The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
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The eastern hemisphere, on which dwell
go per cent. OF the population of the world,
has 170,792 miles Of railway, or As per cent.
of all the railways.
A pair Of gloves passes through about
two hundred pairs of hands from the time
the skin leaves the dressers till the gloves
reach the hands of the wearer.
Brick made of plaster of paris and cork
are now used in the construction of powder
mills. In case of explosion they offer slight
resistance and are broken to atoms.
The old log cabin in Front Royal, Va,
in which George Washington lived while
surveying between 1748 and 1852 is still
standing in fair condition, and is used as a
SprlnghouSe.
It is said that the patterns on the finger
tips are not only Interchangeable through life
but the chance of the finger tips of two
persons being alike is less than one chance
in Ga, 900, 900 900.
One of the most ancient and curious ex-
amples of the locksmith's art is attached
to the door of the Temple Church, London
The key weighs seven pounds and 1t is one
and a half feet long.
The richest town in the United States is
Brookline, near Boston. It's population is
seventeen thousand and valuation sou, OOO,OOO,
yet it is governed through-the typical New
England town meeting.
The Japanese are now getting used to
glass. At first glass in railway carriage
window had to be smeared with streaks OF
white paint to keep passengers from poking
Only about 100000 silver dollars are in
use. throughout the United States. This is
somewhat less than one-eighth of the total
number manufactured since the coinage was
resumed under the act of 1873.
The cod fisheries of Newfoundland have
been followed for nearly 400 years@ They
greatly exceed those of any other country
in the world. The average export of cod is
about 1850 900 hundredWeight per annum.
Ninety young women We're sent to Vir-
ginia in 1919 and were married to coloniSts
on their arrival. Their husbands paid the
charges of TRANSFORMATION in tobacco which
was then the legal tender of the country.
In Italy, out of ! $40 fire-eaters who ex-
changed pistol shots or sword thrusts on
the field of honor during last year, only one
yielded up his breath on the spot, though
five others eventually succumbed to their
injuries.
A Canadian traveller who has spent a
couple of years in the far Northwest part
of the time along the Peace river, says that
there are in that country at least four herds
of wild buffalo, numbering altogether not
less than 1900.
The old dollhouse on the Boston post road,
at the Connecticut line, near Greenwich, is
to be removed. Washington and his army
We're permitted to pass through free, and
Were given two barrels of ale by the keep
er's wife, besides.
The will of the late Henry Barnhart. one
of the wealthiest pioneers of California,
consists of only eighteen words, and says
simply: II direct that my property shall be
disposed of according to the laws of the
State of California"
Cloth is now being successfully made from
wood: Strips of fne-grained wood are
boiled and crushed between rollers, and the
filaments, having been carded into parallel
lines, are spun into threads, from which
cloth can be woven in the usual way.
Legends show us that among the earlier
races the art of healing was considered a
prerogative of the gods. Hospitals were
built in honor of Hygeia, and, though
drugs were administered. the cure of a
0nf xyoc IxyaX ncrpr6 cd az
Intervention of the goddess.
A fossil bog oak weighing forty tons,
which biologists assert to be 10000 years old,
has been dug up at Stockport, England in
poration of the town want to blow it up
with dynamite in spite of protests from
scientific men throughout England.
A South Sea Islander greets a friend by
flinging jar of water over his head. In
Russia 1t is correct for gentlemen to press
the foreheads of ladies whom they know in
timately with their lips, and in Germany
and other continental nations kissing be-
tween men is by no means uncommon.
Experiments have been going on for the
past twelve years for the purpose of try
ing to learn something of the characteristics
of the Atlantic ocean as a great moving
body of water. AS a result the whole At
lantic is shown to be slowly circulating
round and round like an enormous pool
In New Zealand two persons working to-
gether constitute a factory. Hours of labor
for females are restricted to forty-eight per
week overtime mas TO De pdlO Tor at the
rate of time and half, but in no case must
any employe receive less than u cents per
hour for overtime, as Well as II cents tea
money.
A ticket was taken up few days ago on
the Boston & Maine Railroad good from
West Lebanon to Lebanon, in New Hamp-
shire, that the purchaser has had for more
than thirty years. 1t was bought during the
war, but never used until this time. 1t was
issued before the birth of the conductor who
took it up.
A New Jersey barkeeper recently testi-
fed in court that he did not know what i'm
tCxication was His deposition recalls the
statement of the Duke of Argyle in some
temperance discussions before the House of
Lords that no Scotchman would admit an
other Scotchman to be drunk while he could
lie still on the floor
Strong liquors are of modern invention
for the ancients knew of nothing more DOW
erful than lightly fermented wines, and
they have left many warnings of the abuse
of them. Alcohol was not discovered until
the seventh century, and the distillation of
spirit from wine was not discovered until
the twelfth century.
George Byron and Bud" Tennyson live
near the thriving settlement of High Gap
Ga Strangely enough. they got into an ar
and 1t was decided they should fight it out
Both men put up a good fight, but finally
after seventeen holly contested rounds, By
ron knocked Tennyson out.
Distilled spirits came into use in London
in 1450. and had to be prohibited in 1494
Michael Savonarola produced a treatise on
the making of water of life in the fif-
teenth century, which became a standard
authority on the subject, and was followed
by the work of Matthioh. of Sienna These
books gave an impetus to brandy making in
Italy, whence the trade extended to France