The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-02
Fl CETERA.


income of 81 100000.
THE total income of the church OF En-.
gland is about 81, 100000 a week.
FIFTY tank steamers are now carrying oil
in bulk from this country to Europe.
THE first silver dollar was coined soon
after the creation of the mint, or in 1892.
A PHILADELPHIAY owns thirty-three
fnger-rings and thirty-four suits OF clothes.
ONE of the first houses IN which Senator
Pettigrew lived in South Dakota was
rough log hut which be built with his
own hands at Sioux City.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN is confined TO her
bed at her home in Washington from the
effects of a fall from camp chair. 1t is
feared that she has sustained an injury of
the spine.
THERE is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of $4,000 square
miles. 1t is all meadow land and is filled
with lake., ponds end canals. Altogether
il is as large as the states of New York and
Pennsylvania combined.
THERE are two factories in Philadelphia
that use up in the season 100 horse hides
a week each to cover base balls. They are
alum tanned. One hide will furnish COW
ers for ten dozen No. l balls and FIVE to
eight dozen inferior ones
THE seven wonders of America are
classed as follows: Niagara Falls, Yellow
stone park, Mammoth cave, the canyons
and Garden of the Gods, Colorado; the
giant trees California the natural bridge,
Virginia and the Yosemite valley.
The truth about the condition of NJ. de
Lesseps, the great French engineer, is that
his mind is 80 enfeebled thathe can scarce
ly sustain conversation, and that return
10 vigorous health for him is considered
highly improbable by those close to him.
SECRETARY FOSTER, who has sailed for
Europe in search OF health. said before his
departure that he had not seen a we'll day
since he went to New York last fall to make
an address at the annual banquet OF the
the chamber OF commerce. x was at the
annual banquet year previously that
| Secretary Window was stricken to death
with heart disease.
The census of all India shows a popula-
ton Of 100000. OF these 207, 634. 4O7
are Hindoos, 57,365,2O4 Mussulmans,
2,2S4,1 9l Christians, l,4l6, l09 jams, 1907
$50 Sikhs, 7,l0l .O57 Buddhists, 1887
Parsees, l7.1SO Hebrews, 9,402, 0S3 forest
/ tribes tanimal worshipers), 2S9 atheists,
agnostics, etc. Among the Hindoos are
included 9,401 Brahmans and 39.948
Aryans.
JUDGING from the number of children
who attend school, the United States is
the best educated country in the world.
The number Of children per ! 900 popula-
ton who attended in the United States is
1877; in Switzerland. 179; Austria Hun
gary, l12; Norway, i54: United Kingdom,
143; Sweden, 142; Netherlands. 125; Den
mark. 1913; Spain, l0J; Italy, 81 i; Greece,
-; Russia, 24
! THE only surviving members of the U.
+ 5. senate at the memorable session OF
! lS60-'6l, immediately preceding the war,
are said TO be Willard Salisbury of Della
ware, Lyman T-umbull of Illinois, James
Harlan of Iowa, Anthony Kennedy OF
! MARYLAND, Henry M. Rice and Morton 5.
Wilkinson of Minnesota, Thomas l.. Cling
man of North Carolina and James Il. Doo-
lit of Wisconsin.
GEN, SIMEON Mills of Milwaukee, the
oldest of the surviving pioneers of Wiscon-
/ sin, at one time carried the mail from
Milwaukee to Madison, leaving letters on
the way at log houses scattered along the
Indian trail. In winter he made the
Journey on snowshoes, with the mail sack
slung on his back. In course of time he
became one of the leading citizens OF
Madison and during the war he was
actively engaged in fitting out state troops.
Gen. Mills is eighty-three years old.