The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


SARA BERNHARDT doesn't often swear, but some
times she says to herself Big ad"
GILBERT NJ WOODWARD, representative from Wis
cousin, is the only member of the present Congress
who was born in Washington.
THE last words of the late Archbishop Perche, of
New Orleans 81 identified with Louis
lana, which loved, and give myself to my adopted
State"
JOHN n. STEARNs, secretary of the National Tenn
perance Society has been seriously ILL., but is now
convalescent His illness was chiefly due so
work. Mr.. Stearns purposes to take short trip
South
GEN. NEAL Dow says that gentleman told him in
St Louis that he remembered the time when Alton, in
Illinois, twenty-one miles away, more important
place, and letters were sometimes addressed to St.
Louis, near Alton, ILL.,
A CATERER in Buffalo, N. Y, cooks angle worms.
He feeds them on milk for few days, dusts them
with -four and drops them into pan of burning oil
fat. They are served in drawn butter with little
lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce.
REV. JASPER is a martyr to science He says the
membership of his church has dwindled from 1000
to about 20 Since his remarkable utteranee THE
do move" But he will never retrogade from that
great truth, not to get back all his wandering
sheep. "ia" ~
THE nearest approach to perpetual motion is found
in some modern clocks, which are made sef-windng
by an ingenious arrangement. The idea has been
utilized watches which, by the motion of the
wearer in walking made to wind themselves up as
they down.
ToLMAN WHEELER, of Chicago who has given
about $50 900 to religious corporations has set apart
a piece of land on Washington boulevard near Cali
forria street for theological seminary and to it he
will add 300 600 for the building and 300 600 for
the endowment of the seminary.
A VERY successful endless chain-tosfng system has
been tried on that most difficult of navigabe rivers
the Rhone, and described by NJ. Dupay de LONE be-
fore the Academy of Sciences Paris. Two endless
lateral chains are employed worked with independent
machinery by single hand, serving at the time
to direct the course of the vessel.
THE original of Dckenss Brother Tadger has
just died in London. His Knight and he
had spent fftysix of his eightve years in the advo
cacy of temperance. He used to tell with great glee
how Dickens would be regularly found at the loft in
Whitechape the annual meetings of the society i'm
mortalized in the Pickwick Papers"
A "REMINISCENCES of Mr.. bikes which appears in
Mr. Buxton Forman's edition of Keats's works.
almost proves that the poet at time believed in
metempsyehosis. After the death of Thomas Keats
white rabbit came into the garden of Mr., Dixie who
shot the creature Keats declared that the poor thing
was his brother Toms spirit and earnest was he in
this view mpressng it upon others in the circle that
when the rabbit was put on the table no one could
look at it, and it taken away untouched
POPCORN contains from eight to eleven parts by
weight of thick pale oil When oils are heated suf.
fciently in closed vessels, they turned into gas
which occupies many times the bulk that the oil did
When popcorn is gradually heated that the oil inside
the kernels turns to gas this gas escape through
the hull of the kernel but when the interior pressure
gets strong enough it bursts the grain, and the expo
sion is violent that it skaters it in the most curl
Gus manner The starch in the grain becomes cooked
and takes up great deal space than it did be-
fore.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Mozart is about to
be erected at Vienna, a century after the maestros
death The death of Richard Wagner is said to have
prompted the erection of this monument Wagners
admirers intended to raise him monument shortly
after his death but hearing this all the opponents
of Wagner waxed wroth, declaring that it would be
scandaous if monument were erected to Wagner
before one erected to Mozart. This may be
true; but why, ask Wagner's friends is it only now
that such a cry is raised to immortalize the com.
poser2
A wELL-KNowN clergyman in the north of England
entertained recently brother clergyman from some
distance The evening being mprppitious, he asked
him to remain for the night. At dusk the clergyman
asked his guest to step into the while he gave
orders to have his conveyance ready in the morning
AS the visitor entered the nanse the clergynans wife
istook him in the dusk for her husband and seizing