The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
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The German name for tram car is "Pferd-
rasseneisenbahuwagen Almost as long
as the tram line.
Apoplexy is most common in France,
there being 800 deaths in every 10000 annu-
ally from this cause.
The queen Of England always sleeps with
her bedroom window open. She is a great
stick!er for fresh air
A Spanish musician has devised a system
Of musical notation by which the fat and
sharp system is done away with.
II IS said than VI. Victorian Sardou has
on hand the plot and bare outline of 30
plays that are waiting to be written.
Frederick Remington, the artist. is in
Chicago. making sketches of the labor riots
AMI military for an eastern publication.
The average rainfall of Great Britain is
estimated 10 equal $4,000 gallons per acre
every year-aImost three thousand tons.
That which - popularity known as the
funny bone, at the point OF the elbow, is in
reality no bone at all but a nerve that lies
near the surface.
one OF the three shirts possessed by Ma
poleon ct St. Helena. ana divided at his
death among his companions, was recently
sold at auction for So
on account Of labor troubles supplies of
fresh meat have been SO cut off in Connec-
ticut that the people are subsisting almost
entirely on vegetables ard fish
= vlIIainous amusement in India is that
called plnjah. /; consists in locking hands
ana seeing who can be made TO kneel
Many hands are broken at this gentle sport.
The title Of reverend as an honorary ap-
pellation to the clergy was given by COM
mon consent about the middle Of the sew
enteenth century. In an English parish
-
END in 1861. occasionally afterward, but
regularly after 1927.
Lord Rose6erry is getting to be a chronic
winner. lie won the Derby handily, and at
the West Lothian cattle show the other
day he secured the first and second prizes
for short horn cattle, four first prizes and
one second prize for sheep and a first and
second prize for pigs
Alpheus Fetch, just elected president of
the Michigan state pioneers association
will be ninety in September. He is the old
est living ex-governor in the United States
and has been a United States senator and
a judge of the Michigan supreme court He
is still in active life as bank director.
In Chinese restaurant in Canton enough
dog stew may be purchased to feed a lot
Of coolies for 10 cents. This is black dog
stew. which is better than that made from
yellow dog. 1t is cooked with tuft of the
hair left on the end of the tail as an evil
dence of good faith. Cat meat is higher
than dog meat and rat meat costs less, but
tabbies are killed only on order.
Some autograph letters and documents
with royal sign manuals, of great interest
and rarity, were recently sold in London
A document with manual in monogram of
Richard III brought little over 500. while
one signed by Henry VII brought only SO
y letter of Queen Elizabeth brought $S1
letter from Lord Byron sold for $2S, while
one from George Washington went for s100
Lord Randolph Churchill IS surly TO in
reviewers. He was asked by New York
reporter If he had not something TO say
about his visit. Something to saw" re-
piled he. "Pshaw!" When it was suggested
that he was not looking in the best OF
health. he replied that he had not come
here to discuss his physical condition, and
refused to answer any other queries that
might be put to him.
II Franklin MacVeagh goes to the United
States senate from Illinois he will have rs
one of his colleagues a life long friend in
the person of Senator Higgins. They were
chums in boyhood and the
friendship between them strengthened with
advancing years. The Damon and Pythas
relations of Senators Butler and Cameron
will have good parallel If MacVeagh
comes IN as Mr.. Cullom's successor.