The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19
the OMNIBUS

OF the $50 successful candidates for the
degree Of B. A from the London unlver-
sity, eighty-one We're women.
! A southern California editor Is being
boycotted by some Of his readers because
he publishes the mean temperature Of the
town.
A Clark county. Georgia, couple last week
celebrated their golden wedding in the house
in which they We're married fifty years ago
and which has been their home continuous
! ly since.
sympathy-"My ord" said an over
worked parson to his bishop, Il have not
had holiday for five years" Il am very
sorry for your congregation" replied his
| lordship, with a smie.-Tit-Blts.
Policeman to wheelman who is riding
on the sidepath-"See here. young man,
] you can't ride there" Cant, Ell? Well.
( you just watch me-" And he shot out Of
| sight--The American wheelman.
| 80" said DR.. Donegan, they've been
| printing the funeral notices av a man that
wasn't dead yit It's a nice fix he'd be in
if he had been wan Of these people that
believes Everything in the nswspapers!'-
| Tit-Bits.
In the cemetery Of Barnstable, Mass, Is
the following inscription: Here Lyeth
| Inferred We body Of Mrs. Hope Chapman.
We wife Of Elder John Chapman, aged
] forty-fivG years, who changed this life for
a beer We Of January, 1885,
The University Of Kansas has recently
| received through a graduate Of that insti-
tuition, who is now in Mashonaland, a full
and valuable collection Of South African
mammals. This IS said to be the only
such collection in the United States.
| Lottie-"Before Ethel married that
| young literary man she told me one day
that her union with him was going to
raise her to a higher life" Tottie-"And
did it2' LOttie-"Yes: they are living in
] an attic understandable Journal.
A vibrating helmet for the cure Of nerv-
Gus headaches has been invented by a
French physician. II is constructed Of
! strips Of sseei, put in vibration by a small
electro-motor, which makes COO turns
! minute. The sensation, which is described
| as not unpleasant, produces drowsiness;
| the patient fa--s as.eep under its influence
and awaks to find that the pain has ceased.
A nine-penny shinp.aster, bearing date OF
April, IN, a specimen Of probably the
Oldest United States money in existence,
was found between the leaves of an old
! history few days ago by J. n. Hooker Of
| Barlow. Fla. The bill was printed by
| John Dunlap of Philadelphia. and has
| printed on one side the warning: ITO
| counterfeit is death."-Cincinnad Times
| Star.
Kentucky has been rounding up her fat
! children and has discovered some notable
youngsters. Carroll county has a nine-year-
old boy who weighs 1S1 pounds Little
| Horace Lane Of Wycklffe is the last
prodigy heard Of He is seven years old,
| weighs 142 pounds, measures thirty-nine
| inches round the waist fOrty-one round the
chest. thirteen round the biceps and is four
| feet five and one-half inches tall
As the dealer in secondhand books will
| buy anything, provided it be cheap enough.
! SO the junk dealer after a while is mas
| tered by an Unsuitable thirst for buying It
! is not unusual to find at a junk dealers
| pieces Of machinery, bits Of apparatus, or
| instruments Of which he knows neither the
| names nor the uses. They come to him
| as scrap metal, and he hopes to sell them
TO some one who may recognize their value.
In cities. where space is valuable, stables
are now built upward, as well as buildings
| designed for human occupancy. In such
! establishments horses are never stabbed on
the ground floor. which is reserved mainly
for vehicles. but IN the basement or on a
second floor which are reached by run
ways. Such modern stables are provided
with steam elevators. upon which carriages
NAV be taken 10 and from the ground floor.
One of the most fashionable churches
now in Paris is the Russian church in the
Rue Daru. Nowhere else is the sentiment
Of loyalty and royalty combined so thor
oughly with that of religion. Almost
every day the Paris press announces
memorial services which are to be held
there, while the same papers do not at
tach much importance TO the services held
in he great French cathedral Of Notre
Dame.
There are many signs Of rebellion in
fashionable quarters against the high
stoop, not only in new houses, but also in
old houses undergoing alteration. The En-
glish basement however, is a luxury Of
the rich. as the high stoop is more eco
nomical of space. 1t is noticeable that an
early modification Of the high stop, the
double sweeping side stairs that lead up
to a single platform fronting two street
doors, has had little vogue in recent years.
A frog farm with about a million head
of stock is carried on successfully by a
man in Contra Costa county. California.
He started ranching in frogs a few months
ago with a herd of about 1000 frogs, and
is already making lots Of money. He sup
plies the markets Of san Francisco. Oak
land and other large cities on the coast.
II costs little or nothing 10 raise the
frogs, and the rancher is not anxious 10
trade his ranch even for gold mine, 50
he says.
The Elusive Trust President.-Tne Trust
Nagnate's Secretary-"Here's A man at
the door, sir, who wants to know whether
your company has absolute control Of the
market l think he's contemplating an in
vestnent" The Trust Misunderstanding
" we control the market" The Trust
Magnate's Secretary But he may be an
investigating agent from congress" The
Trust Magnate-"Then tell him that the
story about our controlling the market is
a slanderous falsehood. Chicago Record.
a teacher in an uptown school recently
gave her scholars as a lesson to mark on
their states the Roman numerals from 1
TO u. In about three minutes one Of the
boys he'd up his hand. signifying that he
had accomplished the work. Why,
Johnny" said the teacher, YOU are real
smart None Of the other scholars are
ha,f done. Now, tell us how you came to
finish so quickly" Johnny, in great gee.
replied: II copied them from the clock on
the wall up there."-Philade.p Record.
81 have never yet been on the winning
side in a presidential election" said a New
Yorkerer who has been a voter for fifty
years II started my voting career as a
Wing and my maiden vote was cast for
Henry Clay in 1874 Something prevented
my voting for Gen. Taylor voted for
Scott in 1852 and for Fillmore in 1856. Be
coming a democrat in 1860 1 voted for
STEPHEN A Douglas. I have voted the
democratic ticket ever since, when 1 voted