The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

take freely of coffee into which the juice OF
a lemon has been squeezed,
The Young Mems Christian Association
has more than 100000 members in America
and its total net property is valued at over
SIG, OO0, O00
Japanese labor costs very little in com
parSon to American rates. A sum equlVa-
lent to S. a week is considered an excellent
salary there.
1t is a mistake to suppose that stone
houses are the most durable. A well-con-
structed brick house will outlast one bullt
of granite.
The proportion of men and women in
France is more equal than in any other
country in the world, there being LOU Wom-
en- to every 1000 men.
An organ of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has appeared in Lima, Peru, entitled
the Peruvian Outpost, and published py
Abraham Lincoln Post.
In Dutch Guiana the women carry upon
their heads all the family savings in the
shape of heavy bracelets, anklets, neck
laces and even crowns of gold and silver.
West Virginia is twice as large as Massa--
chusetts, twice as large as Maryland, and
as large as Connecticut, Rhode Island, Del
aware, New Jersey and Vermont combined
One of the features of a new hospital
building in Berlin is to be large room in
which patients suffering from lung diseases
can breathe air artifcially impregnated with
salt.
statistician affirms that the majority
of people who attain old age have Kept
age of eighty have never gone to bed till
after IL at night.
About four million false teeth are manu-
featured annually in the United states,
while one ton of gold and three tons of sill
yer and platinum, to the value of $lO,OO0,OOO
are used in stopping teeth.
No fewer than $50 daily and weekly news
papers in various parts of the world consti-
tute the organs Of the Anarchist party. The
most important is published in France, the
chief editor of which is an ex-convict.
The extraordinary precocity of children
of India has called forth the establishment
of a recent traveller, who says that many OF
them are skilled workmen at an age when
children are usually learning the alphabet
womans hair may grow to the length
of six feet. A single hair will bear up a
weight of four ounces without breaking, but
the hair thus heavily tried must be dark
brown, for blonde hair breaks under strain
of 212 ounces.
In 1879 Holland had colonies in the East
Indies covering 100000 square miles of area.
with a population of 24OO0,OOO, but now 1t
has expanded its possessions until they en-
brace 10000 square miles, with more than
S0,OO0OO0 people.
Noted women have shown no precOcious
desire to wed and make homes Of their
own. George Eliot was nearer forty than
thirty when she married for the first time
and close upon sixty when her second mar
riage took place in $780,
The oldest emblem of royalty in existence
is the iron crown of the Lombards. The in
ner strip of iron, according to tradition, was
beaten out of one of the nails used at the
crucifxion. It's most distinguished wearers
have been Charlemagne, Charles and Ma
poleon.
One of the oldest and most curious sam
pies of the locksmith's art is attached to
the door of Temple Church, Fleet street,
London. The key weighs seven pounds, is
eighteen inches long, and, unlike other
keys, it was not made for the lock. On the
| contrary the lock was made for the key.
Twenty millions of dollars is the sum
which the French government proposes TO
Nearly $1O.0O0,000 will be consumed by the
construction of two palaces in the Champs
ElyseeS and those in the Champ de Mars,
in the Esplanade des Invalides and on the
quays.
| One hundred and seven witnesses were
summoned to appear in the Court of Com
mon Pleas at Ravenna, o., in the case
| wherein Mary Ellen Rogers sued Volney
| Rogers for a divorce on the grounds that,
| having lived with her for forty years, he
never took her anywhere, not even TO
| church.
| The stove is the principal furniture of a
| Russian cottage. 1t fills third of the in
brick and plaster, fiat on top. During the
day 1t is used for cooking and drying
| clothes and at night it is the family bed,
which all the inmates sleep in a heap.
| pell-mell.
| The White House Is an exact copy Of the
In March, 1882, the commissioners on build
| ing advertised for "a plan for a Presidents
/ house to be erected in the city of Washing
| tom The prize offered was $500, and that
| of James Hoban, young Irish mechanic,
was accepted.
| Old Cairo is changing visibly. The cleo
: trio tramway to the Pyramids is an accom-