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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27
SCIENTIFIC.

The latest x-ray sensation is the report
from Havre of the cure in three sittings
of a case of elephantiasis-or enormous en-
laryement-of the hand.
A singular accident at Herne, Westphalia.
resulted from administering chloroform
near a gas jet. The burning gas decom-
posed the anaesthetic, with the evolution of
chlorinated vapors, which incapacitated the
two surgeons performing an amputation and
resulted in the death OF one of the nurses
on the following day.
A cheap method of duplicating concave
mirrors for searchlight refectors and even
telescopes, has been proposed by an English
engineer A well-made convex glass mold
is siivered, then the silver Is backed with
copper in an electrolyte of copper sulphate,
and the mirror is separated from the mold
by gentle heat in water bath.
An ingenious waterfall for the theater
stage, giving a truly magical effect when
the electric light is thrown on 1t, has been
brought out in Paris by NJ. Gailhard. 1t is
made of tulle, which is stretched on frames
upon this spray is thrown from behind by
little streams of water discharged through
perforated pipes against metal plate.
A most impressive phenomenon seems to
have escaped general notice. 1t is the
earth's shadow in the sky. which, according
to Prof. w. r. Brooks, of Geneva, N. Y,
first becomes visible about half an hour af-
ter sunset as a dark purplish haze on the
eastern sky, and gradually rises until lost
in the gloom of early night. The shadow,
which is doubtless usually mistaken for
cloud or haze is seen equally we'll on the
western sky before sunrise.
An interesting method of measuring the
diameter of the earth was lately described
by Professor Porter to the London Physical
Society. 1t consists in observing the shad-
ow cast by the peak of Teneriffe upon the
sea, and measuring the time that elapses
between the moment when the apex Of the
shadow touches the sea horizon and the in
slant when it is eclipsed by the shadow of
right Al phenomenon hitherto unnoticed is
the shadow cast by the heated air rising
from the peak, giving a faint oblique pro-
lcngation OF the shadow of the apex.
Slate finished to resemble fine black mar
BILE is Belgian export. Slate suitable for
the purpose is first polished with sand
stone. then with artificial pumice stone and
finally with extremely fine natural pumice
stone. This gives soft. velvet-iike appear
ance. The surface is next heated and COW
cred with a mixture OF oil and fine lamp
black for twelve hours, the process being
repeated until all grayness disappears. Pol
ishing with emery on linen rag follows
with final polishing with tin ashes and
little Iarnpblack. The process is completed
by coating for q little time the heated
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brisk. 1t is not unlikely that the book may
rival the sales OF la Debaclesy wbicn how
stands first, with "Lourdes' second III "
der OF popularity.
The expected novel from Tolstoi Is never
to be finished. In striking figure he has
compared his situation to that of hunter
near nightfall with only a few cartridges
left. He no longer bangs away at what
ever comes in sight but aims az cerlaln
marks In short. he has more lmp sa ant
things on hand than novel wrltlns' anu NJ
time to spare"
Tourgenefr once said: IT have never pub
lshed a single line in anything but Rus-
sian: If had should not be an artist, put
a scribbler beneath contempt. How can one
possibly write in a foreign language, Wheh,
as It is one finds 1t SO dificu 70 'ss,, al
the thoughts and images which come crown
ing in upon one?"
Mr.. Stanley J. Weyman, author OF SO
many thrilling historical novels. among
them 1.-THE House of the Wolf and
Gentleman of France is turning his at
tention TO other matters. A New York
story from his pen. Mr.. Weyman's agent
says: He is so deeply concerned with pol
tiles that he has no time for story-wrltlng.
Anthony Hope protests against the publ
cation of bogus interviews in which he was
made to ridicule and belittle the American
people. In letter to the New York Critic
he says: '"rhe American people need not,
and, presumably, do not, care what 1 say
about them: but l do care what they say
about me- since have received from them
infinite kindness and an appreciation too
generous. The reports of my utterances
about America since my return are, SO Iar
as they have come to my notice, entirely
innccura.e-I may say. untrue. To the best
of my recollection / have said nothing or
what is attributed to me, and 1t in no way
represents my thoughts; even If ! had such
thoughts, / trust that my manners would
not be so bad as to allow me to express
them. Let me thank you, then, for refusing
to believe that Mr.. Hope is a cad on the
strength of these silly inventions; perhaps
you will also be kind enough to refuse to be-
ass"
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THE DOMINANT RACE OF THE
WORLD.

