The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
NOTES OF INTEREST.

A Vienna correspondent of the London Times
reports the discovery of two imprinted eantatas
among the earliest of the great musician and
were composed when Beethoven was living at
Bonn.
Births are thus advertised in Germany: I'VE
most humbly announce the birth Of a hardy
boy" eve most humbly announce the birth of
a fine boy and lively girl" Something has to
be put in to reconcile the neighbors and "hum-
bly, is as good as anything.
NJ, Eugene d'Albert one of the earliest free
|. scholars of the National Training School, Lon
don, has published an extraordinary letter, say
ing that he learnt absolutely nothing in Eng
land and that only since left that barbarous
land have l begun to live" The young genius is
aged nineteen,
Perhaps the most eharmingly quaint legal de
cislon record is that of judge in the town of
Paz de lXtacalto, Mexico. 1t was as follows:
"Onth same day. /, the Judge following my con
vietions, went to the place where the corpse of
Felieiana Rosas lay. and, standing there asked
who struck him. Having asked that question
three times it did not reply, because it was good
and dead"
The Pail Mall Gazette says that women are
employed as telephonists chiefly from reasons of
boy of fourteen is employed as telephonist his
voice will soon become hoarse and indistinct, but
with a girl this Is not the case. The female
voice is always clearer and as a clear voice (be-
of a telephonist, women are naturally pre-
ferred.
A man or woman who treats a child cruelty in
Japan is an object of universal horror Char
women will not accept employment there unless
they can bring the little ones where they work
with them on their backs. 1t is the same with
factory women 1t is funny TO see the mothers
in the fan mandatory at Osato, with pair of
sharp, merry, observant and obhque little eyes
peering over their shoulders, and while they
chirrup at the young ones and talk to them,
Prof. Reuger, on feeding his monkeys, in Par
aguay, with eggs, observed that at first they
smashed them and then wasted much of their
contents; but they soon learned to hit one end
against some hard body and pick off the bits
with their paws, and if they cut themselves once
with any sharp tool, they would either not touch
it again or handle it with the greatest caution.
Jumps of sugar were given them wrapped up in
paper, and sometimes live wasp was put in to
try them, SO that in hasty opening the paper they
got stung but after this had once occurred they
always held the packet to their ears to detect
any movement.
If they go on finding big diamonds in South
Africa the Kohinoors OF the future will become
almost as common as humps of charcoal An
other monster of 3O2 carats has been found in
the Kimberley mines Having found it, the
trouble is to know what to do with it, for moth
ing so large can ever find a market for anything
like its value. The famous Pitt diamond, which
WAS tuS SAINT SiAti Wits SOIQ III lIl( 10 an
Orleans prince for 100000 but the best offer so
far made for the new find is e. 900 in its uncut
state. The South African fields have been so
prolific that the diamond market has been al
most ruined especially for the larger stones, for
which there is scarcely any sale
The Welbeck Tunnel which the late Duke of
Portland, the invisible prince, created for his
workmen to pass through en- coming to and re-
turning from work without disturbing the
serene repose he longed for, is one of the won
ders of the world. During the day it is lighted
by enormous plate-gla bull'seyes, superseded
at night by hundreds of gas jets. The floor is
excellently asphalted, and the tunnel is high
enough and wide enough for carriages to pass
along. Stepping into it during the hot days of
summer, one feels as if he had walked in an ice
house; and the whole length of its interior can be
traversed without catching the slightest glimpse
of the abbey, OF the beautiful park under which
itpasseS
For five centuries, from the days of the first
Normans to those of the last Tudors, the tower
of London was the official residence of the kings
of England, and hence the scene of much of its
political history. Plantagenets and Tudors have
inhabited it, and for three centuries kings
started from it for their coronation ceremony.
Two kings. foGE queens and many princes and
Processes, died there. Many have been born
there, and two are buried within its walls.
There is hardly any other building in Europe,
and certainly none in England, of which it can
certainly be said as it can of ST. Johns Church
in the White Tower, that it stands to day much
as it was in the days of the Norman and Ange-
vim kings.