The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-03
THE OMNIBUS.

France makes the finest lens.
Wyoming contains soda lakes.
Afghanistan has electric lights.
Japan ladies drink buffalo milk.
A modern lightship costs $4,000.
London gas is IS cents per 1000.
Germany has 100 cooking schools
our hay crop is worth S570.oOO.oOl,
Paper horseshoes give satisfaction.
The catholic faith prevails I'm Peru.
Russia has 100000 900 acres Of timber.
Mrs. Mackay has a $4,000 dinner set.
Nearly all the gum arabic Of COM
merce come from the great Sahara des-
ert.
The population Of Peru under the In
cas- was twelve times greater than it is
today.
Ancient Grecian cities levied tax on
bachelors over twenty years old, TO com
pei them 10 marry.
\ chemist has discovered a process for
solidlfying whisky and other liquors into
tablets like chocolate.
The name Of the lion protects the pow
erful muscles OF his shoulders from
changes Of temperature.
Buckle planned work for half dozen
lifetimes and was miserable because he
knew he could not finish It.
In Liverpool recently $50 temperance
sermons were preached on what was OBJ
served as Temperance Sunday"
The Dakotas and Oklahoma resent their
divorce court fame. just as Rhode Island
did some years ago. Some people are so
senstivei
One-ffth Of the girl pupils Of the Lon
don guidhall OF music are studying the
violin. There are 1000 female pupils in
the school
Stranger-"Do you play cards?" Mr..
Threecard Monty-"Um-er-w don't
play them exactly; l work them. De
troit Free Press.
Mozart. in spite Of his wonderful gen.
ius, was often in great poverty. He
literally died Of want. and was buried in
the potters field.
Call was once a woman's head dress,
and the descendants Of all manufac-
turers are the Callmans, Callers and
Kellers Of today.
Queen Elizabeth was annoyed by n red
nose, and her attendants were accus-
toned to powder it every few minutes to
keep il presentable.
Beer placed in dishes near flower pots
will tempt all the snais in the vicinity.
and the next morning they will be found
lying alongside dead
An original certificate OF membership
in the order Of Cincinnati, issued to a
signer and signed by George Washington
was recently sold at Wilmington, Del,
for $50.
A Y. NJ. c. A. exhorter tackled a burly
young Swede in Kansas the other day.
The young man refused. First thing
/ know you'll be ordering me out on
strike" said he. NO. l won't join"
Samuel Woodwork, the author Of "Old
Oaken Bucket" and other poems, was
called the American Goldsmith on ac-
count Of a resemblance IN character to
the author Of the Deserted Village"
Philadelphia has the finest city clock
in the world. The face which is ten
yards in diameter. can be seen from
every part Of the city. The minute hand
is four yards long and the hour hand a
little over half that length.
Only seven out of the seventeen trans
Atlantic cables are in use, ten having
given out from various causes. Here is
an irreclaimable investment OF $50 GOO 900
DuIlcu DeIledlu lle waves dL u Ntplu
ranging from a few fathoms to over five
miles.
a Boston author. who is convinced that
the printing of books in white and black
is unnatural and trying TO the eyes. Is
about to bring one out with the pages
blue, green, yellow, etc. each purchaser
TO make choice Of his or her color. He
hopes it will be read.
Scalping is not original to American
aborigines. In Southal's Recent Origin
Of Man" he quotes from Herodotus to
show that the Scythians scalped their
fallen enemies. and in modern times the
scalping knife is used by the wild tribes
Of northwestern Bengal.
The teacher asked the class wherein
lay the difference in meaning between
the words Sufficient" and enough"
" Sufficient" answered Tommy. lis
when mother thinks it's time that I
stopped eating pie; enough is when 1
think it is."-New Orleans Democrat.
One of the most remarkable sights to
be seen in Australia is a burning noun
tain, 1920 feet in hight. The mountain
is supposed to be underlaid with an in
eXhaustible coal seam, (which in some
way became ignited. 1t was burning
long before the advent of white men TO
that part Of the country.
One realizes the Importance OF the sub
stituti0n Of electricity for steam power
in auxiliary engines on board our men
of-war when IL is recalled that a single
ship may have from twenty-five 70 forty
such engines. The education Of an cleo
trical engineer is becoming more and
more necessary to a naval officer.
Guy de Maupassants body is soon to
be removed from the Montparnasse ceme-
terry, where it now les, 20 a place in
Pere Lachaise, between the graves OF
Balzac and Gerard de Nerval At the
foot of the grave will rise a block OF
rough marble, shaped like a Breton men,
hir with no inscription but his name
This is a world of many ills.
Whatever people say;
Our creditors present their bills
And Worry US by day;
And when the day has ceased its hum
And slumber we invite
Mosquitoes round our pillow come
With their blamed bills at night.
N. y. Press.
Taken all together. there are rs ian
guages and dialects in which as a figure
of speech God is expressed in words,
but in none Of them is the word OF over
grown proportions, the longest being
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