The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-07

lected to cut off the Irvine. The purchaser
carelessly put the package in an outside
pocket and left the store. He had gone
nearly a block when a passer-by noticed
the string trailing behind him. He had
unwound nearly a ball of Irvine without
knowing it.
Barnum's snake-charmer, Madame Ju
nata, celebrated last Sunday by performing
an interesting dental operation on two OF
her pet boa constructors. She extracted a
couple of liberated fangs from each snake.
1t was quickly done. She grasped the
snakes by the head with her left hand; in
serted q pencil between the jaws TO keep
them distended, aud with a pair of tweezers
yanked out the decayed fangs. 1t didn't
worry the snakes a bit.
A baboon belonging to a 10-cent circus
made two breaks for liberty at Griffin, Ca,
the other day. Early in the morning he
slipped his cable, and was very much
frightened by the children of the public
school. having got as far as their. play
ground. He was captured by his keeper
after making a stubborn resistance. In the
afternoon he escaped again, but was re-
taken, having concealed himself in a buggy
which was in a yard in the rear of the bank
building.
thickly in part of southwestern Georgia.
1t is extremely sensitive to the light. The
blossoms fold up at night. but open in the
morning. AT night, while the lovely white
UlOSSUDS dIt ClOStly tulOlutu III tuCll pun
pie covering and the flowers are asleep, if a
lamp is placed near them they will gradu-
ally open and turn toward it.. If a strong
light is placed on one side of the vase con-
tanning them. the half of the bouquet that
faces the famp will be unfOlded, while the
other half that is in the shadow will re-
main tightly closed.
DR.. s. L.. Butler. of Louisville, KY, has a
white hooking bird that is remarkable not
only for its rarity. but for the fact that it
succeeded in killing q half-grown rat.
which entered its cage the other afternoon.
The rat evidently intended to make a sup
per of the bird, but the latter knew a thing
or two itself, and bouncing upon the bold
intruder, pecked its eyes out. Having 1T
death, and when the doctor returned soon
after the dead rat was found on the
floor of the cage. DR.. Butler says he be-
lieves his to be the only white hooking
bird in the country.
Louise Hunceker. a Bristol girl, bit into
an apple last Friday and found a thread
embedded in it. By careful manipulation
the apple was cut up and the thread re-
moved. 1t was t~wenty-fOur inches long
and quite coarse, being about No: 4 in size.
There was a knOt in one end. The apple
was of the King Philip species and about
four inches in diameter. The thread was
wound directly about the core. Its pres
ence in the apple is accounted for by the
theory that last spring 2 bird must have
ulOBDNu tiC lOuSNo III tAiO
apple blossom and remained until it be-
came inclosed in the apple.
On the northern face of Castle Peak, Ne
vada, is a furrOw cut this winter by a snow
slide. The slide started from a point on
Mount ScOwden high enough to overlook
the intervening ridge. As it went down
the mountain it increased in volume until
il reached the timber line, and there it cut
a furrow one hundred feet wide and many
feet deep. not leaving a tree standing for
half a mile along the base of the peak.
Where it finally stopped a small mountain
of huge powders, earth and shattered
trunks of trees, many of them three and
four feet in diameter. blocks a deep ravine.
The schooner James ii. Gordon, at Balti-
more, from Charleston, 5. C., reports run
ming close to a numerous school of whales
east of Cape Henry. They came so close to
the vessel that pieces of wood were dropped
fountains of water in the air. At one time
the sea appeared like a mass of confused
fire, from the gamboling of the creatures.
Lines of phosphorescent light, sometimes
as far as the eve could reach, were visible
from the vessels deck as the whales raced
after one another through the water. Dur
ing then night the schooner ran into one of
them. dealing the leviathan a terrible blow.
The water became discolored and bloody.
William Shockey. of Waverly, o., suffers
from apeculiar affection of the pores. When
he works or exercises the right half of his
body perspires so freely hat his clothing
becomes as completely saturated as If
water had been poured upon him. while the
left side remains perfectly dry. The line of
demarkation is as exactly drawn as if he
had been surveyed by an expert. The line
comes across the scalp. forehead and nose,
extending Town the breast and abdomen,
dividing him exactly in halves. One side