The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-03
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the skirmish
Line.

The Prince of Montenegro is visiting Paris
incogaito.
Wedding guests" are furnished to order
by an agency in Paris.
The United States Government issues 4, 600
different books year.
There are said to be more than 100 flourish
ing newspapers in Northern Dakota.
There were more miles OF railroads laid in
Missouri last year than in any other State.
Thomas Mast the caricaturist OF Harpers
is gathering some impressions at Washing
ton.
The divorce cases in Lane County, Oregon,
for 1885, outnumber the list of marriages
twelve TO one.
HE consumption per head of spirits in
Scotland is tivefold what it is in England,
but then the Scotch keep the Sabbath better.
The people OF Ottawa, Kan, issued re
Gently circular and scattered it in all local
tiles within fifty miles OF that town, to the
effect that all tramps coming there will be
given ten days on the city rock pile. They
have not been troubled with tramps to any
great extent since then.
a ST. Louis girl aged forty, and with So
100000, is about to marry man of twenty
two. She is sensible. If she had postponed
it much longer she would have found her
age increasing faster than her millions; but
now-her millions will disappear as fast as
her youth flies from her.-Pttsburg Chron-
icle.
Mr.. sherman, farmer east of town. plant
ed corn on Christmas day and the day fol-
lowing-fifteen acres in all. Solomon Fields
planted considerable corn about the same
time, but we did not learn the exact number
of acres. The ground was good condition
and the planting was done as an experiment.
-Mulyane Kan. Record.
y Berlin woman lately attempted to kill
herself by drinking five ounces of kerosene.
She became unconscious, but was fully re-
stored TO health in three or four days. The
DeutSche Wochenschrift tells of a man who
drank habitually an ordinary liquor glass OF
petroleum several times weekly without any
disagreeable consequences.
4 fond father was greatly surprised the
other day to find that his daughter, who had
been attending the public schools of LOUIS
vile for number of years, had never heard
of General Robert i. Lee. American history,
'as she is taught in public schools, is not
unlike the German that American pupils
get there.-Louisville Courier-JOurnal
Mexico Is said to possess only about loo
factories of all kinds, owing to the paucity of
water and the high cost of fuel. These facto-
ries employ about $4,000 hands, and those
devoted to weaving contain 9, 500 looms and
p, 600 spindles. The largest cotton mill is at
QueretarO, employs 100 hands and manu-
features the unbleached cloth worn by all In
dians.
\ Montreal man lately sued druggist for
damages from having been deprived of work
for several weeks in consequence OF taking a
poison sold him by mistake. The error was
caused by the wholesaler, who had labelled
the package wrongly before selling il to the
druggist The Court held, however, that the
druggist should have verified the contents of
the package and gave judgment for 5000 and
costs.
Several years ago a certain clerk in Eaton
ton, being drunk, went into the cellar of the
store to sleep during the day. At night the
proprietor charged him up - for storage and
lost time Another merchant, on like oc-
casion, made a similar charge against his
clerk. The next day the clerk was sober and
at night he went to the ledger and credited
his account with 80 for being sober one day.
Savannah News.
There died i'm Windsor, Ont, Wednesday
night, an Indian-SpaniSh negro named Free
man Clark who was born in Buckingham
County, Virginia, August 4, 1854, being over
III years old. He lived in Virginia for eighty
years working at his trade as a cooper, and
then came West to Ohio afterward settling
in Detroit He worked steadily at his trade
until five years ago, and was still active up
TO last Saturday, when he began to fail. He
was married twice, and has is living de-
scendants.
There are five people of five generations
living in Winamac, Ind: Mrs. Mary Jenk-
| ins. born in 1898: her daughter, Mrs. Ru-
| dolph Hoch, born 1871 the latter's daughter,
Mrs. Mary II. Freeman born in 1915; f. G.
| Freeman son of Mrs. Noah Freeman born
| 1861; Daisy Freeman, daughter OF the latter,
| born 1885. There are forty-one grandchid-
rem, forty grcat-grandchildren and one great
| great-grandchild. Mrs. Jenkins is in good
| health and does her own homework. She
has not taken a grain OF medicine since
| 1912.
| s. T. Chamberlain, stock dealer living
near Toledo, O., was found in an insenSible
condition in Mill Greek bottom, near Gin
cinnati, last Wednesday. After hlving been
restored to consciousness he said that ne ar
| rived Tuesday night, and entering the first
hack he noticed at the depot asked to be
I driven to the Palace Hotel. After he had
proceeded SOME distance he heard peculiar
| noise as if air escaping from tube, and soon
| afterward lost consciousness His pockets
| had been rifled of $500 and valuable gold
watch. The police believe that the hack
was fixed by means OF a pipe from the
drivers seat to the inside of the vehicle so
| arranged as TO enable the driver TO force
! sleep-inducing gas into the inside.