The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-17

Dor Of Barcelona froze over. and navigation
was suspended in the Greek Archipelago on
account of the danger from floating ice.
Compressed tea is not by any means =
novelty. In Russia hard cakes Of 1t are
carried about by travellers. and IT Is kept
in this form In all rural households.
A German has invented small house
DO used in diving and working in sunken
SHIPS or valuable wreckage or other char
acter.
and during three months travellers passed
from the continent to Sweden on thu ice
Heavy wagon trains were substituted for
the trading vessels.
In Holland IT Is customary, when there il
INFECTIOUS disease In house. to notify
the fact to, intending visitors and the pub
round the bell handle.
Three members of the last Corean Cab
met were Christians who were educated
and made a profession In the United States.
They have been delegated by Japan to carr1r
out the work OF reformation In that country.
The income tax was levied by Pitt as
war tax In la9S It was repealed In 1876 re-
vlved In 1872. and extended to Ireland in
1852 of this tax S5.4 per cent. is collected
in England, in Scotland and Sc in Ire
land.
fuses to pay his taxes he is laid on the
ground and bastinadoed until he produces
the money. Some have been known to en-
dure one hundred lashes before finally con-
Guiding to pay.
The peasants in Russia are said to be in
more pitiable state of restitution than at
the famine of 500 the crown advanced to
p, 100000 impoverished peasants q total sum
OF 259,00O.OO0 rouhles.
Old money orders are presented at the
Postoffice Department almost every day
but the amount of the unpaid money order
fund increases constantly. and there is no
Likelihood that any part of the 81, 800 900 will
be claimed by it's owners.
During growth there must be ample sleep
II the brain Is to develop to it's full extent
and the more nervous. excitable or precc-
get If it's intellectual progress is not to come
to a premature standstin or its life be cut
short.
According to official figures, Il ,3si, 1879 tons
of anthracite coal were marketed in 1894.
though probably from 100000 to 100000
tons more were mined: This Is less than
the 49, ,533 tons In 1893, or the Al. S92, 800
tons of 1892, but exceeds the output OF any
year previous to 1892.
The Montagnis Indian in Canada will set
up tan stick In the snow s, when travelins
with his foot the line of shadow cast. and
by the change in the angle. Of the shadow
the oncoming party can tell on arriving at
the spot how far ahead the leader is.
The dangers of ballooning are to be slight
ly mitigated by the invention of a French
man, which provides for the equipment OF
a cylinder of membrane to the car. 80 ar
ranged that by the pressure Of q button it
may be automatically inflated with air In
the unfortunate event of the balloon failing
into the sea.
More than half the worlds supply of tin
is mined In the Straits settlement at the
tip of the Malay peninsula. The output in
1891 was 36.061 tons, out of total of S.
651 tons; II, 1O6 tons came from tho Dutch
East Indies, chiefly from the Island OF
Banka, leaving only 1884 tons for the rest
Of the world.
Experiments are being made in France to
concentrate wine into tablets for transpor-
tation. After the grapes are pressed the
juice Is pumped into an apparatus. where It
Is evaporated and the vapor condensed.
mixed with the grape juice, producing Z
marmalade that contains so per cent OF
grape sugar. To make wine the grapes are
mixed with the right proportion Of water