The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-27
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Sam Jones's salary is 5000 week.

A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Sam Joness salary is 5000 week.
In New Hampshire penalty of $40 is imposed
upon the seller of cigarette TO a boy or girl
under sixteen years of age.
The publishers of General Gordon's Diary
have already cleared the $35 coo they paid for
it, and have handsome margin left.
The Provincial Bank of Buenos Ayres has a
capital of $33, 600 600 and deposits amounting to
SCI, 100000 These figures are not equaled by
any United States bank.
Frenchman lately distinguished himself by
bequeathing to the Mazarin Library a collection
of $500 specimens of bad French written by
members of the Academy.
Oysters are cheap food, and yet steward ex-
plains that they are improbable for hotel tables
because guests never think Of letting them take
the place of any regular course in meal
Dr. j. G. Holland wrote Drink has murdered
my best friends and I hate it. 1t burdens me
with taxes, and denounce it a nuisance on
which every honest man should put Ais heel"
Those who are awarded medals at the New
Orleans exhibition are kindly informed that they
can get them by renting $50 for a gold one and
So for silver one to the manufacturer at Phila-
delphia
There are IL, 900 children in Chicago in excess
of the number who can End room in the public
schools. Though the city is spending $500 900
for the current year in building new school
house, the increase of cholars keeps ahead Of
the accommodations.
Concord people are ponderng over the inter
probation of one of Senator Evarts's sentences
uttered in his after-dinner speech at the ceebra-
+ ton. He said: II speak as near to the truth as
it is possible for New Yorker that once lived
in or frequented Concord to do"
Charles G. Leland writes that the masses in
France believe that our civil war was between
the Spanards of South America and the negroes
of North America. He affirms that IS fast as
Frenchmen learn that we very much like
Englishmen their feeling changes to hatred.
The King of Sweden, if he survives until
1889 will. in January of that year, celebrate his
slxtleth birthday anniversary by giving prize
of $500 and gold medal worth 5000 to the au-
thor of the most important discovery in rnath-
ematical science made between now and then.
A club of T. 800 members, in Berlin, recently
advertised for six medical officers to attend
them. at a salary of 1915 per annum each. This
would make the contribution from each member
of the club about seventy-fve cents year for
medical attendance More than four hundred
doctors applied for the places.
A remarkable engineering feat is about to be
attempted in New South Wales, in the shane of
a railway bridge across the Hawkesbury river.
1t is to be ZOO feet long, and the PIERS accord
ing to the plans, must be sunk about 40 feet
below the surface of the water. The estimated
cost is not less than S. COO 000
1t is said that lump of bread about the size
| of a French billiard ball, tied up in linen bag
and inserted in the pot which boils vegetables
| will absorb the gasses which oftentimes send
| such insupportabIe odor to the regions above
1T is we'll to know these things" as the man
| said, reading the death mott ce of his wifes
mother.
The system of compressed paper rails and
| railway car-wheels is coming into favor on the
Continent. An American company has estab
ilshed in St Petersburg large factory devoted
to this special manufacture, authorized by the
Russian Ministry of Finance. The company is
soon to construct railway line from the cap
ital, on the banks of the Neva to Warsaw.
The boundary between Massachusetts and
New Hampshire has been in dispute 100 years
No strictly legal line exists. In 1741 the King of
England directed representatives of both prov
| inces to jointly make mar in accord with some
general directions but Massachusetts did not
| obey, and New Hampshire did the work alone
| A strip Of Merrimac valley is the doubtful
| ground
| There are now 100 prohibition counties in
| Georgia, though none of them includes the FIVE
larger cities, Atlanta, Macon. Savannah
| Augusta and Columbus. AS special election
for local option can be called for by 10 per cent
| of the voters and the Prohibitionists are flushed
| with their success thus far they propose to
tackle Atlanta, and express their confidence of
| carrying it,
| Lovers of Rome will be glad TO learn that it
seems probable that cure has been found for
the terrible climate Of the Campaena. Some
| Trappist monks settled in the center of the
| fever district after planting the neighhorhood
with the eucalyptus tree. They agreed with the
| Italian government to plant some thousands of
the eucalyptus annually. At first none of the
| monks could pass a night in their settlement
| during tie summer months but for the last len
| years they have lived there the whole year
ronnd, and few if any of them feel any i'll eff
| fectS.
| DR. George r. Elliott was the microscopic
employed by General Grants physicians. In the
were clipped off for examination. 1t was pub
lished that the microscope had proved the cancer
| to be epithelial, but the physicians did not d.
vulge the fact that every stage of it's progress
was watched through lenses so magnfying that
a scrap of flesh became as big as plate to look
at. Eighteen of the prepared slides were kept
! by Dr. Elliott. He has now had cabinet
shaped for them and on it stands bust of
| Grant
After a visit to some of the Alaska glaciers,
Mr.. Thomas Meehan states that beneath the
! Muir glacier. said to be four hundred miles long,
] flows rapid torrent which he estimates to be
one hundred feet wide and four feet in average
depth. and which summer and winter
| without interruption At its termination the
glacier hangs over the and gives off icebergs.
| Mr. Meehan remarks that the great ice sheets
| have their lakes rapids, waterfalls. hills and
valleys; that their waterways change their
! courses at times through the melting and that
melting proceeds freely in the suns rays but
| not in the shade