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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-16
.Conte.ts of science and Skill

There is a bill. handed in by Mr.. Petit,
of Wabash, relating to the organization of
voluntary associations. 1t is sweeping in
its nature, and embraces all sorts of rus
companies and corporations. A feature is
the section providing for gymnasiums of
physical training schools and allowing them
to give athletic exhibitions and other ply
steal contests of science or Skill 1t is re-
called that the notorious McHugh bill,
which was foisted on the people by the
Roby projectors. had a similar clause
Mr.. Petit said last night he did not know
the feature was in the bill. He inserted a
clause enabling doctors to organize to in
sure themselves against malpractice SITS
in the old bill concerning voluntary a~ssocia-
tons.
Clarksville Wants to BE Let Alone.
Hon. L.. A. Douglass, attorney for Jeffer-
sonville and GAINESVILLE, the oldest town in
the State, and Hon. w. E. Reynolds are
attending the session of the Legislature.
They will urge the members not to revive
the bill killed at the last session by the
veto of the Governor, which contemplated
for the government of Clarksville a board
of three trustees, one to be elected by
the people, one by the commissioners of
Clark, and one by the commissioners of
Floyd county. The people of Clarksyille
are bitterly opposed to the bill, and the
bill was killed before at their solicitation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-16

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
WANTED-Consumers' Gas Trust stock.
Union Trust stock, Indiana Trust stock,
Hecla Mining stock. first mortgage notes.
Money to loan. city and farm. ID. IL.
WILES. Room !. Vinton Block.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
Boiling Water Not Always Hot.

"Cold boiling water, indeed! Boil
ing water is the hottest kind of thing.
Don't 1 know? Haven't 1 scalded my
fngersm more than once with water from
the teakettle?"
James is right, and yet he is wrong.
Boiling water is not always very hot
water, in spite Of his painful expert
ence.
This is the way it happens:
When water boils ordinarily it is be-
cause great heat has separated the tiny
particles of the water, forcing upward
and outward in lively bubbles the all
which is contained in them. This is
done in spite of the downward pres
sure of the atmosphere. After the
water has become hot enough to boil
it can get no hotter. because the air
escapes as fast as it is sufficiently heat
ed to do so.
There are places on the earth where
the pressure of the atmosphere upon
the water is so slight that it requires
but little heat to push apart the parti-
cles and set free the air bubbles which
are confined in the water, so it begins
to boil before it becomes very hot. 1t
ought hardly to be called cold water,
perhaps, but it is certainly far from
being as hot as ordinary boiling water.
This state of things is found on all
high mountain tops, as the atmosphere
grows weaker and its pressure less as
one ascends.
A gentleman travelling at a great ell
ovation in the Andes Mountains put
some potatoes in a pot of water over a
hot FIRE. The water began to boil al
most Immediately, but the potatoes
did not cook. All the afternoon and
all night the water bubbled and boiled
but still the potatoes were not cooked
The boiling water wasnot hot enough.
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
How Snakes Swallow.

The formation of a snakes jaws is
also peculiar and thus enables it to
swallow bodies much larger than it
self, or than it seems to be. 4 small
snake, found in Africa, where this
tribe of animals abounds, is known as
the egg eater, an3 one of them, less
than twenty inches long and only half
an inch in apparent diameter, can
easily take into its stomach a hens
egg. This is done by the formation OF
the head, and especially of the jaws.
The bones of the head are not sutured
together, but are loosely %articulated
by elastic bands. Thus tine jaws "a
be extended to an amazing extent,
considering the apparent size of the
head. A snake less than two inches
in diameter at the neck can swallow a
rabbit, and by taking plenty of time
smaller ones will manage to get out
side of a large frog. And to hold the
prey during the process of slow deglu-
tition-a time of horror, probably, to
the unhappy victim-the teeth of the
snake are hooked.
In this process of swallowing, the
snake secretes a glary saliva, and by
gradually drawing the jaws and neck
over the prey, as one would draw a
glove on the hand, and by the help of
the hooked teeth holding all it gains
by each effort, in time the prey is
finally swallowed. The writer has
watched this process in the swallowing
of a large frog by a small snake dur.
ing more than an hour, and when the
frog had disappeared down to its last
quarter, the animal kicked continually
with its hind legs in struggles to get
free. Snakes always take in their
prey by the head, Just as the hunter,
and, doubtless, for the same reason,
draws a deer to camp by the fore legs
and never by the hind ones, so that
the hair may not cause intractable
friction. New York Times.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
An Indian Grandmother.

