The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

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Russia, with her population of 12a.OOO.OOO.
has only TAB newspapers-but little more
than half the number published in the State
Of Pennsylvania, which has 1,430.
Sand registered the hours during the mid
die ages. For this purpose black marble
dust, boiled nine times in wine, was a Ia
vorite recipe with learned monks.
The smallest man who ever lived was
probably the dwarf Bebe, born in France in
1910. He was just twenty inches tall and
eight pounds in weight when full grown.
One cigar manufacturer in Detroit who
employs girls has estimated a saving in
cigar consumption by employees of $4,000 in
ten years on the basis that male. workers
use three cigars daily.
When the prime minister of the Chinese
Emperor has a grudge against one of the
mobiles he advises his royal master to pay
him prolonged visit This visit generally
a retinue of 10000 persons.
Chinese babies are fed on rice and moth
ing else after they are few months old.
Cows milk is never given to them. Chinese
houses are never heated. If a baby is cold
he is given a sun bath.
In Abyssinia it is the law that the muir
derer be turned over to the relatives OF the
dead person, they, if they please, to put him
to death in the same manner in which the
murdered person was removed.
A daughter of Congressman Berry, OF
Kentucky, has the Hawaiian royal ensign
that last hoated over the palace of the de-
posed Queen Liliuokalani. President Dole
presented it to her, and the Queen is vainly
begging for its return.
Pho Mono bequeathed to the church Co.
900. QUO francs in gold. Leo XIII has almost
doubled that sum, which is deposited among
various European banks The Holy See has
no debts. those which existed having been
all paid by the present Pope.
The smallest book ever printed is the
story of Perrault's little Hope My
Thumb" lately published. The book is one
and one-Quarter inches thick. 1t can be
read only by the aid of a microscope but is
complete in every way, and has four en-
cravings.
A patent has been recently issued in
Germany for a reflector by which a piano is
Illuminated from within by a combination
of q lamp and a mirror in such a. way
that the music is easily read by the player:
the mirror on the music and the keyboard
Recent Investigations have shown that
the principal source Of the Gulf Stream IS
not. the Florida channel, but the region be-
tween and beside the islands of the West
Indies At Binoni the volume of this warm
water is sixty times as great as the com,
bined volume OF all the rivers In the World
at their mouths.
Within the last twenty years the French
have annexed no fewer than 2OD,0OO square
miles Of A fG Of ff pss Sam SENEGAL the
Ivory coast, the western Sudan, Danomey,
the French Congo and large tract on the
Somali coast, while IN .ADysslnAa tney are
making steady way.
Ashtahula o. has for years been treas
uring as a relic a shell which was fired
Nv . british war ship in 1872 and which had
failed to explode. Somehow 1t got into
pile of scrap iron delivered to the Phoenix
iron works foundry and performed its fune-
lions sn well that the furnace doors were
blown to smithereens.
Soap has been in use for 1900 years ana IS
twice mentioned in the Bible. a few years
ago a SOAP boilers shop was discovered IN
Pomneii having been buried beneath the
tarrifla rain of ashes that fell upon that
city 20 A. d. The soar found IN the stop
had not lost all its efficacy, although IL nau
been buried 1900 years.
The latest reports concerning the Angli-
a., T.hurrh in Hawaii which may be trans
farrci ~ the American Episcopal Church.
ehovs that there are In the islands seven
slerrrvnen seven churches and 4 member
shin 81 Zoo. OF whom flkteen are Hawaiians.