The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27

corner Of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth
street sold for $4,000. which Is $500 a
front foot and $50 a square foot
The latest figures of the cost of getting
through Princeton are off .ially report I'd
70 be: Freshman year, 80. sophomore.
S51s.lS. Junior, S655.S7, senior, Sf41.60. Total
number of graduates, 1872 out of 237 who en-
tered.
1t has just been discovered that each OF
the two Testaments in use in the city os
London court is kissed thirty thousand
times day Both books are very ancient
They are falling TO pieces, being literally
kissed away.
j. r. Brown, of Williamsport. Pa. mis-
took sheet of fly paper for porous plas-
acid on the paper ate through the flesh 10
the ribs in several places, and the mans
life is in danger.
G. T.. Parvin, of Burton. Kan. has been
taken to the insane asylum. Mr.. Parvin
declares that he has been dead for two
weeks. and says it is a shame that the au-
thorities should allow fostering corpse to
lie around unburied.
Lord Salisbury is the holder OF five acres
of land near Charing Cross, London, which
his ancestors obtained $50 years ago for
shillings an acre for 500 years. 1t is now
worth millions of pounds.
Governor Russell of North Carolina, ras
remedy for lynchings. He thinks the
executive should be given the power TO
convene court where the crime will war
rant such step being taken, and that a
prompt ana speedy dlSpoSltlon or the case
should follow.
In a new device to sharpen the knives of
moving machines without removing them
from the cutterbar an emery wheel is at
tached to q rod at the back of the bar to
slide along to the different teeth in turn,
power being applied by belt or gear on the
axle of the machine.
In 1929 the first locomotive ever run in
this country, the Stourbridge Lion, was i'm
ported from England, and two years later
Mr.. Baldwin began, in a small way, the
MANUFACTURE of locomotives in Philadel-
phia. The capacity of the Baldwin works
is now one thousand engines year.
The steamship City of Rio de Janeiro,
which has arrived at San Francisco from
consignment of prepared opium from
Mace0. China. There are over 900 cases #
the drug, valued at about $2 900, and
upon which the duty amounts to 1921, 440.
Nine German Catholic pastors of Cincin-
natl announce that hereafter sermons in
English as well as in German will be
in furtherance of the spirit. of the. recent
papal DEGREES looking to the conduct of
Catholic. worship in the established Ian
guage of the country
Isaac Mason, colorcd. of Worcester
Mass, celebrated his seventy-tifth birthday
last week. He was a slave, and came to
Worcester in 1850 by the underground
of the most respected citizens of Worces-
ter, and some of the most prominent peo-
pie of the city congratulated him on his
In Austria a law has just been passed
making it a punishable offenSe for parents
to take young children into bed with them.
This arbitrary interference with The liber-
ty of the subject" has been rendered neceS-
Sary by the large number of deaths of in
fantS through being overlaid, the annual
average having been for some time past
as much as four thousand.
The boast of a Montana paper on the
length OF the strawberry season in that
State has prompted another paper to point
out that at Irapnato, a small Mexican
town, strawberries may be picked in the
open air any day of the year. The ma
tives sell large baskets of them for 1212
cents in American money, or % cents in
Mexican.
Five years ago a man named VQigt stole
a ride railroad in Colorado. Recently
he became a Christian and was smitten
with remorse to such an extent that he
sent a written confession to the company,
inclosing $1.56 being his fare at the rate of
cents a mile, with interest added. As
matter of fact, the fare at that time was
cents mile, and the company has sent
the man demand for 50 cents in addition.
During the American revolution an Eng
lish magazine published an estimate of
the future population of the North Amerl-
can colonies. Placing the population then
at 900 and assuming that it would
double itself every twenty-five years the
writer then estimated that in the year 1890
the number would have increased to 64,G00
100. This may be taken as most remark
able prophecy. inasmuch as the census of
1890 fixes the total population at 1882, $50.