The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Gen. W. W. Blackman, of Boston, owns
the chair in which General Grant sat in the
courthouse at AppOmattoX when he wrote
out the conditions of Lees surrender.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the senator from
Indiana, gave novel entertainment the
other day to several of her Washington
friends A troop of Virginia negroes We're
engaged to give minstrel performance.
Brig. Gen. Harrison G. Otis, now serving
in the Philippines. enlisted in the civil war
with President Mckinley in the Twenty
third Ohio Private Mckinley rose to be
brevet major and Private Otis a colonel
The remarkable service of Queen Victoria
in combating the disease consumption was
to order thirty-six of her best milking COWS
q be killed because they hal tuberculosis.
The Prince of Wales knows it to be true
Adolphus Busch, the ST. Louis brewer,
recently gave some money to a COngrega-
tional college in Oklahoma, and now the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
threatens to boycott the college unless the
trustees decline TO take the money.
Miss Florence Caldwell, a daughter of
United States Judge Caldwell, of Cleveland,
was graduated as a civil engineer last June
from the Colorado State School of Mines. al
Golden, and now she is about to marry an
other civil engineer whom she met IN Colo
RADIO.
1T is said" writes Secretary Long III his
article The Little Demons of the War;"
in the Youths Companion, that to Fulton
is due the credit of inventing the torpedo.
AS early as 1910 he proposed one on a spar
ninety-siX feet long, but its practical use
dates from our civil war. 1t was first tried
by the Confederates in the action between
the ram Atlanta and the monitors Wee
hawken and Nahant June II, 1853
In Norway women have for some time
been employed in the raill 9ad and postal
service and are now receivirg appointments
as supervisors of the railway stations. They
receive reports from conductors answer
questions in German and English, call out
trains in the waiting rooms, ring the sta
ton bell at the departure of trains and tele-
graph the departures to the next station.
They perform the duties of government tele-
graph operators as we'll as those of post
masters and baggagemen.
Why are red-headed people less subject to
badness than those with fair or brown
hair? According to the Revue Scientifique,
an English physician has answered this
conundrum. And this is how he does it:
The hair of the red-headed is relatively
thick, one red hair being as thick as five
blonde or three brown hairs. With 10000
red hairs the scalp is well matched, with
the same number of blonde hairs enc is al
most bald. 1t takes 10000 blonde and 105-
600 brown hairs to cover adequately an or
binary head.
An astute Pittsburg man recently picked
up u fortune of $150,O00 that had hee,2 lying
in plain sight for years. It consisted Of
valuable piece of made land in an old
channel. of the Allegheny river, between
what used to be Wainwright's island and
the bank. When this channel was filled in
no one acquired title to it, and Andrew
Carnegie, whose eye for fortunes is keen
enough, built a big steel mill on the land
without knowing that the land was not his.
An old map and $40 paid to the State of
Pennsylvania for the patent secured for
William r. Aull five and one-half acres of
very valuable land.
a Worcester man tells the Gazette of that
city that when visiting the British Museum
some time ago he stuck a postage stamp on
the mummy case of Cleopatra. 'I was all
alone" he says. mo one was looking, and
l stood there gazing at the mummy case
and thinking over the stories, v hen I put
my hand in my pocket and felt the postage
stamp l could not help it. The thought of
the mummy thousands of years old and the
brand new stamp of the brand new coun-
try was too much. l hastily whispered in
the ear of the effigy Why is this stamp like
Antony? Give 1t up? Because it's stuck on
you, slapped it on the case and started out
to establish albi quickly as possible"
Now has my Christmas joy decreased,
My feelings are not pleasant;
For / find the girl | love the least
Sent me the incest present.