The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-13
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGS.
DELMoNIcos head cook gets $4,000 year.
THE University of Brussels has for the nrst
time admitted a lady a. a science student.
THE Legislature of Mississippi has imposed
a tax of % upon bachelors over % years OF age.
THE Buckeye mower works at Poughkeep-
sic shipped 10 car loads of mowers to Russia
this week.
BosroN is running short OF boys. A gentle
man advertised for office boy the other day
and got but q single response.
THERE Is q rumor at Altoona, Pa, that tnere
are 900 Englishmen bound for this country,
to be employed In the machine shops there.
THERE are 95 lakes IN Iowa, covering an
area of $1,000 acres. should these lakes dry up
as some OF them are doing the land VIII belong
to the Government.
THE condition of Olympia, washington Ter
rttory, Is thus described by the Puget Sound
Courier: "we are completely shut out from
the outside world to-day. 1t is impossioieior
the mails to go or come by land or water; the
steamboats, are tied mp at their wharves, ana
the telegraph is Of no more use than broken
clothesline."
THE st. Gothard tunnel was completed in
less than seven years-that is, half the time
consumed in piercing the Mont Cents, which
1t exceeds in length by 2.7.0 metres.
A SINGLE American city now produces near
ly 100000 yards more of carpeting than the
entire Weld OF the British Islands, and large
proportion OF American goods find British
purchasers.
THE czar's body guard is on duty day and
night. Anybody entering the bedroom or
library of the sovereign would have to pass 2O
Cossscks. Two soldiers sleep at the foot OF his
bed every night.
Mr.. JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, the new counsel
for the claimant" has expressed himself az
confident of proving the Innocence OF his
client and the truth of certain new evidence
recently discovered.
JOHN Cox, the Pennsylvania Aoolitionist,
whose house before the war sometimes con.
cealed as many as 20 runaway slaves In one
nis hit, and whose golden wedding was ceie'
brated In verse by Whittier and Bayard Tsy :
lor, has just died at the age ofsa.
MRS MARTHA p. GRAVES, OF South Kill
hngly, Conn, who had been deaf for 80 years,
dreamed, on the night of January 30, that her
hearing was restored. The next night she
went to bed deaf, usual, but awoke In the
morning with perfect hearing, which as yet Is
| unimpaired.
LAWYERS Allen and Taylor, the latter an ex.
| Judge had a quarrel In court at Newark, o.
| While Taylor was riding home. Allen invited
| him to dismount and have his hide tanned
with q whip. Taylor got of his horse, took Of
| his coat, and challenged Allen to attempt the
lob. Allen tried, but failed, and was badly
beaten by the ex judge.
DURING the past I'VE years 1888 OlS,2'5 worth
| of property has been destroyed in this coun-
try by IRE. In 1875 the loss was S7S. luz ,5; In
1875 S6a $50; In 1877, s6S 265 800; In 1878, 1884,
| $500, and In 1879 S76,703,7OO or the states
/ New York leads In big figures. Her loss La
1876 was 900; In 1877, Sill .456,4OO In 1873
| e,s7 900, and In 1879, sl5,79S,2O0 Pennsylvania
comes next, with a tota, loss In the four years
of lz3,500.
THE DOOR car can not be shielded from the
| meddlesome pranks OF the Nihilists. When
he awakes In the morning he finds revolu
| tionary documents on his dressing bureau
| When he opens bis mail he reads menscine
Letters written on black bordered paper. Wher
he goes 10 the theater he draws from hi
pocket with his handkerchief q Revolutionary
manifesto Is 1t strange that he distrusts every
one In his service?
REV. BURR BALDWIN, The Oldest surviving
graduate of Yale, and the only living membe
OF the class of 1909, died at Montrose, Pa sget
81. He was regarded as the founder of thu
American school system, aud school was or
ganized under his di rection at Newark, N. J.
in the first quarter Of the present century. TIT
application of eo,ored woman for admission
caused much apprehension, but she was ad
mitted, and the school at Parsippany for TIT
education Of colored teachers was soon insti
tutsd.
BERNARD BIGLIN went home from o carouss
at Vernon Hill, Neo., expressly Ito have some
fun with the old man. his father. He begar
by pulling his aged parent out of bed and com
Polling him to dance jig baref, o:ed on the colo
door. Then ne commanded his father to stant
on his head but the feat was beyond the oit
mans power, and the son began to whip hin
for falling, when his mother, staiwart sort o
woman, bounded out with a chair, and knock
ed him senseless. Demands skull was broker
and he came near dying.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs has lately beer
visited at his Georgia vlllsge home by a CORE
spondent Of the Boston Herald, who describes
him as "a man worn out with years and q pas
sionate existence, but glorying In the fac
that he Is not q citizen of the United States
that his political disabilities have not been re
moved. and that he is the one only and unre
pentant rebel" He was the guiding mind o
the Georgia Constitutional convention of 1877
but that Is the only public Office he has helt
since the war. His closest friend is Alexande
81. Stephens, with whom he discusses polite
by the day.
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