The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-13

Beer costs Is cents glass. or 8 gallon
at Circle City, Alaska.
A custom of Puritan times has been re-
vived in Machias, Me-, in the opening OF
the town meeting with prayer.
After nearly fifty years service. Professor
George j. Becker. of Girard College, Phila-
deiphia. is TO be retired on April 20 on a
pension of $500 a year.
The Duke of Cumberland was born with
out nose. The one which adorns his face
is the result of much ingenuity on the part
OF the surgeons who attended him as an in
FAINT.
Munkacsy's latest painting. ''Ecce Homo. .
is on view at his studio in Paris. 1t shows
PLATE on balcony. presenting Christ to a
crowd. in a last effort to avoid condemning
Him to death.
Mayor A. c. Houghton. of North Adams.
has presented to the city a public library
building worth s125,OO0, as a memorial 10 his
brother. the late A. j. Houghton, Of Boston.
The property given is the Blackinton man.
sion.
Thomas w. Hall. who has just died in
West Chester, Pa, at the age OF 101 years,
was never i'll a day in his life and died from
A brother ninety-nine years old and a sister
ninety-seven years old survive him.
Lewis Carroll. the author Of Alice In
Wonderland lives in Oxford, and Is a
deacon of Christ Cathedral. He stammers,
and that is why he never became a clergy
man. His real name is Dodgson, and mis-
chambers in Tom Quad are said to be the
finest in Oxford.
Mrs. Anna Mullin, Of Chicago. is at the
head of large commission business. where
she employs great number of people, hav-
ing two stenographers to-look after her cor
respondence. She went into the work on
the death of her husband. simply taking the
place he had left.
1t is a subject of newspaper comment in
southern California that cents are beginning
to be used there in stores and in commercial
years since any coin smaller than a nickel
was a great rarity anywhere west OF the
Missouri. If the price of anything figured
out 2 cents. the odd cents were deducted; II
One of perhaps many little considered ways
in which the forests of the country are be-
ing eaten UP is in supplying timber for rail-
way trestle work. There are two thousand
miles of trestle structure in the United
States. according to an estimate by the
Forestry Division. This trestle work has to
be replaced entirely-every nine years. on an
to $50 coo, 900 feet board measure, Is used for
this purpose. Nearly all the timber is cut
from the largest and finest trees The an,
at about s7,000,000.
jerome Hill, of st. Louis. rode away from
Appomattox owning nothing but his uni-
form and mule he borrowed from General
Grants army, but he is now the biggest
cotton buyer in the country. Besides being
credited with having handled more cotton
from producers than any other commission
dealer he is the owner of several large plan
tationS, and as he has made l6etime
study of cotton and the methods OF hand
ling it, he enjoys a vast measure OF pres
tige. as we'll as popularity among cotton men
and his opinion on matters affecting cotton
is regarded with much interest throughout
the South and Southwest.
Japan, too. has keen explorers. The pro-
fessor of astronomy in the University Of
Toxic. Mr.. Nomaka, accompanied by his
wife, last October assembled Mount Full
yama. thirteen thousand feet high, to make
meteorological observations in the course OF
the winter. short time ago word was re-
relief expedition was fitted out. With great
difficulty the members of the expedition
reached the snow-covered hut. Professor
Nomaka was found to be exceedingly weak
and unable to move, but his wife had suf-
fered no evil results from the exposure.
Nomaka was taken back to Toxic, but he
declares he will return next winter, and his
wife says she will accompany him again.
match,
But that leaves us still in the dark;
For when it's courtship, the case Is re-
versed,
We then get match from a spark.
New York Herald.