The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-25

with brief statement of the disposition he.
would ike to have made of his affairs IN
case of sudden death.
'Lalla Rookh" the cottage at Muswellhill
in which Tom Moore lived for some time.
is likely to be destroyed. Moore was living
here in 1917, when Longmans paid him the
astonishing price of $4,000 for his most cele-
brated poem.
A Georgian woman, thrown upon her own
resources, has hit on a novel plan for earn
ing her daily bread. She takes care of
graves. assuming the responsibility of keep
ing cemetery lots in order with Well-trlm-
med grass and walks.
Llamas are the chief freight carriers in
central Peru. The usual load for an animal
is about one hundred pounds. If you put
upon his back more than he can easily
carry he quietly kneels and will not bulge
until the load is reduced.
Some of the wooden churches of Norway
are fully seven hundred years old and are
still in an excellent state of preservation.
Their timbers have successfully resisted the
frosty and almost Arctic winters because
they have been repeatedly coated with tar
On large wheat farm in California the
grain is cut from the stalks, the chaff
thrashed out and the kernels placed in
sacks. which are sewed and piled ready for
the mill, all by one huge machine, which
is drawn by and gets its motive power from
team of thirty-eight mules.
A fossil bog oak. weighing forty tons,
which biologists assert to be ten thousand
years old, has been dug up at Stockport,
England in excavating to lay down sewer
The corporation of the town want to blow
it up with dynamite. in spite of protests
from scientific men throughout England.
Human beings have six muscles to each
eye, that they may move it on either side,
but horses, cows, sheep and other quadru-
pedS, which habitually incline their heads
to the earth in search of food, have a mus
Gle by which their eyelids are suspended
and supported and which we do not need.
War correspondents were employed as far
back as the time of Richard II. Scribes.
specially commissioned, were sent up with
the English army which invaded Scotland
at that time. But, incredible as it may
seem, not one of the London newspapers
was specially represented at the battle of
Waterloo.
Damask derives it's name from the city
of Damascus; calico from Calicut, town
In India formerly celebrated for it's cotton
cloth, and there also CALICO was printed;
cambria from Cambray, town in Flanders,
where it was first made. and tweed from a
fabric worn by the fishermen upon the
River Tweed.
We have to thank GAIA, in Palestine the
gates of which Samson carried away, for
gaze or gauze. GAIA means treasure" and
precious to the fair is the tissue which COW
ers without concealing their charms. Vol
taire, wishing to describe some intellectual
but perhaps dresSy woman, said: She is an
eagle in cage of gauze"
Red Scotch granite from Peterhead is
to be employed for the national monument
which the Transvaal is to erect at Pretoria
raid, and an Aberdeen firm has been found
ready to provide the granite and execute
the work. The Beers sense of humor seems
stronger than the Scotchmans.
An American with large business inter-
ests in Mexico says that there is not a
manufacturing industry in Mexico conduct
ed on business principles that is not paying
from 70 to 40 per cent. on the capital in
developed fields for investment which are
available to Americans with little capital