of Gibbons is
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Cambridge, and ii is proposed that the statue
shall be of bronze and shall be placed in that
town in a conspicuous position in front of
Kings College, to which he belonged.
One of the largest single electric lights ever
constructed was placed on exhibition at
Seneca Falls, n. Y, on a recent Saturday
evening. 1t was of $4,000 candle power, and
was made in lion. The light was placed on
the tower of building at the height of
seventy-iive feet from the ground. 1t is in
tended to illuminate the whole village.
A call was made to the London Field bv a
fair equestrienne for some sort of folding
rope ladder contrivance by which she can
mount herself when left at the mercy of "a
feeble parlOr maid, clumsy groom or gar
dener or a low kitchen chair" Such a
thing is just as much needed in America. So
here is chance for an ingenious mind
In Ireland, according to lately published
statistics, the birth rate in 1884 was p per
1000 and the death rate 176 Both are be-
low the average for the preceding ten years
Zymotic diseases caused 1921 deaths only
one of which was due to smallpox. There
were sixteen deaths from the latter i'm 1885,
while during the previous ten years the an
nual number averaged S35.
A Sergeant Major, named Ebrard. of the
Fifteenth French army corps, four years ago
embezzled some of the funds placed in his
charge. and lost all at Monaco. He ran
away. took the name OF Antoine Werner
enlisted in the Foreign Legion, and vOlun-
teered for TOnquin He was wounded al
Chu and lost his left arm. He received the
medal. Subsequently he was on the point
OF being proposed for the cross of honor for
special acts of bravery, when one of his
former subordinates recognized him and de
nOunced him. On being arrested he admitted
his guilt, and was taken back to France ON
board transport ship. His trial excited a
great deal of interest. His lawyer pleaded
for his acquittal on the novel ground that his
glorious exploits had wiped away his former
crime and the court martial. after a few
minutes delibera,ion, unanimously acquitted
him. The announcement of his acquittal
was hailed with ioy by the sympathetic
crowd that attended his trial, and with
shouts OF ''Vive Ia France"
One on the exports OF Persia is horses. The
Persian dealer travels over the country hav-
ing agents in every large town. He buys for
the Iudian market His destination when
he has got together likely lot of animals, is
usually Bombay or Bungalore; few dealers
try kurrachee. As "A rule the Persian horse
dealer buys nothing under fourteen hands.
The Persian horses exported to India are sold
either as riding horses and chargers at an
average minimum price of go rupees. or a
artillery horses at standard price of 400
rupees, while the animals that remain UNI
bought for these purposes are eagerly snapped
up as carriage horses The Persian horse
dealer even when most respectable, resorts
to bishoping, which dictionaries define as "to
use arts to make old horses look like young
ones" the arts used consisting in cutting the
upper surface of the incisor teeth into a de-
preston. and then with a chemical prepare
ton blackening the cavity so as to initiate
the marks Of young horse. The opera
ton is always performed during the voyage
to India from the Persian Gulf, the .instru-
ment used being dentists rose-head hand
drill