The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04

can pick up sOO-pound barrel Of pork and
put It on her shoulder and makes herself
generally useful.
The Essex institution In Salem Mass, has
on exhibition the original flag to WHICH the
hoisted at Nashville. Tenn by Captain
William Driver Immediately that city was
captured by the Federals in 1862.
Royal hair sold cheap in London recently.
Locks OF King Edward ~, George III OF
the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Of
Napoleon /, with bit of William Tvs cere
CLOTH and the testimonials of authenticity
thrown in, brought $14 at auction.
Melbourne which consisted of thirteen
huts and was known as Beargrass at the
time of Queen Victoria's accession, is now
classed as the seventh city of the British
empire, coming in after London, Liverpool
Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and CAL
cutta.
In reply to a correspondent who wants to
know the rules for "stamp Irritation" the
Boston Globe emphaticaliy declares: The
1rst rule is that putting the stamp on
letter designedly anywhere excepting on the
right hand upper corner of the envelope In
dicates that the writer is a fool
Near the city of Durango Mexico. Is an
iron mountain $40 feet high, and the iron is
from 60 to 20 per cent. pure. The metallic
of three or four miles. The entire deposit
is estimated to be sufficient to supply all the
iron required in the world for 1000 years.
Two lives for cent is recent Sicilian
knife into the heart of a flfteen-year-old
boy who was unable to pay the cent he
owed for his drinks. The boys three broth
ers shot down the assassin before the police
got on his track, and are now under arrest.
Elevators have now been rendered safe
in case of fall by means of air cushions.
An elevator in the Empire building, New
York, was allowed recently to fall twenty
stories. The fall of three hundred feet did
not break eggs lying on marble slab in the
middle OF the car nor spill water from
glass;
When the American troops took the
Ladrone islands soldier lost a revolver on
the beach. The native who found it imme-
diateiy went out in a boat and visited every
transport until he was able to restore the
article to its owner. And this example of
scrupuleeus honesty comes ..,;s from place the
DR.. Smiles tells us that his well-known
book, Self-Help, was so contemporary
refused by the first publisher to whom he
offered It that he put it away in his desk for
years. He brought 1T out again after he had
made reputation by another book; and
about 100000 copies have been sold in Great
Britain alone, while it has been translated
into seventeen languages.
Russia's women criminals are, for the
most part, peasants who have murdered
their husbands The prevalence of the crime
rying off girls at an extremely early age.
To this is also ascrbed the excessive num-
Der of deaths among the very young chill
dren, the mortality under one year of age
in Russia being q per cent. whereas the
European average is Is per cent
The oldest loaf in existence is in the pos
session CT the British Museum authorities.
1t was discovered in Assyria by a French
explorer, together with the remnants of sew
eral other pieces of bread carefully wrapped
in cloth. 1t is supposed that it was leavened
and baked about the year $50 B. c., when
it was the custom to put food in the coffin
with a dead person. 1t resembles an or
binary penny bun in shape and color and
is in perfect condition.
The NapOleonic campaign lasted sixteen
years, the war of 1912 more than three years,
the war of Greek independence seven years,
the Crimean war two years. the Italian war
more than one year, the civil war more than
four years, the Franco-P russian and Russo
Turkish wars each about one year. What
tween Prussia and Austria lasted. in fact.
seven months. The war just closed will be
recorded as the shortest war of the century.