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

There are 100 life prisoners in the New
York penitentiaries.
The Mormons have affected a settlement
in Mexico, close on the borders of Arizona.
Twenty-eight states have adopted laws re-
stricting the practice of medicine TO educate
persons.
A polite way of dunning a delinquent
debtor is to send him bouquet of forget
me-nots.
A boy with no brains has been born in Ne
braska. 1t will not be necessary for this boy
to learn to be a dude.
Swearing is wholly unknown in Japan.
The worst word japanese ever applies to a
man he dislikes is "beaSt."
The newspapers of the world have just been
reckoned up at 5000, thus giving one to ev-
cry IS, 900 inhabitants.
Last year Iowa produced 2,501, 154 gallons
of whisky and Z 1891, l4S gallons of beer upon
which there was revenue of ., 543,O25'
Maple sugar has at last been patented and
there remains no longer any excuse for keep
ing up the hypocrisy of groves of maple trees.
Lowell Citizen.
A Detroit baby escaped premature burial
by crying in its coffin, to the great alarm of
the mourning relatives, and is now in better
health than for some time past.
A young lady who read that hops were be-
ing seriously injured by wet weather, de-
clared that no amount of wet weather
would prevent her from going to a good
hop.
London dealers in birds received. when the
fashion was at its height, single cOnsign-
ment of g, 900 humming birds, and at one
time received 10000 aquatic birds and 800
600 wings.
els my husband happy in the spirit land?"
"Ees, perfectly so, madam. He has every
thing his soul desires. Then, thank
heaven, he's got it at last Got what
madam "A postofice.''
English laws, like our own, need revision.
A few weeks ago man was sentenced at
York England to three months imprison-
ment for manslaughter He had previously
done seven years penal servitude Tor stealing
shirt.
A man became bankrupt with liabilities Of
$4,000. and in the settlement of the estate,
which yielded IS per cent. to the creditors,
the cost of the administration amounted to
less than $50 This happened away off in
Sweden, however.
Insanity is increasing in Massachusetts, at
the rate of about 200 cases year. The hos
pitfalls are overcrowded, and efferts are MAX
ing TO find places for harmless patients. es-
pecially women, in families in the State-a
plan which has proved very successful in
Scotland.
tion of the United States increased from 49,,
500, 90 to 43, 402, $40, or % 20 per cent, and
the colored population from i,8s6,S87 to g.
$50, 1913, or "a 81 per cent. Yet the colored
people gained nothing from immigration,
while something like three millions were
added to the white population from that
source.
A French chemist has invented method
of preserving bodies at much less cost than
embalming, by rubbing them over with
plumbagine and then exposing them TO
bath of zinc, copper, or even silver and gold.
IL desired, the bath can be prolonged until
the corpse is as hard as granite. 1t will save
the expense of wakes and funerals, and ev-
cry man will be his own statuei
A tall man sat with his wide-brimmed hat
on at Texas concert and when commanded
to remove it be said: It'll be worse if do"
but those behind him insisted that he should
uncover. He did so, and mass of bristling
hair stood stiffly out from his head in all di-
rections like the starched locks of imitation
Circassian girls in museums. 81 told you
lt'd be worse if did, he remarked.
Professional beauty on the Pacific coast
finds lucrative employment as a pretended
illustration of the merits of a patent medi-
cine. A wonderfully lovely young woman
cine which he declares caused the perfection
of her complexion. He sells a tonic, too,
to which he attributes the abundance of her
hair and drugs for the increase or reduction
of flesh to her standard.