A general survey of history, of the de-
velopment of the human race and of present
conditions excites inquiry as to the possi-
bility of some one race or nation ultimately
dominating the entire world. Such a re-
suit would not be contrary to the estab-
Iished principles of evolution and the sur
yival of the fittest. The law of all life is
that the weak perish while the strong sur
vive. May it not also prove true in the re-
mote future and the large plans of Provi-
dence regarding nations? If so, what race
or nation is likely to doninate-the white,
the black or the yellow race, the Anglo
Saxon. the Russian or the Chinese people?
Such an inquiry IS to some extent fanciful
yet it is interesting because 1t deals with a
possibility. however remote.
The latest statistics regarding the popu.
lation of the earth place 1t at 1,44O650,O0O,
divided racially as follows: The Indo-Ger-
manic or Aryan race, including the inhabit-
ants of Europe except the Turks, the Mag
vars of Hungary and the Firms of Lapland,
and also the inhabitants of Armenia, OF
Persia, of Afghanistan and of northern
called the white race, embracing the Anglo
Saxon and the Russian peoples, and esti-
mated to number 545, 500, 600. Then come the
Monaghan, embracing the Chinese and the
inhabitants of the greater part of Asia,
numbering $50. 900 900; the Semitic or Ham
itic in North Africa and Arabia, numbering
65.OOOO90; the negro in Central Africa, num-
bering 10000 900: the Hottentot, in South
Africa. numbering 10000; the Malay and
Polynesian. in Australasia and Polynesia,
numbering S5.0OOOOO: the American Indian in
North and South America. numbering 15.000-
600; total. 1.440, 650.0OO OF these races, in any
calculation Of survival or dominance. all may
be eliminated except the Aryan and the
Monaghan. OF the others. the negro shows
the greatest vitality, as it is also consider
ably the most numerous, but II has not as
yet given any sign OF being dominating
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REPRESENTATIVE FICTION.

In recent lecture on French literature,
delivered in New York, the speaker, him
self a Frenchman, protested vigorously
against the acceptance of the current flc-
ton of France as being representative of
the character and life of the French peo-
pie. He declared that the young French
author of to-day sought to produce a spe-
cial effect, as of wit, or satire, or even
cruelty, without regard to the fidelity to
truth of the scenes and characters por-
trayed or to the probabilities. He is doubt
less right, for the same is said, though with
some notifications, of our own fiction. But
little of it is representative in any large de-
gree of the actual life of the mass of peo-
pie, for the simple reason that it does not
represent the life Of the normal individual
accurately. The normal individual, in fact,
is not favorite with novel writer's; it is
the oddities, the exceptions, the abnormal,
the picturesque, who are sought for and re-
garded with most esteem. There is, it is
true much vivid local color in current
fiction, especially in short stories, but the
proof that little is comprehensiveiy repre-
sentative Of American thought and life is
the difficulty at once experienced if an at
tempt is made to select novels that shall
give foreigner, unacquainted with our in
situations, manners and characteristics, the
correct idea of them. Mr. Howells's books
first suggest themselves, but are they quite
satisfactory? They are real people that he
portrays nth Photographic fidelity. but he
somehow fails to get the right perspective.
There is Silas Lapham, for instance, really
a typical American, but who is not seen at
his best because too much stress is laid
upon his ignorance OF best society man
ners, his awlxwardness In evening dress and
his lack OF familiarity with the uses of the
silver utensils arranged about his plate at
a fashionable dinner. His social lapses cause
him TO be classified at once by his very Sc
lect Boston acquaintance as a semi-barbar-
ian, and in actual life they would no doubt
so label him; nevertheless. men of the
Lapham type have served their country in
every way, even as statesmen. and deserve
and receive honor for what they are, their
lack Of social graces being commonly and
rightfully regarded by all who are not snobs
as matter OF no consequence whatever
There Is Bret Harte. whose stories OF Cal
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

