The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-27

one hundred feet before finding the natural bedrock
These slides caused by the constant crumbing of
the rocks the mountain sides The debris thus ac-
cumulated through incalculable ages is constantly
gravitating downward and in a few hundred thousand
years what is known as the siteof Virginia City. will
be nothing but barren bedrock.
WHEN Bernadotte. who was made King of Sweden
by the first Napoleon, was stricken down with apo
plexy the attendant physicians ordered blood.etting
and began to make their preparations But the King
would not permit it. He withdrew his arm by quiet
movement, and died few minutes afterward. The
autopsy furnished the solution for the strange action
of the King. On Bernadottes arm the words ''Viye
la Repubique" were found tattoed His nephew
King Oscar is to-day legitimate ruler. and is cor
daily received by the most conservative courts of
Europe.
The gardener of the Johns Hopkins estate. in Balt
more county, Nd, has cultivated figs for the past
twenty-five years with success having failed to
secure crop. He gives the method Of treatment as
follows From the 10th to the Goth of November we
dig trench around the bushes, cutting away about
half the roots they have made during the when
the bushes growing vigorously and less when they
are not SO robust bending down the branches to the
ground in the form of a cross, and covering them
with earth from the trenches from three to four inches
in thickness and in the spring uncovering them from
the lst to the 10th of April They bear fruit abund
anty rpening about the LIST of July and continuing
to bear until November.
HENRY JAMES, namesake and nephew of the we'll
known novelist, is most interesting child Of three
years. Recently Mrs Trowbridge, of Cambridge,
called to Mrs James and not finding her at home
said to the child 81 have cards with me- do you
think you can remember my name and tell your NAM
ma that Mrs. Trowbridge called to herl" The
child looked her full in the face and replied: There
are so many things in the world that want to
member and can't don't think shall try to
Der thing that don't want toy Again after being
advised to try and button his Shoes faint grunts
were heard in the next room, and soon in emphatic
have made me with my shoes on9'
AS the Mongolans habtually disregard the ordi
nary form of OATH the court In a recent trial for
murder in California prescribed subsidiary oath as
follows, printed a yellow slip, and after being
signed by the witness burned before the jury:
This is to inform the spirits of the gods also the
evil spirits and demons, all to descend here to hear,
oversee and examine into the of Wong All Foo,
charged with numbering Loi All Cow. If come here
to swear profanity and tell the untruth not accord
ing to the facts of the case humbly heg the celestial
and terrestrial spirits to redress Loi All Cows
and to arrest his soul May he die under a sword,
die on the halfway of the sea. and have life to
return to China This is the true and solemn decar
alton OF oath sworn by my mouth and signed by
my name by my hand Dated this day, Sec
ond month in the eleventh year of Quong Sol"