The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16

sister of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, have
just been presented to a school TOR negro
children in Kowaliga, Ala.
It IS believed by oil experts that West
Virginia is underlaid by a sea of petroleum.
The output of white sand oil for 1897
amounted to over 100000 barrels
The tea-drinking habit has become so
universal and persistent in India and Thibet
that the people viii sell all they have, in
Guiding their children, to get money TO buy
tea with.
pictures with their finger nails, an art once
held in high repute. The nails are allowed
to grow TO a length of eighteen inches and
dipped in vermilion or sky-blue ink.
In Japan very useful accomplishment
taught children is the use of both hands
in writing and other work; hence there are
no right or left-handed people, as rule
but both hands are used mdlScriminately.
Tree moving in the United States has been
quite successful The Gardeners Chronicle
reports the removal of a large purple beech,
which was forty feet high six feet three
inches in girth at four feet from the ground.
A curious character in Paris is a man
who makes his living by stroliing along the
boulevards and making wagers at the cares
that he can answer correctly any question
that relates to the history of France. He
always wins the bet.
The great bell Of Moscow is not the larg-
est in the world. The distinction belongs TO
the bell hanging in The Temple of Glars, at
klnto, in Japan. 1t is peculiar in having no
clapper, and is struck outside with sort
OF WOODEN
In March last the telegraph line was per-
manently extended to kumasi, on the Affi-
can Gold Coast The wire is a great boon
to the native who steal it in considerable
lengths to make armetS. On one occasion
$40 yards was carried away.
The first clock in our sense of the word.
seems to have been Qor 1t is not known
what clocks they We're which, in 49, the
specimen to Constantinople) one made in
1874 for Charles of France.
James McIndoo, of Madelia, Minn.,. 10
tai and ywesas oa nounds e He e wears
twenty-fOur shoe, d No. hat and drinks
a gallon of water at time TO quench his
thirst. He is still growing very fast.
Edison believes that the future of the
iron and steel trade belongs to America 1t
is matter of economic conditions, he says,
and in the industrial battle in this great
trade England Will soon be too seriously
handicapped TO maintain its present posi-
ton.
The consumption of coal per head OF pop
ulation is lowest in Austria, where ii is only
one-sixth ton per annum, and highest in
Great Britain, where each person averages
three and three-tenths tons each year. In
the United States the average is two and
one-fourth tons a year.
ITO run muck is properly to run amok.
Formerly in India, Siam and other Eastern
countries Malay men driven mad by opium.
frantically, sword in hand, striking at any
one they might happen to meet and crying.
''Amok, amok'-kill, kill.
The punch and judy is a relic of an
ancient mystery, "Pontus PLATE and tha
Jews. Types or symbols of Mr.. Punch
have been discovered among the hierogly-
phIcs of Egypt; and Herculaneum and
Pcmpeli have given up the puppet after be-
ing buried sixteen centuries.
The British Museum has the shell of
giant tortoise which lived for upwards of
two hundred years in the grounds of Planta-
tion House, in the Island of st. Helena. 1t
was frequently the object Of much curiosity
on the part of the great Napoleon during
his enforced stay on the island.
The Monta da Pieta, of Rome which has
existed ever since 1885, is probably the most
lenient pawnbroker's shop in the world.
Any person who brings pledge may hor-
row from y 10 20 shillings without paying
any interest, but all that Is lent above that
sum is paid for at the rate OF per cent.