The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-06
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within the next sixty days. IL will start
| from the very day upon which congress
| passes the bill for tariff reduction, and
as soon as the president signs it. The
country, and the whole commercial
world, are innpatiently waiting for it's
| passage. Our nation viii then enter up
on a new era of prosperity.
| vile News.
The new year book of DePauw uni
| versity Greencastle Ind. which has
| just come TO hand. shows the institution
| to be in a prosperous condition. Not
| withstanding the hard times the attend
| arce for the year is over eight hundred.
while the number of professors and in
! structors in all the departments is over
| fifty. The number of graduates in the
! various schools is nearly one hundred
| The following departments are repre-
| scented: Mental and moral science, Latin,
chemistry. history. political science.
! aesthetics, Greek, romance languages,
mathematics, botany, physics, German
| astronomy, zoology, physiology, English
! literature. rhetoric, oratory, theology,
! law music, art. military science and a
| large preparatory school The summer
| school, in which many of the above
| named departments are represented, ex-
| tends from June 10 to July %. A special
| session for teachers will open in the
/ spring. The university is abreast of the
| times, and draws its students from all
| parts of the land. John P, d. John is
/
! The temperature took sudden tumble
/ Sunday forenoon. A chilling wave swept
! down from the north at about o'clock.
| During the early hours Of the morning
| the temperature was 81 degrees above
zero. 1t dropped suddenly and kept
! going down until it was 80 degrees. or
| the freezing point. During the night ice
was frozen on standing water three
/ fourths of inch thick. and a heavy
| frost formed. 1t is believed that some
| 4. 1c,o \
| vegetation. and nearly everything of the
| vegetable kind shows the effect of the
| nipping TO a more or less degree. Potato
| leaves. tomato vines, and other garden
| vegetables have turned black and It is
| feared that the grape crop is ruined.
| j. W. Brummitt of Porter county was in
the city today and he believes that the
wheat and corn is not damaged to any
| appreciable extent. He feels sure that
| the crop will be all right. Mr.. Brummitt
| has twelve acres of strawberries this sea-
| son against twenty acres last season, but
| he has prospects of a good crop. The frost
| may have damaged strawberries slightly,
but he does not believe that he will have
! any extensive loss. The berries are quite
large and their weight has carried them
toward the ground. where they were
| protected by the overhanging leaves.
| The smaller berries may have been
damaged-NIichigan City Dispatch.
Jennie Greek. the little child who saved
| the lives of a worlds fair train-load OF
| passengers on the Pittsburg Cincin-
natl, Chicago & St. Louis railroad, a mile
| from the station of Mill Grove, in
| Blackboard county. Indiana, Sept. 10, 1898,
| has been decorated by the French society
of the legion Of honor. Her medal ar
| rived Thursday and the little girl now
wears it with all the dignity of a battle
| field hero. 1t is a siX-pointed star Of
| solid gold highly wrought, bearing the
motto of the legion of honor, the girls
| name, and a mention of the deed for
/ which she is hOnored. Jennie Creek was
| only ten years old when she Won the
! medal She was gathering autumn
! grasses along the railroad when she dis
| covered a small wooden bridge on fire.
/ The timbePs were almost burned away
/ and she knew the passenger train was
| about due Being too far from any house
| TO secure help she ran down the track
] waving her apron and tagged the train.
/ The engineer saw the signal and brought
| his train to a stop within a few feet Of
/ the bridge The train crew eXtinguished
| the fire and strengthened the bridge so
| that the train passed over in safety.
! The passengers took up collection
| which amounted to only $12.12 for the
| little child News OF the deed reached
| Paris, and the director Of the legion of
| honor wrote TO Governor Mckinley of
| Ohio, who verified the story and sent
| the little heroine's address, with the
| above result.
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practical farmer and an extensive stock
| grower. has experimental quite largely
] in the use of wheat for feeding stock for
\ the purpose of determining it's fattening
| qualities as compared with corn, and he
/ manifeSts a decided preference for the
| former cereal. He said: Il feed about
| one hundred bushels Of wheat mostly to
| sheep. and / am satisfied there Is no
| grain on the farm that has so much OF
/ the essential elements for animal growth
4 a VI I heRn demonstrated
| men with whom I am personally ae-
| quainted that wheat fed to good, thrifty
| shoats will produce fourteen pounds Of
pork to bushel of wheat. 1 never win
| tered my sheep on so small an amount
Of rough feed. began very light, about
| one-fourth pint per head in day, and
| gradually increased to one pint. This
amount. with hay once day and plenty
of bright straw, will keep a flock of
] sheep in fine condition. For breeding
| ewes there is no feed equal to wheat.
! II keeps them strong and healthy, and
| find that lambs are much stronger and
/ better able TO stand up and suck than
when fed on corn. 1t is equally as bene-
| fetal for all other live stock, especially
| for hogs and cattle. If the farmers would
| convert their surplus wheat into first
/ class mutton, beef or pork IL would bring
/ them far more money than to hold on TO
their crop until something turns up to
! raise the price" Another we'll informed
| farmer says that to obtain the best re-
suits from feeding stock with wheat the
| grain should be soaked before it is fed.
A linen collar, much the worse for dirt
| and somewhat out Of style. was received
| by the boys in the Pittsburg Dispatch
( ers office yesterday. 1t is curiosity
/ that has become famous and has traV-
eled more within a few months than
| most men do in a lifetime. The collar
| was picked up in the dispatcher's Office
at Altoona. where it Rad been discarded
by some unknown person. A waggish
| operator found the soiled bit of apparel
| ard for joke sent it to an operator in
| New York. Then the collar began a
] journey that now threatens the distinc-
| ton OF that restless and ever-moving
| tourist known to fame as the Wandering
| Jew. From New York IL went TO New
| Orleans, thence to Savannah Baltimore
| Washington and a hundred other cities
| In an effort to find its owner that has
| thus far been vain. The collar Is VERT
| ably covered on both sides with the auto
| graphs of the hundreds of persons into
| whose hands 1t has fallen, and accom-
panying II is an accumulation OF appro-
| pirate literature absolutely amazing.
| Prose and poetry-epigramatic couplet
and witty quatrain-lndeed, every style
! Of literary composition Is represented by
| specimens Of more or less merit. The art
| feature is not neglected. and several
| clever pencils have contributed laughabe
| illustrations. The Pittsburg Post gave
| the collar a big write-up when 1t was in
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