The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-02-17

wife Anna, aged twenty-seven. Little
Birdie. My wife Marie. aged twenty-eight.
Little Ruth. My wife Betsy, aged thirty.
Little Hope"
A youth who went into a Buffalo store
and asked for socks, not knowing the
The customer held out his hand, and
doubled up his fist, as directed. The clerk
took a sock from a box, wrapped the foot
around the fist, and guaranteed a perfect
though had measured your foot" said he,
as the distance around the fist is alwaysth he
length of the foot"
The disappearance and rescue of Captain
Pruden. in Montana, who was lost from
camp, recently, in company with a govern
ment mule, was an exciting and peculiar
adventure. Pruden was found by Fire
Wolf, one of the Cheyenne scouts sent out
to look for him. He had been lost ten days,
and in all that time had nothing to eat.
and at night returned to the place where
Pruden was, and by its warmth kept the
man alive.
Back in the last century Alexander
Smith, afterward known as John Adams,
one of the ringleaders in the famousmutiny
man from drowning. The latter put f1O0
in bank to await Smiths call. 1t remained
until thad risen to the sum of f96, 900. Now
three %grandsOns of the mutineer, living on
Jill duu I1tCdtEu IslduuS, have us
covered their identity, and one of them has
succeeded in establishing his title to the
great accumulation.
Punk, the well-knOwn shaggy black-and-
white shepherd dog belonging to General
X: y. Sheridan, and the constant companion
died recently at New Hartford, N. Y. He
had lived far beyond the average of his
kind. Few dogs ever reach the age of
twelve years. The only one on record that
pet dog of Wilhelmina, the sister of Fred
erick the Great, which reached the age of
nineteen. Punk was eighteen.
An inmate of the p~enitentiary at Salem,
Ore, cut Off his a in order to get a spell
OF Illness. On his way to the penitentiary
did not intend working while in Jail. He
was assigned to the foundry, and on the
first day burnt his foot. Afterward he as
serted he was sick, and when this was
found not to be the case he mutilated him.
self. He used a Ratchet and made two
blows at the hand before he accomplished
his purpose. The penitentiary doctor says
the man is not insane.
Fire under water may be produced by
placing a small piece of phosphorus in a
and some crystals of chlorate of potash COW
erlng the phosphorus, and then pouring
through a long tube tunnel or a glass tube
a few drops of s%ulphuric acid down on the
mixture at the bottom of the glass. Ton
CUES of flame can be seen flashing up
through the water, the intense chemical ac-
ton producing sufficient heat to inflame the
phosphorus under the water. Where there
is sufficient heat and oxygen, fire will burn
whether in air or water.
A novel scarf-pin of French design has
just appeared. 1t is a singing bird of gay
.plumage. The apparatus consists of an In
dia rubber bulb connected by a tube with
the body of the bird. but concealed by the
wearers clothing. When the bulb is pressed
1T makes a wind current, which works a
small whistle, and at the same time the
birds beak moves and his tail wiggles in a
very natural way. To the spectator, who
does not see the machinery, it is a very
wonderful thing. Considering that the
bird is only the size of an ordinary scarf
pin, it is really a curious piece of mech
anism.