The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-06


non military Congress.
A MASSACHUSETTS man has invented ma
chine which he says will tie square knot. hith-
erto regarded by inventors as beyond the power
| of machinery.
Mrs. THOMAS A. ScoTT and Mrs. Edgar
Thomson, with other rich ladies of Philadelphia,
are subscribing literally to the fund for free
public library now being raised in that city.
THE Japanese government has lately sent to
Vassar College pair of bronze vases handsome
and silver, in appreciation of the education given
to two Japanese girls.
EDWARD SLocUM, Of New Richmond, Alleean
county, Michigan, owns the first greenbsck
issued. Tt is dollar bill, bears the date Aug 1,
1867, is marked series A, No. /, and was paid to
him as Union soldier.
LILY DEvEREUx BLAKE: MANY women un-
fortunately. imagine they improve their figure by
tight lacing. This is the worst feature OF the
dress of the present day. Any woman who is
not natural in this respect will lose her health in
very short time"
] A GLOUCESTER fisherman who had been cruel
ly disabled in an open boat on the banks was
given $500 two years ago by his fellow citizens
He opened shop with this money. and pros
| pered so well that on Christmas he returned the
$500 to the city, for the poor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is making hay while
the sun shines He is writing twelve articles
for Outing, on big game hunting in America.
Moreover, he has begun to study the smooth and
mellihuous Spanish tongue, and is getting ready
to go and live while in Mexico.
FELIX RENO. a continental critic of the Max
OReil type, is enabling John Bulls children to
see themselves as others see EN-. M. Reno I'M
CALAMITY declares that ''young ladies in England
habltually disdan the uses of the door, and
enter no matter what drawing-room with dirty
| feet"
/ JOSEPH BARNEY, one of the foremost of
English musicians, began as church chorister.
| He was with Sir Arthur Sullivan, in 1854. a mem
Der of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr.. Barn
| by is the leading conductor and organizer of
| oratorios, and is himself a composer Of fine
music.
D. G. DoANE gives beautiful, simple expert
ment, which may interest amateurs with the
microscope. Upon slip of glass put drop
of liquid auric chloride argentic nitrate with
| half grain of metallic zinc in the auric chor-
| ide and copper in the silver. A growth of ex-
| quiste gold and silver ferns will form beneath
| the eye
BRITISH widowers with eligible deceased wives
sisters need not despair. The Marriage Law Re-
form Association is in position to state that its
|
than in the last in which their supporters
| practically numbered two to one They are 60
| ing to introduce their bill in each house in the
| coming session.
THE great Burmese river, the Irrawaddy, is
much like our upper Missouri in respect to its
sand bars. These often accumulate or shift
| across the channel in single night and steam
| ers caught on them have sometimes to stay there
a month. A new pilot is needed about every
ten miles, which is all the space he can keep
himself informed upon from day to day.
| M. CLEMENcEAU's handwriting is to be had for
four francs, NJ. Rochefort and M. de Freycinet
rank together at five. Louise Michel is down at
eight francs, and ex Premier Ferry's is still
worth ten Mr. Gladstone's autograph costs
| twenty francs Prince Bsmarck's twenty francs
/ for signature alone and 100 for a letter all in
| his handwriting. So reports a French dealer in
| autographs.
| THE people of Atlanta have sunk $26 900 in
digging an artesian well 1000 feet deep No
! stream having been found that would come to
! the surface. Professor White of the State Uni
versity, called in, and he decided that as
| Atlanta stood on granite rock-the bedrock Of
the continent-the only way to get an artesian
| we'll would be to start the surface and bore
| up into the atmosphere
ONE of the officers of the British force in Bur-
nah concludes that stomachache is widely
l
| he found an idol which effects miraculous cure
| when sufferer plasters flake of gold leaf upon
! the part corresponding to the seat of his own
| disorder and the abdomen of this idol had been
| caused to protrude in a most extraordinary de
gree by the plastered offerings of health seekers
| WHEN you enter the rooms of japanese shop
in Paris you find the head of the establishment
and his clerks lying fat on the floor surrounded
| by screens. What are they doingq They have
| discovered hat fha cit re
and not on chairs, and that consequently Japan
ese painting is executed in such a manner that it
must be looked at from below, and not from
| above, or even horizontally, like European
picture. This is high art with vengeance.
| PRESIDENT GREvY takes his good fortune qui-
| city. His habits are simple to fault He rises
regularly at o'clock every morning, and sips his
coffee or chocolate in his bedroom. At he
begins to read his letters and papers, and at 10
| he goes down to his study and receives visitors
who come and 60 usually till midday The
French President eats heartily, and with an ex
| cellent appetite, ending his meal with cigar or
! a pipe and coffee. Four o'clock finds him play
| ing chess, or discussing art or politics with his
| guests III. Grevy enjoys unmerited reputation
as a billiard player. He really is poor cue,
though an admirable chess player. He has a
| holy horror of bombast and display.
| M. CHARLES MoNsELET relates that Richard
Wagner received his visitors in medieval cos
tunes, such as he always wore when composing
Alexandra Dumas, the elder, calling on him one
day, was highly amused at the masquerade
you are all dressed up to play Gesser," said
| Dumas, with his good natured laugh, which
| rather hurt the feelings of the author of "Tann-
| hauser." who. nevertheless, returned M. Dumas's
visit when next he was at Paris After some
considerable delay NJ Dumas appeared at last,
| dressed magnifcently In dressing gown with a
large flower pattern, a helmet with flying plumes
a life-belt round his waist, and enormous riding
boots. Pardon me-" he said majestically, for
| appearing in my working costume. l can do
nothing without being dressed in this manner;
half of my ideas live in this helmet, and the
other half are lodged in my boots, which are in
| dispensable to me when l write my love scenes"
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