The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ALASKA is larger than all of the United States east
of the Mississippi river.
A NINETY.YEAR- OLD Fair Haven Conn., woman
''shucks oysters with the rest of the girls, and beats
most of them.
THE famous Marshalsea Prison, in London. where
Dickens laid many scenes in Little Dorritt, is now a
cheap lodging-house.
GIDDY Sarah, surnamed Bernhardt, now wears a
huge patch of black court plaster directly under the
left eye, leading unsophisticated people to think she
has been in trouble.
THE Turkish woman believes in charms, and always
carries on her person q three -colored bit Of leather
which encloses the mystic phrase that is potent to
ward off the evil one.
THERE was a young girl in st. Paul,
She had a terrible gall.
She tried to gyrate on the roller-skate,
And she won't get we'll till next fall.
st. Paul Herald.
THE March Century will contain two biographical
papers-one on Charles O'Conor, by a friend who
knew him intimately for many years, John Bigelow,
and "reminiscences of Daniel Webster" by Stephen
NJ. Allen.
In twenty-seven pauper lunatic asylums in England
beer as an article of ordinary diet has been discon-
tinued, with the result that in no instance has the
apparently important change led to any sort Of phys
biological inconvenience.
DURING the past summer an attempt has been made
to build a bridge over the Jordan at Jericho. 1t has
progressed slowly, however. as the lumber furnished
had to be brought from Europe and carried on the
backs of camels from the port of Jaffa to the river.
Troy Times: 1t was a rich Scotchmant that started
a newspaper in 1910, stopped in a few months with
out a word Of explanation, and started it again in
1850. with the remark: Since the publication of
our last paper nothing of Importance has occurred in
the political world"
Mr.. SALA thinks that four months in Jail will kill
Edmund Yates, who is accustomed to every luxury
his ride in the park, his daily drive, his footman at
beck and call. He is an intensely proud man, says
Mr.. Sala, and I should not be surprised if this imprison-
ment were to bring about his death.
AN enterprising German woman has risen to the
highest position as a maker of corsets, in London. by
plying her clients with lectures on anatomy and pro-
Tossing to be able to so construct corsets as to give a
small waist and at the same time not to interfere with
the free action of the liver or the lungs.
OVERSEE from the Omnibus: Schulze-"Hast thou
already from the paper heard in regard to thy to it
sent communication Mueller-'I received yester-
day a letter from the editor, in which he to me his
thanks expressed" Schulze-''Then congratulate I;
but let me see, what writes he thenl' Mueller
Thankfully returned"
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, now eighty years old: 'My
recipe for self preservation is exercise. / am q firm
believer in exercise. I walk every day from my house
to my Office. a distance Of about three miles and a
half, and I feel as well to-day as 1 ever did in my life.
I have taken care of myself, and as / have a good con-
stitution 1 suppose that is the reason / am so we'll"
Two travellers in Central Africa are utilizing the
photograph in a novel manner. They visit the differ
ent savage tribes and persuade chiefs to talk at the
instrument. The record is preserved, to be taken to
Europe for the inspection and study Of philologists,
who are to be qualified to make out the languages and
determine whether or not they are related to any
other known tongues.
NJ. LAUTH, the superintendent of the porcelain
factory at Sevres, is said to have discovered a new
porcelain which is far superior to the famous old
Sevres. After ten years experiment and investiga.
zion, he thinks he has produced a porcelain identical
with that of China. Not only does it lend itself to
artistic decoration, but it takes all glazes and surpasses
in beauty the colors obtained in China.
ELECTRICITY is being advantageously applied in
Calais for removing the demonstrations from boilers.
Two poles of a battery of ten to twelve Bunsen ele-
ments are applied to the ends of the boilers, and after
thirty to forty hours the deposits fall from the sides TO
the bottom. When a boiler has been thus cleared the
formation of new deposits may be prevented by ap-
plying a much less energetic current under the same
conditions.
SQUIRE CRIsTLER. of Banks county. Ga, was
called upon the other night to join a couple together
in the holy bonds of matrimony. Getting to the river
ne found it impossible to cross. Determined not to
be disappointed. he summoned the couple to the
waters edge on the other side of the stream, and the
license, tied to a stone, having been pitched over to
him. a distance of some sixty yards, he proceeded to
tie the knot at the top of his voice.
in personal appearance Senator Lamar is not at all
commanding. He is about the medium height. He
has stopped shoulders, and in his walk keeps his eyes
either on tho ground or looks straight ahead at space