The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
ODDS AND ENDS

SENATOR BLAINE has SIX chlluren.
HEAVY floods are reported in New
South Wales.
THE United States has issued more
than 1850 patents on seed planters.
THE rlmningexpense of an ordinary
passenger train, exclusive of taxes and
interest. is about 81 a mile.
A FLORIDA recluse owns 10000
head of cattle, and huries his boarded
wealth in cans on his farm.
THE New York Sun sends up Bit
ter wall at the high price of lager beer,
and stigmatizes it as an outrage.
M MIDGET PINAFoRE COMPANY is
on the road, the tallest member OF
which is under thirty inches high.
THE Germans are becoming very nu-
merous in Jerusalem, and they are
about to establish quarterly magazine
there.
All the teachers who accepted APP
pointments under the new educational
laws of Belgium have been excommtl-
nicated.
The receipts at the New Orleans GUS
tom house are increasing on account,
it is believed. of the jetties at the
mouth of the Mississippi.
The Panama canal scheme has been
so poorly patronized in New York that
the managers will not allow the sub
head he found his hearing restored.
Adolph Richard, of Staten Island,
New York, left bakeshop heated to
I2O degrees, and entered q refrigerator
where he died in ten minutes.
CAPT. STONE, of Moundsville, w.
Va, was buried a few days age in
coffin of mahogany grown from seed
planted by himself on his own farm.
Lightning does strike twice in the
same place sometimes. "A large wal
nut tree on the farm of Alex. Loucke,
of York, Pa, has been struck no less
than five times in one season.
Mrs. thinner, of Gloversville, n. Y,
was savagely attacked in her carriage
by tame monkey, who bit her arms
and face, and on her return she died of
nervous prostration, caused by her
fright.
BoNNER's Edwin Forest trotted a
full mile last Saturday, in 2:113 on a
private track, and Mr.. Bonner has
promised to give public exhibition of
his powers soon, when record will be
given the wonderful horse.
A GEORGIA man retired as usual one
night near the end of July and dreamed
that he was fishing, and OH waking up
found himself sitting on q stump be-
side the river with baited line in his
hand, and two fish beside him.
A CONVICT las been pardoned from
the Illinois penitentiary that lie might
be able to attend meeting of heirs i'm
Sweden, September lst, when large
estate will be divided. His presence
will secure him comfortable fortune.
AN oil we'll which had been
torpedoed at Kendall Creek, New York,
gave out rumbling sound, followed
by shower of pumice stone and
clouds of smoke and steam. A little
later oil began to flow, and an
abundant yield has procured out since
A HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, sol
der. whose hearing was destroyed In
one of the engagements during the
war, went bathing few evenings ago
and on dipping his head under the wa
ter heard loud report. Raising hi:
thoughtto be imminent, as the Russians
are about to cross the Chinese frontier
THE main part of the $4,000, 900 acres
granted to the Union Pacific are in Ne
braska. The rapid increase of the cul
tivation alung the road has EXTENDED
the rain belt, and added one-third Il
the arabic land of the grant.
THE following items appear in tn,
accounts of the Russian Surgeon Gen
eral during the Turko-Russian war
7,445 pounds of quinine; 5000 pound
of Peruvian bark; $4,000 pounds of cas-
tor oil, and 5000 pounds of chloroform
The quinine cost $4,000 per pound.
"Mother Shipton's Prophecy. tina
has kept the faint hearted in tormen
for the past decade was written by al
English student only Thirty years ago
who afterward confessed the fraud. /
was one of the cleverest receptions O
the times.
GREAT clumsy iron war ships, Xix
he British Thunderer, are fast givinI
place to light, wieldy little monitors
armed with single guns, and provides
with engines capable of driving then
at a high rate of speed. The German
and Chinese Governments have adopt
ed the small vessels.