The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-20
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Asters are the proper floral caper just now.

book made up almost entirely Of cholera cure
recipes
The ordinary odor of the human skin is sui
phurous and somewhat repulsive, although
brunettes are said to smell slightly of prussc
acid and blondes of musk.
Celery can be had in Jersey City at cent
bunch, which is starvation price for the culti-
vator. One bunch makes two forty-cent por-
tons at a fashionable New York restaurant.
The Swiss army now numbers AIT commits
754 men. The highest rank recognized in the
Swiss army during peace is that of colonel.
A glass bedstead has been made at Birming
ham, England, factory for Calcutta million
aire. 1t is of solid glass, the legs, rails, etc.
being richly cut. The King of Burmah also has
one.
There is natural bridge near the boundary
line between Arizona and New Mexico. twenty
miles north of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad,
which surpasses in every way the famous one in
Virginia.
A paper presented before the French Academy
of Science estimates that man of fifty years of
age has slept an aggregate of 5000 days, worked
the same length of time, eaten 1000 days, walked
800 days. and been i'll 500 days
Some of the camels taken to Texas in ante
war days with a view to breeding them for
army transportation contracts, have perpetuated
showmen make frequent purchases.
A writer in the Bulletin Generate de Thera-
peutique says that refrigeration of the lobe Of
the ear will stop hiccough, whatever its cause
may be. Very slight refrigeration, such as
drop of cold water, is said to be sufficient.
Menus in French are not now in favor in the
best American hotels; but the word menu itself
sticks; because it can be uttered without open
ing and shutting the lips twice, and without
thrustlng the top OF the tongue betwixt the
teeth.
When the Eskimo dude goes to call on his
young lady acquaintance, instead of taking
carames along he carries some delicious cubes
of reindeer suet or lozenges of lovely frozen
marrow as the offering of pure and hitherto
unawakened affection.
1t was maxim of Bulwer-I4y tton that 1.-The
guest who comes late spols the dinner" In
| modern broading housesitis the guest who comes
early that spoils the dinner; the guest who comes
late always gets left This is one of the disad-
vantages Of our modern system
The new idea in nostrums is not to pretend
that particular medicine will cure all maladies,
but will positively and completely cure the one
disease for which it is designed. The clear
sighted student of human nature who discovered
this slant is said to be on the road to fortune.
Japanese paper handkerchiefs are now gen
orally used in hospitals for drying woupds.
Sponges are with such difficulty perfectly
ceansed after being used that their employ
ment is Objectionable The paper towels, bow
ever, answer the same purpose as cotton ones,
and are so cheap that they can be thrown away
The superstition about thirteen at a table or in
company has very little in it when scientifically
investigated. The average death rate is about
one In forty one, so that forty one should be the
unlucky number. To make it mathematically
certain that one person in a company of thirteen
will die within a twelvemonth, the average age
of the guests should be eighty-six years.
A negro in jackson county, Georgia, was help
ing his employer to catch an unruy two year old
steer when the employer called to him to look
out, or the steer would butt him. The negro
answered that he could oul-butt the steer
whereupon the white man said DO so. and you
can have the carcass!' To his horror the negro
made run toward the steer, the two came
together head to head, and the quadruped fell in
its tracks, dead.
TIL ere is patient in Scotch infirmary suf-
fering from painful disease in which every
person who uses cane is interested 1t is
s)re of the hand, brought on by pressure of
round knobbed stick against the palm; and in
this case it has affected the muscles from the
fingers to above the wrist. A speedy cure is not
probable The surgeons say that stick with
handle instead Of knob which the palm
must press is the thing to carry.
The irrigation works of Colorado are on O.
great scale The Grand river ditch" in west
ern Colorado, at the beginning is thirty-five
feet wide at the bottom fifty feet wide at the
top, five feet deep for the first ten miles, then
diminishing until the last two ard half miles
are sixteen feet wide at the bottom, with three
feet depth of water. The grade is a little over
twenty-five inches to the mile, which gives a
strong current One company engaged in the
irrigating business has constructed over one
hundred miles of canals in the Rio Grande val
ley at a cost of $3.50 000
The British colonies include the richest and
largest forests in the world, extending over mill
ions OF square acres In India alone about Co.
600 square miles are afforested, and the forests
of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Cape
Colony are second to none in size and the variety
and value of their productions But there is no
knowledge of forestry and no school of the art in
France and Germany Consequently. the acreage
under timber there and in Great Britain itself is
small and constantly decreasing. Of the 20, 000.-
900 square acres of Scotland only about 700, 900
to 800, 900 acres are woodland.
Recent statistics show that in 1884 the number
OF boiler explosions in the United States was
152. being less than in the previous year. There
were 254 persons killed and 261 injured in them
however, and the number is much larger than it
should be- Fiftysix of the explosions took
place in saw-mIlls, where the so-called engineer
finds a too facile fuel in shavings. Men chosen
for such positions should have the gumption to
perceive that such firing generates steam too
rapidly for safety. These people can reduce the
general death rate il they wish, and can especially
reduce the present high percentage of mortality
among saw-mill engineers.
Few people are able to calculate the distance
at which objects may be seen at sea; but it is
not difficult matter when their respective ele-
vations and the elevation of the eye of the %
server are known. For instance, an object FIVE
feet high may be seen two and one-half miles
geographically fifty feet high eight miles; 100
feet high, eleven and one-half miles, 200 feet
high sixteen and onefourth miles; 500 feet high,
twenty-five and one-half miles; ZOO feet high,
thirty six and ne-fourth miles away. As an ex-
ample, tower 100 feet high will be visible, to an
observer whose eye is elevated fifteen feet above
the water seventeen nautical miles.
1t seems that even celestial beings can harbor
rancorous feelings. Several most estimable
persons, including not few wellknown and
deservedly respected cergymen, have fallen at
loggerheads over the question of employing
members of religious sisterhoods as nurses in
the London hospitals. Anglican Sisters have
been introduced into several of these establish
ments. and have been pronounced ministarinc