Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — GLORIOUS INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

GLORIOUS INDIANA.

many proud points in the hisTORY OP THE STATE. What Hoosieks Have Done Worth Mentioning, as Set Forth by The South Bend Times. The largest gas field in the worlffhs in Indiana. Indiana is in the center of notional population. Lew Wallace, the author of “Ben Hur,” is a Ho. sier. The first man killed in the rebllion was a Hoosier. Indiana gen-rally,ranks first in the production of wheat. Indiana’s public school systtm has long been accepted as a standard. Indiana has the largest city in the world off of navigable waters. Indiana stone is in demand for fine building from Boston to Portland. Indiana has more towns of over 6.000 inhabitants than any state in the union. Abraham Lincoln w s once .a Hoosier, and his mother’s crave is in Spencer county. Indian was the first Btate in the west to have a complete systeffi of townshiD libraries.

From a historical standpoint the Wabash valley is one of Ihe most interesting localities in America. The largest iprivate normal school"in the world, with an enrollment of four thousand, is located in Indiana. Indiana hae the largest capital city in the west, and the finest capital building lor the m ney in the U. S. A. The world’s trotting record was bioken oa an Indiana track last year, and Indiana live stock is always above par. The Pestalozzian system of education, now dominant in America, was first transferred from Switzerland to Indiana. The first American plate glass was manufactured on Hoosier soil, and the largest glass factory i„ the world Is in Indiana.

The public school system of Indiana was selected by the emperor of Brazil as his model after examining taat of, k all eastern states. Joaquin Miller was born in Fuitoii county, and Charles Nordbott, the eminent political economist, was onoe a Lafajette journalist. | Zachary Taylor wa once a JHoosier aud William Henry Harrison was the president of the board of trusts es of In diana’s first uuiversity. dhe largest wagon factory in the world und the second Roman Catholic educational institution in the United States are located at South Bend, Ind. Indiana has one university that has taken the interoState inter-collegiate oratorical contest oftener than all the colleges of any of the other ten states combined. R. W. Thompson, whom Greeley paonounced the greatest power on the American platform, and Schuyler Colfax, the greatest stump speaker of his generation, were Hoosiers. Henry Ward Beecher and Matthew Simpson, the two best known of American pulpit orators, began their ministry and giew to the fullness of their power in Indiana as contemporaries. Dr. Lidp itb. tbe m6st popular American historian; maurioe Thompson and Eawurd Eggleston, the most popular Ameii an novelists, and James Whitcomb Itiiey, the best American poet, are all prou i to be called Hoosiers. An Indiana savant, Horace P. Biddle, is ihe mb or of the true ilieory of sound ud the fir-t to perfect tbe chromatic sc ie m mi sic. Histheories, opposed to . eimhoiiz, Tvndall and other Earopeun nn.horiues, li ive teeu demonstrated to lie bc.ieutihealiy correct an . me now uni'trs.,n, . cctpted.