The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-05
POINTS OF FACT.


The looms used in the State of New Jersey for
the manufacture of home made silk are almost
fac-smiles of those employed in China and India
for the same purpose
While the efTeminate society journals of Eng
land are affecting to despise American methods
of life, the English people have bought 100, 900
copies OF one popular life of Garfield
1t has been said, on the authority of observers
of some eminence, that the axis of Venus is in
clined only 15o to the plane of her orbit. Mars
is inclined at an angle of 274 to the plane of
his orbit. The axis of Jupiter is nearly perpen-
dicular to his orbit.
Capt. Nathan Appleton. who was on Gen.
Wainwrights staff, vouches for the fact that
there was an apple tree at AppomattoX under
which Lee surrendered, and claims that he and
his fellow staff officers were among the first TO
cut souvenirs from it.
During recent hail storm in a village of Lom-
hardy tiger broke out of menagerie cage ana
took refuge in the church. An army of peasants
gathered, the church door was barricaded and
then the frightened animal, crouching at the
altar, was riddled with balls from an opening in
the roof, dyeing the floor with his blood.
The restoration of Westminster Abbey, which
is now fairly under way, will occupy several
years The restoration will be not merely a re-
production of the existing features of the Abbey,
but the removal of many excrescences and dis
fgurements which the bad taste and ignorance
of past architects caused to be engrafted on the
original plan.
DR.. Lancaster, of Gainesville, in a letter to
the Medical Record, says that many consump-
tives die in Florida, and their physicians should
be censured for sending them away from home
when they are beyond all hope of recovery He
believes, however, that many severe cases are
cured, and suggests that the American Medical
Association appoint commission of competent
scientific men to go to Florida and examine sys-
tematically into the facts.
When President Arthur was in Kingston, the
re SknpyN H. ,1,,1 Ivva
widow 10 order the discharge of her son from the
regular army, and being asked if such applca-
tionsswere often received, laughingly replied yes,
that it took about half the time of the Secretary
of War to get men into the army, and half of his
THE President'sl time to get them out again.
The widows application was successful, investi-
cation showing good reasons for compliance with
her request.
In the temple of Cybele, an ornamental build
ing in the Buttes Chaumont Park, in Paris, the
dead body of an elderly man was found fastened
in an upright position against the palisading, be-
ing attached to the railing by handkerchief and
wire which were placed around the neck. The
skull was fearfully fractured by blows from
stones. The police suppose that the unfortunate
man mad been murdered by his assailants who
then fastened him by the neck to the palisading
in order to make it appear as suicide.
The astronomers at the Greenwich observatory
have been making calculations as to the pace of
the star Arcturus in his progress towards the
observations, that this beautiful, scintillating
star is coming for us at the rate of fifty miles
and seventy eight one-hundredths per second.
This amounts to about 3, 900 miles minute, $780,,
900 miles hour or 4, 300, 900 miles day. If
Arcturus makes a straight shot we will proba-
bly, be knocked into smithereens, but not for
SO, 900 years yet.
DR.. Evans, the celebrated American dentist of
Paris, says that crammed children are always
destined to early toothlessness and that the best
IN do will hap+ TO i1ya
young calf, and turn it out to grass. The Crown
Prince of Austria has hardly a tooth which was
not stuffed with gold before he was half way
through his teens. All the PHOSPHORUS andlime
they needed to grow properly was spent in learn
ing how to parrot" the science of his professors.
The Inflated Prince Louis NapoleOn's back teeth
were auriferous he having been obliged by his
tutors, Monier and Felon, to ''sweat" tremen-
dously.
Almost all the rich and famous men of New
York began life as 'nobodies." Charles 2. DAILY
was an apprentice to a quiil-pen cutter. Ros-
well 2. Flower was farm laborer at 81 day.
August Belmont was apprentice at nothing
year and boarded himself. Grover Cleveland
was a clerk in New York city at 81 week.
Clark Bell was blacksmith's apprentice, and
could scarcely lift the hammer Henry E. Alb
hey failed in the jewelry business. A. d. Cornell
was telegraph operator for Morse. George
William Curtis was clerk at SD a week. Charles
A. Dana was farm boy Chauncey Depew,
like Thurlow Weed, was a cabin boy on the
North river, and was in the line of promotion to
skipper. Edison was a newsboy Gould and
Grant were tanners. John Kelly was CRATE
setter. Dan Sickles was a type-sticker, and
Rufus Hatch and Russell Sage were farm hands.
When NJ Renan recently visited his birthplace
in Brittany he was DESTROYS of sleeping in the
very house in which he was born. He found it
occupied by several families, all devoted chill
dren of the church, who we're horror-stricken at
thought of harboring the great infidel But at
last one man, more tolerant than the Others re-
Tented, and allowed the Academician to occupy
his room for single night For this act he was
so bitterly assailed by his neigbhbors that ne
was compelled to publish a justification of his
course, In that document he ingeniously argued
that although ne had indeed lent the room to
NJ. Renan yet he had previous occasion
lent it to distinguished defender of orthodoxy
whose good influence, he trusted, might haunt
the slumbers of the infdel. Moreover was it
not worth trying whether the revival of youth
full memories by old time surroundings might
not yet re awaken also in the hereto his early
faith9 And so the pious indignation of the good
people of Treguier was Modified, and the teapot
tempest throbbed no more.