The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-24
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A white Detroit mother has given her
beautiful daughter to q negro family for
adoption.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as durable
as asphalt, and cheaper, are being tried in
Germany.
All of the Southern States except Ken
tucky have made provision for pensioning
disabled veterans Of the Confederacy.
The farmers of Fresno county. California,
are raising bamboo for fencing. One acre
will yield enough for q mile Of fence.
DURING the past ten years forty-three
railway mail clerks have been killed by
accidents while on duty and 40 were in
jured.
Fish frozen alive have remarkable vital
ity. Carps frozen thirty-six hours have
been known to hop about lively after being
thawed out.
After . time sheep may be useful onlyifor
mutton. Wool, the chemists say. can be
made more cheaply from wood fiber than 1t
can De grown on sheep.
One of the sights at Dexter. Me-, the other
day was q pair of Salvationists on the roof
OF a three-story building. preaching and
throwing down tracts to the crowd In the
street below.
The first Mohammedan marriage in Eng
land was celebrated O few days ago. when
q Moslem lawyer was welded according to
the rites of his religion to the daughter OF
a lord justice.
DR.. Kellar, of Pottstown, Pa, cut a
threaded needle out of the foot of William
Ellis the other day. Ellis did not know
how 1T got there. but has suffered from 1t
for several years.
The biggest orange tree in Louisians is
claimed to be in Terrebonne parish. 1t is
fifteen feet in circumference and fifty feet
high. The yield this year Is expected to
reach 10000 oranges.
The total light of the full moon can be
compared with the total light of the sun.
though 10 is q very difficult problem, and
the result will be that the sun is as bright
as 6S0.O 900 full moons.
A Brockwayvifle, Pa, boy. just out of
fire escape he has patented. Like a sensl-
BILE boy, he Is going to take the money and
give himself O good education.
A two-year-old girl fell from the fourth
story window Of q house in Newburg, N. Y,
the other day.. Strange TO say she was not
killed. and an hour after the fall was play
ing as though nothing had happened.
1t has been reckoned that If the whole
ocean were dried ~, all the water passing
away as vapor, the amount of salt remain
ing would be enough to cover 10000 %
square miles with q layer one mile thick.
There is q family in Lithonia. Ca. which
consists OF husband, wife and four children
no twips-and the total weight of the
family is less than three hundred pounds.
The wife and mother weighs seventy-ive
pounds. g
The depth at which some of the Belgian
coal Hines are worked is something pro-
digious. In q pit at F1enu the work is now
done at 8. 700 feet; in q pit at Fremerin at
$500 feet, and In the st. Andre pit, at Mon
tigny-sur-Sambre, at 5000 feet.
A man at Fresno. Cal, named Hutchin-
son refused to appear in court when sum-
moned and was tined $75. This made him
SO angry that he stood and swore at the
judge until the penalties against him
amounted to 1856 or that many days in the
lookup, where he is now cooling of.
A woman living in a small village near
Allentown, Pa. was notified to come TO
Reading and sign off her interest IN an
estate. which was 95 cents. She declined
to 60. because her inheritance would not
pay the car fare. The amount goes to the
State unless the lawyers cover it in fees.
A Mississippi boy, sent to Louisville for
medical treatment. is abnormally fond of
water. although previous to an accidental
shooting some months ago he had as strong
an aversion to il. For the past two months
he has been sitting in q tub OF water,
screams as if in the greatest agony when
out OF his huge tub.
Something of q curiosity 10 on exhibition
at Casper. Wyo. It is an imprint of q mon
ster palm-1eaf. caused by the leaf falling
into clay and the clay afterward petrify-
ing. The rock was found on Salt creek and
indicates that ages ago, when the big coal
beds were being formed, Wyoming pos
sessed q tropical climate.
A preacher at Fe%rnandina, Fla. was
forced to sue his church for nearly 500
owed him ever since Feb. ], 1887. when the
church clerk gave HIM q due bill for the
amount, Sl46.69. The church set mp the
singular defense that the debt was barred
by the statute of limitations and the salary
was, therefore. uncOllectable.
A Baltimore mulatto girl is turning pink
In spots, and has gone to q hospital for
treatment. The spots increase in size In
the spring and fall, at which time the girl
says she feels very Ian guild. At these periods
she also loses her appetite. Her hair is also
undergoing a change. but here the colors,
which appear in spots, are pure white.
A physician has hit upon an excellent
way of utilizing rubber in the treatment
of wounds. He places one end of the
strip of rubber on one lip of the wound and
then stretches the rubber to fasten the
other end to the opposite lip. In this way
he draws the severed parts closely together
and the elastic rubber continuously holds
them there.
Two fashionable young ladies in New
York are making q great deal of money in a
taught them to play chess, and now they
teach the mysteries of the game and earn
between SIC 200 and 49, 900 q year apiece.
They tutor classes. and these are generally
formed OF six persons. who pay never less
than SIS each for a course of q dozen lessons.
1t is customary for the Emperor of China
to offer prayers every New Years day for
the welfare and bright prospects of bis
subjects in the eighteen provinces of his
empire. At the ceremony eighteen pairs OF
| candles are burnt, and the name of each
province is marked on each pair. ANY of
the candles that burn badly signify that
such provinces as are named will suffer
great calamitles-sIckness and the like.
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