The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-13


the boy said: Very much indeed M. Hugo played
at liens with me oil the evening lie vas the lion
under the table. Anddo you know, once when he
came out Of his den and grovled be pulled off tho
table cloth and broke eyer 50 many glasses. II was
funls
ALBERT MTILAUD In lie Figaro tParis) bluntly re
marks that 1t is neither the great poet the sublime
prose writer, the sweet philosopher, the marvellous
dranatist the literary genius whom the French POO
pie are deifying in Victor Hugo but the frcetlinker
and politician. "And these last two qualities he
adds, are within the grasp OF every 1nbecile"
YOUNG farmer of Westford Otsego county.
New York, was struck recently in the face by the
tail of cow which he was milking and became
so enraged thereby that he procured an ak and
chopped off the tails above the switch of every COW
in his stabe-six in number. The proceeding finally
to the Of outsiders and the tler of the soil
was fined $40.
MAJOR JOHN E.. BIIA Ma of the pay department
OF the army who has been stationed at Helena M. IT,.
since 1875 and where he has invested considerable
in real estate recently transferred to New York
city. 1t was expected by many officers that he would
endeavor to revocation of the order, but he
has disappointed everyone by his goods
and chattes and starting for his station leaving
his property in the hands Of friend The Major is
brother to Hon. James g. Blaine
HENs' eggs in great veneration with the an.
clients. The Romans exhibited them with great
in their festivals of Ceres The Greeks equally
honored them. The japanese very fond of eggs.
They eat them at desert like fruit, and very often
with oranges The rich japanese very particular
concerning them They will not eat those of fowls
which have full liberty and feed what they pick
They must be fed on rice, and they must lay their
eggs in rooms prepared for that purpose.
THE ordinary dwellings of the japanese are not
firmly attached by foundations to the earth but rest
loosely squared stones powders buried in the
ground the result of which is partially prevent the
transmission of momentum from earthquakes. An
Engshman has made an Improvement on this plan
and rests the house at each of it's piers upon handful
of cast-iron shot. These shot of the size of buck
shot SO increase the fractional resistance to rolling
that the house is practically asatic and the motion is
in most earthquakes only about one-tenth Of what it
is outside.
WHEN the train on which General Sherman was
passenger route to Springfield, stopped at Roa
Mo-, the other day large crowd surrounded it and
gave the old warrior a hearty reception bevy OF
pretty girls says the Roa New Era pushed their way
through the throng and presented the General with
handsome bouquets of flowers they had pluckea for
the occasion. The General was so overcome with
emotion that he seized one girl, Miss Smith, and
helping her to the platform planted upon her sweet
red lips kiss that made the other girls faces turn
fairly Crimson with envy.
Or Robert Treat Paine the Boston Advertiser says
when nearly eighty years old, and not in strong
health he made solitary journey to California the
occasion of the eclipse Of 1880 He left the train
lonely prairie, where the station was the only build
ing, and where man or beast to be SEEN The
total eclipse to last only thirtyseven seconds,
and in his anxiety to correct observation Of
the moment when the reappeared, he deprived
himself of the satisfaction after his long journey OF
viewing the eclipse spectacle that he might at
tend closely to the beats of his chronometer"