The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-27
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ondon has a population Of 5.S5s, 900.

London has population Of 5,656000.
On the longest day snow forty feet thick
has been known along the summit of Mount
kosciusko, Australia's highest peak.
AT Flemingsburg, KY, a woman had -
placing a bent pin in her church pew.
Most of the Belgian blocks used for paw
ing in this country come from Stone noun
tain, solid granite elevation. IN Georgia
An old woman was brought before the
magistrates of Manchester, England. re-
Gently. on the charge of drunkenness for
the 19lst time.
past twenty years have collected little
over f20,0Oo,oOO for charitable and benevo-
lent purposes. -
Almshouses, as a State institution, did
not originate until after the suppression of
the nonasteries In England during the
reign of Henry VIII.
Richmond Va. has grown so fast that
some of the Notifications constructed out
side of the city during the war are now
within the city limits.
There are in this country eighteen incor-
porated cremation societies, ana during the
past ten years about three thousand crema-
tons have taken place IL
Iceland is one OF the few countries that
has smaller population now than 1t had
twenty years ago. Last summer about six
hundred persons emigrated- $500
Thirty-five years ago Mrs. Milton Steven
son, of Georgetown, KY, ran a piece of
broken glass into her hand. Last week the
glass was taken out at the elbow.
Lamp mirrors are now made for toilet
purposes by a secret process which makes
them so tough that, even IL touched with
a red-hot iron. they will not crack.
The largest mammoth found in Siberia
measured IL feet long and 10 feet in height.
The tusks weighed $50 pounds. The head
without the tusks weighed Ala pounds.
When cats wash their ears more than
usual rain is at hand, and a sneeze from
one indicates good luck to the bride, while
If it sneezes thrice cold viii run through
the family.
The Vinegar Bible" is so called from an
sara IN as OF tine vn
gar" 1t was printed by the Clarendon
Press in III.
rev industry has been started in this
kind used by china decorators for FURNISH
formerly made in Bohemia.
The average whale is from fifty to sixty
five feet in length and thirty-Hve feet in
circumference. The jawbones are twenty
to twenty-five feet long, and tongue has
been known to yield almost a ton OF oil.
1t was to the tobacco trade that Glasgow
first owed its importance in the world of
commerce. This trade began in 1907 and
seventy years later Glasgow was importing
more than half the tobacco consumed in
Britain. I8e.
/ A dark-eyed man was kept for fifteen
years in an unlighted dungeon in Salz-
saw a human face. When he came forth
into daylight it was noticed that. his black
eyes had become blue.
The grave announcement is made by
spiritualistic periodical that it has secured
the exclusive collaboration of William
Shakespeare in the spirit world, and that
any alleged communications from the
dramatist appearing elsewhere are spuri-
Gus.
The thinnest sheet of iron ever rolled
has recently been turned out at the Hal
Ian tin works, near Swansea, Wales. II
has surface Of 6fty-five square inches
and weighs but twenty grains. 1t would
| take 1850 such sheets TO make a layer an
inch thick.
The increase of wealth in the far West
ern States during the past half century
has been extraordinary. In 1850 the aver
S wBere per ssfa w of & he ayarags s
Rhode Island. the richest New England
State, was $l,459 in 1890.
DR.. Finkler. of Bonn. said, in recent
parliamentary discourse on hygiene, that Of
the 100000 soldiers of Napoleon who per-
ished in the Russian expedition of 1872, AGO.
600 fell victims to infectious diseases. and
that in 1866 Prussia lost 5000 men in battle
and 5000 through preventable diseases.
The population of Melbourne. Australia,
at the end of 1898 was 444,632, decrease of
1904 as compared with April. 1891. The
decrease is due to the industrial depression
from which the city is now beginning to
recover: The population. Of Sydney at the
| close of last year was al. $50. as compared
with 411,7 10 at the end Of 1892.
Good pencil cedar is getting so scarce
| that the great firm of Faber e. Co. have
begun to cultivate forests OF cedar (Juni-
perus Virginiana) in Germany At
| Schloss Stein there is cedar forest which
| covers thirteen acres, and the head of the
firm has, or many years, maintained
| nurseries and plantations of cedars on his
| land in Bavaria. grown from seed which
| he imported from Florida
The marriage rate in England and Wales
during the last quarter of last year was
| lower than in any previous like period
| There were ~. SIS marriages, which was in
| the annual proportion of 1853 persons per
LOCO of population The mean rate for the
| corresponding quarter in the preceding ten
years was lib. 1t is also noted that the ay-
erage of the last ten years is far below that
| of any preceding decennium.