The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Billings. Mont, has a police force Of
three men. All have been arrested on ths
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Wild ducks, cranes, swallows and several
other kinds of birds assemble in flocks as
the time of migration approaches and seem
to discuss the departure and the route.
Search-lights are such good targets for
the enemy's guns that the Germans are ar
ranging to throw the light first on a mirror
and thence on the enemy, thereby conceal
ing its real source.
A wealthy farmer in Champaign county.
Illinois, retired from business and moved to
Chicago. In a day and a half the savings
of fifty years We're lost in his first ATTEMPT
at stock speculation.
The captain of the Inflated steamer Chi
cora, it appears, was superstitious. Just be-
passenger on that boat shot a bird that few
aboard. The captain cried out: That's an
Ill omen, and gloom settled upon his face.
Last year was a period of abnormal &C.
tivity among English ghosts and appari-
tons. According to the latest report of ths
English Society for Psychical Research, no
less than 16S4 disembodied spirits were seen
by its correspondents during the last twelve
months.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that churches must pay for street
improvements the same as other properties.
LIS 10 oi tiiC SAOtlAh iiot AAiCbto 0io
essentially different from taxes, and that
exemption from the latter does not imply
exemption from the former.
DR.. George +. Root, the veteran composer,
who wrote 1.-THE Battle Cry of Freedom
and other patriotic war songs, is a. white
haired veteran of seventy-five years, but
his voice Is still clear and resonant. He pro-
duced his famous song in his little music
store in Chicago thirty-four years ago.
Successful illustrators evidently make
large incomes. Mr.. Abbey is able to occupy
a noble old country house in Great
Britain, and to scour Europe for
DATA needed in the course of
Delaware home of ambassador Bayard, an
historic mansion of large rooms and ample
grounds.
Rubber roller skates for soldiers in the
field as a substitute for bicycles are adj
vocated by an English army gymnasium in
spector. A continuous speed of eight miles
an hour is easily attainable with them, and
on coming to impossible places, where b-
cycles would have to be abandoned. the
skates can be taken off and flung over the
soldiers shoulder.
st. Louis spent $780, 900 during 1s9S-94 in
the improvement and extension of its street.
car service. There are now but two horse
car lines in the city, and the claim is mazda
that for rapid transit st. Louis is ahead Of
any other city in the country. 1t is inter-
eSIlng TO note the elicit SUCH Il SySleIl OE
rapid transit has had on the traffic. Street
car officials say they never before had so
PROSPEROUS a. year, and that the returns
have been far beyond their most sanguine
expectations.
Wishing for a half holiday the scholars
in one of the rooms of the Vineland, N. j..
High School the other morning took adj
vantage of the teachers absence from the
room and opened all the windows and
packed the thermometer in a pail of ice,
When the teacher returned to the room
everything was in order, but the scholars
complained of the bitterly cold weather.
CHANGING at the Thermometer, which had
frozen down to 10 degrees above zero, the
teacher Immediately dismissed the pupils
for the day
He loved the ground she walked on,
Nor was content to let it
Go at that. The ground was hers
And he married her to get 1T.
Detroit Tribune.
To make for himself an honored name
What had not this man done2
But it proved to be for a bleached SOU
Who married his worthless son.
Detroit Tribune.
You may never sing like David,
You may never preach like Paul;
But IL you will do your duty,
God will crown you after all.
Rams Horn.
sTd fight, and bleed and die for thee;
I'd suffer any pain" quoth he.
Then take this silk. my dear" cried she,
"And bring its match right home to me-"
n then he said-'tis sad to me
How man with empty words is free
That. ere he did, he'd jiggered be-