The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-25

crowned with Q mass Of golden hair. Her size
does not interfere in the least with her activity,
as she may often be seen playing with the other
children OF the village or wandering in their
company through the country lanes Her appe-
tite is enormous
1T is not generally known that Mrs. ELEPHANTS
serial, IA House Divided Against ITSELF which
has been running in Chamberss Journal, is a
continuation of "A Country Gentleman" by the
same author, which has been one of the attrac-
tions of the Atlantic for the past year. The
names of the characters in the two novels are
just enough unlike to avoid confusion, but the
continuity of the story may be seen at glance.
Each booki is, however, complete in itself.
DURING Mr.. Gladstones passage through
Preston, on his way to Midlothian, a man
named Holden fell from truck and broke his
leg. Mr.. Gladstone wrote on Christmas day to
Holden expressing extreme regret for the acct
dent, and on New Years day Holden received
letter from Mr.. Allen Seaton bailiff at Hawar
den, as follows: Il have forwarded by the Lon
don ~ Northwestern railway two pieces of scant-
ling from tree felled by the Right Hon. w. E.
Gladstone hoping you will find them suitable
for your purpose The timbers have been con
verted into crutches.
The late Lady Role, of England, who was
always hot-tempered, once gave her husband a
slap in the face In the drawing-room at Bicton
before several visitors. and the old man ex-
claimed: by -, madam, If you shan't repent
of thisW and he swore furious oath. 1t used
to be said that this outbreak cost her ladyship
vast estates. After his death Lady Role man
lfested her wrath against her deceased lord by
burning his clothes, hunting gear and favorite
chair and also his Bible and Prayer book in
Bicton park, the whole making bonfire which
blazed for some hours
AN Englishman in Madras has, by lucky
accident, made photograph of tiger in the
act of Selling its prey. The camera was focused
on buffalo tied to a stake some thirty feet off,
and had just received a dry plate when tiger
leaped from the jungle and struck down the
buffalo with a single blow. The operator kept
his presence of mind and released his shutter
before taking to his heels The negative proved
poor one. but showed the relative attitudes of
tiger and buffalo pretty well, and confirmed the
generally accepted. opinion that the tiger with
his knock-down blow endeavors to dislocate the
neck of his victim.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, United States
army. is the youngest man of his rank and the
only one who has come from civil life. He was
a dry goods clerk in Boston when the cival war
began. Major-general Terry. also from civil life
originally, was an editor in Connecticut. Miles
is man OF ability and an earnest student He
is about forty three years of age is tall, broad
shouldered and deep-chested. His head is large,
round and full. His brown hair is thin, and
curling over very broad forehead. His nose is
soldierly hook. His eyes are clear and reso-
lutte in their expression, under very strongly
defined eyebrows. heavy, curling brown
mustache shades his frm-lined mouth. His
square chin is cleans shaver and blue in tint. He
married niece of General and John Sherman,
sister of Don Cameron. By that marriage he
is connected with the Ewings, Camerons. Nc
Cooks, Shermans, Blaines, Dahlgrens McLeans,
and several other political families.
SCIENTIFIC men have been preplexed for
many years the phenomenon Of certain
we'll at Yakutsk Siberia. A Russian merchant
in 1928 began to dig the we'll, but he gave up the
task three years later, when he had dug down
thirty feet and was still in soidly frozen soil.
Then the Russian Academy Of Sciences dug
away at the well for months but stopped when
it had reached depth of 3S2 feet, when the
ground was still frozen hard as a rock. In
1874 the Academy had the temperature of the
excavation carefully taken at various depths.
and from these data it was estimated that the
ground was frozen to depth of 6l2 feet. Al
though the pole of the greatest cold is in this
province of Yakutsk, not even the terrible
severity of the Siberian winters could freeze the
ground to depth of 600 feet Biologists have
decided that the frozen valley of the lower Lena
is a formation of the glacial period They be-
lieve, in short that it froze soldy then, and has
never since had chance to thaw out.