The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-06
HI. H. WATSON Sc Go.


for him when he signaled to do SO. thereby
causing him to lose a train. He claims
damages to the extent of $500.
The government owns many thousands
OF acres OF land in New Mexico that have
never been taken up. 1t is the finest
country in the world for stock raising.
American labor is paid treble the wages
paid German labor in the same calling, and
the cost of food is from 10 to so per cent.
cheaper in the United States than in Ger
many.
South Carolina is now manufacturing all
the cotton she produces. North Carolina,
Georgia and other States are. also turn
ing out a large part of their cotton in
finished goods.
The borough officials of P~hoenixville,
Pa, recently impounded the towns soli-
tary trolley car and held ii until the rail-
road company replaced a fat-sided wheel
with a new one.
Merchants. manufacturers and profess
sional men in Chicago who employ boys are
combining to refuse applications for work
from all lads under sixteen who confess to
the cigarette habit.
All the soap in Paraguay is made from
cocoa oil. Cows eat the pulp from the nuts,
leaving the hull inclosing the kernel clean
fifty nuts per night.
1t is proposed to establish Chinese COM
mercial schools i'm England which would be
assisted by the government, and which
would train young men for service in the
Chinese export trade.
In the United States there is one church
for every 337 people. Boston has one for
every 1000, Minneapolis one for every 1854.
1000, 600 people attend church in the United
States every Sunday.
The Hindoo system is remarkably COM
pick. Every act of life is q religious act,
controlled by the laws of Hindooism. Their
very lives depend upon keeping up the sys-
tenn, and they will fight to the death to do
II.
AS showing the successful operation of
the patrol system in Illinois. ii is stated
that in the summer of 1897 10 per cent. of
the prisoners We're old offenders, while in
the summer of 1899 there were less than 8
per cent.
county. Missouri, calls himself 1.-The solid
Republican vote of that town" Out of
262 votes in Lynden he was the only one
who voted for Mckinley in 1896. The other
261 voted for Bryan.
The married and unmarried women OF
the United States of Colombia, South
America, are designated by the manner in
which they wear flowers in their hair. the
senoras wearing them on the right side and
the senoritaS on the left.
Congressman Jefferson Levy. of New
York city, thinks that inasmuch as the
President draws a salary OF $4,000 annually
5000 is an absurdly small figure for the
Vice President. He therefore proposes to
introduce a bill raising 1t to $4,000.
Long before the Christian era the Chinese
were making porcelain, and had in
numberable styles of decoration. This was
hard paste, or natural porcelain; soft paste,
or artificial porcelain. is made of various
substances and is also translucent.
The little city of Orea, in Sweden, owns
and operates a nursery that brings IL an
annual income of $50, 900. a sum that pays
all the expenses of the municipality, in
GLIDING free schools for the children and a
free telephone system for the people.
A novel and interesting sight at Lake
Erie harbor is the mammoth ~car-dumping