The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

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An Old Epitaph.
WHAT is Prince Bismarck favorite beverage-beer
or wine9 was lately the subject of a wager between
two Prussians living at Warsaw, who actually applied
to the Chancellor himself to settle the bet. Thf
Princes verdict left them as wise as they were before
for his secretary replied; "His Highness directs me X
inform you that you are both in the right, inasmucE
as he is equally fond of good wine and good beer, and,
with the exception of his sick days, partakes of one as
well as the other"
A CHAPEL is to be erected in England ITO the glory
of God and in the memory of Elizabeth Evans, i'm
mortalized as Dinah Morris by George Eliot in hen
novel of Adam Bede.'" So runs the prospectus
which invites all readers of the famous novel to con,
tribute to the fund. The idea is already very sue.
c~essful, and the edifce will be called ''The Bede Me-
mortal Chapel" Its site is in the town of Wicks-
worth, where Dinah used to preach so eloquently to
the simple natives, little thinking, doubtless, that
divine art would, by and by, make her artlessness i'm.
mortal.
SPEAKING of suicides, DIR. John Lambert, of Salem,
N. Y, tells a story of a prominent physician, now do.
ing a successful work, who, in early professional life,
was daily beset with a strong suicidal impulse. He
fully realized the situation, and contemplated volun
tarily going to the asylum for self-protrction; but he
r~esolutely concluded to put the instrument, a deli.
cate knife, with which he was to open the femoral ar.
terry, in full daily view, and by strength of mental and
Christian force of character he fought the enemy out
on this line until the glittering blade had rusted and
he had conquered.
FAMOUS aeronaut says that no balloon has ever
gone over a second sunset. The moment the SUI
goes down the gas condenses and you get through the
night better than the day. But the next day. in the
presence of the sun. the gas expands, and you mount
to great elevations, but every mount the balloon
makes cripples its power, and it is only a question of
hours, if not minutes. how long you can keep up. II
an aeronaut could have forty-eight hours of night no
could travel u great distance. The highest rate Of
speed he had ever attained, even with q strong wind
blowing, was eighty miles an hour.
WHEN Prof. Nordenskjold was in Japan, after he
had made the northeast passage, his attention wa
drawn to the very rich literature of that country prior
TO European influence. He decided to collect and take
home a Japanese library. He bought between -four
and five thousand volumes, which are now in the
ROYAL Library at Stockholm. M. Leon de Rosny,
professor at the School Of Oriental Languages il
Paris, has just c~atalogued the Nordensk;old collection,
which he says contains nearly all the works of any
prominence, and furnishes complete materials for the
study of Japanese literature and culture.
A CITIZEN of Rio Janeiro Kisses in the expression Of
a thousand and one ideas and ~intents, ranging from
calling the attention of a waiter or ~street-car conduc-
tor, to calming the electric agitation and modifying
the miscellaneous movements of a ~belabored mule
The sibilant sound is softened somewhat in its utter
ance by the lips, and it is remarkable the distance
may be transmitted through a din. 1t requires a less
expenditure Of vitality to utter a hiss than an artlcu
late word, and that, in the environment OF the earth
which has become organic in tho sloth, is not to be 10
nored by either the ~facetious or the phuosoDhis'