The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

many and Portugal. 100000 square miles
each: Italy, 100000 and Spain 250,O00 square
miles.
While praying in church at Tirzah, S. c.,
on a recent Sunday. Jonah Crosby, coll
cred. found a big pistol in his hip pocket
uncomfortable. In removing it the weapon
was discharged, WounGing him severely ana
causing a stampede of the congregation.
A resident of Lewiston, Me-. refuses to
pay a tax on his. bicycle, saying II Is worn
the assessors whether they could tax a man
for a dead horse. If not, he wishes to
know why he should pay for a dead bicycle
with a punctured wheel.
The first secretary of the American en-
baSsy in London gets 81. 625 a year. the sec
ond secretary s., 600, and the naval attache
only his navy pay. These salaries do not
suffice TO pay the house rent, ana therefore
our representatives are usually, of neces-
sity, men of private means.
Deborah Brown, a former Maryland slave
whose mother was almost white" and one
of whose grandfathers was an Indian, is
living on Markham street, Toronto, at the
reported age of ITO. and is able to do her
own houSework and sewing, to go to mar
ket and church, and to smoke.
While a marriage was being
performed near Danville, Va. a kerosene
lamp famed up and was about to explode
through a window. The groom then came
out from under the table, where he had
hldden, ana the proceeded.
For a damp closet or cupboard, which is
liable to cause miidew, place in it a saucer
of quicklime, and it will not only absorb
all apparent dampness, but sWeeten and
disinfect the place. Renew the lime once
in a fortnight; If the place be very damp
renew it as often as it becomes slaked.
Russia's regular force is over $780, 900 men,
Germany and France have about $4,000
each-there is less than 5000 difference be-
tween them-Austria has 100000, Italy $780,
GOO, England 10000 and Spain about Q :OOO.
Even Portugal has more regular soldiers
than the United States. and so have Hol-
land, and Belgium.
At a recent funeral in AtchiSon, Kan.
after the casket had been lowered, the
grave was filed half way up with straw
cordance with an oid-time custom to pre-
vent grave robbery. 1t is alleged that to
remove the straw would require so much
time that detection would follow.
One of the show places of Machias.
Me-, to-day is the home on Bruce street
where Talleyrand tarried for a night in 1894,
the bedroom in which he slept yet remain
ing unchanged. The Machias tradition is
that he came to Annapolis in an English
vessel and made his way to Machias over
land via st. John, and thence west.
A man in WASHINGTON who has for years
been collecting newspaper accounts of rail-
way accidents declares that no locomotive
engineer ever came out alive from his third
disaster. He does not insist that engineers
are never killed in their first or second
accidents, but he maintains that after a
man has had two ''c1ose calls he will, if
wise, abandon railroading.
The climate OF Greece has two striking
peculiarities-the neat in summer and the
those of any other country in the world ly-
ing in the same latitude. Cell once re-
marked that in travelling through the Morea
in March he found ''summer-in Messenia.
spring in Laconia and winter in Arcadia,
without, having moved beyond a radius of
fifty miles"