The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07
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Moscow compelled to appear in uniform
Iowa's State fair this year will be open on
Sunday. The machinery will be idle and reig-
ious services will be held.
way passengers in England travel third class.
They contribute about So per cent of the re-
ceipts.
A business firm in Stanford KY, always opens
the days business with prayer, proprietors,
gether
Recent, mortality returns from the Southern
States show that the death rate Of the colored
as that of the whites
1t has been discovered in the town of James
town, r. l.. that 1t is impossible TO secure
in the fire department.
Gibraltar, which has been commonly supposed
to be impregnable is evidently not so, England
having decided to spend about 100000 in
strengthening its defenses.
A single bee, with all its industry. energy and
the nnumerable journeys 1t has to perform.
will not collect much more than a teaspoonful
OF honey in a single season
The pastor of the German Nj. E. Church in
Atchison, Kan. has received from his congrega-
tion only s14 since September and that was for
services rendered as janitor
Public Libraries spend vast of money to
make their collections complete. In the Boston
to Shakespeare which cost $4,000.
Contrary to the general impression. railway
earnings in 1896 were actually greater than those
in 1885, the gross amount having been 81, 49,,
646,562, or an average OF S6,5l9 per mile.
The lowest temperature ever recorded was on
Gorochon. He was at Werchojansk Siberia, and
the temperature was 81 degrees below zero.
y horse live twenty-five days without solid
food. merely drinking water; seventeen days
without either eating or drinking, and only five
days when eating solid food without drinking.
Nevada for many years has had but Bap-
has been established at Wadsworth. thirty-tive
miles distant, with a membership OF sixteen and
four awaiting baptism.
Children are large patronzers of the postal saw
ings banks of France. out of over 100000 de-
poSitOrs in these institutions according TO the
reports of the minister of posts and finance tele-
graph, s05S9 are minors.
baby that weighs but eight pounds at the
age of eighteen months, which is pound and
half less than 1t weighed when bo1, is the
attractive center of all the gossip of the little
town of Danbury y. H.
The English island of Thanet is almost wholly
composed of chalk: The island is ten miles IN
length and about five in breadth. and biologists
say that there are not less than ~ 00O 900 tons
OF chalk in sight on it.
a. w. Jones' of Augusta Me. has valuable
coin in his possession LOO years old. 1t is
of black bronze, and in its fine state of preserva-
ton shows the figure of Emperor Lucius Caesar,
in whose reign the coin Was made.
In India there are 100 O00 boys and CIT 600 girls
under the age of fourteen who are legally mar
not attained the age of four are under marriage
bonds arranged by their Parents.
There are $4,000 men emP9ye S r in coal mining
the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. For
every 100 600 tons of coal mined poor miner
on the average loses his life by accident
There is in the strong rooms of one of the
Oldest private banks in London large quantity
deposited for safe custody by French refugees
shortly before the outbreak of the revolution.
The people living at Peaks island, Me-, are so
healthy that the physician who attempted 10
make living by remaining there failed, and the
islanders sick and well alike. contribute a
tain amount yearly. outside that paid for Serv
ices. to keep him there.
One of the oldest If not the oldest, English
firms is that of Richardson. leather manufac-
turers of Newcastle-on-Tyne The predecessors
of this leather sellers to the monastery
of ST. Hilda. which was disestablished at the
time of the Reformation
An Omaha old book dealer bought Bible
from a tramp, who said he found IL ION the
road between Portland. Orc. and Omaha. The
ata MADE MAJ in Pvmutb Mass in is5s The
bookseller has refused Sl75 for the volume.
The horses which have been turned loose to
forage for themselves in the eastern part of
Washington have multiplied very rapidly and
there are said TO be as many as 100 900 now roam
ing about. The farmers look upon them pests
and are hoping that the cold weather will kill
them off.
The little village of Martin Mich, has not
had a saloon for thirty years, but many
drunken men seen on the street lately that
an investigation ordered The authorities
found Joint containing fifteen barrels of whisky
in the cellar of private residence near the bust
ness center
The Kneipp cure stories have revived recollec-
tions of an old pioneer who went to his last
p century ago Ii is said of him that his rem
edy for cold feet-a remedy he did not hesitate
was 10 take off his shoes and stockings and
walk in the snow.
Frozen milk has become important article
OF trade in Europe. 1t is frozen in different
sized bricks and in this way its purity and
freshness are insured. The Belgian government
intends TO increase the trade at annual outlay
Of 10000. and in Copenhagen. the capital OF
Denmark. a company has been formed and
rangements have been completed for the regular