The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-21
VABIETIES.

charity ball covereth a multitude of
Sins.
TIE London Times was one hundred years
old January first.
A pearl has been found on the western
Australian coast, valued at $4,000.
The name of God in the Hindoostsnee
language is Rain. In Persian, Sire.
Statistics show that clergymen live only
two years longer than the wicked lawyers.
Australia has ninety-three species of
snakes, and drinks are regulated accordingly.
There are 722, sol school children in the
State, Of which Marion County claims 45,-
2S3.
During the fourteenth and fifteenth cen
death on the gallows.
The percentage Of voters who did not vote
at the late election runs from seven 10 Indi-
ana to sixty-o in Georgia.
There are 623 newspapers and periodicals
published in foreign languages in this coun-
try. OF these ass are in German.
a Philadelphia doctor is treating thirteen
cases OF spinal disease, which he says have
been brought on by bicycle riding.
Philadelphia enters the new year with
6,09O saloons. not to mention many good
citizens who keep demiiohn at home.
During the cholera epidemic In Paris the
married men were 402 and $50 respectively.
Life on this planet, according to treatise
brought ont by Mr.. Scribner ex-Secretery of
State, New York, began in the polar regions.
4 cent of 1897 is worth'S11. People who
gave their pennies to the poor in those days
are now Kicking themselves for their extrsT-
agance.
Notwithstanding the great advantages of
citizenship In the United States and Terri
tories, 2S5, 100000 human beings still live
under British rule.
England imported $25 COCOON worth OF
cheese last year. The English are deter
mined to keep up reputation of being the
strongest nation on earth.
Two years ago man in Maine received
legacy OF $40, co., and the other day he paid
out his last nickle for whisky and rolled into
a snowbank to freeze to death.
The tree in japan from which the vsrnish
for the famous lacquer work is made is
disappearing. and the country is threatened
with the loss OF one OF lts greatest indus
tries.
The Bishop of Melbourne has ordered
prayers to be offered that rabbits may not
become mothers sill endeavOrs to extermi-
nate them having proved fruitless. What
next2
Kentucky tailor, taking measure for
trousers to customer)-"Will You have one
or two hip pockets" Customer ct NO."
Tailor-"Pint or quart Sizer" Customer
Quart"
The expression commencement exer-
of college term, from the fact that they
mark the commencement of the grsdu-
ate's independent life.
The electric light is pronounced By an
English scientist, who claims to have en-
hausti7ely examined into the subject, the
only iliuminant by which tbs surrounding
atmosphere is not Vitiated.
4 huge lemon has recently been picked at
Penasofkee, Fla. 1t measured twenty-four
inches IN circumference one way, and TWEEN
ty-two inches the other and weighed four
pounds and thirteen ounces.
Ohio is the wickedest State in the Union,
Having had more murders committed
therein during the past year, than was com
mitted in any other State. There was 1S9
murders; Texas comes next with l84.
The Postofice has the largest amount of
patronage at its disposal. The number of
Postofices Is now about $4,000. OF these
that have to be confirmed by the Senate.
The balance are made In the departments on
political recommendations.
In the manufacturing towns and counties
Of Scotland the proportion OF persons who
marry in q given year ia as high as eighty
| five in every 10000 OF the population, while
in the rural DISTRICTS It is only thirty. Mar
risges are not only more infrequent in the
AGRICULTURAL districts, bat they occur later in
life.
a typographical error is not always pro-
| ductive OF evil. In an Eastern town the
/ printer made the announcement OF prayer
/ meeting to be held that night. read as fol-
! lows: 1.-THE prayer-meeting at the Method
I ist Church will be hell tonight" This ex-
I cited the curiosity of many and the house
! was crowded, Of which the minister took ad-
! vantage and opened the doors of the church.
| The result was there were seventeen Access
| sions, which was the beginning of grand
| awakening and religious revival.