The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-18
CUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Relatively to its population Hartford,
Conn, is the richest city in the Union.
More than twenty millions of gold has
been assayed at Seattle from the Arctic
regions.
A black diamond is the only Substance
that will not be ground away by contact
with the emery surface.
Sugar manufacturers in Queensland in
variably purchase the years crop of cane
standing and cut It at their own cost.
Vermont continues 10 be a rural State.
1t is the only State in the North that does
not contain a city with a population OF
900 or more.
There are no silver copper mines in
Ireland, but biologists are of opinion that
ultimately large and valuable copper mines
will be discovered there.
1t is estimated that the number of colored
votes elimated from the Southern polls by
additional laws passed during the past four
years will amount to about 100000.
Ten years immigration, according to the
census returns counts UP nearly four mil
lions almost a million more than the entire
population of the Nation at its birth.
Some time ago thirty-two children in
Liverpool, England, contracted typhoid
fever on the same day from partaking
OF ice cream from an Italian vender.
No clergyman of the Church of England
may engage in trade, unless 1t shall be
on behalf of any number of partners
ceeding six, or where the business devolves
upon MIN Dy VIII.
Nearly one million women in Spain work
in the field as day laborers; $4,000 women
are registered as day ServantS-that Is,
they work for their food and lodging.
There is no such class anywhere else
Portable schoolhouses are being used
in the congested districts of Boston. In
time the congestion will be relieved and
the authorities will have no costly build
ings on valuable sites thrown on their
hands.
Nrov, tbat the oanopaiop ic ox-ar IL &c
known that the New England Anti-imper-
ialist League sent out 1900, 600 pieces of ''lit-
erature" and spent $4,000 distributing 1T.
outside of individual expenditures along
the same line.
It is said that the cent stamp in the
new series to be issued and sold during the
next year in commemoration of the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo will have
as it's central picture a motor vehicle rep
resenting the latest form OF transporta-
ton.
The eastern edge of the North American
continent is overfowed by the sea, and
that is why the water near the coast is so
shallow. To find the true edge of the great
continental land mass one would have to
travel about eighty miles due eastward
from New York.
Some. at least, of the great redwood
trees OF California will be preserved the
State having recently come into possession
of about four hundred acres of redwood
forest through the Will OF the late Col. j.
Il. Armstrong. of Cloverdale. Sonoma coun-
ty The tract is to be held as a public
park.
In the city of Heidelberg, Germany
there is a church called the Church of
the Holy Ghost, which is unique in is
way being the only church in the world
i'm which the Protestant and Catholic serv-
ices are held at the same time. partition
wall through the center separating the
two congregations.
Black diamonds are comparatively rare
and correspondingly high-priced. They arc
three or four times as hard as the white
ones and fire cannot harm them, however
great the heat. but if a drop of water
should touch them while heated they Will
explode and leave nothing but a little
heap of sand in their place.
There is no doubt that the first idea of a
suspension bridge was suggested To primi-
tive man by the interlacing of tree
branches and parasitical plants across rtv-
ers Probably monkeys used them before
men did. In very mountainous countries.
such as Thibet and Peru, they have APP
parently been used since the dawn of his
tory possibly earlier.
Between the towns of Los Angeles and
Pasadena, Southern California, there has
been constructed an overhead path for the
exclusive use of cyclists. The path is built
|. of wood, varies from three feet 10 fifty
feet in height and has an average gradient
of one in eighty The path accommodates
four machines abreast and is lit thoroughly
by electric light.
The boundary line between the United
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surveyed and marked by stone monuments
in the form of obelisks located about five
miles apart. The shafts are ten feet high.
four feet square at the base and two feet
at the top. built on foundations five feet
square and rising six inches above the
surface of the ground.
A singular battle witnessed recently
| in an English apiary. A hive of bees was
! besieged by a large swarm of wasps The
| bees made valiant sorties TO try TO drive
away their besiegers and the wasps made
| furious assaults 10 drive out the bees The
battle ragged for two days. at the end of
which time the bees evacuated the hive
| and the wasps took possession.
on clear nights a person with good sight
can see two thousand stars. AS but half of
! the Celestial sphere is viewed, and as many
stars near the horizon are obScured by the
| vapors OF our atmosphere. the total number
of stars visible with the naked eye Is put
at five thousand, certainly, and very likely
as high as eight thousand. The number
the largest telescope brings into view is
estimated at over fifty millions