The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12

and Washington boulevards Indiana Wabash, Prairie
and Dearborn avenues. Some aldermen are in the
fashionable directory, and to keep up its tone, list
is given of elite tradesmen, dentists, doctors and
churches
In General Grants paper on Shiloh, in the snext
number of the Century he tells the story of narrow
escape of himself and of his stafoficers who got
within range of confederate musketry on the second
day of the battle. ball struck the metal scabbard
of General Grants sword just below the hilt and
broke it nearly off. Before the battle was over it had
broken off entirely OF the staff.oficers, one lost
horse and the other hat
DURING a run with the Fitzwilliam hounds in En-.
gland the other day. the fox hard pressed made for
railway where he deliberately lay down on the track
and refused to bulge An express train rapidly
approaching, ard the pack being in imminent danger
of getting upon the track and being cut to pieces the
huntsman reluctantly and with considerable difficulty
drew off the hounds The fox maintained his posi-
ton until the express got within short distance and
then quietly made off.
THE peasants of Huntngdonshre, England, are
proverbial for their boorishness. One day lady,
riding through the grounds of friend to whom she
visit, found the gate closed which was the
outlet from the fields to the high road peasant boy
stepped forward and bowling, opened the gate that
she might pass. what is your name9" asked the
lady. -Tummus,' said the boy with another bow.
''Ahl' replied the lady, giving him shilling, II see
you are not Huntingdonshire boy-you are SO civil
To which the urchin rejoined-'aThee'rt liar;
be-"
THE Washington monument has already heen
turned to scientific Professor Simon Newcomb
has been using the top of the monument for
ing the velocity of light and believes that he has OBJ
tanned more accurate data for estimating the distance
and magnitude of the The velocity of light is
measured with degree of accuracy before OBJ
tanned. Professor Newcomb tells reporter of the
Philadelphia Times that he thinks the error in his
calculations cannot exceed onefour hundred milionth
part of second 1t is quite possible that these and
other uses Of the unsighty pile the Potomac may
render it beautiful for usefulness and therefore fit
monument of Washington.
PRoFEssoR SCHwENNIN GERS method of curing
corpulence, which has so greatly benefited Bismarck
is not, it seems thing under the sun, for Pny
says in the twentythird book of his natural history
that whoever wishes to become stout must drink be-
tween the courses while he who wishes to become
lean must thirst at his meals and afterwards drink
but little" Many Germans adopting these methods
at presents but large number of them take their
meals at restaurants peculiar difficulty has arizen
The restauranteurs declare that their only profits
maze on Cne peer ana wine Cney sell, the 1000 Deng
often thrown in below cost They do not, therefore,
look with favor the Schwenningeriter.
THE Japanese de1tst does not brighten his patient
with array of steel instruments. All of his opera
tons in tooth-drawing performed by the thumb
and forefnger of hand The skill necessary to do
this is only acquired after long practice but it is
obtained the operator is able to extract half dozen
teeth in about thirty seconds, without removing
his fingers from the patients mouth The dentists
education with the pulling out of pegs
which have been pressed into soft wood 1t ends with
the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into
on oak plank with mallet. A writer in the Union
Medicale says that human jaw resist the deli
cate but powerful manipulatons of the Japanese
dentist,