The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20

TIL latter mixture forms a bright burning
gas. and thus prevents the generation OF
smoke. .
One of the cotton mills at Atlanta, Ga,
has been compelled to give UP its night run
because of a lack of competent labor.
Australia has over 100000 square miles Of
fertile land and could eventually support
at least a hundred millions of inhabitants.
At Asst, in California, a cistern 1O4 feet
long by "a feet wide and "a feet deep has
been made in a hillside for the storage of
wine.
Electricity has been applied to the manu-
facture of glass. A pot OF 'batch Can pc
thus melted in fifteen minutes tnat ormerly
required thirty hours.
Since the beginning Of this century no
fewer than ffty-two volcanic islands have
risen out of the sea. Nineteen nave oisaP-
peared and ten are now Inhabited.
A new way of blasting rock is to place
a cartridge of water in a shot mole ana
convert it into steam instantly by electric
ity. This method is especially applicable In
coal mines.
Since Jan. / ninety colleges, academies
and seminaries and eight art galleries in the
United States have received gifts amounting
to $27, 012, 35S, not counting contributions OF
less than 5000.
1t is stated on German authority that two
million glass eyes are made every year In
Germany and Switzerland. while one French
house manufactures three hundred tnouSdnu
of them annually.
A curious barometer is used In erman
and Switzerland. 1t Is a jar of water, with
a frog and a little stepladder in it. When
the frog comes out of the water and sits on
| the steps a rain storm will soon occur.
From the Amphictyonic League Q4se b.
c. to the treaty of Zurich, in 1853, no fewer
than S,697 treaties were concluded. out or
these one was properly respected-the
| Methuen, between England and Portugal. .
There were $3.50 suicides in this country
during the last year, compares ed WIFI wms t S,goe
there was a falling off of nearly 80 per cent.
in the number of reported entertainments,
One million and a half of men work Gxoi in
| Britain has So, 900, United States 100000.
Cermany 2S5. coo, Belgium 100 900, Russia A.
900. The worlds miners of metal number
100000
| to be held at Buffalo, the Niagara Falls
will be illuminated by huge electric search-
lights. equipped with multi-colored glasses,
and arc lights will be operated In the cave
of the winds.
A Chicago paper asserts that 1886 muir
ders committed in the United States In the
past ten years were caused by liquor. Inc
paper claims that it kept a record O. crime
to determine the number of murders that
the saloons are largely responsible for.
At the Windsor flower show in London
sweet pea vines were exhibited Wnlcn were
| grown from seed taken from the tomb OF an
Egyptian mummy buried 1000 years ago.
The blossom is Of a delicate pink and wnlte
color and Is less than the ordiary size.
Inc SldmeSc nave SO StIOIS q
| ton against even numbers that they. will
have none OF them: The NUMBER OF tne
rooms in a house, of windows or doors in a
room. even of rungs on a ladder. must al
ways be odd.
The sacred fires of India have not all been
extinguisked. The most ancient, which still
exists. was consecrated at diva Twelve
| centuries ago, in commemoration of the voy-
age made by the Parsees when they en-
igrated from Persia to India.
A horse can draw on the worst kind OF
earth road about four times as much as he
can carry on his back. On a good macada-
mized road he can pull ten times as much.
on a wooden road twenty-five times as mucn
and on a street-railway ffty-eight times as
much.
In Cuba the kitchens are always on the
roof or in the courtyards back of the house.
Only twice a day does the Cuban housewife
when she enters the kitchen to make ready
IL o'clock breakfast, and at s o'clock to cook
the dinner, which is served at g.
Several cargoes of lumber Of considerable
have recentiy been delivered in Philadei-
| phia. The umber was obtained on the
wilderness battlefield and the bills Of lad
| the lumber sawed on the famous field where
| Lee and Grant fought so fercely and stub
| bornly for supremacy.
Many cities in Europe are solving the
problem of the destruction OF iron gas and
water pipes by eiectrolysis by substituting
almost a perfect nonconducso OF siec E,ic
| Their advantages are the saving of electric
ity and the absence of danger Of shock
| from wandering currents.
In Essex, England, the unwonted specta-
| Gle of monks riding bicycles may be daily
| witnessed. The Franciscan fathers, who
have charge Of the mission at .Braintree.
have also to attend the spiritual needs Of
two other missions at long distances. and,
In order that they may accomplish this
work. they have, with the permission Of
Cardinal Vaughan, invested In bicycles, on
which hey ride from one mission to an
Il other.