The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-13
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

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THE first Grant monument completed is in the State
fair grounds, Peabody, Kan 1t consists of a shaft
forty feet high built of ears of corn wrought into
elaborate mosaics.
THE legatees under the will of the late Sir Moses
Montefore number nearly two hundred, ranging from
Earl Shaftesbury to cowherd and they receive sums
arying frssn $500 to $25.
A CANE containing ,060 different pieces of wood
all cemented upon musket ranrod found on South.
battlefield, and nicely polished, has just been
finished by physician of Murfreesboro Tenn.
- NINE generations of William Fowlers have success
ively a gristnill at Milford Conn. on the same
site selected by the senior William Fowler on arriving
from England $50 years ago. The present building is
the fifth in the succession.
THE old oak bed which tradition says King Rich
ard slept the night before the battle of Bosworth
Field is still preserved and is in regular at Beau
Manor, near Loughborough.
A WOMAN in Allentown, Pa, goes to sleep every
evening at 8 o'clock, and sleeps soundly until 5
o'clock the next afternoon, and has been keeping up
this practice uninterruptedly for eighteen months
past Her health is of the best
In Zurich, Switzerland, women form one-tenth of
the students at the University. There forty-fve
in ALL Of these two studying political science,
are no women students in law or theology.
A LADY from New York. who was on board the
steamer Ticonderoga, Lake George at the time of
the accident last week says the Glen Falls Times was
agtated that she rushed up to the Captain, and,
throwing her around his neck pathetically asked
him if there was'a telephone on board.
For the opening season a danceteacher has devised
what he calls the dervish. 1t consists of few Slow
measured, stately revolutions in ordinary waltz time
followed by a dozen rapid waltz ones done so sud
denly that the couples look like wild dervishes of the
desert, who ought to howl as well as whir
A CONNECTICUT school board has voted not to
employ this year any school maam who will not
agree to remain until the end of her terthis
'to prevent lovesick young ladies from taking the
schools and devoting the time which should be en-
poyed in teaching the children to counting and riding
around with the fellows"
THE Chicago art critic went recently to an exhibit
ton and returned disconnected He discovered that
out of 800 oil paintings 200 had for subject woman
and only twenty chose man. Not representation
of the young man The old masters found
something artistic in masculine forms. but not one
Chicago young man received attention from modern
painters.
AN outdoor Carnival of Literature recently
held in of the Southern States Those who at
tended were expected to dressed to represent
some standard book department of literature Dur
ing the evening tramp shufied into the gayly-
dressed assemblage and when an attempt was madet
hustle him out he vigorously resisted declaring that
he represented "a Summer Idle" He was allowed to
stay and fill up on melons and corn juice.
REV SAM JONES owns hundreddollar meer-
schaum pipe one of the handsomest imaginable 1t
Is an immense affair with stem nearly three feet
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the pipe is bear sitting his launches. His eyes
are rubes and sheathed alongside the stem is silver
sword used for cleaning the pipe. The pipe hangs in
the parlor of the preachers house ornament.
1T was given to him by cousin of President Lincoln.
A BEE raiser of Port Jervs has discovered toads
making great inroads upon the population of his
hives. During the dry weather few weeks ago he
examined the hives in the morning and found toad
at the entrance of each of several boxes The toads
were apparently asleep but bee or two
appeared would shoot out their tongues and convey
the honey gatherers into their capacous mouths The
toads were killed and dssected and many bees found
in their stomachs The bee-raser has elevated the
hives.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Toronto Globe. writing
from Manitoba, says that newcomer in that country
finds it extremely difficult to become reconciled to the
insect pests. bulldog fly, called, is worse cat
tie and horses than the mosquito. He says that he
has spent six hours of the eight one is supposed
10 sleep fighting the pests. The bulldog fly possesses
q pair of animated pincers and they strike
they take out piece of flesh Ordinarily they do not
trouble men, but on horses and cattle hey perfect
devils.
FRENCH laborers who walk barefooted upon the as
phalt pavement subject to swelling of the limbs
This alment has been attributed to the effect of the
vaporizaton by the heat of the feet of a small quanti
ty of the petroleum or mineral oil which is contained
in the asphalt The nerves of the feet which govern
muscular action and the contraction of the blood
sells form extensive and very sensitive
work under the arch of the feet where the skin is al
ways very thin and the consequently easily
Infected.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD girl, living in Connecticut
town, was thought by her mother not to observe
proper degree of while saying her evening
prayer and she commanded to discontinue them
nnt she could promise to do better. few days later
she was permitted to her prayer and finishing
her mother complimented her upon the improvement
when she blandly responded: Now to morrow morn
ing I'm going out to tell God said my prayer real
good; and then I'll bet He'll say, Now, Lea-you're
yarnin' it.
''Since the deuge" says the London Truth, life
has not been long enough for long whist, except for
maiden ladies wintering in watering places But now
short whist is threatened, since in Mr.. Proctors
hands it has become painfully scientific to be no
longer pastime. Mr. Proctor could only find one
decent player in America, is he confident about
chat This speaks well for the comfort of life in
Che States, for there is but who is more in
Siderable than the bad player, and that is the man
who plays well and crticises his partner"
THE English girl is subject of newspaper discus
sion in critical Paris just 1t is gravely set forth
that the fine physique of the English produced arti
fcially, by means of BATH soap and milk during in
fancy and that the English girl Ler healthy con-
stitution to diet of underdone beef seasoned with
cayenne pepper, and to the absorption of quantity
of strong malt liquors" The same writer finds two
types of faces among the English girls-the of
the is 'wedgeshaped," and Of the other slightly
tetrousse, and he adds their eyes are uniformly