The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-22
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Tan shoes are losing popularity in
Paris.
Telegraph poles are now made from
paper
In France 1t is illegal to catch frogs at
night
John Bunyan finished the Pilgrims
Progress" at fifty.
Baxter wrote the Saints Everlasting
Rest" at thirty-four
Adam Smith published THE Wealth Of
Nations" at fifty-fve.
Tennyson's horror Of the interviewer
almost reached insanity.
Won Rauke finished his History Of
the Pope" at thirty-nine.
Robert Browning wrote The Ring and
the Book" at ffty-seven.
George Eliot was thirty-four when
Adam Bede" was printed.
The Brigands," by Schiller, made the
author famous at twenty-three.
"Tolstors Boyhood." written by him.
self, has just appeared in London.
The principles Of rainfall were first
correctly set forth by Dalton in 17S7.
Japan has an available surplus OF a.
100000 yen. 100000. in the treasury.
The average annual amount of dew in
England is equal to five inches Of rain.
The Imperial library OF Paris has 1900
works treating Of the French revolution.
4 department OF journalism has been
introduced into the French university Of
Lille
The s1-a,-a.-a -,-o,txr,- ,,-.--.- ,-,ts a..
female laborers Of all classes in Germany
is S2.17.
a wise man knows the value Of silence
when q child cross-examines him before
his friendA-Adams Freeman.
The hotel porter who fails 10 arouse a
guest when instructed TO do 50 has res-
son 10 be ashamed Of his calling.-Buf-
falo Courier
Reedley-''Why do you smoke contin-
ualiy from morning until night2" Weed
ley-"Its the only time I get 1 sleep
from night Till morning ''-TiT-Bits.
After Venus had answered the prayers
Of the young girl and had sent her a
husband. she next worshipped HyInen.
This god was adored only the day OF the
marriage ceremony. never before nor
after.
play is being given every Sunday. The
play lasts eight hours. with a two hours
interval. The house is in darkness, but
the stage is brilliantly lighted by cleo
ticity.
Certain animals are regarded as sa-
cred by the Egyptians because it was
supposed the deities chose the bodies OF
some Of the species for a temporary
led
the whole species.
In the 1885 the rate OF wages in Europe
was very low. Day laborers in Italy re-
ceived 8 cents per day; in Russia, u
cents; in Holland, is cents: in France.
80 cents; in England, 40 cents; in the
United States, 81 cents.
Residents Of Thatto Heath, st. Helens,
England, are concerned over what was
apparently a shower Of frogs or toads.
After sharp shower the roads between
Thatto Heath library and reservoir was
literally black with frogs.
Two men at work on an iron ship at
the Norfolk navy yard were killed by
electricity recently. though there was no
visible lightning fash. The ship acted
as a condenser and conductor and poured
the current through the men. who were
standing in the wa.er.
The old Indian woman who warned
Gen. Candy against meeting the Indians
under a flag Of truce in the lava beds
during the Modoc war. the disregarding
OF which cost him mis- life is san living
In klamath county, oregon. and receives
a pension from the government for serv-
Ices rendered during the war.
One Of the finest bridges in Europe is
now being constructed across the Danube
d mid hrr
gineers. 1t has a length OF 2.4O0 feet.
divided into FIVE bays It's hight is 1O3
feet to the roadway. and its highest
point is 123 feet above high water. II
IS OF steel and is supported on thirty
piers.
The principal relic belonging TO the
Church Of st. Gudule. in Brussels. Is a
thorn which Is said to have formed a
part Of the celebrated "crown of thorns"
placed upon the SaviOr's head just prior
to His crucihxion. The relic is kept in
a gold relieuary, where Il was deposited
by Florent III, who brought AZ 10 the
Netherlands upon his return from the
crusades.
Most OF the states have had system
of communication for good behavior OF
prisoners. Massachusetts is just putting
that kind of a ticket-of-leave in force.
now in the thirties, a splendid specimen
physically. who fourteen years ago was
given an eighteen-year sentence for bur
glary. He has been a model prisoner and
means to begin life anew.
The year 1894 corresponds to the 1Sssth
from the birth Of Christ TO the year
74O3 OF the Byzantine era, to the years
5654-55 Of the Jewish era (the latter year
beginning at sunset on Sept. 30), to the
year 2647 since the foundation OF Rome,
10 the year 1854 of the japanese and 10
the years 13l1-l2 Of the Mohammedan
era. the year 1872 of the era Of the hegira
having begun on the 9Th inst
The Prison Mirror, a weekly paper
edited and published by the inmates OF
the Minnesota state prison, celebrated its
eighth birthday on the 9Th inst. The
proof sheets are regularly submitted 10
the warden, who acts as press censor.
Tvpographically the paper is far above
the average Of weeklies. while its edi-
torial and other columns show clearly
that its staff includes good men gone
wrong.
In Loudoun county, Virginia Is one OF
the largest fruit farms I'm the country.
Il contains 60. 900 vines. 5000 peach trees,
5000 ounce and pear trees. and several
hundred English walnut and Italian
chestnut trees. The enterprise began as
me experiment OF two brothers who be
1ia1,a5 that the northern Virginia country
i'O s.f,,t1,- c,itref IN the growing OF