The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

porter are of a professional nature, and are
therefore not covered by the statute reia-
tive to preferred labor claims
1t is computed that all the houses in
London and New York could be built OF the
lava thrown out by Nesuvius since the
first recorded eruption in a. d. 70.
a Dakota man has, after twenty years
effort, succeeded in collecting $40 from the
government for supplies furnished Custer
army on its way TO the Little Big Horn.
A correspondent of the Hartford Times
says that lather of tar soap applied to
the face and hands and then gently rubbed
OF Is sure protection against mosquitoes
Boston is so we'll pleased with the horse
less fire engine which was recently added
to her fire fighting equipment that the fire
commission has placed the order for SIM
liar engine.
London has 1900 policemen, Paris has
5000 policemen, New York has $500 police
men. The ordinary arrests in New York
in year are So 900, in Paris 100000, and in
London 10000.
In India boarding is the universal method
of providing for the future, and one author
ity says that the stores of the natives IN
the shape of coin and ornaments amount
to as much as $3.50 coo. 000.
The smallest republic in the world is
FranceVlle one of the islands in the New
Hebrides. The inhabitants consist of forty
Europeans and five hundred black workmen
employed by French company.
In Japan small children of the poor, who
have the gift Of straying and no nurses 10
simple precaution of hanging labels around
their necks which tell their names and ad-
dresses.
Hyde Park, the most distinctive of Lon
don parks, covers 400 acres. The Bots de
Bouiogne, the most distinctive of Paris
parks, covers 1920 acres. Central Park. the
most distinctive of New York parks, covers
$40 acres.
London is not only the healthiest capital
in the world, but is becoming healthier than
the great towns of England The death rate
&c n1ylxr iPfW he foI
low the average for the corresponding
period of the last ten years.
The latest in the realm of glove making
is gloves of frogskin. This skin is said to
world. The demand for them is not great,
but of sufficient dimensions to make 1t
worth while to manufacture.
1t is stated that the German military au-
thorties have decided to demolish the for
tifcations and the walls of Mayence, the
most strongly fortified city of Germany
which has witnessed so many fierce strug-
giles and historical tragedies.
A horse, which up to the last was called
a pony, died at Burlington, Kan, recently,
at the age of forty-one. The owner, DR..
thirty-nine years, ever since he bought 1t
from the Sac and Fox Indians.
Near Boise City,, Ida, 400 feet below the
lake of hot water of 10 degree tempera-
ture. 1t has pressure enough to ascend
to the top of the most of the houses, and
PNoSN'
1t is a whole days work for two men to
fell even the smallest mahogany tree. On
account of the spurs which project from the
base of the trunk scaffold has to be-erect-
ed and the tree cut off above the spurs,
leaving thus a stump of the very best wood
from ten to fifteen feet high.
The royal crown of Great Britain is com
posed almost entirely of diamonds, pearls
and rubies, weighs thirty-nine ounces and
eight pennyWeights Troy, and is valued at
| G24O000. When the Kohinoor was first
| hr0nOht n E11rOnR karAtS.
but by cutting has been reduced to 102.
The German people, who in 1916 numbered
only 250O0,000, are now more than 4o00,0JO,
and their present rate of increase is greater
than that of any other European nation.
They add yearly 115 to every 10000 of their
population while the United Kingdom adds
101 to the same number, and France only Z6.
There is considerable difference between
the size of the hands and feet, and, Curl
ously enough, on opposite sides. Thus,
while the right hand is generally larger it
is the left foot which is the bigger and
stronger of the two. This is probably due
to the fact that we stand habitually on the
left foot.
The doornail in earlier times was the
plate of the door upon which the od-fash-
toned knocker struck to arouse the inmates
of the house. AS the plate or nail was
nail it was assumed to be more dead than
other nails. Hence the phrase, Dead as a
doornail'
Courtplaster should be used with care.
If the injury be very slight, the method of
application is unimportant; but if at all
deep, never use the plaster to cover the
cut. Simply use long narrow strips and
apply them across the cut to bring it's
edges together. Then the secretions of the
wound can escape. Never apply court
plaster to a bruised wound.
The snuff used by the Pope is made in
America. This particular snuff goes direct
from Baltimore to the Vatican. 1t is the
highest-priced snuff in the world. and its
value is increased several times above the
original cost after the customs duties have
been paid to the Italian government. His
Holiness likes dainty, pleasing odors, and
before it is packed the snuff is literally
sprinkled with altar of roses.
India has 2O35 towns, with an aggregate
population of 27,251 176, about one-tenth of
the total population. OF these towns TWEEN
ty-eight have over 100000 inhabitants forty
eight more over $4,000 and 800 more over
10000 The largest are Bombay, S21, 764; Cal
cutta, 71,144; Madras 45251S; Hyderabad,
415O39; Lucknow. 27$O2S; Beenares, 2l9 49,;
Delhi 1859; Mandalay. 1S8,S15; Cawnpore,
1855 712: Bangalore, 1886; Rangoon, 1873 324;
Lahore, 1854; Allehabad, 1925.