It is not the object of law to make the
world better-Lyman Abbott.
Every human soul has something or the
nature of God left in it.-Bishop Thorold.
Fire and sword are but slow enginesJof
destruction in comparison with the bah
bler.-Steele.
When man is between the devil and
the deep sea his fear of drowning generally
triumDhS.-Puck.
Set no standard for others-they may live
nearer to the light they have received than
you do.-RamS Horn.
God can only bring those into large
place who are willing to go in by mar
row way-Ram's Horn
Man was made to mourn. but he always
thinks he can get out of it by marrying
again.-Chicago Record.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep
it in good health is short-lived, and apt to
have ague fits.-Erasmus.
You can generally judge a girls stockings
by the number of holes in the fingers OF
her gloves.-The Bachelor.
Anyone may do a casual act of good ma
ture, but a. continuation of them shows it
is a part of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Can February March% asked the pun
ster. Perhaps not, but April May" re-
piled the quiet man.-Tammany Times.
Fate has no compensation for the man
who has been caught out in the rain wear
ing his high silk hat.-Philadelphia Times.
When girl suddenly begins lending her
wheel to her little brother she is getting
ready to ask her father for a new one.
Chicago Record.
There are some men who never find
woman so attractive as after she informs
them of her engagement to another man.
Philadelphia TimCs.
To fully appreciate the sense of being
lost requires only an aimless endeavor to
find certain number in a gigantic office
MISUNDERSTANDING Observer.
1t is not pretty to say of a woman that
she talks too much, but she looks compli-
mented when you tell her that she is a fine
ationalist.--Somerville Journal.
1t is a pleasant sight to see anybody
thanking God, for the air is heavy with the
hum Of murmuring and the roads are dusty
with complaints ard lamentations.-C. H.
Spurgeon.
When we are young we are slavishly en-
ployed in procuring something whereby we
may live comfortably when we grow old;
and when we are old we perceive it is too
late TO live as we proposed.-Pope.
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Praise for Georgia scrubs


1t is the proper caper in Congress for
members to laud the sections of the country
from which they come. The Southern and
Western member is most apt to lapse into
boom advertisement for his State One
of the most delicious descriptions of the
blessings of his particular section of the
country was furnished the other day by
Mr.. Griggs, of Georgia. He worked on the
imaginations Of his colleagues from the
South until their months hung open. He
dWeIt upon the excellence OF the Southern
table and its superiority over the pork and
beans of New England In the course OF
his panegyric he said:
Except for q few months in the year veg
etables do not grow in New England. and
they are Injuries then. In the South the
gardens bloom from Christmas to Christ
mas, and are necessary adjuncts to every
home, high or low. In them grows every
thing that can appease hunger or tickle the
palate. Lower standard of living in the
South, Mr.. Chairman! would not exchange
the dinner to which many of my consti-
tuentS are sitting to-day while / address the
House for any dinner that the skill and
ingenuity of the chief of Washington chefs
could devise.
81 would not incite my friends on this
side of the House to riot but I must say
that dinner OF hog jowl and sweet Georgia
collardS or bacon and tender spring turnin
tops, or fried chicken and brown gravy
with the inseparable accompaniment of 5
gar .yams, smoking corn pOnes, hot biscuit
and cold buttermilk is better than all the
pork and beans or corned beef and picked
cabbage. pumpkin pies, stale bread and CT
New England. All. Mr. Chairman. gentle
men from New England should extend their
acquaintance among Southern people and
Southern gardens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

