The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
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Grooming brushes for horses are run in
Chicago by electric motors.
During q recent storm a stone weighing
eleven pounds dropped from the clouds into
the yard of a farmer living near Essex, la.
.Threeevisitors to the Paris exhibition
will shortly undertake the trip from Vienna
with a wheelbarrow as sole vehicle on their
way.
While her husband attends the fire Mrs.
Moulton runs the engine of the Ocean City,
q boat that conveys passengers from Long
port to SOmers Point and Ocean City, n. j.
Mrs. MOultOn is a pretty brunette.
There is a dolorous interest IN the annals
of an undertaken business. Jacob Coover,
an undertaken Of Chambersburg. Pa. who
died on Aug. s. stated just before he died
that he had buried in nineteen years 5000
persons.
The average size of farms in this country
is steadily decreasing. 1t went down from
153 acres in 1870 to 134 acres in 1880. and it
is believed that the next census reports
will show the average American farm to be
still smaller.
Honey bees nave become q pest at Reno,
New. They invade dwellings, and have
homes. One man has killed twelve swarms
this season, but the bees seem to be as num-
erOus as ever.
Recent Australian papers announce the
finding of a nugget weighing 1886 ounces
tuU NdlltO dJ il,oW. LII was IOuuu near
Wedderburn, Victoria. by a young Aus
tralian named Costa Clovich, who had only
recently arrived in the colony.
The famous manuscript COdex B, of the
Old and New Testaments, so long care
fully guarded from the eye of the public, is
now to be published in Photographic fac;
smile under the auspices of the Pope and
the editorship of the Able Cozza-Luzi.
The Swiss watch-makers have invented a
watch for the blind. A small peg is set i'll
the middle of each figure. When the hour
hand is moving toward a given hour. the
the peg is down, and then counts back to
twelve.
A steam carriage in which coke is used as
fuel has lately appeared in France. The
driving is effected by two hind wheels, and
the speed attained is abOut fifteen miles per
hour, twenty-eight and three-quarter gal
Ions of water being sufficient for a run of
twenty-five miles.
1t has been calculated that the railroads
of the world are worth nearly $500. 600. 0OO,-
600. or about one-tenth of the wealth of the
their invested capital. At this rate all the
ready money III the world would buy only
about one-third of them.
The Petoskey Methodist Indian Mission,
embracing in its limits the Indians of
native pastor Rev. John S. ~Kewaygashig. a
full,blood O,ibway Indian: He has been
on this work two years. and has shown re-
markable ability and zeal.
The smallest screws in the world are
made III q watch factory. They are cut
from steel wire by a machine, but as the
chips fall down from the knife, it looks as
II the operative was simply cutting up the
wire for fun. One thing is certain. no
screws can be seen. and yet D screw is made
every third operation.
AdOlph Struthers. of Hancock county,
Ohio, is bound to keep cool this summer.
He has invented a fan to be placed in his
hat, which is run by an electric battery
carried in one OF his pockets. He has been
using the fan for several weeks past. and
says 1T works perfectly and that he doesn't
mine the extra weight.
According to a French Psychologist the
wing of the ordinary hOuse-t1y makes $50
strokes IN one second: the wing of the buin-
bic bee. 240; the wing of the honey bee. 100;
the wing of the wasp, 10; the wing of the
d~ragOn-fly. IS: the wing of the sparrow, 13:
the wing of the wild duck, p; the wing of
the house pigeons, s: the wing of the os-
prey. q.
1t is a singular fact that California has
no Sunday law. There was such a law,
but ii was repealed in 1888: vet it cannot
be SAID that there is any less observance
OF sunday since the repeal OF the law. On
the contrary, an investigation shows that
sunday Is observed more as q sacred day
the present year than it was the year the
law was repealed.
Among the most wonderful inventions of
the age is a musical instrument, or a combi-
nation of musical instrument known as
the 'pickaphone." 1t consists of eight
stEnged Instruments. violins. and the like,
eight bells aud one triangle. 1t Ia q whole