The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-20

fir. The sound is produced, as in the ordinary harp,
by the contact of the fingers, but the player
leather gloves covered with resin. The tone of the
instrument is said by LeMenestral to be of remarks
BILE purity.
M. CHARCoT describes hysterical patient whs
slept uninterruptedy for iftyfour days. The noise
OF gong beaten violently at her bedside upper
ceived yet she able to eat and drink and all tie
functions connected with nutrition were performed
without difficulty. The awakening was spontaneous
and found the patient in good health. She did not
know she had been unconscious for nearly eight
weeks
THE hall for pictures at tho New Orleans Exhibition
is 2oO by 100 feet with 90 900 square feet available
on the walls, skylights and Edison electric lamps.
Original work is wanted; copies will be excluded also
crayons, charcoals, photographs plaques, screens
and needlework for which other places are provided
Pictures may be offered for sale and diplomas will be
awarded Expenses of collecting boxing. transport
ing, and returning pictures will be borne by the Expo
sition
IN the course of the present session Parliament will
be asked by Mr.. Gladstone to grant Prince Albert
Victor the of $4,000 year to commence
when he attains his majority in January This is the
same amount which voted to each of the Queens
younger sons coming of age. The sons of George
III. each had e2lOO0 year in addition to other
allowances. 1t announced that the vote will be OPP
posed, the ground that the Queen does not spend
all her income.
A GERMAN doctor, discussing the subject Of light
ming strokes human beings says that the brain and
the spinal cord apparently conductors and hence
lightning stroke in the head does not materially in
ure the brain beyond SCATTERING the and
ing temporary arrangement Most persons struck by
lightning do not remember anything about the stroke
iha ctr NV
blow and have said the shock made them feel as
if being torn into small pieces.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says: II cannot
refrain from ausion to the of the late James
Wormley Their fathers property is valued at $780,,
900. The only will found few lines a sheet
of paper which he evidently wrote before going to
Boston. He said that he gave all his possessions to
his wife The paper neither signed witnessed
and therefore valueless legal document His sons
have taken the paper and asked that it should be
corded will as they regarded it such, and would
be bound by it. How few heirs act in this wayl'
EMERsoN'S son. DR. Edward w. Emerson who has
charge of his fathers literary and other effects is
seeking to obtain, fitting monument to be placed
over the great philosophers grave a mass of hard
white quartz, with large seagreen berys imbelded in
| it. He has men at work in New Hampshire trying to
find what he wants. To friend in Brooklyn, Dr..
and may fail to get what 1 wanti but have good
hopes To have beautiful natural formation,
ly freed, not worked up, by man, seems to the
most fitting monument to my father and to harmonic
best with the great pine tree for which he chose the
lot whose his body should be laid. We not yet
decided the inscription. 1 mean to have it on
bronze plate to be set into the quartz"
Mr.. POLAND, the great London criminal lawyer,
recently robbed of his watch in the immediate
neighborhood of Cranbourn street, close to the
torous French quarter of Lower Soho. He gave in.
formation to the police and informed that
the pickpocket had been arrested with stolen watch
| in his possession. He went down to Marlborough
street to give his evidence, and, he entered the
door dirty Frenchman thrust letter into his hand.
1t contained two soveregns, swoshiling piece and
half crown. the exactly conventional fee for bar
lister and his clerk. With them was the following
touching appeal scrawled in the vilest handwriting:
you talk we'll; you will be generous; viii defend
me-" 1t was only Frenchman who would have hit
this daring expodient of retsining his counsel
the he had robbed
In France, by refinement of judicial cruelty, the
date of execution is not known until the previous
evening Notices then sent to the governor of the
Jail executioner, and chaplain. From the hour of his
the criminal is dead the world. Envroned
by guards, he is taken cell with two beds, Of
which is occupied by monitor prison spy) BE is
put into suit of rough shirt wooden trousers
and felt shoes short waistcoat of canvas opening
behind and secured with leather straps is fixed
this suit and the long sleeves are attached TO cord
which passes around the thighs that he cannot lift
his hands beyond certain height and is almost help
less to perform the most ordinary movement. His
food is taken with wooden spoon. A warder and
gendarme keep perpetual watch. He may sleep,
smoke, or eat, but visitors admitted any
tidings from the outer world.