The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-03

the invalid's room or nursery these anaHe
couriers of the spring will ma q specihi
welcome.
According to Nilsson. the zoolegist, the
weight az the Greenland whale is one nun
bred tons or 224,O00 POUNDS, OF equdl ~
that of eighty-eght elephants OF 44o peai9 "
Some of the machines for making J mar reTes
which are used in these days make ZVO reVo.
buttons a minute EACH and turn o uoo go 200
9 800 900 matches daily, or about SVO'VVo'V"o
annually.
Hundreds of experiments have been mace
RI determine whether toadS could i've When
enclosed in blocks of stone, ana IN sNe e.,
case the toadS died before the emu Oh the
second year.
scent in the shortest distance or almoSt any
stream. During it's course OF IN mles ~
has tWenty-seYen falls ana ueScehus thle0
thousand feet.
Tn 1870 the tallest building in New York
was only five stories high, and the churcn
spires were conspicuous ABOVE tneii. h Ely,
there is only one Splre IN the CITY 90 iei
as the tallest building.
A citizen of Kansas City. Mo-, is seeking
admission to the bar despite the Iact t I
he is ninety years of age II the ,l Jaw NV mas
many delays in his pracuce IL may VIC "i'
fortunate for his clients.
The Prussian authorities at AIt-Lands,,
berg have Just sent a ninety-nine- ,old
widow to Jail for three days for Steaann ls
four small sticks of wood. 1t was the uISl
offense the women had ever committed
The biggest rope ever used for hauiage
purposes has just been made for district
subway in Glasgow; SGotl ne1half inches
in circumference and weighs nearly oiA'y
tons.
Women are to the fore in EDUCATIONAL gesI oIad
atters in Colorado. Out of the nIty-nlne
Counties in the State twenty-seven have
women superintendents of schools, ana
every school board has one or TWO WOMEN
members.
Australia has no orphan asylums. Every
child who is not supported by parents pc
comes a ward of the states. and is pald d
pension for support and placed IN a private
family where board ana CLONES are plo-
vided until the fourteenth birthday
They tell a good story in Lisbon, Me-; or
a man who in his prosperity builded MN
125-foot henhouse ana thitbar with his
Uife and after making some alterations,
lived there modestly but in comfort.
Alaskan babies are rubbed with on;
tiohtIv rolled in a skin or blanket padded
with grass and bound with deerskln thongs.
which are undone but once gay, "neL
the grass is freshened. II the papy az, TIles
he is held under water uh.ii lit' =
From = quarry of soft red stone in south
ern Minnesota the only stone probably OF
its kind in the world, the lndlans LOT cen
turtles obtained materials LOT tne papcs'
as they are found in lndian graves iroin tne
gulf to CANADA
The origin of the custom of widows wear
ing caps is extremely ancient. II may De
traced back to the Egyptian and Greclan
nractice of shaving off the hair in. periods
of mourning. But as without haiI tne ds,
was a danger of catching cold. the men
wore wigs upon their bald crowns ana the
women caps.
A North Carolina moonshiner, having been
taken in the tolls. set up the noHei unaensT,
made illicit whisky in order TO get money .
enough to paint the church; The Judge
was of the opinion that he had made
ennngh TO paint the town, so ne was sent
up for a two-years rest.
The government is about to pay y. an n, un NJ
usual special pension claim to the widow OF
Tjentenanf Michael Moore. who. at the
time of his death in Brooklyn last year
had served in the United States army con-
tinuously for eighty-fve. years, thus hold
ing the worlds record for service OF that
1its He enlisted as drummer boy
at the outbreak of the war OF 1872.
Rome built roads and bridges to last The
new bridge across the Danube between
Turn SEVERN. in Roumania. and Kladova,
in Servia. will be built on the pillars OF the
old bridge at the same place erected py the
Emneror Trajan. the Rodmanian engineers
having found that the old Roman work Will
stand the strain after 1850 years. A statue
Of Trajan will be put up in the middle of
the bridge.