The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-22

eudowments of Massachusetts, foot ND TO
Sl0.C50. 100. The buildings and grounds are
worth s.. 1000, while the scientific apar-
atus of all the higher institutions is worth
81. 020. 900.
In q list of l62 different firms and profess
sioBsi people who were engaged in business
In Bay City, Mioh., twenty-five years ago.
there is not one. it Is stated. but who has
undergone o change either In name or In
partnership.
Among trees, the elm reaches an age OF
$50 years; the ivy, 40; the chestnuf, 90; the
olive s0) the cedar. 500; the oak. loo; the
yew, 2. 500; while humboldt computed the
age of a ba0bab tree, u species OF banyan,
TO be $500 years.
OF lS4, 1872 recruits received into the Ger.
man army and navy recently only e24 could
not read or write. There were 49, $50 who
could both read and write German. and
3.6T2 who could read and write only IN q
foreign language.
Seventeen private soldiers of the French
army, in Bonapartes time. by their brave
~ and talents. raised themselves to the foi-
lowing distinguished stations: Two De-
came kings. two princes. nine dukes, two
field marshals and two generals
When Harrison w. Crosby first intro
duced canned tomatoes he sold them at 50
cents q can. This was in iS4s. For a few
years past the average price has been
cents for q much superior article than that
for which Mr.. Crosby received half dollar.
The Compagnie Transatlan tique has again
brought forward the question of lighting
the Atlantic route from Ireland TO New
fOundland. 1t is proposed to moor ten
powerful floating lights two hundred miles
apart, and connect them by electric cables.
A sixty-four-year-old citizen of Deering
Me-. is suffering from his first attack OF
tOothache. All his teeth are sound and the
one trou bling him has defed all the ef-
forts of the dentist to extract It. the roots
70 hn fxuso Of nor n a
| jaw-bone.
| If the ivory trade increases at the pres
| emit rate much lonaer the ele plant w i'll soon
become extinct. One firm alone In Shelf.
| field last year received the tusks of no
| fewer than $50 elephants. few years
| ago eight hundred pairs of tusks were suf-
fcient for them.
| The Erie's old broad gauge No. "a. was re.
| garded as the most unlucky engine that
ever ran on the road Ii was used in the
| Susquehanna yards, and Is SAID to have
| killed thirty-nine persons. including four
! women and three children. In addition to
this seventy men were crippled Dy this
! engine.
| Tanned tripe is likely to become very
! fashionable for all sorts of pretty things
| for women, such as purses, belts and hand
| bags. In the process of tanning tripe be-
| comes as black as ebony. with beautiful
| gloss on it's surface. 1t H. thinner and
| softer than kid or chamois skin, and Is al.
| together preferable to both.
Within six-mile radius of Charing Cross
| there $40 miles of railway and 255 sta
| tions. and within twelve-mile radius over
| four hundred miles of line and 30l stations
The average number of passenger carried
on weekday by the public c0nyeyanccs
| of London. including omnibuses. is 2. SOC, 600
The total for last year was 777, 900 900.
The largest steam sh ovel in the world is
digging phosphate in the mines at St
| Johns Island, near Charleston, S. G. Its
| weight is tifty-six tons. 1t can dig ten feet
| below it's track and TO q distance of thirty.
| five feet on either side. The dipper. W hich
| can swing through twO-thirds of q circle
| has capacity Of one and three-quarters
| cubic yard. and about two dippers full can
! be handled in a minute.