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

undertaking, further deduction of two cents
daily is made, thus reducing his sctual pay to Is
cents. The pay of the prvates in the famous Cold
stream Guards averages only about 10 per cent in adj
of these rates. with equal deductions for mess
ing and washing.
THE Italian members of Parliament are treated
with far consideration than the British NJ Ps.
Every italian M. P. deadheads it all over Italy, and
wonderful to relate is entitled to compartment to
himself. Consequently if several are in train there
is apt to be difficulty about seats. Italian Para-
ments are never prorogued-only adjourned.
IT is seldom that an accident contains more ele-
ments of grotesqueness than that which befel Ger
man at Oshkosh. He tapped maple tree with axe
and then inserted wedge. STOPPING to sip the oozng
sap. his became inserted in the The wedge
then became disodged and his nose YVES caught in
vise 1t two hours before he was discovered and
rescued.
HANS MAKART painted Sarah Bernhsrdt's portrait
and made it felike to be altogether unsatsfac-
tory to her. She refused TO accept it. and he then
covered it with yellow tint that gave It the appear
ance of skeleton ghost in London fog. In this
plight the picture found among his effects, and
was sold with the rest of mis- paintings. Sarah did not
bid for it.
The old synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese
Jews In Bevis Marks London now being pulled down,
bears painted door panel the name of Benjamin
DIsraeli," with the date 5,577 Jewish era). 1t is
believed that he the grandfather of the late Earl
of BeaconsAeld, but if the COMMONLY received date
of his death, November, 1916, is wrong 5577
corresponds with 1917, A. D.
In the island of Goa, Bombay, there is a sin
gular vegetable called 1.-THE sorrowful tree" because
it only fourishes in the night At sunset no flowers
koL e r
them. They yield sweet smell but the sun no
sooner begins to shine upon them than of them
fall off and others close up and thus it continues flow
ering in the night during the whole year.
A SENSATION has been created in Madrid by a new
spanish musical composer. named Villate. He is
thrty-three years of age but has not produced any
work before his countrymen till now, though one
of his operas Well received at Paris and another
one at Hague. The opera which has taken Madrid by
storm is called Bahazer." The libretto is in Ital-
ian, and taken from Spanish drama by French
man named bonneville.
THE ruins of temple of Juno have been recently
laid bare at Civit Lavinia not far from Rome Frag-
ments of sculpture have been discovered which
formed part of square block of marble. The fine
character of the work leads to the superstition that
not actually Greek they were executed under Greek
influences. There have also been found the head of
goddess and six torsos of warriors clad in armor
head of Jupiter in very good preservation. The
cavations still in progress.
THOSE desiring to check tendency to obesity may
now choose between four systems /. The original
Banting which consists of eating nothing containing
starch, sugar or fat. g. The German Bantng, which
allows fat, but forbids sugar starch. 3. A Munich
system, which consists of dressing in wooden clothes
and Of sleeping between flannel blankets instead of
cotton linen Sheets and A. the Schweninger system,
which insists interval of two hours between eat
ing and drinking. The Lancet's advice to hunting
men, who may be thinking to reduce their weight, is
do not try it."