The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09

Mr.. Phelps has added to until It is now rambling
cottage of exceedingly quaint and beautiful design It's
gables and chimneys extraordinary for number
and novelty Mr.. Phelps has said he could only make
a Dutch house of it, and he would make it as Dutchy
as possible"
The Council of the College of Surgeons in London,
have requested Sir James Paget to sit for marble
bust to be placed in suitable position in the col
lege buildings as mark of their appreciation of his
revision and completion of the catalogue CT the paho
logical collection of the museum other import
ant services.
THE last meeting of ex-President Jefferson Davis
and his Cabinet as body in large brick house
at Washington, Ca, which stands the site where
Stephen Heard in Revolutionary days, built fort
from which to fight the Indians The pen with which
President Davis signed his last order is now In pos
sion of T. M. Green, of Washington.
LETTER from the Sandwich islands, addressed
General Grant the u S.. recalls anecdote told
of Benjamin Franklin, who at time sent commu-
nication to his friend, Samuel Johnson Great Brit
ain." Not to be outdone johnson returned the COM
pliment by directing his answer to benjamin Frank.
lin The World. which was duly delivered.
THE general average OF the human pulse though
the exceptions very numerous may be put at birth
at 14O two years. 1OO from sixteen to nineteen so;
at manhood 76 and old age, 90. Two are
spoken of at eighty whose pulse respectively
were 20 and 30 It is reported of that his
pulse was more than A. and that during a
fever it fell to 40
In Portland, Me-, recently ingenious device was
discovered for evading the liquor law. A lead pipe
was carried up chimney to the second story of the
house, ard investigation showed that it led
beneath the ground the yard to another build
ing fully one hundred feet away Here beneath the
floor in the second story two barrels of beer,
the pipe running up the wall to connect with them.
A FORMER resident of Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania, and now of Utah penitentiary, remarks in a
letter to a friend II am serving out a six months
sentence for loving cherishing and caring for my
dear families, consisting of three of the best nobest
and loveIiest wives in the Union and twenty three
just good and pretty children as ever came from
heaven to sojourn for season on this mundane
sphere"
SEA water has been converted into beverage by
Mr.. Thomas Kay. A little ctric acid or citrate of
silver added to the briny liquid cloride of silver is
preciptated harmless mineral water produced.
An ounce of citrate renders half pint of water
drinkable Seven would furnish ship
wrecked man with water for week. The question is
how to the citrate to the shipwrecked man. 1t
is recommended that those who go to carry with
them bottle of the citrate protected by India rub
Der covering that such bottles should be nshed
in life preservers. In the latter case, however the
people about to be shipwrecked must not leave the
lie preservers behind If, with presence Of mind,
they remember to take them all the agonies of thirst
portrayed in Mr.. Russells stories may remain I'M
realized fiction.