The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-26

port Of San Francisco has this year caught
in Arctic regions no less than 1853 whales.
The Krupp gun works claim to have man
ufactured a machine which VIII roll iron so
thin that IL would take 1850 sheets TO make
an inch.
OF 1.7e0 patients treated at the Pasteur
Institute in Paris in 1892 for .hydrophobia,
only four are known TO have died from the
maiady.
The Caspian sea is the largest inclosed
body Of water in the world. 1t varies be-
tween 40 miles IN length and 200 miles In
breadth.
The Chinese population of San Francis
co in 1850 was 5000. In 1890 it was $1,000.
The total number of Cinnamon in the
United States is 10000.
Grease may be taken out of carpets by
covering the spot with powdered French
chalk, laying a soft brown paper over the
chalk and covering with a warm iron
That peculiar old city, Iquique. Bolivia,
should certainly be the Mecca Of Mel
No man ever saw a rainstorm at that
place.
Professor Ward, F. r. s., of London,
has demonstrated by the aid OF photogra-
ply that bacteria spores require darkness
for their development, and that sunlight
destroys them.
When the Japanese and the Coreans
"hitch' a horse they do SO by tying his
forefeet together. Hitching posts are
never used in either Corea or Japan, ex-
cept by foreigners.
The British scientific expedition to the
Philippine stands is said to nave discoV-
cred, $500 feet above sea level, on the sides
Of the extinct volcano Apo, a flower five
feet and a half in diameter.
William r. Smith, for many years SUI
perintendent of the Botanical Gardens in
Washington, has, it is said, personally di-
rected the planting OF more than 5000, 900
trees in different parts Of the United
States.
Statisticians claim that the earth will not
support to exceed 5.994.O OO. coo. The present
population is estimated at Last, 100000 the
increase being S per cent. each decade. At
that rate the utmost limit will be reached
in the year 2072.
1t took four months for four men to do
seven inches of a cashmere shawl one yard
wide, working from ) In the morning till D
In the evening every day; so II was hardly
to be wondered at that two yards should
cost nearly $500.
At the mouth of the Mississippi there is
a little village built upon wooden piles
standing far out in the water. This village
is reached from the mainland by canoes and
it's inhabitants have to climb a kind of a
pole ladder to get to the doorways.
A procurator was the governor of a
province, having especial charge of the reve-
nue. and collection of taxes. Pontius PLAT
was a procurator, but owing to the rebel
lious character of the Hebrews he was in
vested with the power of a proconsol.
The first notice which we have of the
appointment of aldermen in London is in
originally written. californian, signifying
"elder men," which was used In the earlier
parts of the Saxon period as a name of dig
nifty, unconnected with office.
If a train, moving at the speed Of twenty
five miles an hour, were suddenly stopped,
the passengers would experience a shock
equal to that of falling from a SecOnd-fioor
window; at thirty miles al hour, they
might as we'll fall from a height of three
pairs of stairs, and an express train would,
in point of fact, make them fall from a
fourth story.
Texas raises 1900 900 bales of cotton, which
yield nearly $4,000, COO. The cotton seed
product exceeds 100000 tons. The sugar
plantations on the BrazoS alone produce L.
600, 900 pounds of sugar and 1,200,000 gallons
Of molasses. Texas has 5000, 600 sheep and
trees of Texas yield every year 5000, 600
pounds of nuts.