The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

is over, the beats will ask the same paper to
publish free card thanking the beats for
heir work in the cause.
The yearly mption Of meats in the
I'niieo States per capita is l20 bounds; in
England, 104 pounds; Francs, Il pounds;
Germany, 90 pounds.
A favorite copy set by writing teachers for
their pupils is the following, because 1t co.,
tains every letter OF the alphabet: "a
quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog"
There was heavy falling off in English
exports of iron and steel products last year,
the returns just published giving for 1882,
Sl57 99l SOC; 1888, Sl42 95l ESQ, and 1884,
1922 43s 345.
Travellers in Iceland do not adopt all of
the customs Of the country. An Iceland
custom is that man kisses every woman be
meets There are some exceedingly IN
kissable vomen up there.
A perton sleeping on his right side, &C.
coTding 10 8 celebrated French Dhysiologist
will have incoherent and absurd dreams, but
when slice ping on the left side the dreams
viii be ol an IL -Digent nature.
Two human I.onsters "a man and woman
have been arrested in Francs for enticing
two boys OF eight and ten from their homes,
and then snbjec ting them to torturss in Or
der 70 make cripples OF them for begging
purposes
The London Eaily Telegraph nets its own
ers million dollars year and runs ten
Hoe presses. OF the four original propri-
etors the sole survivor is the owner Of a
country weekly, and another died in the
poorhouse.
In Japan, where ridiculous and in urious
custom prevails Of having the eyellds daily
turned inside out, and then rubbed over,
Initiated and polished with smooth patuIa,
the ratio of the blind 10 the whole popula.
ton is one TO every four hundred, IN the
city of Yeddo. II is said there are no fewer
tnan Sc 0C0 persons without sight.
To reach Khartoum you travel through a
desert by camel or dromedary after Leaving
the second cataract. From Khartoum for
many weary miles between these two fol- as
of the NiIe it is nothing but a dense morass,
where all creeping aud singing things abide
and where malaria is truly king It is so
esdiy to white men that at GondoL orc,
which is some hundred or more miles up the
river, it is considered that no white man can
exist ten days.
Mr.. LincoIn's manner while signing the
en- Emancipation proclamation on New Years
night, 1863, is thus described in current
item: ''As he took up the pen he said to
Secretary Stanton: MY arm is numb to the
shoulder from so much b8nd-shaking Ii
my hand trembles thew will say it was be-
cause l was afraid Then he threw out his
undeTlip in peculiar manner aud wrote the
unfaltering SIGNATURE. "A Lircoln,' that
gave freedom TO over 100000 D scke."
"The chlors habit" ssys the Baltimore
Underwater, sis steadily on the increase,
not only among sufferers from constant in
somonia, but among persons subject to
mi der forms OF nervous irritation, to the
strain and excitement of speculative ven
lures or to the wear and tear of late hours
and fashionable dissipation This nepenthe
Is IL ore seductive to people of refinement
than the juice of the poppy, and habitual
surrender to its domination is harder to
break than the opium habit To the usual
questions in the application for life insur-
aDce az to the use or abuse OF alcoholic drinks,
tobacco and opium, may wall be added scru-
tiny as TO hydrate of chloral, for many per-
soDs 1bo never use the former would have
TO plead guilty to more or less frequent re
course to the latter"