The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-28

for much-needed erosswalks 10 enable the
! public to cross the muddy streets compar-
atHely dry shod, and at the same session
| appropriated that amount of money for
! fans and other aids to their own comfort
! at their meetings.
The Queen Regent of Spain has a mar
riageable daughter on her hands Mercedes,
Princess of the Austrias, is now seven
! teen, and propositions for her hand have
court. For Six months before the birth Of
| the King, Mercedes, who was named for
me flrst wife of her father. was Queen of
! Spain. But Alfonso XIII appeared on the
scene, and she was given back seat.
The universities of Goettingen and Jena
are in close competition 1or the doubtful
honor of being the center of German stu
| dent dueling. In Goettingen not a day
! passes that duel is not fought. Not long
since twelve duels. with more or less Sc
! Tlous results, were fought there within
! tWenty-four hours. The record Of Jena is
| tWenty-one within the same length of time.
Prof Jowetts theories were not always
sustained by his practice more than other
mems. Once when on visit to his friend
and pupil, Prof. Sellar, conversation turned
! on political economy, and Jowett declared
| that he never gave to beggars. Mrs. Sell
lar was adept in ''mystificatiors." an ac-
compllShment popular in Scottish society
since Sir Walter SCOTS time She disguised
herSelf as a poor Highland woman and
| Waylald her husband and JOwett at a cross
! ROAD DeSglng approximately and telling her
tale OF woe so piteously that Jowett at last
| said: " Poor thing, she seems very miser-
| able; give her half crown" Sellar said
he had no money with him. and before the
aims were forthcoming the secret was tri-
umphantly unveiled.
The feat of the Baltimore bicycler, who
rode 40 miles in twelve hours and 314 miles
in twenty-four hours seems to show that
the new motor, is superior to the horse in
more ways than one. 1t is not only insen-
sible to fatigue, but it is superior in point
of both speed and endurance. Possibly the
| best record ever made by horse was that
| OF the animal ridden by Count Stahrenberg
| IN october, 1882, which covered the distance
! from Vienna to Berlin, four hundred miles
! in seVenty-one hours and thirty-four min
| uteS. This was far inferior to the 314 miles
made by human muscle with the aid of the
! wheel in twenty-four hours. The horse can
! go where the bicycle cannot, but, given
good roads, he stands no chance with it in
| a race either against time or distance.
"One morning not long ago" says the
Philadelphia Record, when the servants of
the Cleveland household came downstairs
for their days work their astonished gaze
rested upon ducks by the score. There
were ducks before the porch and ducks
upon the windowsills Whole focks of
| ducks nodded from the branches of the
| trees surrounding the house and still 9TH
| erS SQuatted upon the lawn before the front
Of the dwelling. Little streamers of rib
| bons and flags 1iuttered gayly in the morn
| ing breeze. The opening of windows and
doors had no disturbing effect upon the
flock of birds, and moments inVestiga-
ton showed that they were all decoy ducks
with which some industrious young men
had decorated the exPresident's premises
during the night The men about the place
had half days work in collecting the de-
coys from about the house and from off the
trees"
The sweet girl graduate in her golden hair
Who at the Pierian spring been drinking
some,
Will now appear and earnestly declare:
The past is gone-the Future is to come"
Puck