The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17

seat of the industry the exceptionally well-off
county of Wexford where some very valuable crops
raised. The repeal of the act of William is being
proposed.
IN ancient Rome slaves white people captured in
war; had recreations holidays. Their time was
spent between working and sleeping, and their lives
at the disposal of their masters. When old and
useless they turned loose to staFve. As many
10, 900 were sold in Rome in a day.
A CURIOUS story is told of man who died at
Atlanta Ga, the other day. Thirty years ago, when
he was an infant his mother missed needle. The
doctors said it had entered the chds body and would
come out some day. An hour before his death he
complained of itching sensation in his shoulder,
and few minutes later the long missing needle
forced its way out,
Mr.. GRANT ALLEN has given interesting story
TO the discovery of pottery. a savage carried some
water in acalabash-the hard shell of tropical fruit
when it occurred to him to smear the outside with
clay and put the caabash itself the fire. This he
did, the water boiled and upon removing the calabash
he found it incased and protected by hard, red,
stone-lke substance.
A FEW days before the death of Helen Hunt jack
son the residents of California town formally be-
slowed the name of ''Majella upon beautiful sheet
of water in compliment to the principal character of
the story of Ramona incident which afforded pecu-
liar qualification to the dying author. Mrs. Jackson
was the first to discover and appreciate the poetic
gifts of Edith Thomas
A HINDU lady has been making remarkable con-
trbuton in the London Times to the discussion going
on about the status of her sex in India. Every
woman on the death of her husband child hus-
band, is condemned to perpetual widowhood. man
marry second wife at the death of his first one,
and oho,o
All the boys and girls in India are betrothed inds-
soIuby almost they born, and are
brought together in physical union by the time they
have completed their twelfth thirteenth year. AT
the age Of eight latest husband be found for
every girl.
MURCA, the district in Spain where the cholera is
doug its deadest work. is the region which was
submerged by floods in 1879 The foundations not
only impoverished the inhabitants but made their
houses damp, unwholesome and aguebreeding. An
American lady who has been in the vicinity writes of
the food of the Murcians 1T consists chiefly of
bread, garlic, onions cucumbers and tomatoes, with
which vegetables they concoct a hot soup cold
dish, which is called 'gazpacho, by throwing pepper
and salt, oil and vinegar it; very little wine,
meat week, and then generally very fat bacon
This obviously choeraic bill of fare and the
tally, however shocking and deplorabe is not under
the circumstances, surprising.
The vast bed of pitch which extends from point
far inland in South America to the center and south
of Trinidad, ends there in the famous pitch lake. The
bed dips under the in the Serpents Mouth the
channel is called which divides Venezuela from Trni
dad, and also off the Southwestern coast of the island
Here and there land and under the sea- in the
direction of the strata springs of liquid pitch bubble
and overflow. The lake is easily accessible by land
and sea- being only threequarers of mile from the
shore 1t seems to have cropped up to the surface,
warmed by the angry breath of huge subterran-
cauldron. Numerous cavities depressions,
filed with water honeycomb its surface, but do not
affect its level appearance to the eye of spectator.
The lake is mostly solid it is mostly in the center
that it boils and betrays its volcanic origin.