The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-31

they have two Jumps of salt Of equal size
given them 10 drop into water, and he whose
lump first dissoIves is deemed to be in the
wrong.
paid for four volumes of a visitors register
kept in Shakespeares house at Stratford
from 1921 to 1S4S.
In Russia the proportionate number of
births is nearly double that of France, while
the German population increases faster
than that Of any other country.
Berlin is one of the most cosmopolitan
of European cities. Though it is the capital
of Germany only 81 per cent of its inhab-
itants are German by birth.
Oatmeal contains a large supply Of nj
trogeneous matter, and the phosphates 1t
contains are said to account for the high
cerebral development or Scotsmen Who have
been fed on porridge
Among the Riffian pirates of Morocco the
women do all the agricultural and other
hard work while the men when at home
do the cooking and mend the clothes, in
Guiding the women s.
In France the oxen that work in the
fields are regularly sung TO as an encour-
agement to exertion, and no peasant has the
slightest doubt but that the animals listen
to him with pleasure.
Taxation of corporations in Paris has led
to the transfer of many main offices to
Brussels French societies being incorpo-
rated there under the laws OF Belgium TO
avoid the French income tax.
In some parts of China the young women
wear their hair in long single plait with
which is intertwined bright scarlet thread.
The style of ornamentation denotes that the
young woman is manageable.
Since 1853 the United States government
has expended in the distribution of seeds
and in the PRONUNCIATION of statistics con-
corning them s., 1852 The cost Of seeds
volve an expenditure of $150000 year.
In Denmark the city school children are
taken on regular visits to the country, both
for the benefit of their health and for edu-
cational purposes, and the process is then
reversed, The country children being taken
to the city in order to broaden their minds.
The fact that skeleton remnants of ele-
plants are so rarely found in any part of
Africa is explained by an explorer who
states that as soon as the bones have be-
come brittle from climatic influences they
are eaten in lieu Of salt by various rumi-
rant animals.
The most magnificent tomb mo the world
is deemed to be the palace temple of Kar-
max, occupying a space of nine acres, or
twice that of st. Peters at Rome. The tenn
pie space is poets dream of gigantic
columns beautiful courts and WondrouS
avenues of sphinXes.
In Egypt washing is done mostly by men,
who stand naked on the banks of the Nile
and pound the wet clothes on the smooth
stones at the rivers brink till the dirt is re-
moved from them. French women pound
the clothes with paddles in the same way
as the Egyptians upon the stones beside a
river.
A most remarkable convent is to be found
In the catacombs of the Russian cathedral
at Kiev Deep down beneath the magnificent
cathedral miles of subterranean CORR
doris. lined with cells, in which 1850 ascetics
perform their daily devotion and duties.
live, eat and sleep in the grim company of
their dead predecessors.
A coal mine in Scotland which caught fire
over fifty years ago and has been burning
ever since has at last burned itself out. The
mine is on the DaiQuharran estate, Daily.
which
worked the fans, and, although many costly
attempts have been made to extinguish it,
they have been unsuccessful.
Two rival newspapers at Warrensburg,
Mo-, having found the town too small to
support both, have entered into a novel
agreement for a division of the SpOilS. One
has suspended publication until July l. 1899
on which date the other will enter into a
| lethargic state and leave clear field for
| the one which is now comatose.
There are in Mexico 11,512 schools. OF
| these $3.50 are sustained by the state, 1919
by cities and 2,442 are private schools. OF
females and 2.3S1 are mixed. The actual at
tendance at these schools was ,746 and
the amount appropriated for the support
of public schools nearly $5.5OO,OOO.
The cost of ordinary cleaning in railway
! passenger car after an average run of lac
miles is 16 cents per car per day, and cars
on leading lines are cleaned once in six or
eight days more thoroughly, at cost of
about $3.50 per car. Two or three times a
week they are cleaned in the shops at an
expense of $40. Cleaners are paid at the rate
of 1213 cents per hour.
Some of the Connecticut papers are OPP
posed to the elevation of the stars and
stripes over the penitentiary on the ground
that the first duty of the flag. is to honor it.
A state prison is not an institution which
confers honor either on its inmates or its
graduates. the papers say. and for the flag
to fly there is to unnecessarily bring dis
credit upon that emblem.