From an educated Sioux Indians
recollcctio1s of his childhood, pub
Hshed i'm ST. Nicholas. the following
Is taken: This grandmother, whose
name meant Sweet Wild Singer, was a
patient woman and also remarkably
industrious and active although she
had already lived through fifty years
of hardship, she was still a wonder to
u. Young maileus in the art of EN-
bordering with beads and porcupine
quilts. She showed no less enthusiasm
over Hakada than She had felt when
she held her trst-bOrn, the boys
father. in her arms. Every little at
teuuon that Is due TO a loved child
she performed with much concern
and devotion. She made all my little
and scautv garments and my tiny
moccasins with % great deal of taste.
It was said by all that 1 could not have
had more attention had my mother
Icel living. She was O great singer.
Sometimes. when Hskada Weakened
too early in the morning, she would
sing TO him something h6ethe follow
ing.
->.ecQ. sleep. my boy The ~Chippewas
Are iar awly-are Iar awgy.
Sleep. sleep. my boy prepare 90 meet
The Zoe 1v dav-the foe by day
Th. -owaris wIl n1t dare ro light
Till morning break-tul morning break.
Sleep. sleep. my child. while still It's night +;
Ilen brvely wlse-then brayely wake
The Dakota women were wont TO Gu
and bring their fuel from the voodst
and. in fact, To DO most of the work,
This of necessity feI t. their lot be.
cause the men must follow the gained
during the day. Very often my grand
mother carried me with her, always
engaged in a pretended dialogue with
me-. While she worked it was her
habit o. suspend my cradle from u
bough or Wild grape vine, So that the
least breeze w~ouldswins IL TO and fro.
st. Nicholas.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
The american Buffalo.

When the first white settlers landed
in Virginia the bison ranged east of
the Al,eghenies almost to the sea
coast, westward TO the dry deserts "
ing beyond the Rocky Mountains,
uorthward to the Great Slave Lake and
southwark 20 Chihuahua 1t was the
beast of the forest and mountains, in
the AIcghenies no less than in the
Rockies, but It's true home was on the
prairies and the high plains.
Across these it roamed hither and
thither. 10 herds of enormous, of in
creditable magnitude herds so large
chat they covered the waving grass
land for hundreds of square leagues,
and when on the march occupied days
and days IN passing a given point.
But seething mvriads of shaggy
named wild cattle vanished with re-
markable and melancholy rapidity be-
fore the inroads of the white hunters
and the steady march of the Oncoming
settlers. Now they are on the point
OF extinction.
Two or three hundred are left in
that great National game preserve, the
Yellowstone Park, and it Is said that
others still remain Ia the wintry
desolation of Athabasca. Elsewhere
ONLY "a few individuals exist-probably
considerably less than half a hundred
AN tolj-scattered in small parties in
the widest and most romantic and in
accessible portions of the Rocky
Mountains.
A bison buu is the largest American
animal His huge bulk, his short,
curved black horns, his shaggy name
clothing his great neck and shoulders,
giving him 81 look of f%erocity which his
conduct bellies. Yet ne is truly agrand
and noble beast, and his loss from our
prairies and forests is as keenly re-
GREETED bv the lover of Nature and OF
Wild life as by the hunter. Forum.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
How Hale Cot to Camp.

