The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

few years. only to find at last that his
plant is worthless for the work and he will
have TO build another
From the census of 1890 the United States
Department of Agriculture estimated that
we had within our borders $4,000 trotting-
bred or roadster horses.
A writer in Leslie's Weekly figures out
that a trip can be made from New York to
England sufficiently long for the travellers
TO take in the coronation for $500.
Permission has at last been given by the
German authorities for women to attend
political meetings. They must sit in spe-
cial places, however, and make no speeches.
A company has been formed to mine ice
in the ice caves near Flagstaff, A. T., and
thus does one of the pieces of fiction of
the late Frank Stockton receive justifica-
ton.
A merchant of Essex, England, recently
declared in the bankruptcy court that he
had been ruined by rats, which had en-
tered his warehouse and ate and destroyed
his wares.
In one year twenty-five cubic yards of the
granite pavement of London bridge is re-
duced TO powder by the enormous traffic;
10000 vehicles cross daily and 100000 foot
passengers.
Eighteen thousand Union soldiers now
sleep in the great cemetery in Arlington, in
the hills of Virginia opposite Washington,
the magnificent estate which was once the
home of General Robert Z. Lee.
A complete set of new stamps has been
ordered by the Orange River Colony. There
are some little countries which find it
profitable TO order stamps OF new design
solely and wholly TO sell TO collectors.
Intemperance in anything brings its own
punishment by lessening the pleasure that
thing can afford. One practical lesson ap-
pears TO be this: If a favorite odor or
flavor is no longer fully appreciated il
should be foregone altogether for a period.
The relative durability of wood and iron
| is given strange Illustration by an old can
non which has stood since 1850 on the high
grounds of Point Bonita, at the entrance
of San Francisco bay. The gun has rusted
away. while the wood supports are in a
state of perfect preservation.
Flying is not a twentieth century idea.
| AS far back as 1878 Friar Bacon predicted
eral practice, and Bishop Wilkins in 1861
| said: 1T will yet be as usual to hear a
| man call for his wings when he is going on
| a journey as it is now to hear him call for
| his boots
Inhabitants of DENLY Dale. near Barns
| ley, England, have had the habit for a
| hundred years past of baking enormous
! pies TO celebrate great events. There is
| likelihood that King Edward will set one al
his coronation. On one occasion a DENLY
| Dale pie contained half a sheep, twenty
| fowls and half peck of flour.
| Tender feet are often made so by the use
| of much darned stockings Wear light
| wooden stockings and let them be of the
cheap kind that you will not mind discard.
| ing directly they become worn. To harder
! the Skin II Is a SOOO plan 10 ruD the SOles
| of the feet with methylated spirits every
| day or TO wash them over with salt water
| Experiments have convinced Professor
| Trowbridge that lightning never strikes the
| surface of the ocean, and from this draws
| the interesting conclusion that lightning
| discharges can hardly be supposed TO pas:
| through regions of the air where there is
! at the time, a heavy fall of rain. There
are as many as several people who disagree
| with the professor.
| In Austria a woman no matter what sh,
| may do. is never regarded or treated as
| criminal. She may rob. burn, kill-se
| every law at defiance. in fact. and breal
| all the comma ndments in turn without
fear of ever being called upon to face
| gallows. She is not even sent TO an ordi
| nary prison to do penance for her sins. TIL,
| hardest fate that can befall her is TO b,
| compelled TO take up her abode for a tim,
| in a convent.