The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-12

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More than a third of the French crown
jewels have been bought by Americans.
The only windows in Korean houses are
pieces of glass about the size of nickel.
Great Britain's marine steam tonnage is
to-day 6,720, 703-about as much as that of all
other nations added together.
British capital is pouring into British CO.
lumbia. 1t is estimated that 600 will
be taken there by syndicates.
Among the natives of Mexico there are,
according to Lumholtz. about 10000 sur
vivors of the Aztec race.
A well-known physician says that when
tagged out by professional work he recruits
his strength by eating raisins, and not by
drinking wine or spirits.
Raisers of fat pork get about half what
the lean article brings and use about twice
the value OF feedStuffS needed for the lean
meat to make the deal.
In the state of Neuvo Leon, Mexico the
government officials have ordered that all
the pupils in the official schools shall be
taught to write with both the left and right
hand.
According to the New England Historic
genealogical Society, only twenty-nine fam
lies that came to New England from Great
Britain were entitled to bring armoral bear
ingS with them.
There are more houses in London than in
Paris, New York, Berlin and Vienna put
together. This is to be accounted for by the
TACT that the inhabitants of these towns
reside mostly in flats.
the bargain craze has over the average
woman, it is announced that a girl in De-
troit is suing for breach of PROMISE and
places her damages at $299.
A Dutch chemist in Java claims to have
discovered process by which starch may
be converted into sugar at half the present
cost of sugar. The two substances are COM
posed of the same chemical elements.
Sweden has $3.50 miles of railway equiv
alent to twelve and one-half miles for each
10000 inha bitants, the largest pro rata mile
in Suit rsle.1A
with seven and one-half miles per 10000
population.
Spiders are targling up the Japanese tele-
graph lines. They start their webs on the
wires and are numerous as to cause a
serious loss of insulation. Sweeping the
webs off does little good, as the spiders be-
gin all over again.
movement is on foot in ST. Louis to
secure a medal of honor from Congress for
Mrs. Delina Roberts, who saved twenty-five
wounded soldiers during the war by carry
ing them, one at time, to boat, through
a shower of bullets.
About thirty thousand bales of cotton
are booked for shipment to Japan this win
ter from the single port of Seattle. This is
SAID TO be % per cent. more in value than
the value of all American exports to Japan
during the season of 1S94-95
| 1t is interesting to note that the capital
value of the British navy, at the present
| time exceeds &94, 600. The first cost of
the fleet which led :, to ct the be downfall Of Ma
comprised between 4S0 and 400 fighting YES
sells.
1t is generally thought that the practice
of having bonfires on election day was first
suggested by the fact that it used to be the
custom in England to build bonflres on Guy
Fawkes day, Nov, 5. In Bristol, r. l., it is
still the custom to have bonfires on that
day.
On the front of the new National Acad-
envy of Design, in New York, seven great
which hold supreme place in the worlds
history Of art. The names selected are:
Phidias, Giotto, Raphael, Michael Angelo,
Titan Durer and Velasquez
The Manx cat is not the only tailless
variety. In the Crimea is found another
kind of cat which has no tail. The domes-
ticated Malay cat has a tail that IS only
often it is tied by nature in kind of knot
which cannot be Strengthened out
In China traveller wishing for a pass
port is compelled to have the palm of his
hand brushed over with fine oil paint; he
then presses his hand on thin damp paper
This is used to prevent transferance of the
passport, as the lines of no two hands are
alike.
A queer industry has sprung up in Michi-
into shingles. 1t is stated that stumps of
trees which were cut twenty or twenty-five
Instructions to the cultivation ''i of the soil
They are still sound, and turn out excel
lent shingles when SO utilized.
There is a remarkable shawl in the pos
SSSSlOl VI the DUCHESS VI 4SOIlHuIlDeIldHu
This formerly the property of Charles
X of France. 1t was manufactured entirely
from the fur of Persian cats, Several thou
sands OF catskins were utilized in weaving
it, and the task occupied some years. The
shawl measures eight yards square.
Patrick Cullen, of Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania. has found a well-filled, per-
fectly formed ear of corn containing an odd
number of rows and now he is trying to
find the agricultural society which some
body had told him offered prize of $1,000
to any one finding an ear with that unpre-
cedented (as it was believed) popularity.
One of the ballots for Themistocles has
just been found by German excavators in
the Areopagus, going back to a Gate earlier
than 40 b. c., as that was the year in
which that celebrated worker of the Athen-
ian primaries was banished. 1t is an in
scribed potsherd bearing his name, and
with proper care, is good for another $500
years. There are only three such souvenirs
of old Greek elections in existence, and only
this one bears the name of Themistocles.