The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
SENTINE ELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Skirmisl
Line.

In Fresno, Cal. barber-shop they furnish
music for the BARRIERS to shave by.
Knoxville Tenn, is built over cave, and
occasionally the bottom of street drops out.
A tramp in Los Angeles Cal, stole mar
bic slab weighing eighty pounds and walked
off with it.
A l,200-pound sea-cow was captured in the
st. Lucie River, Florida, last week, and is
held as a rare curiosity.
A lemon raised at Enterprise, Fla, weighs
one and three-quarters pound, and measures
| l4x15 inches in circumference.
"Beked Beens" is the sign in front of
Los Angeles, Cal, chop house. kept by
cultured gentleman from Boston.
A snew-melting machine, which, it is
| claimed, will melt snow as fast as fifteen men
can shovel it in, was tried with success in
| New York the other day.
An attempt to prosecute Portland Chinese
for saving wood on Sunday revealed the
| fact that there is no law in Oregon against
manual labor on Sunday.
In Albuquerque. n NJ, a company is or
| ganizing to explore the ruins of vast an
cient city, where it is thought, $4,000, 900
worth of plumber may be found.
\ thirteen-year-old boy was recently SEN
| fenced to the Oregon State Prison for horse
stealing, but the Governor pardoned him be-
| fore he reached that institution.
There is an association in Paris whose OBJ
| ject it is to help drunkards home at night If
the patient is too far gone to give his address,
| the club cares for him till he can.
Stoke Park. near Windsor, England, the
| old Penn place, and associated with Gray's
Elegy, has been sold, after being months in
the market, at a low price to a local attorney.
From tests made by DIR. Fisher, the Ger
man chemist it appears that in ordinary
stove not more than 20 per cent. of the fuel
consumed is utilized in warming the rooms.
prize obituary poem on General Grant is
| entitled ~ Cadfridog Grant 1t is in Welsh
and the first line consists of the sonOrous
sentiment: "Du lwyth Dir yr Unol Dalae-
THAN"
A bank clerk in Westfeld, Mass, has rid
den $3.50 miles on his bicycle, measured by a
| cyclometer during the past six months, and
challenges any one to produce an equal
record.
Prohibition and total abstinence are two
very different things. In one day recently
there were SEQ jugs shipped from Paducah,
! ny, to precincts without saloons in adjacent
counties.
Trappers in the towns of Western Massa-
! chusetts have been usually busy this winter.
Muskrat skins are worth from twenty-five to
! thirty-five cents In Springfield and good fox
| skins sell for 81,
A lunatic who escaped from the Hospital
| for the Insane at Buffalo two years ago, and
has since been wandering over France and
| Great Britain, returned to his home in New
York State the other day perfectly cured.
An experienced vocalist has, ii is said, dur
| ing fourteen years cured any number of
cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the
| free use of raw oysters as diet The remedy
| is easily tried.
Despite Vermonts stringent fish-protective
laws. some scalawag depopulated one of her
lakes the other day by exploding quantity
| of dynamite underneath the ice. Every fish,
apparently, was killed.
The most valuable postage stamp known to
collectors is SAID to be one issued by the Post
master at Brattleboro, VT in 1871 which
| was suppressed after a few weeks. A speci-
| men is now worth 5000 or $500.
George F. Lauer, of Reading has one of
three copper pennies that were struck at the
Philadelphia mint in 1871. One of the others
| is held in New York City, and the other is in
| possession of the mint in Philadelphia.
A fight occurred in a farmyard at Stanley,
\. j., day or two ago, between mare and
bulldog. The mare finally killed the
nine by falling on il, but Lad to be killed
| herself afterward on account of the injuries
she had received during the encounter.
| Ia Tuat Kutra and other hot regions of
Central Africa sheep imported from colder
regions lose their wool in the course of a
year and thin hair takes its place. The lion,
which in Northern Africa has a long and
thick name in Central Africa has none.
A farmer residing some five miles north
from Etna, Kas, tells of great natural GU
riosity. He says there is on his farm per-
| feet natural bridge. The width of the arch
way through which the water threads its way,
| is from six to ten feet. The cavernous arch
way is some 800 feet long. About Fifty feet
from the lower end of the bridge there gush-
/ es forth clear spring of csol, soft water.
Signs of life being observed about an ele-
CANT country residence in Westchester Coun-
| ~, New York, by the owner, who knew that
the tenants were temporarily absent, led to
an investigation day or two ago. 1t was
| discovered that q number of tramps had
| taken possession OF the place, made comfort
| able fircs, slept in the luxurious beds, eaten
all the canned edibies in the house. and sue
| ceeded In nearly running the costly carpets
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