The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11

the use OF ladder or paste-pot. Is doing sue
cessful work in Paris. Theatrical people
are delighted with IL.
Some of the lumber trade journals are
writing in favor of soft elm for the interior
finish OF buildings. and assert that wher-
ever IL has been used In the Western cities
IL has proved very satisfactory.
IL has been reckoned that II the whole
ocean were dried up. all the water passing
away as vapor. the amount OF salt remain
Ing would be enough 10 cover 300. 00e square
miles with layer one mile thick.
There isn't vestiSe Of cork about cork
leg apart from the name. and that arises
manufacturers OF such articles used 10 live
on Cork street. Piccadily. London.
Robert Bonner mentions the striking fact
that when he bought his first trotting
and dead, had trotted a mile In 2:30 Now
there are more than 1890 on the list.
The total wealth OF Great Britain. with
all her possessions. has been estimated 10
be $500 o0o.oo0. France comes next with
$500 o0O. 900. The wealth OF the six largest
nations in the world aggregates 3.0p0.-
oc0.C00
will be a giant see-saw. having a beam
one hundred and fifty feet long. mounted on
tower seventy-hve feet high. car at
either end OF the beam will hold twenty
five people.
1t is seriously proposed to hold congress
OF old maids at Washington next fall The
ment are behind il. All women twenty
seven years old and upward will be eligible
az delegates
Having summoned his friends and neigh
borS to an outdoor beef roast. a Greensbury
Point md doctor. after his beef had been
praised. Informed his guests that he had
fed them on an eight month-old colt 10 dis
pei prejudice
A Carthage CMo) man prides himself on
having been probably the owner OF the first
bicycle or velocipede. as il was then known.
west of the Mississippi river. In 1861, when
living in Des Moines. Ia, he bought one in
New York for $50.
A California contractor who has been I'm
Mexico for several months has secured the
contract for laying the sewer pipe in the
City OF Mexico-a contract which involves
$3.00,O00. and will require upward of eight
years in completion.
A most peculiar case has recently come
up in a North Dakota court. Some time
ago a man was tried for a crime The jury
found tb1' he was guilty, and because he
had swo,--Ae was not guilty the judge held
him under $1,000 10 answer TO the charge OF
perjurv
The increasing wealth of American coll
Ieges enaoes no less tnan ten OF them 70
INDUCED in by Yale. Harvard. Cornell,
Princeton. Brown. Stanford. Tulane and the
and Michigan.
Liquefed air can now be ordered by the
dozen bottles in Munich. But just what IL
can be used for in general way Is In
at a touch, but its excess OF oxygen is a
valuable feature. At present chemists are
the only customers for it.
Proportionately there is no great town I'm
the civilized world that has few daily
morning papers as London. This is due to
the large expenditure involved in starting
one. Anyone contemplating starting
London morning paper must be ready to
lose 10000 to $4,000 per annum for the
first two or three years.
There is one man. at least. who has made
a success OF poultry raising. and he Is Isaac
from 10000 TO 10000 eggs year. and has
hundred fowl houses on his place. The
chickens are fed from a wagon which goes
from house TO house in the morning. and In
the afternoon the eggs are collected
At well attended educational meeting
in New York. one Of the speakers, Prof.
Murray highly complimented the West
contrasted with the East in its educational
methods. He said: West of the Alleghenies
the public schools are the peoples colleges.
And il is a fact that the West even does
more now for the higher education than the
East.
George Peabody's donation OF s, 500 900 for
London workngmen's houses has increased
to S6.000.000 in the twenty-four years since
his death. Last year the trustees OF the
fund provided Il, 367 rooms. besides bath
rooms. lavatories and laundries; 10 SH per-
fants in the buildings is per cent. below
the average for London.
The theaters in Japan have a novel meth
cd of pass-out tickets which are positively
not transferable. When a person wishes
TO leave the theater before the close of tho
ing. he goes to the doorkeeper and holds
out his right hand. The doorkeeper then.
with a rubber stamp. imprints on the palm
the mark of the establishment.