The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-20

CITY nave cast out what Is called the 'mu1
fad" or clay modelling from the course of
study, and devote the time heretofore given
TO to the Old-fashioned course of study
known as the three RS.
SPEAKING of dog shows, it is predicted
that the kennel exhibit in connection with
the Columbian world fair. beginning June
II. will surpass any ever held. 1t will be
under the management of the greatest
canine experts in the country. and. like
everything else connected with the fair is
expected to be world beaten.
AN Eastern paper has recently published
the result of it's inquiries into the cost of
electric street lighting. The average cost
in seventy-fve cities and towns Is sos q
lamp per year where the lighting is done
by private companies, and $50 per year
where the city OWES the plant. The lowest
| rate for all night service by private parties
| is SCI per ikht year. and the lowest by
the city Is $3.50.
THE Edison Electric-light Company, of
Chicago, seems to be doing fairly well. 1t
| was organized in 1857. with q capital of
| $500 600, which has since been increased to
| Ss5O.OO0. then to 81, 100000 and finally to
| S1,500000. Last year its net earnings were
| S32, 600. which Is at the rate of II per cent.
| on Is present capital; and in addition to
| this it carries an undivided profit of S244,-
| COO That is not bad stock to hold.
| SENATOR MCPHERSON gathers from the
! census reports, the press and mine-owners
that the average cost of producing an ounce
| of pure silver is less than 35 cents. which
! makes the cost of the bullion in standard
! dollar 26 cents. The census shows the cost
/ OF ounce III Arizona to be 81 cents; In
| Colorado. q little over so cents; IN Montana,
! 4S cents; and in all the States and Territor-
les. 1913 cents. As the market price is 81 cen ts
I an ounce. silver mining syet very profit
| able pursuit
/ THE statement that General Buffers
| brain weighed four ounces heavier than
| that of Daniel Webster is somewhat in
| definite. Websters brain, at the time of
his death. weighed tifty-eiGht ounces but
| physicians estimated that six ounces had
been destroyed by disease and the use of
| alcohol. In that case Its normal weight
| would have been siXtyfOur ounces. The
| average weight of the brain in men is
about forty-nin ounces. though the brain
! OF Cuvier, the great naturalist. weighed
| sixty-tive ounces, the heaviest on record.
In 1888 President Arthur removed one j.
| H. Knight from the Office of land register
in Ashland, Wis, for alleged and proven
| irregularities. He at once bee anne Jealous
reformer and joined the Democratic party.
| He lives in Madison, alongside of Senator
Villas. and the Milwaukee Sentinel pre-
sents the records of the land office to show
that in two years ne entered as sold to
| Colonel Villas about ten thousand acres of
the best pine lands In the State. After his
! removal from the office he turned up as a
| co-partner with Colonel now Senator
Villas in tho proprietorship of these lands.
| He went into the office poor man. and. al
though the salary was small, he left
rsputed wealthy one. lie is now one of the
| leading candidates for United States SEN
ator before the Wisconsin Legislature.
with o good prospect of success until the
Sentiners revelations appeared.
LATE issue of the Baltimore Manufact-
urers' Record contains a review of the
phosphate industry in Florida and South
Carolina showing that the business is falling
Off In the last-named State and increasing
In the former. The comparative shipments
for the last three years. as reported. were
as follows: From South Carolina 455. 724
tons In 1890. S69.S72 tons in 1891. and BAG. 600
tons in 1892; from Florida. Sc 900 tons in
1890. $50. 400 tons In 1891. and 2S322l tons in
| 1892. The phosphate industry is one of
which these two States have q monopoly.
1t consists In the mining and marketing of
q certain Took deposit largely composed of
pnosphates aud very valuable as fertil-
shipped abroad and q great deal 10 used in
this country. South Carolina receives q
royalty of 81 per ton. from the companies
which mine the rock, and the revenue
from this source cuts an important figure
in the State finances. In Florida the mines
are owned and worked by private CON-
panies. The phosphate discoveries in
Florida were made about five years ago
and are very extensive. They have added
enormously TO the price Of land formerly
coDsidered of little value and have caused
quite Juror Of speculation.
| THE census returns of 1890 contain Stats
tics of the growth and present Numerical
strength or the various religious denomi-
nations. There are 143 different denomina.
TONS but more than one half or them have
less than ten thousand members. thirty.
two have less than one thousand each, and
only forty have upward of twenty-five
thousand. Among the strong denomina-
tions, the Roman Catholic stands first as TO
communicates. having 6,22s.35i: the Meth
odIst Episcopal second. with Z. 240. 425; the
Regular Baptist (colored third. with
1874. 420;- the Regular Baptist (South)
fourth with 1.27l .O02. and the Methodist
Episcopal tSouth) fifth. with 1.209.576. A
comparison of the statistics of 1880 with
those OF 1880 shows that. during the
decade, the Protestant Episcopal Church
made a net gain of 10000 members or IS
per cent: the Congregational of los, 000 or
33 per cent; the regular Baptists. North,
, South and colored. of s6s, QUO. or 80 per cent;
the Lutherans all branches. of $4,000. or
Go per cent; the Presby terians all branches.
of 3G5, coo, or 50 per cent; the Methodist
Episcopal. of 522, coo. or 20 per cent; the
Methodist Episcopal South of ass, OoO or 81
per cent These denominations represent
, ed in 1850 an aggregate of O,216. eco. COM
municants. against z. 2O2, 900 in 1880. show
ing u net gain in the ten years of .0cU
l or nearly AZ per cent. AS the growth OF
the population of the country Ia tho same