The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-29

men revived, and, after weeks of terrific
suffering and inirmity, he got out again and
is still living He said that he knew no
more about having been struck by lightning
than he was conscious of having lived before
the food. 1t was all news to him when he
was told of the fact.
An Englishman with simple device for
taking the terrors out of an earthquake is
travelling in Japan explaining his plan to the
natives They have built their houses for
many years with the superstructure unfast-
ened to the foundation, and found that in
some cases the earthS tremorS were not
transmitted above the solid work The Eng
lishman says that a handful of cast-iron pei
lets scattered on each of the main supports
of the house will still further interfere with
the transmission and reduce the amount of
disturbance to about one-tenth of that of the
ground.
Mcdaniel. the Texan outlaw. who has just
died lin his boots. once robbed the Boeme
stage twice within three hours. He stopped
it first on the west side of the town, and, after
subjecting the passengers 90 many indigni
ties let them go. pretending to ride away
from the town when he had got through with
them. His victims drove rapidly to Boeme,
where their stories caused the utmost indig
nation. The able-bodied men got together,
west in search of Mcdaniel. In the mean
time the people of the town had supplied
the travellers with ready money, and the
journey was resumed. About two miles east
of Boeme the same highwayman presented
himself and once more took everything the
unfortunates had.
The Paris Gaulois is authority for the state
ment that a changeable chart has just been
invented for the use of railroads which will
do away completely with danger from coils
ions. 1t consists of sheet OF Opaque glass,
in which the rails are indicated by horizon
tai lines, and the stations by vertical lines
numbered. Little arrows representing the
trains move along the horizontal lines and
allow the operator to see every movement on
the section he controls. If one train gets
dangerously near another he can signal it at
once and the engineer can take whatever
precautions are necessary. The whole appa-
Tatus is worked by electricity and the arrows
put in motion by the contact of metallic
brushes attached to the locomotive with zinc
bands placed along the rails.
James, Charles William and Chauncey
Grimley were brothers. and lived at Coalton,
Pa. They were farmers. They married SIS
tiers. The brothers were all singularly de-
formed. James was a hunchback. and he
had six fingers on each hand. Charles had
blOod-red birthmark which covered his
whole face. He had no thumbs but had
two big toes on each foot William had
only three fingers on his right hand. Chaun-
cey had but one finger on his left hand and
no thumb son his right hand. He
had one club foot. Twenty years ago
James Grimley and Chauncey Grimleys
wife died on the same day Chauncey soon
afterward married his brothers widow
and she lived but year or so. Three days
after she died Charles Grimley died, leaving
a widow and three children. Chauncey
Grimley married Charles widow, and they
had several children. Three years ago this
third wife died, and a year ago William
Grimley was drowned. He left widow and
seven children. The widow married Chaun-
cey Grimley. She died last winter. leaving
the survivor of the four brothers father and
step-father of twenty-eight children. In May
last he married Mrs. Elizabeth Ward. a widow
and grandmother. On the 9th of June fol-
lowing she died. While attending her flu
neral her husband was so severely injured
by fall that he never recovered fromIthe
effects. He died on Sunday last, aged sixty
five years.