The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02


MRS. A. T. STEWART and Judge Hilton are gener.
ally taking their daily drive together at Saratoga
Both still in mourning, the Judge for his wife,
Mrs Stewards face is said wear a tired and pitfu
expression, as if 'her millions did not make her
happy"
A GENTLEMAN in Chicago has the original lease of
the little farm ''Ellisand which Robert Burns tried
to in Scotland, and where of his choicest
rural poems were inspired. This document and the
subsequent release which accompanies it are in
Burnss own handwriting.
THE London TRUTH tells the following apropos story
of the new Lord Rothschild: 'Some ladies were once
discussing in his presence the difference between the
real and the ideal and he appealed to for his opn
ion. The real said the fnancier is Spanish coin;
the ideal is the Spanish bond"
ONE of the most unique mourning decorations is
draped wooden shanty in New York, where a colored
professor" blacks boots for five cents. The outside
of the shanty backened with shoe -backing and
decorated with white rosettes cheap engraving of
Grant on the door bears the significant inscription:
He helped to set me free"
POPULAR refreshment in New Orleans is frozen
cream cheese. The chesses broken
small and beaten fine and smooth with egg-beater
the cream belonging to them is also whipped and then
added, the whole sweetened and then frozen. The ad
any icecream ever invented.
THE Annamese are said to be slow, indolent and
weak. They require plenty of hard words and fire.
quent beatings to stimulate them when at work and
sailors and traders who have to employ them some
times subject them to such violent abuse that death
results One shop keeper is said to have killed four of
the wretched people without being called to account
by the authorities.
PIECE of evidence in Quebec breach of promise
case cuff with offer of marriage written on
it. One night, while the defendant holding the
plaintiffs hand and whispering fervid words. he
popped the question in manuscript the smooth
linen at her wrist. She sentimental or shrewd
enough to keep that article out of the wash and now
it is of practical value.
FIFTEEN years ago a stage coach Incoming out of
Blackfoot Idaho, robbed of 500 pounds of gold
dust. The robbers were arrested and sent to the
Deer Lodge Penitentary, but they had succeeded in
buryng the gold and no one has since been able to
find it. Their sentence will expire in few weeks,
and the inhabitants of the town said to be watch
ing the prison doors carefully to follow them to the
treasure whom they get out
A NEW departure in college comm encements is
ported from Milwaukee, At the graduating exercises
Of convent school, local paper says "Oil stoves
were used and the curtain rose upon very pretty
young lady in the act of taking loaf of bread from
the tin where it had just been baked. Another,
equally pretty and expert, put newlykneaded rusks
in the to bake, while third turned her atten
ton to preparing frcasseed chicken"
MIR. BEDFORD MACKEY, United States consul at
Rio Grande de Sol, Brazil has arrived in Washington
on a leave of absence. He is the consul who some
weeks since had shooting affair with Brazilian
editor, the latter having published scurrious attacks
upon him and his mother. Mr.. Mackey was tried and
honorably acquitted The consul reports that col
ony of exconfederaes is located in southern Brazil
The colony numbers about five hundred persons, and
is doing we'll.
"UNCLE ALFRED who slave of Presiden
Jackson and is now custodian OF The Hermitage re-
| lates that Old Hickory kind master Some
peoples" he says, thinks kase he had hot tempah
dat he was bald mastah. But dat's all mistake.
His slaves we'll treated, an if dey behaved well
dey almost made like membahs of de family.
Massa Jackson posed to slavery. Mon once I've
heerd i'm say he ridin up an down the cotton
fers horseback Boys, you all ewine to be free
day. 1t won't be in my time-it won't be in my
time. But some day youse gwine to be free, suah."
In paper read before the Academy of Medicinet
Paris NJ Luys states that the brain is subject to
tain changes in position dependent upon the attitude
of thebody. Thus, if is in the dorsal decubtus
lies upon his side stands upon his head the brain
undergoes certain corresponding changes in position,
in obedience to the laws of gravity the movements
take place slowly, and the brain is five six minutes
in returning to its first position From these anatom-
ical data, M. Luys deduces interesting and prac
teal conclusions, and explains by them the symptoms
of vertigo and faintness for example, which feeble
persons experience when suddenly rising from hori:
zontal position. He suggests whether the pains Of
meningitis may not be due to an interference with
hos and fhax of
ing the brain the change produced by horizontal
position at night
SMART, quick girl can make about $500 cigar
cites per day. The pay is from seventy to eighty
cents per 1000 according the g ade of cigarette
made There very few 81 rls who can make more
than 600 per day When girl goes to her work in
the morning she receives small bundle of papers
and two and three-fourth pounds of tobacco, from
which she must make 1000 cigarettes. small
piece of extra heavy paper about twice the size of
cigarette paper is used in rolling cigarette. One
e6ge is pasted fast to piece of marble smooth fiat
stone about one foot square that is table. A
stick about foot in length and about as thick as
match is used to paste with. The paste is made of
pure starch and water The cigarette paper is laid on
the heavy paper, and small quantity of tobacco is
put on it. Then the edge of the heavy paper is
turned over and by sliding the fiat of the hand over
it, the cigarettesis rolled.
A SERGEANT of cavalry active service in Arizona
against the Indians tries to the inquiry: why
don't the United States troops catch the raidng
Apaches9 He says that the Indians have from five
seven good saddle horses each The soldiers
PEELED follow with horse each loaded down with
blanket, overcoat, two canteens, larat, pcket-pin
side lines, nosebag, currycomb and brush sometimes
four to six days rations pannikn, tin cup and
numerous other little traps that are of no use but
always in the way. Then the gun and field belt
with fifty rounds of cartridges with 100 in the
saddle pockets then the pistol and belt with twenty
four pistol cartridges. Weigh with all this"
says the sergeant "and then turn him loose after an
Indian pony, with shell of saddle, a gun and am
munition and an almost nude buck and see which
Wins raca Of 300 roes saw noth;n,. oe +l