During the war Edward Everett
Hale went to the front to visit one OF
the generals in command. The last
part of his journey to headquarters
was on a steamboat, where Hale met
an officer, a major, who was also going
to headquarters. At first the major
was very friendly, but when he learned
that Hale was also going to head
quarters he began to fight shy of him.
Evidently he did not want a civilian
on his hands on the long night ride
from the boat landing.
When they reached the landing Hale
found a horse, and after a hard ride
through mud and brush he reached
headquarters. After he had had his
supper, and as he was sitting talking
with the general, the msjor rode up.
He had lost his way more than once,
his horse had fallen with him, he was
covered with mud and in the worst
possible temper.
"0Why, major said the general,
"where have you been? Mr.. Hale has
been here two hours"
The major glared at Hale and
gruuted: Glow did you get here?"
"Oh," said Hale quietly, 81 fol
lowed the telegraph wire.
Nobody fought shy of him after
that. Philadelphia Record.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
The " Second Sampson"

Richard Joy, who died May 18th,
1742, at the age of sixty-seven, and is
buried in the St. Peters churchyard,
Isle of Thanet, Kent, England, was
known throughout Europe as the
'Kentish Hercules, or the Second
Sampson" When but a youth of sew
enteen years he was invited to London
by the King to give an exhibition in
remarkable feats of strength. Among
the feats of his mature years was that
of breaking, with his hands and feet,
a rope with a tensile strength OF
thirty-fve hundredweight and the lift
ing of 1900 pounds. The following IS
a copy of his epitaph;
Herculean hero Famed for strength,
At last lies here. his breadth and length,
See how the mighty man is fallen
To death the strong and weak are all one !;
The same judgment doth befail
Goliath Great and David Small.
st. Louis Republic.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
The RPhem0th.

The mammoth, or Behemoth, is not
vet universally regarded as extinct.
According to Siberian and Chinese be-
lief the race is merely banished under
ground, its ''blind life" being in
stantly exterminated by q glimpse of
the suns, or even of the moons, rays.
The inference might almost be called
a logical one from the state Of the IN
earthed remains.
In several cases the great beast has
emerged from his millennial retire
ment as completely arrayed as if death
had only Just overtsken him, his hide
densely clothed with fulvous wool,
and that again covered by long black
hair; his name falling from his
shaggy shoulders, his antediluvian
eyes actually staring from their
sockets. Contemporary dogs and
wolves find mammoth flesh appetizing,
in spite of its semi-fossil character ;
mammoth bones have been proved to
contain a remunerative amount of
gelntine, and in Kamchatka to this
day mammoth fat is largely used for
fuel.
The first mammoth tusk seen in
Western Europe was brought to Lon
don in 1911 by one James Logan, who
had purchased it from the Samoyedes,
and Father Avril, a Jesuit who crossed
Siberia in 1855, wrote that ''the Rus
SLAMS had discovered n sort of ivory
winter and smoother than that which
comes from India"
The substance was priced, too, as a
styptic, and was said to be derived
from a powerful amphibious creature,
''as big and as dangerous as a croco-
die" living chiefly at the mouth of
the Lena. Fossil ivory, toward the
close of the eighteenth century, be-
came an object of general commerce,
and incredible quantities were ex.
ported from its arctic repository.
Middendorf, about fifty years ago, es-
timGted the annual sale at 10, 600
pounds weight, and upward of 1000
tusks are known to have reached Lon
don in 1872.
Yet the supply remains unexhaust'
ed, and may, indeed, be called mex
haustible. II is the demand which
has of late fallen off or failed. In
Russia and China, it is true, almost
exclusive use is made of the ~excavated
material, but its brittleness and ten
dency to discoloration practically ex-
clude it from Western markets. Ed
inburgh Review.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17

