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

rain for several weeks, but it didn't come. Then
they exploded $50 worth Of gunpowaer. and it
rained within a day.
Carlyles present popularity in England 10 es-
timated by the fact that Chapman Hall have
in the last six months sold Is, 900 volumes Of
their cheap shilling edition OF his works.
Aweli-known American publisher says that
the works Of Charles Dickens can hardly be
brought out fast enough to keep up with tine de-
mand. while reprints Of ThackerAy hardly pay
for the paper used
The veil will never 60 out Of fashion In Chica
Co. 1t is necessary to protect the face from
SCOT that, when smearsd in little streaks upon
the nose and checks. Is apt TO detract from the
dignity OF the best dressed woman.
Tacoma, W. T., lie the center Of coal region
from which q great deal of fuel Is being shipped.
In 1882 the amount marketed was $4,000 tons,
and last year it had risen to 300.0 900 tona The
coal 10 said to be of very fair quality.
A curious fact revealed by the phonoersph is
that people generally do not know their own
voices. The husband will recognize his wife's
voice in phonogrsm, and the wife will recog-
nize the husbands. but neither will recognize
their own speech.
The fashionable age for com hitting suicide in
the United States is said to be thirtyfive years.
Prior to that the illusions Of youth kept even
tho melancholy 10 fair love with life and after
1t, presumably, they have too much sense
statistician gives the figures, adding, of course.
that they are the result Of careful investigation.
An English woman is responsible for the sug
Restion that along with other improvements to
theater seats there be an arrangement by which
they can be SINK through trap in the floor into
q saloon below so that the men 60 out be-
tween the acts to see q man without treading
on the toes Of all the womea seated near them
English business men who have to send large
quantities of mail matter to distant parts of the
world find that they can save great deal OF
money by sending their mali in bulk to Belgium
and posting 1t there. the rates being so much
cheaper. II is said that the saving to one firm
alone by this course amounts to 80 900 year
and there is q loud demand for reform in the
British rates.
The Bsokworm is responsible for this ghastly
tale: THE Athenaum Library, Bury st. Ed
munds, has biography Of a man named Corder
which is bound in piece OF human skin. Corder
murdered his sweetheart and married some one
more TO his liking. Having been detected and
hanged the doctor who obtained his corpse sent
piece OF his skin properly cured to the pub
lisher. and a copy OF the dead mans lite was &C
cordingiy bound up In his skin
Professor Hauser, of Germany has re-
Gently made remarkable archaeological dis
covery in a remarkable way. He noticed that
a corn-field near Aitepburg varied in color, and
declared that the variation in color was due to
the existence of buried amphitheatre. the corn
ripening more slowly over the buried walls. An
excavation proved that this auiaclous theory
was correct, and a large theatre was discovered
from which a paved road leads to the camp of
Carnuntum, previously discovered by the Pro-
fessor
Just before Actor Harry Fisher went on the
Park Theater, IN. " stage on Monday night
he learned that his wife dead. OF course
the audience know nothing of the matter. st
was pitiful' says one of the company ITO wit
ness the unfortunate mans suffering during the
performance. When of the stage he sought
his room aud there cried like child, but while
before tie audience be betrayed not the slight
est emotion. His character was Carlo Donetto."
A novel and very pretty spectacle was intro
duced ut Brooklyn swimming school exhibit
tion 1t was called the chariot race. Two little
paper mache chariots were constructed, and
in each one was four year Old child. Har-
messed to the chariots were two little boys, who
SWAN over the corrse drawing their fair freight
after them The lads were abou, six years old,
yet they made very good time and the winner
was presented with fine fishing pole. The
children in the chariot enjoyed the race quite as
much as the boys
At tbs telephone convention i'm New York this
week. there were shown TWO blocks OF platinum
and aluminium of precisely the came size and
appearance But the platinum was eleven times
heavier than the aluminium, and the little block,
two and one-ouarter inches square and half
inch thick, wac worth $40, while the other
worth bot 81. The annual output of the one
PLATINUM refinery in the United States is about
one ton. which. it is calculated. could be beaten
out into a sheet ffteen-ten- thouzandths of an
inch thick that would cover the entire globe.
No more dramatic scene can be i'm agined than
that witnessed ia Newark. y. j.. the other even
ing. A mailman held his wife by the heels
hanging from a thrd-story window, and the
woman. head downward, and expecting to be
dropped to death every instant. chung desper-
etely to 40 infant In ber ans and filled the air
with ehrieks. Some men entered the house,
and by instantaneous understanding two Of
them crspt softly behind the luuatic and seized
the woman's feet while others struck down and
secured the man. The woman was then caro-
fully drawn back. still holding her infant, and
both lives were saved. But it is feared that the
| shock has unsettled the poor woman's reason.
| TIE season now approscheth
| When ayoung mans mind encroecheth
On the bitterness that comes from days lspent
| As he sizetb up his pile
| lie does everything but smile
Cause he's wondering where his summer earnings
Oil City Blizzard.