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

dollar bill has vignettes of Fulton and
Morse. while the five-dollar bill has Wig
nettes of Grant and Sheridan.
1t has been computed that the death rate
or the globe is siXty-eight per minute, $3.50
per day or S. 1880 per year. The birth
rate is seventy per minute. 500 per DAY.
or 366l1,2OO per year. reckoning the year 10
be S65h4 days in length
Japanese houses in the larger cities are
OF one general shape, two stories high, and
put together with a curious method of
mortising, a. which these people are adopts,
not one nail Being used throughout the
! construction of the building.
One queer result of the search for the
murderer of Guidensuppe in New York be-
was to develop the fact that there were at
the time sevanty-two persons mysteriously
missing from home in that city.
Near Boise City, Ida, four hundred feet
below the earth's surface there is a sub
terranean lake of hot water of 10 degrees
Temperatures 1t has pressure enough to as
cend to the top floor of most of the houses,
and will be piped to them for heating pur-
poses.
For the purpose of removing horses from
burning buildings q new fire mask has been
placed on the market consisting of hood
TO cover the eyes and nostr!ls to prevent
the horse from seeing the fire or smelling
the smoke, the device being easily slipped
over the animals head and fastened with
a strap.
The beet sugar industry, regarding which
much has been said recently, has proved
a success in one place. at least, in this
shares of the Watsonville. Cal. factory are
now selling at $500, after each share had
drawn SLY in dividends.
Texas has a boy preacher who was reared
in a saloon, ran away from home at an
early age, became a gambler and sot and
was dragged from the depths of inlquity at
an age of eighteen. He is able to entertain
his congregation by the hour in telling all
the bad things he has done.
Newfoundland has at times peculiar
visitor, which is thus described: The occa-
sional grounding of an immense iceberg
short distance from the shore produces an
astonishing local climatic change during its
stay, preventing the ripening of crops and
garden fruits, but presenting at sunset
magnificent priSmatic or iridiscent effects"
In Vienna the height of a house must not
exceed eighty-two feet; the floor of the
last story must not he more than 65.6 feet
above the level of the street. When the
ground slopes this measure must be taken
from the highest point. The house must
the cellar and attic.
a swarm of bees, numbering somewhere
in the neighborhOOd of 5000, were captured
in Providence street, Iaftsvllle Conn, the
Mathews Wood. The bees first lit on a
trolley, wire, but afterward forsook this
for d bush in a yard, where they We're
all caught and hived.
With one exception the Governors of all
the States receive q definite salary, without
the addition of fees or perquisites. The eX-
gets 81, 500 cash and some extras. His is the
smallest salary paid any Governor of an
American State except the Governor of
Vermont, who gets $1,000 without any ex-
traS.
AS early as 1912 the French began to adj
vertise in a paper called the PetiteS Al
fiches, and ten years later the first bona
fide attempt at printing newspaper was
made in London. Among the very earliest
mercantile advertisements to appear in
England was one advertising the sale of
tea. 1t appeared in the Mercurius Poll
ticus.
No trustee may legally invest money in
bonds of the city of London, as the act of
1893 by a blunder of the draughtsman,
while permitting trustees to invest in the
debt of any borough having $4,000 inhabit-
ants, does not specifically mention London,
and as the census takes into account only
the night population, the city has less than
the $4,000 inhabitants required
A woman has just died at Teignrnouth,
in Devonshire. England, who certain
ly one of the most logical and consistent
of her sex. One evening in 1858 when she
was thirty-eight years of age and in per-
feet health, she retired usual Next
morning she said that bed the most
comfortable place in the world, and an
nounced her intention OF remaining there
for the rest of her natural life. This de-
termination she has calmly carried out.