lives hapoi;y caolgAs21 smucA hAed
by his neichbors. Strange IS It may
seem, he was able some Years ago to
persuade q comely maiden to become
his wife. and she has borne him sew
erel healthy children. As IS usually
the case, the mans remaining senses
have become much quickened since his
misfortune, and he manages to earn
quite q sum every year b. weaving
baskets and doing odd Jobs with his
hands in the way of mending and re-
pairing, which people who are aware
of his need send TO him. His great
delight is fishing, and he spends hours
along the brooks and streams of Brit
tany, waiting for the fish to bite and
is more successful in his efforts than
are many sportsmen who have all their
senses.
Altogether there is not 4 happier
man in all France, SO the people who
know him say, than this man with a
mask, whose sole ambition at present
is to become the proprietor Of OF
the Government tobacco shops, in
which position he would make a snug
little income IN addition to his pen
sion, and would be able to smoke the
livelong day without paying for ms
pleasure, New York Recorder.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
An Interesting Advertisement.

The following is from r very old
copy of the Philadelphia Weekly
Mercury:
Philadelphia STAGE-vAGGON. and New
York STAGE BOAT performs their Stages
twice a week.
JOHN BUTLER. with his Wagon, sets out
on Mondays from his House. at the Sign OF
the Death OF the Fox. in Strawberry Alley,
and drives the same day to Trenton Ferry,
when Francis Holman meets him. and pro-
eeeds 10 Brunswick. and the passengers and
goods being shifted into the Wagon OF Isaac
Fitzrandolph, he takes them 10 the New Blaz-
ing-Star TO Jacob Fi~tzrandOlphs. the same
day. where Rubin ~Fitzrandoiph. with a boat
we'll suited. will receive them. and take them
TO New York that night. John Butler re-
turning TO Philadelphia on Tuesday with the
passengers and goods delivered by Francis
will again set out for Trenton on Thursday.
and Francis Holman. etc. will carry his pas
sengers and goods. with thesame expedition
as above New York.
March 8, 1853.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
MatehmakIng Among indians.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Mr.. Browning. Is determined TO prove
70 the Indians that marriage Is not a
failure. He has discovered that most
of the red men under the bureau at
the present time have been induced to
believe that IL is not the proper thing
20 get married. and for this reason, IN
the mind Of the Commissioner, the
numbers of the red men are decreasing
fast. 1t is not certain but that the
Commissioner. in the interest of pre-
serving his bureau was forced TO give
some study and attention 20 the mat
ter of matchmaking among the people.
The Commissioner has labOred over
this matter very industriously, and he
has evolved a scheme. He proposes TO
prove TO them that they can get in ia
vor with the Great Father if they viii
JOIN in the holy bonds of matrimony.
The scheme is a novel one, and II IS
the opinion of the Commissioner that
very soon the leading duties of the
Indian agent viii be to act as marry
ing agent for his colony.
The reward for getting married is a
striking marriage certificate. It starts
with a heavy sheet of paper with a red
borler. Then the United States of
America is I'm blue, while the Our
Glorious Eagle" has not the savage
look. bat a sort of wedding-day smile,
and the 'E pluribus unum" and the
American flag are displayed with an
intensity that would be cheap at any
price. The eagle presides over a mar
.riace certificate in the usual form.
The agents are TO be instructed to
make an exhibit OF the scheme, and to
use their influence in getting the In
disls Co come TO the conclusion that
they viii be ont of luck if they refuse
TO get married The agents are TO show
the certificates. which have been pre-
pared with the hope that they would
have the catchy appearance. and to
possess one would be the ambition OF
the average Indian; and this would
last him until after the ceremony was
performed. BY the flash of the GER
t.fcate 10 is hoped to prove that mar
riaee is o succesS-kansas City Jour
nrI
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
A Stadio Trick.

In the corner of an artists studio
in this city is an ingenious arrange
ment of screens, upon one of which,
over an aperture about the size of a
face, is an inscription: 'Likenesses
taken simultaneously. The innocent
visitor peeks through the hole, and Is
astonished to behold an exact likeness
of himself as a hump-backed ~iailer, in
a scarlet coat, opening a prison door.
The secret of this effect IS simple. The
iailer Is a hfe-size painting strongly
rendered. The place for the face is cut
out and a mirror inserted, rejecting
the features of the spectator. The
conception of this amusing fantasy IS
rot entirely original. 1t Nas imported
from the studio OF Wiertz, the Belgian
artist. Philadelphia Record.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Culture never made a saint.

