The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
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,,, vo 90 r,resent only thirty steam
hoats on the Amazon and its tributaries
Tba tea cron in the best districts of emma
is from three to four hundred POUNDS pei
acre. .. eo,
In o1den times bones were collected Iro ii
the battleheldS, grOullu W Po"NSA' 49,
to fertilize the land.
In every school in Paris there is res tia
+aurant where free meals are served ~ tII0
children who are too poor to pay tor THEM.
The Hottest inhabited place in the worid
&c the Buddhist monastery OF name III
Thibet. It is about 1900 feet above the sea-
All birds, when perohed on trees or 3I, nusa
es serve as weathercocks: as they my a. 70 o.
hlv arrange themselves with their heaos 10
the wind. 40
An authority states that the gold in the
shape of coin and ornaments no ara nor ny
the natives of India amounts 10 INe elioA
NOUS sum of &250,OOO0O0
An umbrella covered with a transparency
material has found it's way into the fd Is
Office. The holder IS enabeo 70 seG his
he is going when ne nolus II O0A 49,
face -
The Bank of France has a camera SO ar
ranged that the picture OF any SuS So 1,s9
visitor may be secured without tne sus-
pected individual knowing that he mas peeh
caught"
Connecticut woman of seventy-seVen
recently married the Drod9 9id o. tba nI naieh-
bors might talk II she VehCureo ~ |iee
her name.
Pennsylvania produces hardware dV are manu- r51,
factl1reS TO the value of $685., COZ, wv yearly
which is equivalent to $74 per lnhapdtant;
the average in Great Britain belng SlS anu
in Germany $40.
on the state railways in Germany the
carriages are painted according to the col
ors of the tickets of their respective class
es. First-class carriages are paInIed yoi-
low, second-class green anu tnii -'i'''"
white.
AS many as $4,000 people have, been &C
commodated in St. Pauls Cathedral, Lon
don but that has 6een ON "lf festivas only
Between six and seven thousand people
find seats.
The oldest wooden building in the world
is believed to be the church in Borgund,
in Norway. 1t was built in the eleventh
century. and has been protected by fire.
quent coatings of pitch. 1t Is puilt Oh pine
and in fantastic Romanesque design.
Sheffield's mayor is the Duke of Nortolk
On the occasion of Queen Victorla's VlslI
he gave a feast to 80 600 school chlldren anu
their 1900 teachers at his country not use
near by, where he subsequently gave TEA
to 5000 persons over sixty years or age.
The longest time during which BANK
of England note has remained uncasned
is III years The note in question was Tor
coz and it is computed that the compound
interest gained by the bank owing 10 It's
nonpresentation amounted to no less imam
$4,000.
A Sepov regiment will outwalk any Euro
pean regiment and do 1t on food Whlch
their competitors would pronounce wholly
insufficient to sustain ylg9ro1s me 9nd son[s
and sling them across their shoulders while
on the march.
The highest temperature in the world ts
over the southwestern coast OF ke ,aat on on
one year the thermometer marked over lOO
degrees in the shade, night and day, Tor
forty consecutive days. 1t has been known
to go as high as 100 degrees.
For nearly two years the resolutions of
coincidence on the death OF secretary
Gresham passed by the Hawaiian goo oef "a
in Chicago undelivered because MIS-
Gresham's address was not known al-
though it appears in the directory.
Saint Etienne near Lyons, has apparent
ly solved the problem of distributing cleo
trical energy cheaply In private houses houses
over wide district Two dollars m 9,iI1a
a loom. the service extending as far as
thirty miles from the central station.
They have a novel way in Italy of adver-
Using vacant apartments In place of the
pacard inscribed Rooms to Let, or TO
be Let" which one sees in England a
white cloth, about the size OF NAPKIN nut tho
passers-by that the apartments can be
rented.
Some idea of the fine point to which plat
mum wire can be drawn will be realized
from the fact that threads have been
drawn two of which can be twisted togeth-
er and inserted within the hoAoW OF
tesimal that it needs a magnifying glass
to see them.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
blind people in the world, one to every
1500 inhabitants. Latest reports show 23,O
blind persons in England, or $40 for each
million inhabitants. Blind infants of less
than five years 166 for each million; be-
tween FIVE and fifteen, 2SS between twenty
and twenty-five 422; between forty-fve and
sixty, 1.625, and above sixty-f1ve years, 1000
for each million.
The Ashanti army is the male part of the
Ashanti nation. Every man who can keep
up on the march is obliged to serve, and
after an expedition has set out the women
scour the streets, and almost beat to death
any man whom they may discover skulk-
ing at home. In battle the generals occu-
by the rear, so as to cut down any one
who may try to run away. If the battle
goes against them the generals commit sui
eide.
The Western Union Telegraph Company's
messenger boy at Bradford Conn, is
Frederick Miller, aged eighty-seven, who
has a local reputation for his long walks.
A message came addressed to man in
North Branford the other day, five miles
from the Branford Office Miller started
out and when he got to North Branford
he found that the man lived in Northford.
On he went five miles more found his
man. delivered the message and started
back, covering a distance Of twenty miles,
for which he received the sum of 81.