The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

late, or, rather, to authorize the King to
make Ievies, came in wearing helmets,
Whlch were not easily removed.
Ihere never was a portrait made of
Ethan Allen. The heroic style of statue of
the nero In the national Capitol is an i'm
ag1native representation.
"A steel arch is to be thrown across the
Niagara river near Clifton which will be
S4O feet span-a greater distance than was
ever yet spanned by an arch.
Inc reading of romanceS is forbidden by
the Koran; hence popular tales are never
put in writing among Mohammedans, but
are passed from one story teller to another
There are at present ten thousand conyicts
IN the French colony OF New Caledonia 1t
mas Deen used as a penal colony since 1863
and in that time has cost the French gov
eminent $2O00O,O0O.
. In the rural districts of England one DO
liceman for every 1,15O of the population is
round to be sufficient to preserve order; in
the boroughs one for every 697 is required
and in London itself one in 312.
There is a St. Bernard dog at Sparta.
Mlch., which at the age of eighteen months
is Is S11s inches high, w feet long and weighs
165 pounds. It's owner declares it's the big
gest st. Bernard in the State
Recently published statistics show that
more than million women over the age of
eighteen are employed in factories and
cent. or them belong to trades unions
According to the superintendent of the
charitable institutions of Paris, no less than
$lO,O0OUO would be needed to put Paris hos
pitfalls into proper shape as regards accom-
modations and sanitary arrangements.
The entire area of the United States is
paced at l, $685. 1852 acres of which a.
IO2, 800 acres is now owned by individuals or
by corporations of States, or has passed out
OF the control of the general government
1t is estimated that there are no fewer
than 100000 Europeans who wear wooden
SHOES. Bass wood is ordinarily employed for
sabots, but willow is the best material
Poplar, beech, walnut and birch are also
used.
The cod fisheries of Newfoundland have
been followed for, nearly four hundred
years. They greatly exceed those of any
other country in the world The average
export of cod is about 100000 hundred
weight per annum.
Paris and Marseilles are connected bv
telegraph lines entirely under ground They
are placed in iron pipes and buried four feet
tSa,7at the surface, with manhoes three
G1,5 1900 to bury the wires.
The steward of big restaurant in ST.
Louis gives a bill of fare to cost $25 per
plate, exclusive of wine, and the Provident
Association of that city advertises to give
a square meal for Z cents consisting of
soup, pork and beans, potatoes, rutabaga
bread, coffee and peach pudding.
Japanese matches threaten to drive out
the Swedish. The expectation, which was
5000 gross Of boxes in 1884, rose to 5000, 900
gross in 1892, and 100000 gross in 1896. The
price per case of 1900 boxes is $3.50. Japan
ing it's way into the British market
Neither Darwin nor any other responsible
naturalist ever seid that men were de-
seconded from monkeys" He merely pointed
out that it was probable that man and mon
key might be descended from the same
cestral stock which is quite different thing
to saying that one is descended from the
other.
Corea is about eco miles long and 135 wide
1t is very mountainous, and the climate is
one of the finest in the world. Nine months
in the year the skies are bright and the
winter is superb, with it's extreme dryress,
clear skies, and crisp, frosty nights. From
of heat or cold,
pect to employ at the worlds fair of 1900
will be IA feet in diameter, and is to ascend
to an elevation of 1850 feet. This is twice
as high as the Eiffel tower. The balloon is
to be managed by, a wire cable. and will
probably be capable of taking up 100 pas
sengerS at once.
Two thousand two hundred acres of cedar
timber are cut down every year in order
TO make wood cases for lead pencils, of
which more than two thousand acres are in
Florida. There are tWenty-Six pencil works
IN Bavaria, of which twenty-tiIree are in
the lead pencil trade. These factories en-
poy from 5000 to 10000 workers, and produce
4, 300 900 lead and colored chalk pencils every
week
Denmark's Kings for 3S4 years have all
been named Christians or Fredericks. This
is not the result of accident. 1t is the law
of Denmark that Christian must be succeed
ed by Frederick and Frederick by Christian.
To attain this, and without the changing of
names in case of death other reason,
every Danish prince, no matter what other
Christian and Frederick among them