The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
temperature exceeding 100 degrees Fahren-

temperature exceeding 100 degrees Fahren-
hcit.
From 1911 to 1916 Java belonged to Eng
norance of its value. Holland has retained
for three centuries q colonial empire ds
large as France, and with a population oL
The human system can endure heat of III
degrees, the boiling point of water. because
the skin is a bad conductor, and because
the Precipitation cools the body. Men nave
withstood without injury a heat OF SO oe-
grees for several minutes.
There are seven Continental countries
whose entire population is respectively
either below or not in excess of the present
estimated population of London: Sweden,
Norway. Turkey in Europe,
Portugal, Greece and Holland.
China's 100000 square miles support a
population of 9S3, 600, 900, which is an average
of 292 persons to the square mile. Shantung
is one of the most densely populated prov
inces in the Chinese empire. The average
OF population per square mile IS 55l.
When the barn owl has a young family
it hunts diligently and brings to its nest
about five mice in an hour. AS both of the
parent birds are actively employed both in
the evening and at dawn forty mice a day
is a low estimate for the total capture.
The revolutionary wal cost S135. 1913, 703 and
$1,000 lives; the war of 1912, $107 10000 and
1000 lives; the Mexican war, $74,000.OO0 and
1000 lives; the Indian wars and other minor
wars, 81, 100000 900 and 5000 lives. and the
war between the States, $500 100000 and
$4,000 lives.
AT Tornea. Finland, June 81 brings a day
nearly twenty-five hours long. and Christ
mas one less than three hours in length. AT
Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts
from May q TO July 22 without interrupt
ton, and in SpitZbergen the longest day is
three and one-half months.
Some time ago rabbits became such a
nuisance that Sumner county, Kansas, Of
fered three cents apiece for their scalps.
One hundred and fifty thousand were slain
on one Saturday, and in a week the county
was bankrupt and had to levy a special tax
to finish paying for the scalps.
Some of the curiosities of the Bank of
England are we'll worth describing. In the
printing room d man sits at a little table,
and every three seconds a machine hands
six hours he receives over 10000, and in
three hundred days over &2O,OU,0OO in paper
money.
The British empire is ffty-three times
the size OF France. fifty-two times that of
Germany, three and one-half times that of
size OF Europe. with treble the population
Of all the Russias. 1t occupies one-fifth
of the globe and contains one-fifth of the
human race.
The number of licensed public houses, in
Guiding hotels. taverns and bars. in London
is given at 4,CG0. with an average of fifty
feet frontage. and, placed side by side, they
would stretch Il distance of 40 miles, or
from London to Birmingham. Every day
London drinks $500 gallons, or 44.0N pints,
of wines and 5000 gallons of spirits.
One cf the greatest wonders of Java, 1.-THE
fire Island" is a large lake of boiling mud
two miles in circumference, and in the CEN
ter immense columns of soft, hot mud may
be seen continually rising and falling. Be-
sides these columns there are two gigantic
bubbles near the edge. which fill up like
huge balloons and explode on an average
three times per minute.