The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

1T is rumored in Washington that Senator AL
lison is about to marry beautiful young lady of
that city
MATTHEW ARNOLD will only give one address
while in the United States. ga Last Word About
America"
IT is remarkable fact in relation to the che m.
ical action of the solar rays. that cinehona trees
growing in hothouses develop no quinine in their
bark.
ON returning from the Pacific coast in July
the Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks win 60 to Andover
for the remainder of the summer He lately
purchased house there.
THERE 243 suits for divorce pending be-
fore the Suffolk Mass. County Court The list
is the longest ever made up in that State, and
includes several sensational cases in high life
Do LEWIS says an Englishman. without OBJ
serving the laws of exercise and sleep. will di-
gest an enormous dinner and preserve his stom-
aeh because Of two hours chat and good-felow-
ship afterward.
NJ G. LEoHARTIER has drawn attention to
the fact that straw and other organic substances
when heated (even at low temperature) will
take fire by accidental contact with nitric acid.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian. and Prince
Bismarck graduated at the same university
Gottingen-about the same time While Ban
croft was United States minister to Germany,
during the period of the Franco Prussian war,
he and Bismarck were intimate friends
Mr. JOHN WILSON, an Irish manufacturer of
great wealth, has offered to give the Wesleyan
Missionary Society of Ireland the magnificent
sum of $45, 600 for missionary purposes, but some
OF the society members demur to the acceptance
of the gift, as Mr.. Wilson made his fortune by
manufacturing whisky.
GENERAL GoRDoNs friends are distressed be-
cause the money for his proposed monument at
Aberdeen, the county town of the Gordon clan,
does not come in freely Yet the entire amount
needed is only 81 000 1t was proposed at first
to present the So called Hero of Khartoum as an
Egyptian officer, but it is now intended that the
statue shall be in English uniform.
A NEW and rather curious application of the
steam whistle has been made at the Jacksonville.
Ull) Institution for the Deaf and Dumb A
whistle four feet in length and twelve inches in
diameter has been placed on the pinnacle of the
boiler house, and is used as signal to awaken
the climates of the institution, etc, who, although
they cannot hear, are made sensible of its vari-
Gus signals by the vibration it gives to the build
ings
AFTER a trial of an an extraordinary character.
Mrs. Bartlett has been acquitted in Birming
ham of charge of poisoning her husband.
Among the curious incidents of the case has
been the fact that since the trial began Mrs.
Bartlett has received no less than seventeen pro-
posals of marriage. Among the sutors are an
ex-member Of Parliament foreign nobieman,
q clergyman of the established church and
three physicians.
A COMEDY by Mark Twain and W. D. Howells,
entitled 1.-The American Claimant will be pro-
duced at the New York Lyceum Theater on May
"a Mr.. A. P. Burbank will play the leading
role, that of the Claimant an inventor The
comedy has been written some time, the diff
Guilty having been TO secure the proper repre-
ntnff nf4 h0 nVvnrA In Nv rh1 10
regarded by the authors as filling all the require
ments
SOME unkind person destroys all the charm of
novelty in the eighthou movement by resur-
recting the legend painted on trades procession
banner In England seventy years ago, thus:
Eight hours of work,
Eight hours of play,
Eight hours of sleep,
Eight shillings day.
A FEW days before William Ashworth, Of Ore
gon. No., died, he hid a quantity of gold coin.
That was fifteen years ago. and. though a care
full search was made for the treasure. it could
not be found. Last week Mrs. Ashworth empted
an old churn that had stood on shelf in the
smoke-house for years The churn was full of
beans, and in the bottom was q tin can, and in
the can was an old wooden sock, and In the sock
was the long searched-for gold. It amounted to
$7l2
NJ Bo1ssENoT. one of the chief permanent
officials at the Paris Prefecture of Police is in a
situation to realize the wisdom of the proverb
which enjoins the cobbler to stick to his last A
few days ago Madame Boissenot. being afflicted
with an abscess. he took upon himself to lance it,
AS he was doing SO she shrank suddenly from
the lancet, and he inflicted slight wound on his
finger. which he neglected to cauterize In a
short time his hand and arm swelled in the most
alarming manner and the physicians called in
to attend him say that he has no chance of life
except in amputation.
A RESIDENT of Minnesota who has seen sew
eral severe tornadoes, says that their most Pc
culiar feature is the singular sucking movement
Buildings are sucked up into the clouds entire
and come down soon in fragments. After the
great Rochester tornado farmer twelve miles
from town found an uninjured marble-top table
in his field Another found very large sheep
that had come from no one knows where, and
had been deposited in his yard unhurt. The
Minnesota man further said that he had seen
board into which wheat straws had been driven
until they stuck through the other side
Also he saw plank driven through big tree,
and piece of pine molding driven through
small butternut tree.
JUDGE BYBEE, of Portland. Ore. has an Irish
setter, and between the Judge and the dog a
very intimate friendship exists. The other day
the Judge went to San Francisco without con-
sulting the setter. As soon as the dog missed his
master he went mopne about and refused to be
comforted. The next day he grew mooder and
when three days passed by and still no master
was visible he lay down in the closet where the
hunting traps were kept, and refused all caress-
es and for FIVE days would not take particle of
food. Finally he wandered off to a livery stable,
where his masters horse was kept, and would
not be driven away. Once a day he went back ]
to the house for food and kept up this pro-
eramme until the absent one returned
QUERIES AND ANSWSER.