The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

an hour whereas falcon can do fifteen. 1t
can also carry with ease fairly heavy
weight.
The wine cellar of the old Chaldean King.
Argastes IL. has been discovered near Lake
Van, in Asia Minor 1t was filled with CO.
lcssal earthenware vessels, some of which
have been sent to the Berlin Museum.
An eminent Indian medical officer is salts
fled that the growth of sunfiowers in ma
larial soil is better than eucalyptus a
preventive of malaria. The government of
India is making extensive experiments to
determine this point.
In the ancient wars it was the regular
custom for both armies to go into winter
quarters, but nowadays such thing is quite
unknown, and several battles during this
century have been fought on Christmas day
and New Years day.
The soldier boys at Manila say that the
Spaniards and natives there invariably turn
TO the left instead Of to the right in passing
others on the sidewalks and on the streets,
and consequently there are numerous ac-
cidental collisions with Americans.
John Muir makes a strong protest in the
current Atlantic Monthly against the whole
sale destruction of robins about the Bay of
San Francisco. Song birds for food!' he
exclatms Compared with this, to make
kindling of our pianos and violins would be
plOuS economy!
The postmastership of Pembroke, Me-, is
said to have been held by one family longer
than that of any other town in the country.
William Kilby was appointed to the office
in IN 1900 and his direct descendants have han
died the mails of the little village ever since
his retirement in 1910.
A correspondent of the Westminster Ga
zette calls attention 20 this paragraph of q
letter written by General Gordon on Aug.
IL, 1874: DO you know that The black babies,
when they make their :irst appearance, are
quite light-colored? They color after time
like pipes.
The famous Doge's palace, in Venice. is
said to be in danger, owing to the external
subsistence of The walls adjacent to the
Bridge of Signs and the decay of the tim
bers supporting tie Library of ST. Mark.
The italian government has dispatched
expert to submit a report on the matter.
A process has been discovered by which
sails of vessels of all kinds can be made
out of paper pulp, and it is claimed that
they serve quite as we'll as canvas and are
very much cheaper They swell and flap in
the wind like the genuine old-fashioned ar
ticle, and are supposed to be untearable.
Harland & Wolff, the English shipbuild-
ers, announce that the White Star liner
Oceanic, launched on Jan. IA, will be the
largest and heaviest vessel ever built or
launched. 1t will be larger than the Great
Eastern, and, it is said, will have nearly
twice the dimensions attributed to Noah's
ark.
Since the foundation OF the Legal Aid
Society in New York 10000 people, victimiZed
tice through its efforts. The society has col
lected and paid over to itS clients sum
largely in excess of 500 900. The indirect
benefits have also been felt by a far larger
number of people.
Beds are quite an innovation in Russia,
and many well-to-do houses are still I'M
provided with them. Peasants sleep on the
tops OF their ovens, middle-claSS people and
servants roll themselves up in the sheepskins
and lie down near the stoves soldiers rest
upon wooden cots without bedding, and it is
only within the last few years that students
in schools have been allowed beds.