Those who have in mind the absence of
fighting qualities in the Spanish army in
Cuba viii not be impressed with the pre-
dictions tAat battles between it and
United States troops viii be the most bloody
in history. Spain has had a large army in
Cuba under the command of it's best officers
for three years, yet they have not fought
a battle of any magnitude in the whole
time. With the immense advantages of
numbers and better arms. the Spaniards
have On several occasions been driven off
with inconsequentia1 loss. In the three
years the loss Of the Spanish in any battle
has not exceeded the casualties of a skir-
mish- This is not a belittiins Of an army
we may meet in the field. since that would
BE- worse than folly. 1t is a fact which has
been observed since the beginning. when 1t
was expected that SPANS large army
would yanQuish the small. poorly equipped
force De the Insurgents Spanish ferocity
has bcsn mistaken FOR yalor. As long ago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

wisconsin is soon to celebrate the semi
centennial Of her admission to the Union.
and the Milwaukee Sentinel suggests that
IL VIII be good time to adopt by popular
nomination and reclamation a new sobri-
quet for THE Badger State" 1t says the
badger is practically defunct, only one hav-
ing been seen in Wisconsin for many years,
and the hunter who killed that did not
know what it was. All this may be true,
but 1t will be pretty hard to get rid of a
sobriquet so firmly fixed as the present one.
Citizens of Indiana can sympathSze with the
feeling, for their State seal still carries
as its most conspicuous figure a rampant
buffalo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Admirers oil Olive Schreiner will be inter
ested to know that she is to contribute an
article to the April number of Cosmopolls,
an article on Boer women, a subject -Whlcn
she would seem to be peculiarly fitted 10
handle.
The French may learn eventually that
even tout Paris is not the world lola
and his friends were afraid to publish
Paris because of the hostility Of the
French capital and when It was finally to
be issued his publishers counIerInanded
1000 OF the Cs.OO0 copies ordered OF the
nrinter But this has been more thaD mnde
up by the Increased foreign demand. 80 thar
by the day Of publica ton the s1bscrl pttons
had reached 6S00Q, with tse demand stiss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

balance OF SIS Ss OF the city Dancing
Assembly Fund. The fund has a curious
history. It had It's origin in 1856 in an
organization on the following basis:
The ladies' and gentlemen of this city
having Of late repeatedly testified their
dlsappTobation of the present assembly
room at the City Tavern as being in every
way inadequate to the purpose, it is pro-
suitable lot of ground and erecting there
on convenient building containing a spa
cious ballroom.
Thus 1t appears that three years after
the conclusion of the revolutionary war and
three years before the adoption of the Con-
sttution of the United States. there were
enough of the worlds people" in the
Quaker City to form q dancing club. The
movement did not make very rapid prog
ress, but by February, 1904. two huRdred
and two shares had been subscribed. The
amount of the shares is not stated, but
enough money was raised to purchase
lot and erect a dancing hail. The move
ment developed into a City Dancing AS
sembly which for long time was an i'm
portant factor in the social life of Phila-
deiphia- The fund above mentioned, the re-
suit or accumulated payments and interest,
is to be paid to the legal representatives
Of the original subscribers. It is probably
the first instance on record in which a dane
ing club has paid a large dividend more
than hundred years after its organiza-
ton. Who says Philadelphia is slow?
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New york Mai and Exrross


