The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-14

brimming breaker In the eighteenth part of the time
it took Puck to put girdle round the earth. Mr.
Gladstone gurged triAe Of the pure element with
perfectly neutral expression of oountenance and then
| fortified by cheer, began his speech.
THE safest per cent bond in the world appears to
be that of the United States which sells for 1032
Then those of the State of Connecticut, which
sell for 1929 and next those of Great Britain. which
sell for 100. Tho 8 per cents Of France are only
worth So
For obvious reason will dismiss the congre-
CATION and dispense with the communion service
said Rev. Mr.. Lombard rector of the Episcopal
Church at Fairfield, Conn. Sunday last as at the
first sounds of the organ thousands of bees swarmed
out of the roof where they had gone into the honey
making business.
JUDITH GAUTfsE daughter of Theophe, has pub
iished her book about Wagner Ia Paris. The great
composer hoped to leave his son modest fortune,
and to see him understand surgery well enough to
dress wounds because he himself had been so
afflicted by his heplessness whenever he had wit
messed accident This reveals trait In Wagner
which had not been suspected.
Two years ago several large iron spikes were for
purpose driven into very old apple tree near
Clyde, N Y, that for years had been nearly barren
Last year it was filled with large fine apples, and now
the blossoms are plentiful enough to warrant good
supply of fruit. The owner believes that the spikes
restored to the tree its original prolific qualities,
and is now trying the experiment on other trees in
his orchard. He Is likely to be previously disap
pointed.
To the list of hccough remedies, most OF which
concentrate the attention of few moments, the Pop
ular Science Monthly adds: 'You say to your affected
friend something like this. See how close together
you hold the tips of your forefngers without
touching Now keep your elbows out free from your
side You get your fingers closer than that.
They are touching now. There-now hold them go.
Steady! BY this time you can ask: Now, why don't
you hiccoughf" +"
MADAME DE KALoMINES legal adviser has prepared
full, true and particular account of the friendship
between his client and tho Grand Duke of Hesse,
with the story of their marriage and a complete
account of the DIVORCE" which will be published
shortly at Leipsc. The lawyer considers that Mad
anne de kalomine has been treated with great hard
ship and injustice, and it is probable that there will
be some revelations in the book that will not be
agreeable to the English court
AN English physci claims to have discovered q
method of reducing the human nose. The process,
which he calls multiple punctiform scar6caton,
consists in rapidly prickng the nose with number of
minute doube-edged steel blades fixed in handle.
From 500 to 5000 punctures are made at sitting,
and the operation is performed every week or two
for some months; meanwhile the organ Is kept well
anointed At first sight the operation does not seem
attractive, but the doctor says lis not painful
WHEN chief dies in Sitka hs wives pass to his
next heir, and unless these relicts purchase their
freedom with blankets, they united to their
grandson or nephew, as matter of course High
strung young Swashes sometimes scorn these ega-
cies, and then there is war; all the widows resentng
such outrage of decency and established etiquette
1t is said however, that henpecking Is too small a
word to describe the way in which the wives bully
their lords. Woman's rights have reached develop
ment among the Sitkans that would astonish the
woman suffrage leaders.
THE Rev John w. Scudder of Minneapolis has
been telling his congregation the sort of girl he likes
'None of your white faced damsels for me-" he said
in sermon last Sunday, NOR whose face is red
with consumptive or hetic flush. Give me the nut
brown girl who abandons her sunbonnet, who can
climb tree with any boy, who prefers good bread to
chocolate caramels and baked beans to angel cake.
The kind of an angel for weighs 1AO pounds, and
has calls for crash towels than cosmetics. Her
waist is than nine inches in circumference. She
is straight arrow, sleeps eight hours day. has
a clear head, bright SMILE and is joy to those
around her."
AN old lady over eighty years of age, and who was
great beauty, died recently in Paris, leaving
after her diary in which she endeavors to show up
the alleged vanity of women From the age of twenty
to thirty she spent three hours day at her toilet
which foots up for the period year, ninety
days and six hours employed in dressing her hair
powdering her cheeks. and painting her lips. From
thirty to fifty the toilet labors amounted to five hours
day the extra hours being consecrated to the cover
ing Of the tracks of time including the oblteration of
crows feet and other necessary filling in and grading
Time four years and forty days. After fifty her ef
forts had to be redoubled To the last she resisted
the effects of time
THE late Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoln, had a
human fondness for his books. Nothing annoyed him
somuch to hear Of them fall; and dusting them
which he reduced to a science, seemed to give him
real pleasure In his last illness the sight of any of
his favorites depressed him greatly "Ah.' he would
say Il am to leave my books" and sometimes
They have been more to me than my friends" He
would ask for them after the other till he was
literally covered almost to his shoulders he lay and
the floor around him strewn with them. He used
to say that the sight of books necessary him at
his work; and reading how Schiller always kept
rotten apples in his study because their scent was
beneficial to him, he pointed to some shelves above
his head where he kept his oldest and most priced
editions, and said, There my rotten apples"