The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

and around the drawing are designs Of elder bushes,
Christmas roses and winter flowers. Two little cupids
call attention to Byron's famous lines on love.
AT the San Francisco Harvard Club dinner, Prof.
Agassiz recalled the time when he was in California
on coast survey duty at $50 a month, but there have
been years since then when a similar income would
have seemed a fortune to either Sharon or Stannard.
A PROPERLY developed, full-grown man, weighing
lo4 pounds ought, according to Prof. Huxley, to con-
sumo daily 5000 grains of lean b~eefsteak, 6, 900 grains
of bread, 1000 grains of milk, 5000 grains Of pota-
toes. 600 grains of butter, and %, 700 grains of
water.
A RHODE ISLANDER proposes to found a society
whose sole object shall be the amelioration Of village
nomenclature, or in other words, to give pretty names
to those towns and places which are now unpoetically
designated as skunk Hollow" ''Bagtown," 'Muckel
rat, etc.
THE late Gustave Flaubert, to whose memory 10
monument is to be raised in Rouen, his native city,
was subject to epileptic attacks, and constantly dread
ed lest he should be Frustrated in the street or in a
drawing-room. On this account he never went out at
night alone. Only a few of his closest friends knew
of this trouble, WHICH cast a shadow over his entire
life.
THE edelweiss, formerly considered to be exclu-
sively an Alpine flower. was some little time ago found
growing in Washington Territory, and now a traveller
writes that he has seen it growing in the widest pro-
fusion on Mount Tasman, New Zealand. There seems
no doubt that the plant is identical with the Alpine
edelweiss. as the traveller was accompanied by two
eminent Swiss guides, who would be unlikely to be in
error.
SOME speculative individual has promulgated a
queer story about eyes. by which one can be made to
see without them. His theory is to place a piece of
copper above the tongue and one of zinc beneath it,
and then by closing the eyes and letting the tips az the
pieces of metal touch each other a fash of light can
be detected. The eyes do not see, but the sensation
of seeing is a vivid one, and tho impression thus
transmitted to the optic nerve. and thence to the
brain, would with blind persons answer tho same pur-'
pose as eyes.
ANENT the new Admiral of England's channel feet:
One night he, then Commodore Do Horsey, returning
from a dinner party in Jamaica. was challenged by a
sentry and asked for the countersign. He could not
give it, but rather pompously said: 'Stand aside, fell
low, and let me pass. / am Captain De Horsey." To
which the sentry sententiously replied: Captain De
Horsey7 Captain De Donkey! Don't care dam! Go
in de boxl" And only the timely arrival of the relief
saved the Commodore a bad quarter of an hour or
more in the sentry-box.
GAMBETTA's cottage at Vile dAvray, to which he
lovedto retire from the worry and turmoil of political
lllo, mas Deen restored 10 the cOnd1ton In winch IL was
during Gambetta's lifetime. and will henceforth be
preserved from all interference. The articles of fur.
%niture, pictures, and ornaments are again in the old
corners and hang on the walls, and the admirers of the
departed statesman are allowed access to the place
where they may see how the man who was accused by
his adversaries of ~indulging in every kind of extrava.
gance really lived in great simplicity.
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, on his road to Venice,
which has iucth aop oiuon ,1 RI Tfa1v hy Shn Ave.
TRANS, stopped at Milan. whore he was welcomed by
the Mayor and aldermen. He had been told that the
Mayors name was Beretta; and his royal character
istic of an excellent memory enabled him to address
the Mayor by name. But he said, Count Beretta, /
am glad to shade hands with you" The Mayor pro-
tested against the title and said he came from a fam
lily of simple bourgeois. The King smiled and an.
swered: you know the old adage that a king cannot
err. / wish you good morning, Count" The royal
party resumed their journey and two days later the
Mayor received a patent of nobility naming him a
count. That was Victor Emmanuels way of cor
recting mistakes.
On the day of the assembling Of tho Massachusetts,
Legislature, a rural gentleman, carrying a large black
glazed cloth valise of the style known as ssKennebeck-
ers, " on which was strapped a bed quilt, appearedin the
shoe-black's room, in the State-house basement. De,
posting his baggage by the side of the chair, he al
lowed his large boots to be made preseutable. Then
he requested the boy to send his valise to his room.
ITO your committee rooma" inquired the boy. mo,
to my bedroom, sonny" why, said the youth,
members don't sleep at the State-house." Eyes,
they do" said the new member, land be sure to have
my quilt laid on the bed" After repeated inquiries,
the new member found that it was as the shoe sinner
had said, that members did not lodge at the State
house, and he went out in quest of a cheap boarding
house.