The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12
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small zee of land In Bermondsey. This
piece property was sixteen feet In depth
s and 20 ahae t an nrIee asked was at the
rate of f13,0O0.0 900 an acre.
The average length Of life in Norway is
greater than in any other European country.
Recent statistics show that, for males, the
average is forty-eight years and three
months, and for females 1t Is fifty-one years
and three months.
Canada. the largest British possession of
the crown, has area, including Its lakes
and rivers, of $4,000 square miles. The
United States has an area of 81 400 square
the former so rnf has more sauare miles
Australia has found 1t impossible to abate
the rabbit plague. In New South Wales alone
seven million acres Of land have been aban-
dCned and S. 900, 600 spent. The only plan that
has any good effect is wire netting, and of
this fifteen thousand miles have been used.
In Cannon street, London, in 1880, six hum
dred square feet OF land was SOLD Tor puiId-
ing sites for f4,500 which amounts to e. los
a SQUARE foot or $3.50 600 an acre: and the
same year. in Grace Church street, building
sites at Els 1Ss a square foot, or fS2OOOO an
acre.
In the American civil war one out of every
sxty-five men was killed. and one in each
out of each twenty-eight was killed, and in
the early British conflicts as high an aver
age as one death to each nineteen engaged
is reported.
1t is stated that the most crowded spot on
the earth's surface is the "Manderaggio,
in the city of Valetta. in Milan. Upon a
spot in this place, about two and half
acres in extent. no fewer than 2.574 live.
This is at the rate Of $4,000 per square mile,
or 1,0l7 TO an acre. p. ~ ~
Perpetual sunshine occurs ON the coast of
Peru, where. although 1t may be misty oc-
casionally the blue sky Is always visible
through this whtish veil. Perpetual sunshine
when the sun is above the horizon also ex-
lists in the Sahara, the great desert of Afri-
ca. and in the other rainless regions of the
earth.
While Sir Walter Raleigh generally gets
the credit of having introduced the potato
into England, in Germany the credit is given
to Sir Francis Drake. At Offenburg about
twelve miles from Strassburg. there is In
I'm gratitude to him for having introduced
the potato into Europe.
A whole mountain of asbestos is said TO
have been discovered about four miles north
of Mount Vernon. Ore The asbestos fiber
varies from half an inch to two inches In
length and is of excellent quality. The dis
covery was made through the herding of
sheep on the mountain. Where the animals
had tramDed the rock the asbestos threads
showed up like punches Of WOOL
An orange tree, IL is said. will bear fruit
until Ii Is 80 years old: and there are re-
corded instances of orange trees bearing
fruit when five hundred years old In Malta
and Naples fifteen thousand oranges have
been picked from a single tree. and one in
the Sandwich Islands was estimated TO bear
twenty thousand. In two Instances In south
ern Europe. thirty-eight thousand were
picked from one tree.
Some idea OF the terrors OF q bursting VOL
cano may be gained from the account of
the last eruption in Hawaii. The crater of
Athe volcano was filled from six hundred TO
one thousand feet deep with molten lava,
which finally forced its way through SUBJ