The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
STRAY NOTES.

Chaplain McCabe is said by the Chicago Inter
ocean to have already raised $4,000 of the
$l,O00,o 900 fund he started out to collect for tho
cause OF Methodist missions.
Baptist clergyman in Dakota has held a
great piowing and sowing bee and seeded TO
wheat large tract of land given by a wealthy
member. If all goes we'll the church will have
several thousand bushels of wheat next season.
There are in the entire Chinese Empire mot
over ], 600 different family names while i'm the
oh.teo otates there are, in population not one
tenth as great, 10000 distinct family names and
o,oOO surnames, nearly all of them purely arbi-
trary.
One of the relics in the Norlands, r. l., library
is homey pine board cradle, in which wert,
rocked the seven Washburn brothers. Fcur
Congressman, two ministers plenipotentiarv two
governors and a Secretary of State were sue
cessively lulled to sleep between the implanted
pine boards.
In l77l young Boston girl wrote to her
mother description of the construction of her
couture. 1t was composed of roll of red eows
tail mixed with horse hair and little Yellow
human hair all carded and twisted together and
made into a structure full inch longer than the
young ladyS face.
Syracuse Journal: sYoung man" said rsvf-
valist solemnly, do you feel that you are pre-
pared to answer the summons at any moments
Do you realize that when you go to'bed at right
you may be called before morning dawnSF UEr
yes, sir; am night clerk in drug store, an ALI
you've got to do is to keep ringin' the aelI
until you hear me hoer."
new method of dressing wounds, by wkbeis
their healing is said to be fastened and the pafn
made to disappear at once, has been brought
into notice by a French surgeon 1t consists I'm
the application of congresses wet with q d.
coction of thirty parts of vaerian root In oHas
hundred parts of water. It is expressly stated
that the treatment is of no avail in deep wounds.
Norristown Herald: A foreign chemists
Professor erphenonexes--has discovered q Hald
which, if applied to corpse. will gradually
shrivel it up into nothingness" An observing
young man. who recently returned from one of
the leading watering places, thinks that manYof
the fashionable young ladies who battle there
must have come in contact with some Of Gaa
foreign chemists magic fluid.
Dr. Landsdell, the traveller, whose books ON
Siberia and central Asia have made him veil
known, will soon begin collecting material for R
work on Russia and her people. After Journey
ing through the Baltic provinces and Finland hes
will cross Russia diagonaliy, descending Ene
Volga from its headwaters to the Caspian sea-
He will next travel along the Russian littoras of
the Black sea, and will finally reach ConstanGi-
nople by way of Asia Minor
Fred Ashford, an Alabama burglar has served
five years for his crime, and about twothirds az
the seven years which it wall take him to work
out the costs of his trial-about $l00--at Gga
cents day. eff any device or plan more devil
ish in its conception wicked in its execution
could be concocted by the ingenuity of man Tor
Cypress his fellow man., say the prison inspect
ors, 1--WE would be glad to be advised of It. The
idea of imprsoning man in this age for severn
years to pay debt of something over $l00 a9
five cents per day is abhorrent."
The total annuity voted by Parliament to tsse
sons and daughters of Queen Victoria is $685.
600, which, by the death of the Duke Of Albany
and the Princess Alice, has become $660,000 III;
is the custom to grant an annuity TO every
prince and princess of the blood royal either
upon majority, orphanage or marriage Tha
children not only of the Prince of Wales, but OF
the Dukes of Edinburg Connaught and Albany.
will be entitled to annuities. But Mr.. Edwim
Arnold believes that before long something waE
have to be done to check this flow of money
from the treasury.