The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-31
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

Flammarion says that the earth is cooling
very rapidly. Europe has lost five degrees
this century
Christian Endeavorers of Louisville wrote
Christmas Aetters to each of 100 convicts
in the Kentucky penitentiary-
1t is the fashion just at present for young
women to hold their lips ever slightly
apart. This is supposed to give wonder
ing wistful expression, youthful as well.
Prof Neumann, of the University of
Koenigsberg, is ninety-six years of age.
and for sixty-six years has been lecturing
continuously on phyhics and mineralogy.
He is the Oldest professor in active work
in Germany.
Sarah Barnhardt has earned and spent
mere money than any other living actress.
In the last twenty years she has earned
two million five hundred thousand dollars,
and circulated ii with the extravaganza
of a princess.
Rats must have access to water or they
die. A trapped rat may easily be tanned
by allowing no water but that offered III
q spoon, for the creature soon learns TO
recognize the hand. which supplies this all
important necessary.
Francis Fuller, who died five years ago in
England. the father of the big fairs
of the century. He first suggested the
London Exhibition of 1851. He was a land
road ever constructed i'm England without
the aid of Parliament
Cancer is contagious" declared DR.. Guell-
lot. of Rheims to the congress of French
surgeons held recently at Lyons. The
transmission may be direct from the body,
but it is effected more frequently through
wearing apparel or table utensils; in two
case 1t was through tobacco pipe"
A bread and butter tree from the French
settlement on the Gaboon was recently
sent to a professor at Nancy to analyze. The
tree yields fatty substance called cay-cay,
resembling butter, and grain containing
50 per cent. of fatty matter. from which
very nourishing bread Is made. The tree is
an Irvingia.
"All the popular authors of the world
one cent volume" is the generous offer
of a large card sign on a big tray of books
outside of a basement shop on Broadway
near -Astor Place. The assortment consists
of lot Of novels which once mad paylf
covers. but are now denuded of even that
outward show of respectability.
With a view to perpetuating red clover,
the New South Wales Agricultural Depart
ment has imported from New Zealand a
number of humble bees, the only insects
which readily fertilize red clover and ena-
BILE it to seed freely. The humble bee Vas
acclimated in New Zealand some years ago
after much trouble and expense, with the
result that ID clover has been made per-
fnanent there.
cartridges and quail will generally when
accidentally caught by high wind. close
their wings and drop to the ground in a
slanting direction, only using their wings to
check the flight when near the earth. hey
frequently fail TO check themselves in time,
or the force of the wind is greater than
they calculated. and they are dashed with
tremendous force to the earth and are
wounded or killed.
The Rev. Lydia Sexton, who died in Seat
tie, Wash, a few days ago. at the age Of
ninety-five years, was born in Sussex county,
New Jersey and preached for fifty years. She
was a cousin of Bishop Matthew Simpson,
and her grandfather was Marquis Anthony
Cozat, famous in the early history of the
Colontes;, lie owned grant of land which
included the whole Mississippi valley, from
the gulf to the source of the river. He
abandoned it because he said il would cost
more to keep than it would come to-
The director of the statistical bureau at
Berlin has written treatise on the increase
OF damage caused by lightning and its ef-
fects on the human body. Among the
causes he assigns for increased destructive
ness are the extended use of electricity.
the changed character of the earth's sur
face through draining, denudation of tim
Der, etc., and the constantly increasing use
of coal, by which impurities are introduced
into the air. In Bavaria the annual aver
age Of fires caused by lightning was :ifty-
two for the period 1S44-lS65, while for 1866
1879 it was 103, and for 1SS0-1SS2, L..
To single blessedness inclined,
When thoughts Of marris &c fill my mind,
New York Herald.