The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-23

dissolved in naphtha or some other reagent. This
having been done, subsequent evaporation has the
effect to each fibre with thin film of rubber,
and by this means the transfer Of the coioring
tegial from the goods to the skin is prevented
Lone BRANCH correspondent says that Jay
Goulds cottage Seabright has never been occu-
pied by him since he served with a summons in a
suit during his last visit there. He then registered
that he would never come into New Jersey again.
He uses his yacht now wholly fora country place when
he tires of she one he has the Hudson 1t is said
that he has made present of his cottage On Ocean
avenue to George Gould.
CHAPLAIN BEECHER. in the New York militia camp
at Peekskill had lump of ice in one hand and palm
leaf fan in the other on Friday when a Mohawk
Indian who sells cigars and looks considerably like
President Cleveland upon the scene. He
dropped ice fan and all and rushed forward. saying
Il do believe it's Grover" And if the is-it-hot
enough -for-you fend had come along then Henry
Ward would have melted quite away.
IT cost So 400 to remove the ice from the wharves
in Montreal Work was begun on May with 500
and 100 horses and carts, and the och Of the
same month theremOval was completed. From rough
calculation it is shown that about 292 500 tons of ice
were lodged on the wharves of which amount 1876
600 tons were cleared away by artificial means. The
greatest accumulation at any place at the Do
minion Steamship Company berth; here the ice was
piled height Of forty feet above the level Of the
WHAT.
A DESERTED wife was hunting for her husband in
Iowa He had eloped from Maine with a neighbours
spouse. There only slight clues to aid the pur
suer and she about to give up the chase when in
driving through rural town, she saw lawn lettecea
in flowers with the word "Rosalie" That was the
of 4ba f,,oi
skiful florist The wife did not wait to have the gate
opened but urged her horse right through it, oexcited
and confident she; and she made no mistake, for
the guilty couple found there.
a CONTRIBUTOR to Nature says that during a
cent stay in Suffolk lie found belief prevalent that
swallows lay in necessary stores for their autumn mi
grafton by packing small flies under the feathers be
meath the wings. His informant told him that he had
shot swallow to ascertain whether this the
case and that he had, as he expected, found many
small flies beneath the down. knowing how liable
swallows to parasitic nvasions, he asked what
kind the flies were, and told Little gnats and
such like" He asks rs this opinion to be found
elsewhere, and is there any ground for it,"
Ice is sometimes very heating When the Dutch
ambassador told the King Of Siam that il Holland
the water, at ce tain of the year CONCEALED
into a solid mass that could be broken into bits and
handled like rocks, the King few into passion,
called him an international liar, and banished him
from the Kingdom In New Orleans, sixty years ago,
when the first cargo Of ice arrived in midsummer an
excited mob drove away the who attempted to
store the ice in building. The building was demol
sh d, and the ice had to be to the West Indies.
The citizens of New Orleans very indignant with
their health officers for allOwin; the stuff to be
brought into port it feared that it would pro
dnce GiSeaSa.