The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-04
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING,

living counterpart of the Venus de Medici
would be less than five feet in height, while
wearing No. % corset and No. shoe.
A new system of drying lumber bv surround
ing it with common salt is just now attracting at
tention. The peculiar power of salt for absorbing
moisture is we'll known.
1.-THE yankee" accent and infection are COM
ing into fashion in aristocratic English circles,
and the innovation-in reality, the revival
seems to have proved fascinating.
Probably the most novel suggestion ever ad-
varced in connection with insurance is that
made by Kentucky association, which offers to
indemnify married men when their wives elope.
When leaves of autumn strew the ground
The bill-coliector comes around.
And harassed debtors, pale and meek
Implore the fend to call next week.
New York Journal.
A tender hearted mother in Athens, Ga. has
brought up large family without ever subject
ing one of its members to the discipline of the
slipper or the rod. The only punishment she
administers is dose of castor oil and rhubarb.
WONDERFUL WOMAN
A wonderful woman she was in her dav
They said, the earth they consigned her.
For she nee from a tenement moved away
But she left the rooms tidy behind her.
Boston Courier.
A German scientific journal recently made the
statement that it would be beneficial to the
eyesight to print books in dark blue ink on pale
green paper. The first volume printed accord
ing to this method. 1.-THE Natural History of
the Women of Berlin, has just made its appear
ance.
A Partisan belle, who made profuse of
cosmetics from the soles of her feet to the roots
Of her hair, one day took medicated bath, and
on emerging from it was Mortified to find herself
black as an Ethiopian. Her physician. how
ever, restored her by bath of sulphuric acid,
diluted with water.
A citizen of Rochester, MINI. has just com
cd A.
from all parts of the United States. 1t is about
SIX feet high and four feet in diameter at the
base. 1t contains stones from nearly every
State in the Union, and from the highest peak in
the Rocky mountains
Professor Humphrey, in his address to the Lon
don Medical Society, says that women are longer
lived than men. Ont of eighty nine who died at
about 100, ten only were males, and insur-
ance offices usually give women longer lives
than More boys are born than girls, but
more boys die, so that girls at puberty are in
majority, and their relative number is steadily
increasing.
A person who has recently moved to Alabama
has singular thing to complain of. An old and
devoted colored servant refused to stay, express
ing general wish in these terms: We'll, Mass
Jim. wants ter tend funeral. | amt been ter
one since Use been here, and I don't want ter
live whar day have no funerals" This is prob
ably the preliminary announcement of new
health resort"
The one cheap thing in Japan is the washing
which is we'll and beautifully done at the laun-
dries in every fOreign settlement at the moderate
rate of 81. 80 for one hundred pieces. The skirt
or single piece of the most elaborate frilled and
puckered dress is counted in at q cents, as we'll
single handkerchief, and the smaness of
the laundry bills is perpetual surprise and the
greatest comfort in life
The Severn tunnel. in England. four miles and
a half long, was opened on Sept. 5. The distance
do hv,H
1t can scarcely be called one of the great tunnels
These are Mount Gents, otherwise Frejus, about
eight miles long, which took fourteen years 10
make; ST. Gothard, nine miles long which took
eight years to make, and the recently finished
September 1884, Arlberg, about six miles long
which took only two years to make.
Silk culture was introduced in Georgia in 1882,
and made some progress Queen Caroline is al
legged to have worn a gown of Georgia silk on
certain state occasion, and a Bavarian colony,
near Savannah, appear to have produced quite a
good deal of raw silk, as in l77l-12 it exported
873 pounds of raw silk to England. In 1850
Georgia produced $500 pounds of cocoons and
&c, 900 in 1866 From 1850 to 1854 the same col
ony exported raw silk valued at $500.
The Susie Sturgeon, vessel which fisher
man Oft Grimsby has named in honor of the
wife of the famous London preacher is to be
the companion boat of the Charles H. Spurgeon,
and Mrs. Spurgeon. an invalid. has embroidered
upon its flag the following words:
This flag shall bear
Aloft my prayer,
The best success attend yen
God save each
Through Christ, His Son,
And from all ill defend you.
There is very common saying though all who
use it may not understand its origin. 1t arose
out of an old song:
'There old man. and he had an old cow
And he had nothing to give her;
So he took out his fiddle and played her tune
Consider good COW, consider
This is no time of year for the grass to grow
Consider good COW, consider!"
The old cow died of hunger and when any
grotesquely melancholy song or tune is uttered
people often say, THAT is the tune the old COW
died or"
1t seems that, from a scientific point of view,
perfectly clean hands are an impossbity In
the Gazetta Medica Italiana Dr. Forster saws
that after the most diligent washings and brush
ings with soap and water, and rinsings with car
bolic acid and other disinfectants, the hands re-
main so impure that upon touching the fingers to
steriliZed geiatine micro-organsms we're RAPIDLY
developed. The Doctor found, indeed, that on
rinsing the hands with solution of / to l. 600 of
corrosive sublimate they became scientifically
cleansed" for the time. but that in wiping them
upon towel not previously disnfected they re-
turned to their sad condition of uncleanliness.
Mr.. Grimond. nurseryman from near Lon
don, was OH journey of business in Norfolk,
England. exactly hundred and ten years ago
when, riding leisurely along the road, he per
ceived a rose of great whiteness in a mill He
alighted. and, on close inspection, discovered it
to be a Provence rose. He sought an old lady,
who was the inmate of the MILL and begged
flower, which was given 10 him, for which he
presented her, to her surprise. with guinea In
cutting off the flower he cut three buds. which
he sent at once to his nursery Two of the buds
grew, and in the autumn he sent and bought the
whole stock for sos In three years the plants.
known as the white Provence, were sold for
S. EACH The old lady received present of
silver to the amount of $500.