1t sounds very much like q bull to speak
or the ruins. of a cathedral which was never
Duilt, yet that extraordinary sight can be
seen across the river in one of the best
neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Years ago, in
the flush times after the war, it was pro-
posed to build magnificent Roman Catho-
lie cathedral to replace the insignificant
church now used for the purpose. The land.
splendid tract, was secured, subscriptions
We're obtained and the plans made for a
building which would be an ornament 10 the
new world. The ground was broken with inn
posing ceremony, an army of men put to
work. and soon the massive walls and fouu-
cations were finished up to about fifteen
Feet from the ground. Then came panic
and troubles of many kinds The work was
stopped end the walls topped with earth
and wood to keep them from decay. Years
passed and another effort was made but
only enough money was secured to build 8
small portion at one end of the great build
ing to be, which Is used as place OF wor-
snip; the grass and moss, vines and iichens
are everywhere. the boarding has fallen or
~ many places. and, at short distance
the place LOOKS sxacfly like many Of the ola
cathedfala ~ various part OF Europe which
are crumnlins 10 dEEt
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Can crying children be abated as a nui-
sance! This is the question raised by
complaint made by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
stanton and several other occupants of
certain nat in New York to the Board of
Health. They represent that the Keller
children on the top floor cry and scream
continually at night, keeping the complains
ants awake, and thereby destroying their
peace OF mind and health. 1--WE have suf-
Iered, they wrote to the Board Of Health.
from this nuisance for the last three
years AT first there was one child Next
year two, and now within the last three
months a third child has been added to
the number, and each and every one is a
persistent crier and screamer." This an
nual increase in the crying and screaming
Is serious feature of the case, for at the
foregoing rate it would become intolerable
IN Few years. The compliments ask the
Board of Health to do something to COM
pei the occupants of top flat in No. "a
10 smut their hall door leading into the
dlnlng-room, now used as bedroom; to
close the window of that room opening on
the smart, or else to remove their children
10 the front part Of their apartments"
me charter of Greater New York is a
very comprehensive scheme of government.
put II Is doubtful if it gives the Board of
Health power to abridge the inalienable
rights OF young children.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

The passage of the naval appropriation
bill was delayed in the House, Friday, be-
cause the representative of the silver-mine
owners in Montana insisted on making a
political speech in violation of the rules,
and because he was not permitted to do so,
those who sympathized with him wasted
the day in filibustering. And yet, Mr.. Bal
ley, of Texas, promised to support all
measures designed to put the government
tn readiness for war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

Any housewife in the Dutch village OF
Diuxverloo who hangs underclothes out to
dry In place visible to the public is pun
lshed by a heavy fine for the first offense
and by Imprisonment for the second. This
is undoubtedly the town Editor Box long
has sought-the good Mr.. Box who has vir-
tuously forbidden the appearance of pic
lures of women's underwear in any except
the advertising pages of his excellent mag
azine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

English papers seem TO have a pretty cor
rect appreciation of the present situation
In Cuba The London Daily Mail says:
''The United States will earn, the. worlds
praise for Kidding Cuba of ruthless tyranny
The London Daily Chronicle intimates that
intervention would be justihable on grounds
Of humanity and because of the intolerable
stencil of this open sore close to the borders
of the great Republic while the London
Spectator, most staid and dignified of all,
asks: VIII Americans allow an island
which is not very much further from Flor
ida than Jersey is from Hampshire to be
turned into a permanent hell-upon-earth? %
What If Cuba were as near the British
coast as it is TO ours?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

Advices from Havana indicate that there
is very little coal in that city. A. special to
a New York paper, says:
The Spanish government has not ton
been fueled from the limited deposit OF the
Spanish transatlantic line OF merchant
steamers, which never kept more tnan nve
are two small private deposits, which, to-
gether, do not exceed $500 tons. Ihese de,,
posits are owned by Joaquin Coei1o. loGal
Spanish merchant, and the helrS OF M lie
Gamiz, Of French nationality.
AS there are abundant coal deposits in
Cuba this scarcity in Havana indicates
either that they have not been worked or
that they are not accessible, being con-
trolled by the insurgents. In either case,
Spanish fleet OF war ships would be hard
pushed for fuel
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as the time when wellington commanded
the allied armies in Spain he complained
that the Spanish troops were not to be
counted on in battle. Spain as a nationality
has refrigerated since that time. 1t has not
kept up with the procession of progress.
When a nation falls to the rear. it Is be-
cause its people have been stricken with in
feriority SPANS populace is illiterate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

WARY Watkins-You seem to have lot
Of stuff these days How dyou git it?
Dismal Dawson-If you'll gimme your word
of honor as a gentleman not to use it, IN
my territory, Pll put you onto the graft. /
goes up to the women meets and tells EN-
1 need dime more to git new hat fer 50
cents marked down from 81. so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

1t appears from the statements of para
graphers throughout the land, as we'll as
from several casual remarks let fall by
statesmen great and small, that Spain and
her people are not popular in this country
at present.