Culture never made q saint.
A stingy man is e contented.
he that sips OF many arts drinks Of
none.
True faith will live and grow in any
climate.
Preaching aimed at the head seldom
strikes the heart.
B~enevolence without love has no
more heart in it than an auction
block.
A lie always has a dagger in its
hand, no matter how well meaning it
may look.
A guilty conscience is like a whirl-
pool. drawing in all to itself which
would otherwise pass by.
Tenderness of affection toward the
most abandoned sinners is the highest
Instance of a godlike soul.
Trust him little who praises all,
Mn less who n all, and him
east of all who is Indifferent to all.
He who is false to a present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
ind a flaw when he may have forgotten
It's cause.
Some men have an idea they will
some day walk in the streets of glory
because they now and then give away
an old coat.
When one las light enough to per-
.eiye that one is mistaken, and too
much vanity to own it, and instead of
turning back one goes still deeper into
ones errors, it is the progress and the
consolation of pride.
When what You read elevates your
mind and inspires you with high and
noble feelings, do not seek for any
other rule by which to judge the com
position il is good, made by the hand
Of an experienced workman.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
Extracting Gold From Its Ores.

In this process molten lead is used
for extracting gold from its ores in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
on a shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed in at one end and carried
forward as a film over the surface of
the lead by means of an agitator nov
ing e that surface. It is thus
brought to the other end, where it es-
capes through a hopper. In order to
prevent oxidation of the lead, the
chamber is kept filed with carbonic
oxide from a gas producer .-Scien-
tifc American.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
Bacteria in Animal Saliva.

The saliva of dogs and cats is espe-
cially rich IN bacteria, that Of the lat
ter containing a form which IS seldom
observed and so fatal that rabbits and
guinea pigs inoculated with it die in
twenty-four hours. The dogs saliva
contains an even greater number OF
bacteria, plus occasional eggs Of in
testinal worms AMI 90 on. Those fonl
and loving women VINO are prone T.
waste their caresses upon lap dogs will
be interested n tbs .t-n.-D.2rn@-
ceu.ieal Ia.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
Snanish Slowness.

The departure Of a train from a
Spanish station is generally a very
leisurely proceeding. The first bell Is
taken to mean that the porters must
leave OF borrowing cigars from the
passengers. the second Is a hint to the
engine driver TO finish his lunch, and
90 the third the guards begin to slam
doors as a warning 90 the stragSlers 10
Get inside. Ten minutes afterward
the head guard sounds his whistle,
and Eve minutes later the engine re-
su9nls with a Shrek, which signifies
taat the excuses for delay are ez-
bausted New TorE Dispatch.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
High Mountains in America.

It may surprise the reader of this
mote" who is a little rusty on geog-
raphy to be informed that there are
over 800 mountains on the North
American continent that are over
0,000 feet in height. but such is the
case. In Alaska alone there are scores
Of them, and not less than five in that
boreal region exceed 5000 teet.-St.
Louis Republic.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
As lAE L.AT = IT, LY-.
know not whether

know not whether
The eye loves the light.
But l know that without It
As n2usht were its s;ghs.
] know not whether
The brook lovesthe ran,
But l know that without il
Its bab5lins ven vain.
As the light TO the eys.
Tothe blossom the dew,
And the rain I o the brook,
= To my heart-life are you
And should destiny say 4,
= That l must forget,
might bow and obeyit
( Submissiye-and yet.
As the eye ever closed,
And the brook rain
And the earinthe silence,
SO my heart-life were vain. :
Mamie Maclean, in Lippinso.t
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17

avenue and .11st street. It IS only
seventy-three feet tail. but is said to
have cost S27J.-New York News.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-17
March 5. I759.

Deacon William Brown, Of New
Hampshire, has distributed 100, 900
Bibles since 1919.