The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-12
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Positively the most ferocious creature of its
size is the buffalo gnat. In forty weight hours
these insects killed two hundred mules in Louisi-
ana.
The cremationists of London desire that an in
GENERATING furnace in full blast shall be OF the
attractions at the forthcoming National Health
Exhibition.
Professor Hemholtz calculates that the solar
system has been in existence for 500 900 900
years-a more liberal allowance than that of
certain English physicists.
Pure linseed oil, an expert observes, has a
bright amber color. 1t runs freely, sparkles
when flowing from the can, tastes smooth and
mild, and has the smell of fax-seed poultice.
According to Professor Wankiyn the manu-
facture of gas from lined coal is success, as it
reduces the amount of sulphur compounds to
three grains in the hundred cubic feet. and in-
creases the yield of ammonia and tar by the
abolition of the lime purifiers.
The numerical increase of population during
period of nine and quarter Years has been
twice as great in New South Wales, and nearly
twice great in New leland in Victoria
With the exception of Tasmania Victoria is the
colony in which the increase of population is
slowest
The chief of the Berlin police has issued a
proclamation in which he strongly warns people
against eating any sort Of raw pig meat Tho
proclamation further points out that only by
perfectly cooking joints of pork. and all articles
made with pork, can the destruction OF trichin@
be insured.
According to the new British medical direct
DRY the whole number of doctors in Great Brit
ain is 25,038. OF these All are in London, IL.
IT'S the provincial list, 3 2G6 in Scotland 3 430
in Ireland, l. III reside abroad, and >, 1913 are in
the army and navy, Indian medical service and
mercantile marine.
An elderly Englishman was in the habit of
buying quicksilver and aqua FORTS in separate
packages and mixing them into sort of oint-
phA tIe11 In ana
ever, they were put into the same bottle by the
druggist. They exploded in the purchasers
pocket, burning him so that he died.
A recent calculating shows that man weigh
ing 40 pounds and running mile in six min
utes performs work about equal to that of
half horse engine; while walker sustaining five
miles an hour for a long day does work equal to
that of quarter horse engine and consumes
only one-twentieth of the weight of food or
fuel.
An effort is being made just now to find out
the highest church in England. Forest Church
in Teesdale, in Durham, is nearly thirteen hun
bred feet above the sea level. Heathery Cough
Church. in the adjoining valley of the Wear, is
nearly fourteen hundred feet above the sea level.
AIenhead Church. in the same neghborhood is
higher still by some hundred feet.
In the Bayswater district of London there is
a Boys Cat League, established for torturing
cats. An oath is administered by the captains
of implicit obedience, with fines, rewards, etc
They steal their poor victims generally on Sun
days, bank holidays and evenings after dark for
this savage cowardly pastime, and carry them
into private pleasure grounds, quiet streets,
empty houses, there to torture them.
Professor Celland, of Glasgow University,
said in a recent lecture terminal forms of life
that man was IA terminus" anatomical evil
dence showed he had reached the limit of de-
velopment in vertebrate life. Hence it was in
the last degree improbable that in the future
there would be progression in-the construction
of the human body that would give birth to
greater intelligence than was possessed by the
sages of antiquity
The Washington monument was begun in 1913
by an association incorporated by Congress, and
1920 900 raised by private subscriptions were ex-
pended, when work was suspended. After stand
ing in that unfinished condition, Congress- in
1876, appropriated 900 for completing the
work. 1t is seventy feet square at the base. and
is to be $50 feet high when completed. which
will make it by forty four feet the tallest struc
ture in the world.
A submarine boat which ought to be able to
destroy the navies of the world has been made
at Stockholm. 1t will be tried on Malar lake,
and will shortly be brought over to France. The
boat has the shape of cigar, is Ga feet long, 6
feet wide, and has an engine of 30horse power
1t is said that it can be navigated under water,
goes at the speed Of ten nautical miles the hour,
and that four persons can, without any danger,