The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-22

the expenses of administration had been
paid by money from the same source.
Storm warnings have been displayed in
the principal parts of this country without
interruption since 1860; in England since
1861.
marry younger women, $40 marry women
of the same age, and eighty-nine marry
older women.
The Bookman makes the astonishing an
nouncement that no book of Mr.. Ruskin S
has ever been translated and published in
a foreign language.
The largest of money ever paid for
a book was $4,000, which the German gov
owned by Pope Leo X
Hosea Brown, Of Wildermere, Ore. is
said to be the only survivor Of the war of
1912 the Pacific coast who draws pen
sion. He is 101 years old.
When a Chinaman wants to be avenged
on an enemy he goes and hangs himself on
the door of the enemys house, believing
ii will bring him bad luck.
svlvania, given by the Duke of York TO
William Penn, is for the term of 10000
years, at five shtllings rent.
Partisan restaurant keepers mix a little
honey with their butter This gives II an
agreeable taste and flavor and makes in
feriOr butter more palatable.
Russia and Italy are the two European
countries from which have. come the ma
in this country during the first half or the
year.
The memorial bronze doors which the
Astors propose putting in Trinity Church,
New York, are about complete. II took
three years to finish them, at cost of
100000.
Brooklyn has eight miles of, water front;
where over $500 600. 600 of goods are stored
every year. 1t is the fourth American city
in manufactures, producing over $4,000, 900
a year.
Austria is the most lenient to murderers.
In the ten years ending In 1879 there were
SIC criminals found guilty of willful muir
der. of whom only twenty-three were put
to death
In the coal regions of Kansas they have
begun to mine coal by electricity The
coal cutters, operated by electrical current.
are now in use, and the results are very
satisfactory.
Savannah has the honor of projecting and
building the first transatlantic steamship,
which was built and owned in Savannah.
was called the Savannah, and sailed on its
first voyage In 1872
One reason why female physicians are
so plentiful in Russia is that the country
includes among its inhabitants over 12,OO,-
600 Mohammedans who do not allow male
physicians to treat women.
DIR. Wiley, United States chemist, says
il is q mistake that sugar is adulterated
with sand, at least in this country. He
says sugar is as free from added impuri-
ties as any article of food
The German soldier is going to have his
buttons and the other parts of his uniform
made of aluminium. He will thus, by this
reduction in weight, be able to carry one
hundred additional rounds of ammunition.
1t has been computed that since the prac-
tice of embalming began in 1000 b. c., down
to 700 A. D., when il practically ceased,
probably as many as 600 bodies were
embalmed in Egypt. of which the greater
part are yet concealed.
The number of men and women in France
is more nearly equal than in any other
country, there being 1907 women to Loo
men. In Switzerland there are 1,064 men
to LOCO women. and in Greece only 933. In
Hong Kong there are only 366 women to
1000 men.