The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24

IN India, being almost an unknown luxury
with the natives.
Spain has more blind men than any other
state IN western Europe. The proportion is
146 to every 100000 inhabitants while in
france. Germany and England it is 81, IS
and So, respectively.
Searchlights are such good targets for the
enemy's guns that the Germans are arrang-
ing TO throw the light first on a mirror
ana thence on the enemy, thereby conceal
ing its real source
There is one Christian minister for every
sOO OF the population in Great Britain; one
IN every ll4O0O in Japan, one in les $50 in
India one In 222,000 in Africa, and one in 1917. :
600 in the Chinese empire
A. feature of the population statistics of
western australia is the large proportion Of
males 10 females. The disparity is MAIN
tanned in the arrivals by sea. At present
there are 10 females to every 100 males.
-, Cats can swim if they only care to exert
tiana ewes suffieienty The ancient Egyp-
ACCORDING TO the representations on walls
and so forth that have come down to us.
All the funerals in Paris are conducted
by single syndicate. which has licensed
monopoly of the business. There is a regu-
lar tarln OF rates, a firSt-class funeral cost
ing 5000 and the cheap or ninth class S.
There is no national feeling in China The
oiIerent sections. of the country hate each
other more cordially than they hate for
eigners Such military and naval forces as
exist are provincial rather than imperial
nc err SLAMS IN OLD b. Z. invented trans
parent glass varnish, which they laid over
sculptured rocks to prevent them from
Weather1ng. The coating has lasted to our
day, while the rocks beneath are honev-
combed.
All the suitors of a girls hand in Rorneo
are expected to be generous in their pres
ents to her. These presents are never re-
turned; therefore the willy young lady de-
1ers as long as possible positive selection
of the happy man.
me British Museum contains very full
collection of clay pipes dating back as far
as the sixteenth century. The custom of
waxing the pipe end to prevent it sticking
70 the lips was introduced by the Dutch
ABOUT the year 100.
Chinese bicycle riders do some funny
lnlngs on their wheels occasionally. They
are frequently seen in the streets of Hong
Kong and Shanghai carrying an open UNI
brella or fan, and in some instances with
the handle bars removed.
Ceyion is alarmed at the news that the
world will end next year. and that the he
ginning will be the submergence of Ceylou.
me villagers on the island are trying to
atone for their sins by acts of charity and
by f1ocking to the temples.
A Weil-informed friend states that the
population of Spain is somewhere about IL :
V1oQOV; IN that of these 100000 could not write
tnat 6'OOO,OOO could neither read nor write
ana that about half of the whole have no
sure and paying occupation.
Because the sexton of the Methodist
Church in Kennebunkport. Me. refused 10
let crowd of men and boys ring the bell
on the Fourth of July they assaulted him
smashed the windows, tore down the fences
and beat the policeman who tried to stop
them.
A correspondent of the London Spectator
calls attention to the fact that out of a
random list of eighty-one officers in the
american army and navy there are three
German names, one Italian, one French and
one Dutch. All the rest are unquestionably
British.
The most famous cavalry of antiquity
were the Parthians Their invasion of Ju-
uea, 40 Is. C., resulted in such terrible de-
Vastatlon of the country that a hundred
years later the terrors of the Parthian in
one or his most vivid pictures.
The trade of the British Empire is es-
timated to amount to about Ell 200, 900 900
the combined trade of France. Germany
austria, Russia and the United States and
the shipping required to carry on this gil
gantlc traffic exceeds 126,000 900 tons.
1t is estimated that there are nearly five
million self-supporting women in tho United
States. Almost every branch OF work
known has been taken up by members of
the gentler sex, and the trades and profess
SlonS show the workers to have acquired
skill and ability in the practice of their
various callings.
The Yellow river in China has changed its
channel four times in the past 1000 years
ana the point at which it emptieS into the
sea has from time to time moved up and
floods have drowned over 10000 900 persons
during the past three centuries, and the de-
structlon OF property has been proportion
ate.