The Indianapolis journal., 1885-05-03

IA song from Mr. Speaker" An eyewitness
says Imagine Addington's long prim. upright
figure, his CONSERVATION, and utter want Of prep.
aration for, or Of clew to repel such an inter
ruption Of the rules of the body" The House
was in roar. Pitt laughed till he nearly fell off
his seat Dundas afterwards Lord Melville,
was little behind him. The sergeantat arms
made diligent search in the gallery but could
learn nothing. O'Sullivan sat on the back
bench, as grave and inperturbable as if he had
been in church at funeral, and his comrades
would not tell on him. Nothing came of the af
fair but the heartiest laugh that Parliament had
had in hundred years."
1T is not improbable that few people in the
city, and nobody now connected with the SEN
| tinel, remembers that Governor Baker, when
provost marshal of this State in the last two or
three years of the war, saved that establishment
from being 'gutted" by the infuriated veterans
of the Nineteenth or Twentieth regiment, at
home on furlough after re-enlistment The paper
had made an ill-natured fling at them for parad-
ing in a Republican procession, and the old
warriors would not stand it. They went in O
crowd to the Office, then the corner
| Of Pearl and Meridian streets and
made such demonstrations as showed their pur-
pose and frightened the proprietors. Provost
general Baker was sent for at once, and by the
| time he arrived the boys were as thick as bees
on the stairway to the third story swearing mad
| and bent on mischief. 1t was no fool of job to
meet such men and squarely resist them, but
| the provost did 1t. The Journals informant
saw him at the head of the stairs, with one
| yoap hold hxy< <ha ooIl nd chad
back, speaking with an emphasis that convinced
| the men they had better 'let the contract OUT
| and go to camp for that time. Without his
prompt and fearless interference the Sentinel
establishment would have been ruined, and the
city, or State or general government would
have had to pay for it.
In Greenbush N. Y, public school, last
week, pupil asserted that some money had
boen stolen from his pocket. The principal
| thereupon sent out for policeman, and, with
his assistance, searched the boys, while the two
lazy teachers performed the same service for
the girls, stripping them to the skin The miss
| ing money was not found. The Greerbush par
ents are now calling for the scalp of the prnci-
| pal. and demanding to know if they and their
children have any rights which public school
teachers are bound to respect. The day is rap
idly approaching when the public-school ''sys-
| tenn can only he preserved in all its integrity
| by requiring parents to vest all authority over
their children in the teachers, only retaining
| sufficient interest in the youngsters to provide
| food and clothing.
| THE managers of ocean steamship lines believe
| that there will be less travel this summer than
| for many seasons past. The fear of cholera is
| given as one reason for this decrease in the
| number of tourists; but one agent accounts for
it by the statement that ladies are afraid to cross
the ocean while the relations between Russia
| and England remain in the present strained con-
| dition. Whether the ladies fear being captured
| by Russian privateers the way over, and sent
| to Siberia, or whether they dread being impeded
by sodery and battles in their continental tour,
| the agent does not say. It might be as well for
the timid creatures to remain at home.
| The English Registrar-general reports 600
| deaths by poisoning for 1882 in England alone.
| Two-fifths were due to accident and negligence;
| the rest, 2s8, were suicides. Of the deaths due
| to accident or negligence, So are ascribed to
| OPIUM IS to lead compounds, 81 by either nitric,
| sulphuric, muriatic or carbolic acid IA by chic
| raj, IL by phosphorus, 8 by arsenic and by
| chloroform. Most Of the accidental cases were
| from overdoses of poisonous medicines, or by
using from the ''wrong bottle" Choral which
| produced fourteen deaths, is comparatively
new poison being introduced in 1868.
| Mr.. GEORGE Fl. DARWIN believes that the
reason we walk in circles when lost or blind
folded, is not due to difference in the length of
the legs, which are, however, of rarely the same
length in an individual. This is the theory of
many who have investigated the well-known fact
that persons blindfolded describe circles of
usually about 200 feet in diameter and ordinarily
curving to the right. Righthanded people are
left-legged, and vice versa-athough there is no
satisfactory reason for our giving preference to
| either one or the other hand or foot
| If the accounts in London society paper may
| be believed the trousseau being prepared for the
Princess Beatrice is of such extent as to suggest
the idea that she expects never again to have an
opportunity to buy new clothes. Among the
supplies mentioned are boots and shoes in GUAM
tity and variety sufficient to stock shop The
dealer who furnishes them has supplied brushes
and blacking also, which goes to indicate that
the Princess is not given to the sovenly habit,
INDUCED in by many women, of dabbing varnish
| on her shoes with a sponge.
| Few people are aware of the power of running
water to purify itself of sewage by aerial oxida-
| ton. Careful examination of the waters of the
river Oder, ten miles below the city of Breslau,
show no signs of sewage, either by chemical or
microscopic examination, although just below the
city it is rich in chlorine, indicating sewage salt,
| besides free and combined ammonia and visible
putrefaction products. 1t is also stated that the
entire sewage of Philadelphia is completely
oxidized.and destroyed twenty-five miles below
the city