The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-15
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Uncollected taxes in New Orleans aggre-
gate over 100000.
Cairo is the greatest town of Africa, and
its inhabitants number SOC, 900, of which
$4,000 are Europeans.
The total increase in the value of the
farm animals of the United States in the
last three years was S5I0,OO0,0OO
Stone street was the first street in New
York city paved with cobble stones, hence
its name. The paving was done in the
year 1857. sa4
The River Mississippi each year washes
away an alarming amount of shore. equal
to ten square miles of territory eighty-six
feet deep.
The amount of national mi stock held
by women in America is estimated at $780,
600, 200, and the amount of private and state
bank stock at $137. 100000.
Orphanages and destitute orphans are
alike nonexistent In Australia. There ev-
cry waif is taken to a receiving house and
kept till a country home is found for 1T.
A German savant says dying is a perfect
ly easy and painless process. Conscious
ness, he says, ceases in nearly every in
stance before the heart stops beating.
Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county, CAL
ifornia, grows mustard for the whole Ma
ton. In that region 1000 acres are culti-
waited to the seed, the industry employing
about 200 farmers.
A prize of 500, 600 is offered in Paris for
any air navigator who will start from
Longchamps and go around the Ethel
tower and return, a distance of seven
miles, in thirty minutes.
1t is estimated that there are between
1900 and 1850 bales of unsold cotton in CO.
lumbus, Ca, warehouses, and of this 1t is
said that not a single bale is for sale at
the present market prices.
1t is the custom in Hungary for the
| groom to give the bride a kick after the
marriage ceremony. to make her realize
her subsection. while in Croatia the BRIDE
groom boxes the brides ears.
In order to facilitate traffic along the
shores of the Dead sea 1t has been decided
to establish a regular intercourse by
means of small steamers, and the first
steamer has been purchased.
Policemen on the streets in Hamburg are
instructed TO watch the cars sharply, and
IL they find a car which carries a single
by law the conductor is fined u cents.
All tourists in Egypt are expected to go
inside the pyramids. The entrance is a
long TUNE chute or incline plane, three or
| four feet wide, whose bottom and sides are
polished stone. 1t is very dark, and can
dies are used.
Mississippi has a 800, 600 poultry farm. 1t
is located fifteen miles from Bay st. Louis.
There are 5000 laying hens. 1900 industri-
ous ducks. and hundreds of turkeys. Eggs
are gathered in wheelbarrows, and thirty
large incubators are in constant use.
Population of the four greatest cities OF
the Russian Empire is given as follows In
the figures of the recent census: st. Pc
tersburg, 1,132. 677: Moscow, with its two
suburbs, 9Ss, ga; Odessa, 405,041 Ga great in
crease since 1892, and Warsaw, 626,072.
During the battle of Colenso the Irish
Fusiliers were taking shelter for a few
minutes from a hail of bullets. when two OF
them quarreled. They fought it out there
and then, and when it was over they re-
sumed the march to the river.
Justice Garrett. of the Southwestern Po-
lice Court, of London, says it is a shocking
thing to find that the evidence in that
court showed increasing drunkenness
among women. and that on one day every
prisoner charged with drunkenness was a
woman.
The Americans introduced the first sew.
ing machines into China, after great diff
culties and taught the Chinese their use
and to-day in the hourishing cities OF
Shanghai, Hong-kong and even in Pekine
the tailoring establishments are benefited
by them.
A German authority has gathered data
showing that one-third of humanity speaks
the Chinese language. and that the HindoC
tongues is spoken by more than 1OO,OOO,OOO
the Russian by 1900. 900. while the German
is spoken by 5000, 900, and the Spanish by
100000.
In a recent lecture on the cannibals OF
North Australia, given by DIR. Carl Lum'
h0ltZ, in New York, he designated tina
country as the LAND of contrasts, whert
women are without beauty, birds without
song, flowers without fragrance. and where
dogs do not bark"
Oberammergau is rehearsing for the de
cennial performance of the Passion Play
this summer. Josef Mayr will be unable Il
take the part of ChriStus, owing 10 the eff
fects of an accident in the woods. foul
years ago. and Anton Lang. a young mar
whom he has trained, has been substituted
The establishment of American tool-mak
ing plants in Europe is likely TO be followed
by the establishment of German textile
plants in America. Fifteen years ago tn,
Botany Worsted Mills were established b,
German capitalists in Passaic, n. j., Il
take advantage of the high duty existing