The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-04
EFT CETERA.

The custom OF selling wives by husbands
is still common in central Russia.
London has more houses than Paris, New
York, Berlin and Vienna put together. ow-
ing TO the prevalence of fats in the latter
cities.
The president and fellows Of Harvard
university have voted 10 prohibit punches
and distilled liquors class days and at
commandments. The college teas will
not be so pink as formerly.
1t has been said that the first persons
seen by Robinson Crusoe on his desert
island were a great swell on shore and
little cove running inland. The most re-
markable geographical feature was the big
bluff put up by the cannibals.
A tow-boat started from Louisville for
New Orleans recently with fleet Of forty
boats of coal, or nearly 10000 tons The
Courier-Journal claims that this is the
largest tow any boat has ever attempted
to handle on any river. The coal would
have loaded train of cars eleven and one
half miles in length.
Mrs. Langtry has been fairly successful
at the gambling tables at Monte Carlo.
She plays with business caution. neither
forcing fortunes favors nor defying in
luck, but is satisfied with moderate win
nings, and leaves the table when her
play three nights a week.
A clergyman's wife in one of the in
terror cities of Massachusetts declared in
a paper lately read before local conven-
ton that more harm TO the health and
vitality of our race as a whole is done by
corsets than by rum Mr.. Gladstone said
that rum has brought more evil than war,
pestilence and famine combined.
AIvan Clark and some Harvard profess
sors are at work on the Yerkes telescope
that is to be the biggest ever constructed.
They ridicule the claims OF Louis Gathman,
the Chicago Optician, who says that for
$4,000 he can build telescope that would
enable a person to pick up pins on the
moon if his arms were long enough.
Florida orange shippers are trying a new
plan. The experiment is being made Of
sending fruit loose in bulk In the cars
1t is estimated that the grower or shipper
will save 121a cents per box. and the re-
ceivers report that the fruit so far sent
this year has arrived at its destination in
first-class condition. 1t is probable that
the principal portion Of next seasons crop
will be shipped in bulk.
The Napoleon column at Boulogne, from
which the statue of Napoleon has fallen.
stood on the high ground back OF the town
to mark the site Of the great camp of 1900,
which Napoleon ! had formed preparatory
to his projected invasion of England. Here
he had concentrated 10000 men and 200
transports and was about ready to swoop
down upon England with them when the
var with Austria afforded them other en-
ployment
In his address on the negro question in
Philadelphia the other evening Prof Booker
T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala, himself
a negro, related an amusing anecdote to
illustrate how in the Ethiopian mind re-
ligion is often divorced from morality.
An old darkey," he said, AROSE recently
In one of the southern prayer meetings
and exclaimed: Brethren and sistern, I've
been having a drefful time since last we
were together. I've been chawing hard
bones and swallowing bitter pills. I'm
afraid I've broken every one of the ten
commandments. but. thank the Lord. I
haven't lost my religion?
A Richmond publishing house has started
a movement looking to the publication of
educational books for southern schools. The
Richmond State applauds the effort in the