The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-12

mortgages is only $40, 600, and that ninety
one out of every hundred Utah farmers
own their farms.
Not less than 1,500 people were trampled
to death in the crowds which gathered at
the fete given in celebration of the mar
riage of Louis XVI, of France. June p, I11O.
The largest island in the world is Aus
tralia-greatest length, 400 miles; greatest
breadth, 1000 miles; area, 2,9R. 19S square
miles, or nearly the size OF the United
States.
The statutes of Missouri declare a man is
a vagrant, however thriving may be the
business he is engaged in, If he refuses ca
neglects to supply his family with the neces-
stiles of life.
Gorham Abbott, of Winsted. Conn, has
surprised his friends by beginning to talk
after being dumb for thirty years. he was
made deaf and dumb by an attack OF scarlet
fever in his youth.
Saxon girls LOCO years ago always wore
e, gold crown during the marriage cere-
mony, this article being kept in the church
and a fee paid the priest for Its use by the
brides of the parish.
Frogs become dark green or black If they
are kept in a dark vessel in a sparingly
lighted room, but when a branch with green
leaves is introduced into the vessel, they all
recover their bright green color.
Coin collectors regard the collecting or
old Greek coins as the most formidable
task, not because OF their rarity, but Pc
cause fully one thousand independent cities
had a distinctive series Of coins.
Impaling was used as n punishment in
Turkey up TO 1855; The last men lnPalea
They were impaled at the four corners or
the Bagdad bridge. One of them lived no
less than nine days.
The Mayor Of Oshkosh, Wis, has ordered
that all pasteboard milk tickets now in use
in that city be destroyed, on the ground
that they are active vehicles for the propaga-
ton of disease. An effort VIII be MADE 10
substitute metal checks.
Although many simple tests for impure
water are constantly being pupllsned, the
Pharmaceutical Era says that they are not
experienced chemist can determine the pur-
ity or impurity OF a specimen.
The new Congressional Library in Wash
ington will, Librarian Spofford believes, &C
commodate copies of all the books OF the
world for one hundred years to come and
still leave seven-eighths or Its ValuaDle
space applicable for other purposes.
When ii is desired to use carbolic acid as
a disinfectant, 1t should be mixed with boil
ing water. This r4mpt over cG9 and me
water and converts them into a permanent
solution which will keep for weeks.
The British Museum now numbers among
its many curios the royal gold cup believed
70 Rer navs as pe a eift to chales V. who died the
same year before he received the cup. Inc
relic has had a very interesting career. 1t
cost the Museum tS,OOO-
The first forks made i'm England were
manufactured in 1903. Their use was rid
icuIed by the men of the time, who argued
that the EnSlsn race must pe ueseneiaeLas
when a knife and a spoon were not sum
cient for the table use. Last year a Shef-
field firm made over 100000.
Breech-loading rifles were invented In 1871,
but did not come into general use Tor many
years. 1t is estimated that over H,OO,VO
are now In actual service in the European
armies, while 100000 more are reserved in
the arsenals foT emergency. StatiStlcians
say that there are 100000 guns OF all
kinds in the world.
1t is 'believed that the custom of raising
the hat in saluting ladies Is derived from the
DAYS of chivalry, when the knights un-
helmed before ladies. that by so doing they
might forego the advantages which their
armor conferred upon them-rendcring them
defenseless and at the same time by such
act declare their belief that woman was the
soul and fountain Of honor.