The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
SENTINELS.
Notes and Items Captured on the Skirmish
Line.

France and Germany combined.
The Globe Medico-Quirugico records the
fact that a woman of Valladolid recently
gave birth to seven children in two days.
A Socorro IN. NJ. newspaper invites girls
who are working in the States at s1.50
week to come to New Mexico and get s25
and $50.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson and most of the tee
totallers were defeated at the late English
elections On the other hand many brew ers
were returned
John W. Mackay. the California million
aire. is a grandfather. His daughter. the
Princess Galatr0-Colonna, has just been de
ivered of a son.
A daughter recently born to Dir. and Mrs
George Kennedy, of Welldeet. Miss, has
now living three grandfathers and five
grandmothers, the oldest being ninety eight.
Paul de Saint-Victor, the late famous lit
erary critic. had a superstitious fancy that
he could write well only by using an ink
stand which he had purchased in SwitZer-
land.
''The Lay of the Lark" has just been re-
iected by the Burlington Free Press, which,
however, informs the poet that a few speci-
mems of the lay of the hen would be ac-
cepted.
A recent report to the English Royal So
ciety of Arts shows that of the - 600 deaths
which have occurred in coal mines since
1879 only one-fourth have been caused by
fire damp.
A Wilkesbarre tradeSman had a prophetic
dream concerning the Mill Creek disaster,
which occurred on last Tuesday morning.
He had dreamed of several other mine acct
dents beforehand.
Contagious diseases have excited the people
of Fairhaven, Mass, to such a degree that
the horse cars carry two bags of camphor as
disinfectants one at each end, placed there
by the Board of Health.
William Henry Walker, of Evansville,
Ind, thirty-fiye years old, has a head thirty
three inches in circumference and thirty-five
inches from chin to crown. He has fair in
telligence and good memory.
At the Sands Quarry, Vinaltown, Me-, a
block of granite was recently started which
measured about 400 feet long, forty feet wide.
with an average thickness of nine feet.
Such a block would weigh about l., 900 tons.
Cases of severe collie from lead poisoning
are reported among tailors and sewing wo-
men. This is probably due to their habit of
biting off and sometimes chewing threads of
sewing silk which has been weighted with
acetate of lead.
Heretofore ships have been permitted to
pass through the Suez Canal only in day
light; but now war ships aud steamers pro-
vided with electric lights or sufficient power
to illuminate the canal 1000 yards ahead
may go at night.
1t is said that the wife of President Adams
contributed largely TO the state paIers of her
honorable and distinguished spouse, and that
Mrs. Madison was often useful in moderating
the temperament of the addresses which her
husband wrote during his term of office.
Figaro says that Yankee maker of sew
ing machines has offered Nine. Patti 81, 900
for each appearance, in addition to her reg
ular salary, if she will sit at one of his sew
ing machines instead of at the spinning
wheel, while singing the "King of Thule"
The telegraph system of the British
Islands, under control of the Postoffice, now
amounts to 10000 miles, and employs H.
words for sixpence, address included. Press
messages alone now average million words
a day.
The hymn in some of the books used in
the Presbyterian Church beginning
streaming,
is ascribed in those hooks to Heber. 1t was
written by Francis Kew, author of 1.-THE Star
Spangled BanDer."
Let no man hereafter accuse the English
people of being inferior in politeness to the
French. A murderer was hanged in Liver
pool fortnight ago, and the matter-of-fact
statement is made by the reporter that, 1.-THE
weather being bitterly cold. Thomas was
hanged in his overcoat"
Miss Detchon, the young American lady
who has shone in British royal and aristo-
cratic circles on account of her beauty and
exceptional talent, says the London Court
Journal, is in Paris, where she is assured of
an equally amicable and hattering reception
in the salons of the French nobility.
The persons who invested in the diving
speculation to obtain f100,0O0 worth of gold
which was sunk years ago in the snip Alfonso
XII off the west coast of Africa have been
rewarded by harvest of gold from the gray
sand fields. The divers have got up nearly
all the gold, and have sent it to England.
Talking parrots can not be bought now, at
least from sailors; for in the old time the
sailor made his twelve months voyage, and
was able to teach his parrot a Language. Now
the voyages last too short a time, and the
talking parrot only comes into the market
when his owner is forced to sell for some rea-
son or another.
A large pump has been at work in the
Grand Central Mine at Tombstone, A. T.,
without diminishing the water in the lower
levels tor the last three months. 1t has Just
been discovered that the water pumped out
found its way back into the mine and was
simply being handled over and over again.
Private John Burke, who has just been dis
charged from the Suffolk Regiment, is sup
posed to have been the oldest soldier in the
British army, having enlisted in 1877. He
had six good conduct stripes, and was re-
fused the seventh on the ground that six was
the maximum number allowed. He had
served in the Crimean and Indian mutiny