The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Strange bed warmers are used by Chilean
women In cold weather when in bed they
keep their feet warm by placing them on
dog.
Two sections of the great Russian rail-
way across Siberia are now in operation.
The aggregate of the two is 761 miles. The
total length OF the road is 10 be 1900 miles
According to Cation. the patterns on the
finger tips are not only Interchangeable
through life. but the chance of the finger
prints OF two persons being alike is less
than one chance in 64.C00,0oO.0 900.
There is Smith family in Ohio with pc
culiar given names The father is the Rev.
jeremiah Prophet Elijah Smith. His sons are
named Most Noble Festus and Sir Walter
Scott Bart, and his daughters Juan Fernan-
DEE Island and Terra Del Fuego.
The Queen of Italy. who always takes
great interest in every new invention, has
been lately making use of a horseless car
riage in her grounds at Monza, with which
she has been so much pleased that she has
ordered similar carriages for her other resi-
dences.
Queen Victoria is in possession Of
curious needle. 1t was made at the cele-
brated needle factory at Rcdditch, and rep
resents the Trajan column in miniature:
Scenes from the Queens life are depicted
the needle so finely cut that they are
only discernible through a microscope.
A German writer named Pudor suggests
that the solution Of the art problem rests
with the discovery of colored photography.
which will enable artists to reproduce their
works by the thousands and sell them
cheaply, the original picture taking the un-
important place Of an authors manuscript.
Berlin has shorthand writer with
unique speciality. He attends funerals of
prominent persons and takes down YER
batm the addresses Of the officiating
clergymen. Then he prepares highly orna-
mented copies of the addresses and sells
them to the friends OF the eulogized dead.
His business is so good that he has taken
enc assistant and is now advertising for
another.
The two sides Of the face of a man are
never alike. and 1t has been asserted that
the lack of symmetry is, as rule. not con-
fined alone to the upper portion, as the
biologists formerly declared. In two cases
out of every seventy-five the eyes are out
of line. and seven persons out of ten meas
ure greater distance from ear to mouth
corner or from eye to chin on one side than
they do on the other side Of the face.
Victor Hugo might have been an excellent
press agent for a theatrical manager.
Adolphe Julien found the following note
among the papers left by the poets pub
Usher, Renduel: mile. Juliette, the young
the public has SO often epplauded at the
Porte Saint-Martin, will soon leave that
stage. Several managers have made offers
to her. 1t is probable that Mile. Juliette
will give the preference to the Coincide
Franchise Her talent, so worthy and so
intelligent, leads her to our chief thea
ter
Cornelius Vanderbilt was eiated the other
day because he was able to eat few
stewed oysters and not be distressed. Mr..
Vanderbilt for years has suffered from
acute dyspepsia, and has been pleased
enough when a bit of cracker and sip Of
matted milk did not bring agony to him.
The gentleman who told OF Mr.. Vanderbilt's
happiness over the stewed oysters remarked
that they were much of a feast to
him as a great course dinner and wines
galore would be to a tramp. and yet Mr..
Vanderbilts wealth is certainly close to
500. 100000.
Tolstoi's most popular diversion just now
is chopping trees. Every afternoon, rain or
sun, he goes to the WOOD ak in hand. to
cut through a big trunk and strip II ready
for the saws Of his men. He has also a
fondness for bicycling. for in his sixty-sev-
enth year he has bought a wheel and
learned to ride it, to the great astonishment
of the peasants on his estate. His daugh-
tiers worried much over his wheeling
trips that they eventually decided to take
to the wheel themselves. so as to accom-
pany him and care for him. They now go
with him on all his excursions.