The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-09
FACT AND FANCY.


MIcHELA the Italian inventor has devised a
chine by which signs corresponding to sounds be
telegrapbed which system of telegraphic shorthand
is called stenotelegraphy.
DE-. DELANEY the French Psychologist, declares
that person sleeping his right side has incoherent
and absurd dreams but if sleeping his left side
his dreams intelligent.
A BELGIAN has succeeded in transmitting tele-
graph and telephone message the same wire at the
same time The transmission is made ordinary in
struments along ordinary wires, with earth returns
In an address just delivered Prof Tynda says that
high German authority told him that the cry of
German soldiers in entering battle during 1901,
was not, I'VE will conquer but 1--WE must do our
dutyl"
THERE is little of interest to be found in Elba,
Napoleons island prison. All the relics of his stay
there were long since crred away and the place has
sunk into the insignifcance from which his pres
nce raised it temporarily The population is rather
over 10000
DR. SPITzKA says the popular delusion that the hui
man eye has influence insane people similar to
that claimed for the same organ wild animals is
that is often ridiculed by the insane themselves
He adds that whoever attempts to utilize the notion
win recognize its absurdity promptly.
AN aeronnsut named Price was half mile high
of the distance he fell with awful velocity; but the
bag happened to fill with air in such a that
he decent retarded for the rest of the distance
and the man was not fatally injured.
NINE LYDIA PAsHKoFF, the traveller. says in her
syotes on China Women" that those selected for the
imperial harem not subjected to the barbarous
tfest-cramping process. They the daughters of
Tartar officers and do all they to avoid being
selected for the palace at Pekin nasmuch the life
there is intolerably dull.
ONE of the old landmarks of New York Alex ander
Hamiton's homo, eighty years ago known as 1.-THE
Grange" is to disappear, to make way fer advancing
streets The estate comprising about twenty acres
is situated between Tenth and st. Nicholas avenues
One Hundred and Thirty-eghth and One Hundred
and Forty-ffth streets, and thus far has only one
thoroughfare cut through It,
IT is said that the sand used in the anufacture of
mirrors is now used by Paris company to make
white bricks and blocks, said not to be injured by
frosts rain ETC.. and TO be very light, the specific
gravity being only 15O to 1.s5 of clay bricks. The
sand is first strongly pressed by hydraulic power aud
then baked in at very high temperature The
brick are almost pure silica.
SonE people have use for railroads. middle
aged white man and wife walked into Acworth, Ga.
the other afternoon to do little trading They
and had walked every step of the way. They said
that fellow account that couldn't walk
seventy five miles in a day. The man carried gun
and the woman several articles
TIE Rev. Don Giovanni Sartorio left instructions
that his body thoud be burned, and, shrewder than
tGaribaldi had directed that in case of non,comp-
ance with his wishes the heirs should forfeit the in
lheritance. When this became known the eleven
priests retained to perform the funeral services
turned their fees and the remains were crenated at
MILAN without any Christian rite
A TUNNEL 5 700 feet long, that was constructed at
beast 900 years before the Christian era has been
discovered the island of Samos It is mentioned
by Herodotus, and excavated to supply the old
seaport with drinking water 1t is completely pre-
served and contains water tubes of about twenty
icentmetres in diameter, each ono provided with a
lateral aperture for cleansing purposes
In case of extensive burn unhealed after six
lyears, DR.. Frank C. Wilson of Louisville KY in the
Methodist News says II made use of three different
kinds of skin CRAFTS namely from the skin of a
lyoung rabbit, from the human skim and from the in
membrane of perfectly fresh hens egg" OF the
three he much preferred the egg membrane as being
much readily obtained, and one egg will supply
any number of gratis needed.
ACCORDING to the Drugman, the Japanese are
tinction of the lacquer industry. The tree from
7w6ch-tha varnish is made is disappearing. An old
law compelled the people to lacquer trees but it
IS not now in force Another law compelled every
person who cut down any kind of tree to plant two in
its place This also, has become dead letter.
and the native newspapers fear the deforestaon of
Japan.
THE question often occurs at what extreme of
altitude can men survived Mr.. Weber, recent
traveller in Asia states that he has lived for months
at the hight of more than $4,000 feet above the
ocean, with the following results: His pulse nor
ixnaly only 63 beats per minute seldom fell
below 100 beats per minute during the time he
lived at that altitude His respiratons were often
twice as numerous as under ordinary circumstances.
A run of 100 yards would quicken both pulse and
respiration than of 900 yards at the sea
level.
A COMMITTEE has been formed at Lucerne with
view of erecting what is called universal column"
1T to measure 800 feet in height and is to contain
in its interior relief portraits of all the celebrated
Imen and women of the present bronze tablets
Another project of the committee is the building of
"museum of the nineteenth century to be dedicated
Ito art science, inventions commerce, and industry
and to contain the busts and statues of all distin
guighed persons in these domains. The cost is est
mated at to eight million francs and is to be
met by subscriptions, lotteries, etc.
LORD BRAMwELL heard case, recently in which
he services of heraldc expert were considered nee
scessary and had been secured. In summing up, the
Judge referred to the herald as that silly old man
who did not understand his silly old trade" Some
other wise has defined heradry the Science of
EOos with long memories" These dcta will suffice to
show that heraldry, once necessary part of every
gentlemans education, has fallen into low estate in
shese latter days in England it has been since the
death of that eminent heraldst, Albert Wells, TO
whom Lord Bramwells eulogum was equally appli-
cable.
Trawling in the North Sea,
A London paper saws that trawling for fish on
The shores of the North sea has now hecome 20