The Indianapolis journal., 1885-10-11
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

|
The title of General Logan's book will be
''The Great Conspiracy-Its Origin and His
| tory"
| Gum-chewing is growing in favor in the West.
| Chicago druggists report doubling of their
sales since 1883, and the gain is steadily main
| tanned.
A little touch of frost has come,
A taste of winter ices,
And every farmer in the land
Begins to raise his prices.
Merchant Traveller
The New York park commissioners have for
mally set aside portion oe Riverside Park for
General Grants tomb it embraces plot $50 feet
long and $50 feet across at its widest part, the
| temporary vault being $50 feet from the north
ern boundary of the plot and at tie point Of its
| greatest width.
| The practical men on the United States Fish
| Commission have discovered that the Matching
| OF shad's eggs may be fastened from ten to ff-
| teen hours by placing the eggs in bright, shallow
| pans, under the direct rays of the sun. The fish
| thus hastened into life are nj less hardy than
those hatched without the forcing process.
| twelve year-old Dakota girl, taken up into
| the air by cyclone, carried out of sight, and
| brought easily down in field a quarter of a
| mile away, describes her sensation while in
| transit as that of being rapid and constantly
| pricked by thousands of needles. Since her ex-
perience she has been affected similar to a per-
son with St Vituss dance.
manufacturer in Breslau has recently built
at bis factory chimney over fifty feet In height
| entirely of paper The blocks used in its con-
| struction, instead of being brick or stone we're
made of layers of compressed paper jointed with
| silicious cement The advantages are the fire
| proof nature of the material, the minimum of
danger from lightning, and great elasticity.
| few months ago hitherto unknown por-
! trait OF Shakespeare was discovered in a shop
| near the Haymarket, in London. 1t had been for
| many years in the possession of family at Pad
| dington, by the last of whom it was bequeathed
| q
| on which it is painted several explanatory
| couplets dated nearly $50 years ago. The por
| trait has been photographed.
| room full of skeletons has just been added
to the exhibition space at the South Kensinston
| Natural History Museum in London. The most
| striking features are the skeletons of six ee
| phants-African Indian, and Sumatran Be-
sides these there are four elephants skulls,
of which was killed by Sir Samuel Baker, ard
another belonged to an elephant that was long
| the terror of jungle district near Meerut.
A London caterer says: "On the nights when
| they play Wagners music | sell five times as
much lager beer as usual On Mendelssohn
nights nobody wants any ham sandwiches, and
| as get 80 per cent out of them l guess don't
| think much of Mr.. Mendelssohn. Strauss is the
| composer to make the wine go off. A feels
we'll off while he listens to waltz of Strauss,
| and he orders his bottle of champaign freely"
| The famous Victoria bridge, at Montreal, is to
| be supplemented by another bridge crossing the
| st. Lawrence from Lachine to Caughnawauga,
| four miles above the city. 1t will be of iron
| trusses, the eight spans measuring 5000 feet,
aud will cost, with its approaches. ST. 250, 600.
The owners are the Canadian Pacific railway,
| who expect to have it finished by November of
| 1886. No such bridge the Victoria Ia tubular
oue) will ever be built again.
In "agitating' an oil well at Stone Hill, Henry
Sutton was struck by twenty-foot polishing
rod, which entered just below and back of the
right ear. and, knocking out the first two ribs,
came out through the chest 1t then penetrated
| several inches of the mans thigh and pinned b i'm
to the ground Polishing rods are blunt and
nearly an inch in diameter, and this one had fall
len from a seventy four-foot derrick. Yet the
man is sitting up and gaining strength rapidly.
A valuable cow in Yorkshire England having
broken her leg, the veterinary surgeon was
asked to amputate the limb and try to save the
animal. This was done. and tho stump of leg
healed naturally and completely. When the
swelling had subsidized. rudely-constructed
wooden leg was fastened on with which the cow
did SO we'll that she has now been provided with
an improved and shapely one. upon which her
the mishap
OF all the dog stories told by Pliny not one
equals the tale of the Concordia Kan Demo-
crat This says that a terrier near there while
hunting found den of rats. Five rushed out,
when the dog seized one in his mouth put foot
on each of the other four and as quick as light
ming twisted himself around SO as to get his tail
into the hole. After killing the five rats he then
let the other six out. one at time, and per-
| formed the wonderful feat of killing the eleven
| In one minute and a half.
| 1t is said that the first restrictive liquor law
ever passed in this country was enacted in a lit
| tie town in Rhode Island and read as follows:
| Every saloon-keeper who sells more than one
gallon of liquor to minor shall be fined one dol
| lar and COSTS" The first temperance pledge re-
| membered in circulation in New England was
| thus worded: II solemnly swear to abstain from
| the use of intoxicating liquors all occasions
except on training days, wedding days, bsnquets
| and other great occasions"
| 1t appears that the gardens of the Tu!eries are
| Just now beng taken possession of by groups of
Paris ''roughs," who rendering this favorite
resort unapproachable by it's usual visitors
| Among other diversions to which these undesira-
| BILE guests have addicted themselves is that of
mutilating the statues. and their latest exploit
| has been to break off the quiver held by
| nymph. In view of these proceedings the di-
rector Of the Louvre has expressed the intention
of taking back into the building all the statues
| under his administration which are now in the
| gardens
| A carriage road is to be built from Jerusalem
| to the ruins made at Jerco by the blast Of
| Joshuas rams horns. small modern village
stands near the ruins, which sunk /, 200 feet
| below the sea level, in valley extremely hot,
| but we'll watered Near the road, as proposed,
! is monastery, at tie very cave in which Elijah
| is said to have been fed by the ravens The
| monastery is literally hung on to the edge of the
! precipice, and few Greek monks live like birds
| perched ON the edge of nest in this singular
abode to which chapel pinnacled on rock is
| attached.
| Continued experiments are reported as being
made by the French government with new and
improved siege guns, one of the most recent
among them being of prodigious power-the
most effective, probably, of its class yet
| structed. 1t is described as made of steel, and
nearly thirty feet in length The tube is
| strengthened with ten coils of plated wire one
mimetre, or l. SO inch, in diameter. The com
position is said to be such that the cannon, after
degree of three millimetres The weight of this
gun is fifty tons, and it projects a she'll weighing
nearly 300 pounds capable of penetrating arlnor
| plates nearly six inches thick at range of