The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-12

pupils TT is evident that If it takes one brick
layer twelve days to erect wall of given
dimensions, twelve brick-layers ought to do the
work in one day, 288 in an hour IL, 280 In o
minute, and l,03S, 500 brick-layers in a single
second.
QUEEN VICTORIA has just conferred the star
and ribbon of the Order Of Bath on Sir Philip
Cunliffe Owen. who, in 1876, received one of the
four great silver medals voted by the United
States Centennial Commission for his services in
connection with the Philadelphia exhibition.
The body of pet dog that had died abroad
was on a recent English steamer that sailed into
Boston. The owner, an American woman of
course. could not bear the thought of her be-
loved canine being buried in foreign land, aud
accordingly brought the body home for burial.
WHEN Dickens was last in this country he
said the Americans wore themselves out By con-
stantly speaking words" Writing words
seems just as useless. George Alfred Townsend
estimates that he has written an average OF
10000 words" week for the last twenty five
years.
A NOVEL entertainment was given the other
day in St Louis 1t was called deieuner den
fants, and was. as the phrase implies. chill
dren's reception and lunch. But the children
were not of the grown-up class. Their ages va
ried between six months and three years, and
the hostess had attained the great age of two.
NoRRIsTowN Herald: A Welch poet has written
some verses on the Nicolini Patti wedding. Here
is an extract: "Llanwer wynwes hen gwoniawo
cherddorol dan" These be hard, but they
may be deserved, considering the way Patti and
Nicolini have been carrying on" for some years.
Patti is mo chicken" but it is rather ungallant
to call her "wynwes hen"
PROFESSOR CEREBoTANI, of Verona. has con
trived an ingenious instrument for ascertaining
the distances of accessible and inaccessible
points from the observer and from each other
in other words, an easy method OF range find
ing The apparatus consists mainly of pair of
telescopes mounted on stand and fixed on a
tripod for use The telescopes are both brought
to bear on the object, and readingis then taken
from graduated scale on the instrument. hich,
compared with set of printed tables, gives the
distance Distances can be measured between
far-of objects, and, by means of sheet of paper
fixed On drawing board, rough plan of the
country under measurement may be sketched.
In the same way the distances of ship at sea or
OF moving objects on land can be determined.
Thus the continuance appears to be well adapted
not only for land surveying, but particularly SO
for military purposes In fact, it is stated to
have been already adopted in this latter connec-
ton by the German government, and will proba-
bly, be by that of England.
GLADsToNE--1866.
Gods fruit of justice rpens slow,
My great deed was too great.
Mems souls are narrow, let them grow;
And brothers we must wait
Mrs. Browning.
SUMMER lay
Now the apothecary
Doth deem it necessary
To closely scan the men who soda
drink drink, drink,
So that he may not stir up
Their wrath by giving syrup
Entirely inconsistent with wink, wink, wink.
II.
The small boy goes in swimming
With very little trimming
Or ornament to deck his bathing suit, suit, suit.
In fact, quite as unhampered
AS Adam when he tempered
In Eden with the interdcted fruit fruit, fruit
Boston Courier.