The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-23

the instrument 1t was calculated that the con.
tractile force of the muscles causing the move.
ment was ], $40 pounds. The muscles OF an or.
binary sporting dog had $50 pounds of con-
| traetile force,
| THE fame of Mr. Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis
| (Harper Brothers, publishers,) has extended to
| Spain, and one Of the foremost of Spanish
scholars is engaged in making & translation OF
this fascinating work for publication in that
country The book has passed through ten large
editions in the United States, and has also had
an extensive sale in England.
THERE ls an old custom in Bavaria that out
side of the limits of the city of Munich not more
than four horses may draw carriage; so when
the Princess Isabella, of Bavaria married
to the Duke of Genoa she contented herself
with carriage and four and two outriders. The
bride wore dress of white satin embroidered in
silver, with court mantle of the same material.
and a crown of myrtle, instead of orange flowers.
JAMES MUTT, who shot Dukes, is yet a lad in
appearance and manner, He is of rather sen.
der and awkward figure, and wears in jail q
plain suit of clothes such as befit his occupation,
for he worked his fathers acres Early i'll life
he took upon himself the habits of a husband
man, and applied himself to the pillow rather
than books. So quiet has been his life that in q
father few knew the son.
PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN, of Bowdoin College,
is still very sick man. lie Travelled back to
Brunswick, Me-, to enable the seniors to be ex-
amined upon his lectures, and thus obtain their
diplomas. But he has only been able to have
examination papers prepared under his SUPER
vision and the answers read to him. The excite
ment has caused hemOrrhages, which have en-
larged his wound. The doctors have ordered
him back to Boston, but he will not go till he
finishes his work, when he viii travel by boat.
JUDGE HoADLY is a Unitarian, and has been
one for years. He lives in a stone house on the
Madison pike, East Walnut Hills in the same ward
and precinct with Judge Foraker, the Republican
nominee. He goes back and forth between
home and his Office In his carriage His
family consists of himself, his wife, delightful
woman, and his children, George, lately admit.
ted to the bar Laura and Edward. He was mar.
ried in 1851, his wife being Mary Burnett Perrys
daughter of Captain Sam, Perry, a Cincinnati
pioneer.
A SURGEON in the United States army who
prided himself on his linguistic capacity learned
some useful Chinese phrases one day from q
Celestial in San Francisco The next morning,
being called to attend a Chinese patient, he de-
| termined to air his newly-acquired knowledge.
and on approaching the bedside of the invalid,
auuresseu MIN WIFI WHa6 ne supposed 10 10 Oue
Chinese equivalent of our Anglo-Saxon "Good
| morning to you" He was somewhat surprised
to find himself picked up by the male relatives
of the sick man and landed unceremoniOusly in
the street. His crafty instructor had taught him
as a salutatlon one of the most Insulting string
of epithets conceivable.
CAPTAIN WEBB, the daring nageur who low
cred the record of Leander by swimming across
the English Channel, has agreed to attempt the
passage of the whirlpool rapids, below Niagara
Falls, on the 21st prOx. He mas been offered
! $4,000 by the railway companies concentrate
| ing at that point to attempt the feat The
whirlpool is about fourth of mile long and
the current is thirty nine miles an hour. The
Captain will hardly succeed, but vast crowd
| will be on hand to see him make the attempt,
and the railroads will reap a rich harvest This
bit of popular amusement seems to have been
modelled after Barnum's celebrated buffalo hunt
in New Jersey some years ago.
GOETHE'S moral character having received q
withdrawing from Prof j. s. Blackie, the Pail
Mall Gazette points out that Goethe did not
marry Christiane VuIpIus tin sumo twenty years
after her eldest child was born, and that his
BLACKLIST fault was not his ill-regulated passion
but his very well-regulated heartlessness. "He
was one of the greatest of men of letters; he
| also very wise man; but to make him out
| perfectly virtuous man. to sweep away the evil
dence which shows him 20 have been anything
| but perfectly virtuOus is, we doubt more than
seven Scotch professors, furnished with seven
mops, each consisting of a brand-new definition
of virtue, can do in half year or half CEN
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