The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-04

tanned by purchase in that place about twenty years
ago the company having obtained machine of more
capacity It is in good order yet and attracts atten-
ton now a valuable relic.
THE Rev. John Brown. minister of the Bunyan
meeting house in Bedford, England, has published
life of the author of Pilgrims Progress on which
he has been engaged for many years. He has traced
the Bunyan family as far back as the end of the
twelfth century.
TO keep her boy from the school board. a London
fruitseer adopted the expedient Of putting him into
an orange box which safely corded up and showed
under the bed whenever she had occasion to go out,
remaining there till her return. The boy had become
nearly denented when he was found by the agent of
benevolent society.
NJ MEYNARD, q French cotton-spinner who has
died without leaving any relatives bequeathed his
fortune to himself His house is to be maintain ed in
the state in which it left and 'al the living ami
mails in it" cared for until they die. His body was
cemented into block of granite, to become the cor
nerstone of free picture gallery.
AYOUB KHAN, one Of the aspirants to the Afghan
throne is constantly guarded by policemen to prevent
his escape from Persia but the precaut;on seems to
be needless for he is drunk all the time. His pued
up face says correspondent, his dull, CLASSY eyes
and his heavy, sensous lips show the demoralizng
life he leads His followers see with dsmay that he
is fast becoming wreck.
To meet the requirements of classic figure lady
should be feet IA inches tall 80 inches bust
ure "a inches waist, 8 inches from armpit to waist,
long arms and neck. A queenly woman, however,
should be feet inches tall 81 inches about the
bust 26la about the waist 35 over the hips, II Z
inches around the ball of the arm and Gle inches
around the wrist. Her hands and feet should not be
too small.
ACoNcoRD friend Of Mr. Bronson Aicott is reported
to have asked him recently: What did you mean
when you said that if who am isng I think things
really thinging the thing that things thingsY'
did say that!' asked Alcott. THE newspaper re-
ported you as saying it." We'll" said Alcott, ''if
they reported it I suppose I said it, and know it
meant something at the time, but I'm don't
know now what did mean"
SOME years before the Pullman cars were intro
duced to make travel luxury an elegant English
compartment coach was imported and for awhile
the steamboat train between Boston and Stoning.
ton For reason it did not suit American
tastes and it was taken off the line and stored
away. Now, after The lapse of many years the old
coach has been brought to the light of day again. to
serve eating booth at one of the beaches.
A NEW industry is the Southern forests is the
utilization of the needles of the long leaved pine
(linus palustris.l The leaves soaked in bath to
remove the gaz ng and then ''crnkled' for stufing
cusno ms and other upholsterng purposes. They are
specially valuable shipboard, and other places
where furniture is in danger of becoming infested
with insects. The turpentine which remains in the
leaves makes most inhospitable abode for these
noying visitors.
WHEN fall upon Indian camp, says an army
officer we usually kill everything. The Indians Won t
ask for quarters can't take them prisoners;
forced to extel inmate them. The squaws fight as
well as the men, and we can't avoid killing them too.
Somehow most of the children perish. When the
Indians surprise settlement, of course, they re-
taate. 1t is hard work to fight Indians under the
conviction that they right and we are wrong.
That was my state of mind, and | exchanged
from the cavalry into the artillery to get rid of the
necessity of Indian warfare.
GEORGIA paper reports local prayer gauge
as follows. Not long since at an experience
meeting at Gainesville, of the sanctiicatonists, one
good sister and said L am safe on the rock.
The good Lord is with me; I trust everything to
Him. The other day Mr.. S. sent me word that
he would bring friends to dinner at IL o'clock
1t was then IL o'clock You know it takes
beans two hours to bile but just got down on
my knees by that old stove and prayed that them
beans would get done in an hour. When the clock
struck II got up, lifted the top, and them beans
were done"
Ex-VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER suffers much from
insomnia as he has done for eighteen years In that
time he has lost his wife, to whom he was terderly
attached his only sister and several other rela
tves, that he has of his blood living
nearer than distant cousin Within the last four
years his eyosght has been failing so that he cannot
use his eyes more than two three hours day. He
says that after his servants have retired in his house
at Malone. n. Y, there is football during The
night except his which adds to the other dismal
experiences of sleeplessness. He suffers much from
vertigo and has been warned by his physicians to
avoid all excitement. lie is still at Richied but is
able rarely to go farther than the piazza of the hotel
where he is staying, and spends much time in his
room.