The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-03

enaDle our readers TO form some idea or what
$4,000 horse power means; and may supple
ment them BY adding that it is equivalent to
1857 tons lifted foot high every minute, or
the same weight lifted ,440 feet in twenty-rOur
hours. Assuming that she makes twenty knots
an hour, or, emitting fractions, 2.O2S feet per
minute, the thrust of her screw-that is to say
the force pushing her ahead through the water
viii amount to nnety-four tons, or about as
much as twenty OF the most powerful locOmO-
tive engines. The coal required for one trip OF
the oregon will amount TO about 2,5G0 tons, or
enough to load 200 coal-cars These figures will
give fair conception of the enormous size OF
modern ocean steamers as compared with the
largest machinery on land
1T appears that amateur anglers do not all
live in America. The French, very versatile in
most directions, are not left in the race for the
cup to the champion of modern mendacity.
contributor TO the Paris UDivers tells and
vouches for the following story of hare: "rhe
animal was sorey pressed by the huntsman,
and though In plain view open highway,
suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. 1t
afterwards developed that carriage was passing
at the time. and into this the fleeing animal
jumped, conceang himself in a basket by the
side Of u defunct specimen of his own species.
Arriving hone, the driver was astonished to
contain only dead one" The story is good one
az it stands, but the author put on a few extra
touches for ornament. He declares that the
fugacious animal took refuge in a neighbours
kitchen, concealing himself In a stew-pan con-
tanning some potatoes and little water. The
cook coming in soon after, and being near
sighted or a tritie crOss-eyed, perhaps, clapped
the lid on the pan and put 1t on the stove. In
a few minutes the hare was so hot that he was
again obliged to fly for his life, much to the
CONSERVATION of the cusiniere. This fable
teaches that the average American liar would
not have let that hare off until it had been fired
against a brick wall and only escaped with its
life by leapiug a solid stone wall sixty-n
feet high.
BROOKLYN man, with his wife and baby,
| took a street-car and went into the suburbs TO
visit the infants grand parents. Delaying their
return until after the last had gone for the
night, they started to walk, the woman carrying
the child. After going dozen blocks or so, the
| father WAS requested to relieve her of the bur
den, hut this he declined to do. He would never
be caught carrying baby on the street. No, in
decd She E.ust be fool to expect it. After
argument on the question of wOman's rights and
| mans privileges, the infant WAS deposited in the
mud, while the parents proceeded to settle the
matter by force of arms. Before this argument
was completed, policeman came along and
took the party to the station-hOuse. When they
were allowed to go home the mother carried the
| baby, and manhood was indicated.
THE Methodist church, of Locust Valley, N Y,
has been intndated by its Organist and its
doors are closed until an ORGANIZED resistance
can be made, something Of the sort. The
young woman who presided at the organ be-
! came offended few weeks ago, and refusing to
play, was elected from the church. The next
Sunday she returned again and was once more
"bOuuced," the younger brethren elegantly
expressed it. Not daunted. the determined mu-
stefan presented herself at every service and for
| fear OF war and scandal nothing was left but to
close the doors of the building.
THE Supreme Court of the United States Is not
always owlish. 1t now aud then INDUCES in
very mysterious and deep joke, but none the less
| joke Not long ago, It is said. a lawyer ar
| guing q case before that tribunal used the word
| precedent" accenting the second syllable. Soon
he used it again, and accented the first syllable.
Then whispered Justice Woods to his next
neighbor, Justice Gray: "He pronounced it
right the first time" Whereupon Justice Gray
Asked .What college were you educated at,
Brother Woods7" cat Yale" "Ah! thought
| sol"
MRS. DRExEL, a wealthy lady who died In Phil
adelphia or Monday, leaves many sincere MOURN
ers among poor people whom she mad befrended.
She paid the rent of more than l SO families, and
distributed over SO, 900 year in charity. A
woman was employed to inquire into the mer-
it of each applicant for aid, and once every
week dispensed groceries, clothing and money
| to the poor who gathered in the rear OF Mrs.
| Drexel's residence The wealth thus used prob
ably relieved more suffering than if it had been
saved to go i'll bulk to benevolent institution.
TIE popuatiOn of that graveyard down on the
! n1ssissppi-such of 1t as is not spilled into the
river-will be in good trim on the day of judg-
ment In the last coffiu found floating toward
| New Orleans was the body of young man
buried in 1861, whose white vest and black
broadcloth suit looked as if he had just been
! dressed in them, while the bouquet in his
buttonhole had apparently lost none of its fresh
| ness. The silent tomb in that graveyard is as
| good as a mOth-proof safe or a cedar chest.
TIE London World says sit was four years, on
| December 9, since the cremation furnace
erected at Gotha, and on that day the one hun
dredth cremation took place. Germany, Eng
land France, Russia, Austria and America have
all sent their dead to he cremated at GOtha.
The first year there were sixteen cremations; the
second, seventeen; thiuy-four the third amt
thirty-two the fourth. There were sixty-six
Protestants, twenty eight Catholics, and six
| Jews burnt"
| THE Atlanta Constitution says OF Mr.. Vincent,
! the missing treasurer of Alabama, that he was
"a reserved man. with little head for business"
! just so, He seems to Lave had good deal
served. With IL large reserve fund and big
rocket for cash, d little head answered as we'll
as any.
THE latest rumOr Is that Secretary Frelinghuy-
sen is about to retire FROM the cabinet ac-
courl of Ill health, aud that he will be succeeded
by Mr.. Window, of Minnesota 1t is not known
that Mr.. Window has any previous engagement
/ will mt hia of lila