The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-12
THE OMNIBUS
A Leavenworth gffI is named Mycal

A truck went up Broadway the other
day heavily laden with Bermuda onions.
and bearing on one side in big gilt letters
the words, Foreign fruit"
The biggest car load OF shingles ever
shipped East was sent out Of Washington
state few days ago. l. contained $4,000
5000
New York doctor says he has ex-
amined the men who work in a large
brewery and found that il is the custom
Of those who have free access 10 the beer
70 drink a key day.
Mamma tdisappointed.y)-'T thought Mr.
P.unk,ey was going to propose last night?"
Daughter-.'So did l." Mamma-''why
didn't he?" Daughter-"He did Mann
ma-"Ohr'-Detroit Free Press.
IT'S very puzzling," said a Worried
looking woman 10 one Of her neighbors.
What is that?" Il can't tell whether
me parrot is co-rupting Wilie."-Texas
Siftings.
How did you vote in the election. Uncle
Jim?'' Il don't member now. sub. Dey
wuz two gentermens blddin' for me, en- I
amt sho' eff de SO: one wuz democrat.
publican, or de twixt in between. At
lanta Constitution.
The Indians may be dying out. but the
Choctaw nation took a fresh start a few
days ago, when a squaw presented her
husband with a batch OF four lusty boys.
The group weighed twenty-five and one
half pounds, and at last accounts were all
doing well
The natural tendency of children to
mendacity was Illustrated not long ago in
a circus parade, when a small boy asked
his aunt If she had not seen him in the
parade. She answered that she had not,
whereupon he gravely informed her that
ne was therein the cage with the tigers.
In the heart OF a large pine tree three
and half feet in diameter, James Miller,
Of Marinette. Wis, found a knife that was
about foot long and one and a half in
ches wide. The age Of the tree IS esti-
mated by good judges TO be over 200 years.
and the knife was buried in it when the
tree was in its infancy, for 1t is right near
the heart and only about six feet from the
base.
The war upon the check rein. begun by
the Massachusetts humane society, has
had its effect in New York. An observer
noted in walk Of a mile and a half in
Fifth-ave. the other day. that OF the
horses drawing 351 vehicles only those OF
eighty-seven had check reins. and OF
these many were very loose. The count
of docked tails would show a very differ
ent result.
Have you heard Of the latest invention
in clocks?'' she asked sweetly. No" re-
piled Mr.. Slogo. 1T is very ingenious. It
has a photograph attachment which calls
off the hours" wonderfully cleverr'
Yes. and at a quarter Of II it says
good night" He glanced at his watch.
which told OF half past 10. and i'm a few
moments had fed into the darkness
Washington Star.
a young man who had had no previous
experience in raising.plants invested about
81, 900 in greenhouses in a village on the
Hudson eighteen months ago and has made
all his expenses and is several hundred
dollars TO the better by cultlvatng mush-
rooms and violets for the New York mar
ket. An odd combination Of crops, but
one that gives good profit when they
can be made to grow.
The number Of death caused by wild
animals is increasing greatly in India.
snake bites heading the list last year with
81 900 victims OF $500 persons who were
killed by animals. tigers killed nearly 1000;
leopards, 29l; wolves, 175; bears, 121, and
elephants 6s Ninety thousand head CT
cattle We're destroyed, an increase Of 1900
over the year before. on the other hand,
$1,000 wild beasts were killed, including
nearly 1,3OO tigers and over 1000 leopards,
besides almost 10000 deadly snakes.
A sprightly old fellow Of eighty-two is
Ephraim Walters Of Uniontown, Pa, and
finding himself lonely after the death Of his
third wife he published an advertisement in
the paper, offering $500 to anyone who
would procure him a respectable wife, and
$1,000 to any respectable woman who would
-
who used TO keep millinery store saw the
advertisement and concluded that she
would go in for that $4,000 SO she sent
for Walters looked him over and said he'd
do. The old man got the license. a shave
and a hair cut, made over the money, and
the wedding was celebrated.
The greatest cities of ancient times were
Babylon and Rome. The former is said to
have had an area Of 100 to 200 square
miles: its houses were three or four stories
high, but palaces and gardens occupied
much Of the vast area, SO that the popula-
ton was not what these figures would seem
to indicate. In fact. II is said by one his
torian that nine-tenths Of this area was
taken up by gardens and orchards. The
total population Of the city under Nebu-
chadneZZar and his son, Evi.-MerOdach. is
estimated at over two million. Rome
reached its greatest size during the fourth
then about 100000.
There is a man in town who is a suf-
ficient enemy to society to own a dog and
a parrot The parrot makes things lively
by day, and the dog relieves the bird by
night. gentleman next door, who is
fond of nice. quiet. reflective evenings,
has been SO infuriated by the barking that
he has stuck his head out Of the window
on numerous occasions and shouted:
Keep that damned dog quietr The par
rot is an intelligent Polly. and what was
the gentleman's establishment a day or
two ago to hear her shouting: Keep
that damned dog quietr' A great wave OF
peace now sweeps over him, and ne is the
firm friend Of the parrots.
When America was discovered the
potato was cultivated in all the temperate
parts of South America, but not in Mexico.
Carbon, a Spanish priest is
TO have introduced the plant into
Europe. From Spain 1t went into Italy,
and hence to Belgium. Some years later
Ii was introduced into Virginia, and speci-
mems were brought 10 Ireland about 1890
For nearly a hundred years IL was culti-
waited very little in Great Britain. In
1863 the Royal society urged its cultiva-
ton. but Il is only within the last GEN.
fury and half that Il has been common
there. But the sweet potato
was brought into England in 1868, and was
called the common potato" as early as
1897. when the white potato was first de-
scribed in an English book.
Three death in London from chloroform
administered by physicians are reported