The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-16
NOTES AND NEWS.


Professor Kolrausch has recently estimated
the quantity Of electricity in q fash of lightning
He finds that from seven to thirty five flashes
would be required to keet ordinary incsndes-
cent lamp alight for 40 hour.
At an inquest on Cheshire farm servant il
was testified that the deceased, only nineteen,
had worked the whole Of that week, getting only
three hours rest each night. A companion OF
the dead man said: at Is the custom. IL you
Won't 60 somebody else will"
Six years ago work WAS begun on q new palace
for the Mikado OF Jaoan, and now it is about
finished. It has 400 rooms the dining room will
seat l27 persons; the furniture for the state de-
partment all came from Germany and in one OF
the reception rooms 10 an American piano.
Not only in London, but in Philadelphia, IL is
considered out OF place for a married lady
even unmarried lady out OF her teens to
TO wear . hat to church. A bonnet Is the thing.
The hat 10 supposed to be for tie street. the
theater. etc, bat for all formal or dienifed &C.
cassiops the most exacting Philadelphia taste
requires 6 bonnet.
Two new things are very noticeable at Sara
toca this autumn. The frst 10 that the ladies
have discarded gloves. They do not wear them
while walking, driving, dancing, or apparently
at any time whatever The second is the alb
sence OF wine 10 the dining-rooms OF the dig ho-
tells. On one day, when there was not q bottle
10 sight, the diners included twenty-one mill
ionaires.
An English woman tslegraphed to the police
authorities at Bolton to arrest her clipping
daughter, who was passenger on train that
would pass there She mentioned the girls
lameress, so that the police might easily ideu-
tify her. Curiously enough, there turned out
to be two lame girl PASSENGERS, and the wrong
one WAS arrested. The other passed on and got
married.
A Yankee has established q terrapin farm
about sixty miles from Mobile. An inclosure OF
three acres in extent contains several bitches
100 feet In length and ten feet in width, aud
these are Gled with salt water by two canals.
In these bitches about 30 900 turtles are domes-
tica5ed. In winter they lie imbedded in the
mud. and are very convenient creatures TO keep,
seeing at this season they never eat any food.
The turtles cost about 81 per season to feed, and
sell In New York for sl7 per dozen.
There was . fine opportunity offered in Eng
land 10 buy casties rich In historical associa-
tons the Devices castle, in Wiltshire, O little
parently not SO highly priced by people with
money as comfortable Quarters weilventilatsd
apartments and modern improvements gener-
ally; for, though the auctioneer gently hinted
that Geo. 900 would be accepted as starting bid.
the property was Knocked down for f8, 0Oo.
SWELL" SAID the horse-dealer who. after asking
5000 for a broken-down nag with every ailment
known to veterinary science, had beef offered
$3.50, You can have him, but it's ID of a dis
count
Southern parody on "The Quick or the Dead"
SLOWLY the roseleaf lids, heavy with sorrow
somethng-revsaled tbs dawn OF those
Aurors-sd evee; aud Agamemna ssw-propped
upon her dimplsd knees-the logged for tels-
gram. With lightning fashy zig-zaes of her per-
fectly nanicursd nails, she tore il open and,
hungry-eyedly, culped its scribbled contents
With . slim glide OF her hssom limbs,
Agamemna squirmed FROM her bed. landing
inele-springly in midfoor. Shaking her grand
Of
fire swirled round her in . Rlstenine shower,
gemmipe the dusty floor IS stars N 40 urbane
storm sky! One more twist OF the strong linn bs
and her wrapper lefs'the shining satin OF skin,
her red-Rold capillamw
DR.. Price, OF Oconee county, Georcis, suffered
for years the pangs OF rheumatism. vaiuly try
Jog all remedies. Six years ago one of his sons
in Texas heard that a hairless Mexican doS II
allowed to sleep at the feet Of sufferer from
rheumatism. was . sure cure. He bought a dog
and took il home TO his father. The old gentle
man laughed at the idea Of such o cure, but TO
please his son he tried tho dog The account
Gays that as soon as the doctor lay down In bed
the dog "sprane In and coiled itself around his
feet In less than hour the dog gave him
evident relief. and IN a short time effected q
cure Wherever the pain struck him he made
the dog lie against the place. and the heat from
the animals body drew il out hike a mustard
plaster. Every night for SIX years the doctor
has slept with his hairless bsd-fellow, who now
begins to show the effects of age, and Dr. Price
says that after its death, il the rheumatic pains
return, be will ut once send off for another
Mexican dog"
A writer in st. Nicholas thus attempts q
formulate human character from handwriting
"a certain number Of men are calm, oven lived
sensible and practical. Men of that S.s: are al
most certain TO write plain, round hands in
which every letter Is distinctly leeible; neither
very much slauted forward nor tilted backward
no letter very much bigger than its neiehbor mol
with heads much above or tails much below thu
letters not so distinguished: the letters all hav
ing the same general uprighrness and the lines
true to the edges OF TIE paper, neither tending
upward nor downward. Exact. business lik,
people will have exact handwriting. Fan
tastic minds revel in quirks and streamers par
ticularly for the capital letters, and this quait,
is not infrequent in certain business hands, i
the writer's found relief from the prosa
nature OF their work in giving fourishes 10 Ger
tain letters. Firm, decided. downright men ar,
apt to bear on the pen while writing. and (,
make their strokes hard and thick. On the con
trary. people who are not sure Of themselves
and are lacking self-control, press uuevenly
and with anxious looking, scratchy hands. Am
bilious people apt TO be overworked: they
are always in haste and either forget to cross
their ts, or dot their is They are also apt {.
run the last few letters Of every word into ar
illegibls scrawl Flurried. troubled and con
science twineed persons have q Grabbed and I'm
even handwriting