The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-12
NOTES, NEWS AND GOSSIP.

A watermelon may be saved in good condition
up to the Christmas holidays by wrapping il
carefully in straw and burying it two feet in tho
sand.
Entomelogists, in the interest of humanity,
are advised to dip the pins with which they
pierce insects, into prussic acid, so as to cause
instant death.
The finest tobacco comes from the provinces
of Roumela, in southern Turkey, where tobacco
cultivation is almost the sole resource of the in
habitants, both young and old.
Cigarettes are said to be becoming popular
among English ladies, and wellknown London
dealer claims that he receives ten times as many
orders this year from ladies as he did last year.
Solutions of choral should be kept in dark
glass bottles. Sunlight decomposes it into chic
reform. The change is not easily perceived and
has caused a number of accidents in the past
five years.
A carriage is being built for Emperor William,
the whole upper portion of which is to be con
structed of glass, and which is to enable the
monarch toattend manouvres, parades and other
public occasions in unfavorable weather
Observation-Disclosures ID
what the Germans call the book keeper of the
bureau where government debts are paid. Every
subordinate in the Office must give this GENTLE
man his title every time he addresses him.
A soldier in one of the Naples hospitals in the
last stage of the cholera, tried to raise himself to
make the military salute as the King came near
pillow, the soldier murmuring, well, can die
content now"
In Lancashire England, according to the secrs
tary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association,
there are 423OOO persons employed in the cotton
factories. OF these 253. 900 are females above
thirteen and under eighteen 90 900 are children
below thirteen, and 105, 900 are adult males
The Society for the Preservation of the Irish
Language, in Dublin, has issued circulars to the
clerks of unions in all the disappearing dis
tricts, urging on the several boards of guardians
the desrability of filling up future vacancies in
their medical stats by giving preference to
candidates having knowledge of Irish.
Few, even of those who are devotees of the
silent wheel, are aware of the number and va
riety of kinds of velocipedes that nave been pat
ented in this country. The number of patents
for veocipedes of all Sorts including saddles, is
about nine hundred. Of these. tricycles consti-
tute the great majority, or nearly two-thirds Of
the whole.
John B. Coughs cure for sleeplessness is to
pitch in and work it Off He tells how Lyman
Beecher had load of sand in his cellar. and af-
ter evening service he would shovel it from one
side to the other and by this exercise he would
tone down the fever of his brain. Then he would
get out his violin and soothe himself to sleep
with amateur fiddiing.
The temperance movement is making rapid
progress among railroad employees in Great
Britain The number of persons in the affiliated
branches of the United Kingdom Railway Tenn
perance Union is 4Sl4. There are 656 members
of branches not yet connected with the union.
A large number of railway men outside the 60
cieties are known TO be total abstainers, so that
it is computed that there are in the railway
service 10 900 teetotalers.
The decline in the traffic of the Suez canal,
which became apparent in July last, still con-
tinues. In July, 1884 thirty eight vessels fewer
than in July, 1888, passed through the canal; and
the receipts of the company were E34 500 less
han in 1Dh war
G73, 800 more than in 1882. For the month Of
August the daily receipts came to f12, 200 less
than for July; but the comparison with those Of
last year has not yet been published.
A curiosity in gravestone literature is found in
the English cemetery at Montreal, where
noted local character has erecteda stone in mem
DRY of deceased child, with the following whim-
steal inscriptions:
Freddy dear you are here alone
Johnny wants to know for little Joe,
Where do you stay,
Or with what little boys do you now play,
Or where do you roam?
For the little iron cot your mother bought
Still waits for you at home.
A war which threatens to send up the price Of
tea silk and false hair is not likely to be popular
with women, and it is said that in France the
wives of the deputies and senators are urging
their husbands to a settlement with China. On4
of the most important accessories of the French
female toilet is the chgnon, and the importa-
ton of hair forms an important branch of COM
MERGE The amount imported in 1882 was nearly
100, 900 pounds; it had risen to over $50, 600
pounds in 1883. By far the larger proportion of
it comes from the thickly-peopled provinces Of
the Celestial Empire.
The Arabs of Sahara are very particular as
to the color of their horses. White is the color
for princes, but does not stand heat. The black
brings good fortune, but fears rocky ground.
The chestnut is the most active If one tells
you he has seen a horse fly in the air, ask Of
what color it was; if he replies chestnut be-
lieve him. In a combat against a chestnut you
must have a chestnut The bay is the hardest
and most sober. If one tells you horse has
leaped to the bottom of a preceplce without hurt
ing himself ask of what color it was, and if he
replies "baY," believe him.
To free canaries and other cage birds from the
insects which infest them, the following method
is recommended by one who has successfully
practiced it for years; Every night just at dusk
the cage or aviary is covered over with white
cloth. During the night the parasites will crawl
off the birds onto the cloth, where they may be
seen running about when the cloth is removed at
daybreak. The insects may be killed by putting
the cloth into boiling water. A repetition of
the process will soon clear away the pests with
out injuring the birds. Insect powders Will,
no doubt kill the parasites, but the birds, as
WELL
A simple apparatus for measuring sunshine
shown in the grounds of the London Health Elk
hibition, and explained to numbers OF the visit
ors is as easy to understand as the thermometer.
It consists simply of strip of prepared card
fixed under and in the focus of globe of glass
about three inches in diameter The globe is
placed in the open air, and the moment the sun
light falls upon it its rays concentrated by
the globe, which, acting like burning glass, in
cinerates or chars the paper so as to trace a
black line, tie length of which shows accurately
how many hours or parts of an hour there has
been bright sunshine
Mr.. Froude characterizes duke unfeelingly.
He says when he goes out among his fellow
creatures they bow before 30 great presence
with instructive Difference In him ofenses are
venial which would be fatal to any ordinary man.
The earth so far as he is able to know anything
of it. is place where others have to struggle.
but where he has only to desire. To do without
what any moment he happens to wish for, which
rnnralists consider so imnnrtant q part OF educa.