The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-05
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Skirmish
Line.

Good wine can be had in SOlano, Cal, for
thirty cents gallon.
A goose owned by Nelson Hoyt OF Crafts
bury, VT, is said to be over sixty years old.
In Paris the carpenters and masons have
formed a society, the object of which is to
prevent work in building on Sunday.
A Baptist missionary in China writes home
that what an American family throws away
in a year would keep dozen Chinese fami-
lies; and what a Chinese family throws away
in the same time would not feed a mouse.
Recently in Macon, Ga, a young man
acted as godfather to the infant of a friend.
The excitement of the occasion caused him
to drop the infant into the baptismal font,
making Baptist of it instead Of an Episco-
palian.
A woman was sentenced in an English
court to six months hard labor as a rogue
and a Ysgabond, her crime being that she
was in the habit of carrying a sealed and adj
dressed envelope in her hand and soliciting
from passers-by penny to buy postage
stamp.
A genius from the Wooden Nutmeg State
has invented a clock in which there is
money drawer. Money can be deposited at
any time, but can only be removed during
one day in a month. Another notion is in
screwiDg the clock to its shelf so that it can
only be removed when the drawer is open.
Judge Scott of Lumpkin Ga. keeps a COW
and horse whose stalls are divided by a
partition. Trying to reach some grain that
wasi in the horses trough, the COW stuck her
tongue through crack in the partition,
whereupOn the horse bit two inches off the
end of it. The COW is likely to die, for she
can not eat since the accident.
A young man in Athens, Ga, has valua-
bic diamond pin with history, which he
evidently isn't ashamed Of His grand
father was slave dealer, and one day saw a
young wench wearing a diamond PIN He
asked her whore she got it and what she'd
take for it. She said she had picked it up in
a street in Montgomery, Ala, and would
trade it for red handkerchief. Whereupon
the honorable Georgian gave the slave girl s.
for it and handed it down to his admiring
pOsterity-
A Buffalo nan was surprised the other
morning when lie saw a very rich and very
stingy citizen out on his lawn with a pan of
crumbs feeding big flock of sparrows. He
at once decided that there was soft spot in
the old mans heart, ard that he had been
misiudged, and IS he bid him Good morn
ing" said: Il see you are up early and en-
gagged in a most humane and kind-hearted
act. Feeding bread to the little birds, eh ?''
"Kind-hearted BE id" answered the rich
man. I'm feeding the blamed things poison,
d-n EN-"
The German ship Auguste, belonging to
Bremerhaven, and bound for Hong Kong,
narrowly escaped falling prey to some 80
pirates. When not far from her destination
she was hailed by junk, all of whose crew
seemed to be uRarmed, and were persistent
in their efforts to trade with the ship, which
had slackened her pace by the wind falling.
Presently number OF armed junks swarmed
up and began to attack the Auguste. The
German crew had to defend themselves Wig
OrOusly. Five OF the pirates were killed and
several wounded. smart breeze sprang up,
and the German vessel got away without
loss.
1t is NJ. Girard Chief OF the Municipal
Laboratory of Paris, who says: From 1910
to 1850 about $4,000, 600 gallons of brandy
were made yearly in France, and fully
seVenth-eighths came from grapes. AT pres
ent more than 10000, 900 gallons are turned
out, but not per cent. of it is made from
the grape, grain, cider, beet, potatoes, etc,
forming its principal sources The spirits
thus obtained would be fairly wholesome il
they were properly rectifed. Bot they are
not. Invariably, when put upon the mar
ket, they are charged with acids, others and
essential oils of the most deadly nature. .
The startling increase of violent insanity and
other maladies in France, in late years, is by
M. Girard attributed to consumption of that
deadly brandy. We import vast quantitie:
OF it into the United States.