The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03


marine possessions, in any quarter ar Oh he eae
purely continental.
Sharks were almost unknown IN the Az, Az
Ratio until the SueZ canal was opened. NOW
the harbors Of Flume and Pola are SO IN
tested with them that residents care ho
longer battle in the open sea-
Early man used to be able to Wag ms
ears as an indication of pleasure or TO orusn
away flies from under his back hair, put as
the muscles were not brought into continued
use they became rudimentary.
The finest Compilations in the world are
said to be in the BermUdas: This is ac-
counted for by the fact that the inhapltantS
live chiefly on onions, of which they export
over 100000 pounds annually.
A regularly organized system of relieving
poverty has been in vogue in emma Ior
more than two thousand years.. 1t Is SAID
that an organized system Of -S charity pre-
vailed among the Egyptians 2,5OO b =.
No fewer than 1906 900 acres of land have
been made fruitful in the Sahara desert, an
enterprise representing perhaps the most re-
markable example of irrigation by means OIL
artesian wells which can anywhere be FOUND
Cats can swim if they can only care to ex-
ert themselves suftlclently Inc tben, am tbe
Nile, according to the representations On
walls and so forth that have come down 10
US.
Prince Ahmed Self Eddin's recent muir
derous attack on his brother-in-law, Fuad
Pasha. at the Cairo Khedivial Club, has led
to a curious suit. The club demands dam
ages from the Prince for the harm done 10
the clubs reputation by the row.
Ornthologists tell us that when feeding
the stretch of the ostrich is from twenty to
twenty-five inches; when walking, but not
feeding, twenty-six inches, ana Wne s terri.
feet, or at the rate of about twenty-five
miles an hour.
In the Sandwich islands there is a spot
called the Rock of Refuge. If the Grim
iT1o1 OH 1ic hnfn
safe, SO long as he remains there Usually
his family supplies him with food until he is
able to make his escape, but he Is never
allowed to return to his own tribe.
War correspondents were at it as far
back as the time of Edward II. ScribeS,
specially commissioned, were sent up with
the English army, which invaded Scotlana
at that time. Incredible as it may sound,
not one of the London newspapers was spe-
cially represented at the battle of Waterloo.
The clock at the houses of Parliament is
the largest in the world The dialS are thtr-
ty-two feet in diameter. The pendulum is
fifteen feet long. The hour bell is eight feet
high and nine feet in diameter, and weighs
nearly ten tons. The hammer alone weighs
more than four hundred pounds.
1t is estimated that at the beginning of
the seventeenth century the Algonquins
numbered at least 100000. Their survivors
number probably not more than thirty
thousand. Originally they occupied nearly
all that portion of Canada and the United
States lying east of the Mississippi river.
The great sequoia trees of the Yosemite
valley, California, are exceeded in size by
the mammoth gum trees of Australia, which
are believed to be the largest in the world.
What is believed to be the loftiest tree
growing is the eucalyptus regnum. One Of
these trees in the Cape OtWay range meas
ured, when felled, Ais feet in length.
France employs over 5000 women in her
civil service, telephone and telegraph Of
fees The municipality of Paris alone gives
work to nine hundred women while. the
Bank of France pays salaries to four hun
manent positions in the Credit Foncier,
with earnings varying from 9a5 to 975
year.
The earliest known mention of the piano
forte was in a playful date May 16, 1867.
The piece announced was 1.-THE Beggars'
Opera" with Mr.. Beard as Capt. Peachum
and Mrs. Stephens as Peachum. The princi-
pal attraction was given thus: Miss Buck
Ter will sing song from Judith accom-
panied by a new instrument called piano
forte"
Experiments seem to show that large
ocean steamer, going at nineteen knots an
miles after it's engines are stopped and re-
versed, and no authority gives less than a
mile or a mile and a half as the required
space to stop it's progress. The violent COL
lisions in some cases during fogS may thus
be accounted for.
Virtue isn't always its own reward. The
English pickle manufacturers have been
making their pint bottles hold little more
than a pint, to be on the safe side of an
English law on the subject. But when they
send these pint bottles to Canada they run
against a law which provides that any
package measuring more than a pint must
pay duty on a quart.