The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
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that, it is said, objects can BE seen ry star
light at a distance of seven miles.
Atlanta has an ordinance prohibiting We
hicleS from passing places of worship at
a rapid rate of speed on Sundays.
The first imports of cattle to America
were made by Columbus in 1885, who
brought over a bull and several COWS.
In 1916 the value of bushel of wheat in
England was equal to that Of pound of
naiis. To-day a bushel of wheat will buy
ten pounds of nails.
Bricks, apparently as, good as when first
made, We're excavated in Babylon, the
thousand years old.
The Mennonites are to found a colony
near Houston, Tex, purchasing an immense
farm, to be colonized by all the Mennonltes
now scattered throughout the West.
Bottles now are being made of paper I'M
der a German patent. They are for use
particularly on shipbcard, where heavy
weather works havoc among glass recepta-
Giles.
The Oldest specimen Of pure glass bearing
a date is the head of a lion in collection
at the British Museum. 1t bears the name
of an Egyptian king OF the eleventh dy-
nasty
The allowance of the lord mayor of Lon
don, up to the mayoralty of Sir Sidney
Waterlow, in 1872, was $4,000 annually, but
it was increased in that year to $4,000, at
which sum it has ever since remained.
English farmers, who know it is against
the law to use ferrets to drive out rabbits
place in the burrow rubber hose with
tin horn on the end inserted. Then they
blow the horn and bunny comes out in quick
order.
For short distance lion or a tiger can
outrun man and can equal the speed OF
fast horse, but the animals lose their wind
at the end of about half mile. The have
little endurance and are remarkably weak
in lung power.
To the average eye not more than 5000
X
traordinarily strong eyes can see about
5000 stars. Through the Lick telescope and
other powerful instruments about 50,OOO,0OO
stars are visible.
During the past three months there has
been so heavy demand for lumber in Cali
fornia that many firms have been Obliged
to refuse orders. In many cases the in
creased demand has caused an advance of
nearly 80 per cent in prices.
One of the building papers tells a story
of church at Marquette Men, which was
built for Eskimo USE in DEFAULT of timber
of whales ribs and tanned W9lrus hides
During the winter hosts of famlshed dogs
came and ate up the church.
A church has been built out of one big
tree at Santa Rosa, Cal. The whole struc-
ture and it's furniture were made from one
goodly specimen of sequola. The interior is
finished and paneed in wood also, and there
were lot of shingles left over
In Norway ice-breaking machines are IN.
use which paddle their way through. Ice
twenty-eight inches thick at the rate of
chimes has lately been sent to Vladivostock
to keep it's harbor open in winter.
Whereas no fewer than 107 persons died
of hydrophobia in Prussia in the years from
1877 to 1884 there was not single death
from that cause in 1888, although 36S cases
of mad dogs were reported and 9O6 sus-
pected animals in addition, were killed by
the police.
President Alfred Coolidge of the Second
National Bsnk of Colfax, Wash, has raised
an immense quantity of wheat this season
- 70 ~ limo n
while the land itself could not have been
sold at any time these past three years at
$40 an acre.
In France. as in Germany, boys are first
sent to gymnaSiumS when they are twelve
or thirteen years of age, and spend five or
six years in study and under discipline that
IS much more severe than is that OF the
preparatory schools and colleges of the
United States
The Oldest bank note in existence is in the
British Museum. 1t was printed in China in
the year 1868, thrty-two years before
Johann Gutenberg, the reputed inventor of
printing was born. 1t was issued three
hundred years before bank notes were cir
culated in Europe.
Mirrors are known to have been in use
as far back as 1873. Before glass was in
vented horn and metal were used. Anglo
Saxon women carried small ones slung TO
their girdles, and beauties In the time of
James ] and Elizabeth had them in the
center of their fans
There has recently been cast by the Beth
weighing 222, 800 pounds, said TO be the larg-
est ingot ever cast in this country. 1t is
sixteen feet seven inches long. seventy-four
inches in diameter, and from it will be
made 16-inch gun for coast defense
1t is estimated that twenty-five acres of
land are necessary to sustain one man on
fresh meat. The same space of land, if de-
voted to wheat culture would feed forty
two people; if to oats. lightweight; pota-
toes. Indian corn and rice, 176, and if to the
pantain, or bread fruit tree, over 5000 peo-
pie.
At the jubilee festivities of King Oscar of
that appeared most TO interest him was the
exhibition of the female fire brigade of
Koenissen. There are $50 of these young
women, from twenty to thirty years old
directed by a male COMMUNICATIVE is
married.
In Maricopa county Arizona Territory.
there is a geological freak. 1t is a five
horned sheep While he was in Phoenix he
created somewhat of a sensation, and was
the pet, if not the lion, of the hour. Then
he went down TO ella Bend and covered
himself with glory and blood by whipping
the biggest dog In Miracopa county.
The first launch designed especially for
torpedo boat was built in 1873 and was
| fitted with pole for carrying a torpedo at
its forward extremity. Torpedoes are now
shot from tubes either by compressed air
or gunpowder. In discharging the tube the
torpedo boat runs past the enemy and when
within few hundred yards stops and dis
charges the tOrDedOea from hen. side