The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
VARIETIES.

So welI-to-doxare the Boston bicyclers that
they are 10 build 100000 club house.
The new town of Dunreith, in Dakota Of
| fers $500 and a town lot to the first boy baby
born in the place.
The judge who passed the first death SEN
tenee in California is now pastor of the Bap-
! list church in Cambridge, Maryland.
The mica mines of North Carolina are en-
| joying boom. Two-thirds of the worlds
| supply of mica comes from these mines.
The Chinese in California must be accu-
mulating wealth. however deficient they
may be influence. A Chinese syndicate re-
Gently offered s., 900, 600 for the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco, and were prepared to pay
$500, 600.
Massage, or the art of curing diseases by
rubbing kneading and stroking. is said 10
have been known to the Chinese 300 years
before the Christian era, while the ancient
Persians, Greeks and Romans pursued SINH
lar methods.
The food OF Burmese peasants includes al
most all kinds of reptiles the grub of ball
rolling beetle, kind of ant which constructs
nests of leaves in treetOps (eaten in curries)
and hill rats. The last named exist in such
hordes that their consumption is almost a
necessity to preve II the rats eating the Bur-
meSe.
Few American women step more than
twenty-four inches on the average. Tight
skirts and lack of practice make the steps of
most of them range from eighteen to twenty
three inches. III they would learn to take
longer steps and would wear loose gowns
they could walk much farther with less ia
tigue.-Boston Globe.
The recent cold wave was felt even in Cali
fornia. A letter just received from Pasadena
says thin ice formed, but there was no dam
age to fruit or even the Towering plants. The
same letter says: I'VE had for Christmas din
ner luscious Strawberries, red raspberries
slced tomatoes, and water melons gathered
fresh from the garden"
Mr.. Browning is seventy-four years old
and his continued literary productiveness
like thaC OF Lord Tennyson, is remarkable
But our Longfellow at seventy-five was not
less so. Indeed, his last poem, the "Bells of
San Bias" shows his poetic faculty to have
been untouched to the end. 1t is as fresh in
feeling or as characteristic IN touch as any
of his verses. An illustration of the undi-
minished public interest in Tennyson is fur
nished by the statement on his behalf 10 the
London Times that he is unable to answer
innumerable letters or to examine the
myriad MSS. that he receives since the pub
licatlon of his last volume.
Observation-Disclosures are watching with
no small degree of interest the progress
made in the introduction of the cultivation
of ramie in the South. 1t has been extern
sively cultivated in England and France.
BY the use of it the gloss in silk is increased
| and it is materially stronger. A New Yor-
ker with a good deal of capital is prepared
to make machines to reduce the ramie ma
terial 10 PUPPY condition. Planters in the
South have been waiting for years for the
perfecting of such a machine, and now that
practical machine is secured they are
planting ramie roots. Three crops can be
raised each year. It's cultivation can be ex-
.te.ls.
dicted that it can be developed to be second
only to cotton in importance.
Almost every person cares for his body in
clenly manner, not restricting himself, by
any means, to Florence Nightingale's thrifty,
! twocup sponge bath. 1t is supposed to be
| quite as great necessity to wash out the
inner man as his shell; and it certainly APP
| pears reasonable that the four-footed ami
mails, who as rule drink copiously, have an
| instinct that it would not be bad for the
higher animal to follow. Cool, even tenn
| perature of the body might be secured and
many diseases averted. Who can deny it?
| That glasses of cool mot cold) water from q
| pure source, before meals, have resulted in
| great good, many persons are ready to affirm
on cath. The same can be said of hot water.
But that either drink is positive panacea
| for all ills, is going step too far.
With a lens made of rock salt it might,
says the Photographic News, be possible to
| photograph in the dark Abney has sue
ceeded in preparing plates which are sensi-
tive to the rays lying beyond the red end of
| the spectrum - the dark heat rays - and
with such plates used with rock salt lens
there should be possibility of photograph
| ing bodies which possess high temperature,
| although that temperature may be far be-
| low that neeeed TO render them self-lumin-
Gus. 1t is even possible that such plan may
| some day be so perfected as to give us in
! formation about the dark suns that are
| believed TO crowd the armament = or rather
heavenly bodies, which were once seen. but
| have now cooled down so as TO be invisible