The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-16
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California is the only State in the Union
that taxes church property.
In Holland no landlord has the power of
raising the rent or Of evicting a tenant.
The Eskimos of Alaska make water
proof boots and shirts of the skin of the
salmon.
New York city owes more by $50. 0OO.O 900
than all the forty-five States in the Union
together.
The province of Manitoba. almost the
same size as Great Britain and Ireland, has
only 10000 inhabitants.
According to recent statistics there is one
man in about 500 in the United States who
receives a college training.
Spain is threatened with a strike of
schoolmasters, some of whom, it is said, re-
ceive a salary of only s15 a year.
Robbing graves is the only crime under
justly killed on the spot by any one finding
him out. sr-r
The area of the United States is 3,501, 900
square miles: that of China is 4,21S, 401, of
which China proper has an area of
i,396,S41 square miles.
The number of emigrants from Ireland
for the ten months ending Oct. 81 was 4S. 649.
as compared with 40, 1853 during the corre-
spending period of last year.
The exports of coal continue to grow
monthly, and in ten months this year this
country has shipped abroad coal and coke
to the value of almost $40, 100000.
Manila has about 165, 900 inhabitants.
There is a smaller number of saloons there
in proportion to the population than in any
city of similar size in the United States.
The biggest match factory in the world
is the Vulcan match factory, at Tidahalm.
sweden. 1t employs over 100 men and
manufactures daily 100000 boxes of matches.
There is a great demand for hands by
the planters in Hawaii. No less than ZOO
men are needed there in the cultivation of
4 GlJOor and offnrfc IRA ruoKinO IN Or1r
them in this eountry.
1t is believed by many that the dry eli
mate of Southern Oklahoma and the south
ern district of the Indian Territory is go
ing to make all that section the home for
the finest grade of cotton.
Horseshoes weighing an ounce each and
just a trihe larger than a silver dollar were
turned out in a California shop recently.
They were made for a Shetland pony six
months old and small for its age.
The driest place in the world is Egypt
| between the two lower falls of the Nile.
Rain has never been known to fall there,
and the Inhabitants do not believe travellers
when told that water falls from the sky.
schools of the United States-as many as
Germany, France and Italy combined and
three times the enrolment of Great Britain
and Ireland, and five times as many as
Russia, with its population OF 100, 000, 900.
Edward Everett Hale gives the following
three good rules for life: First, live as
much as possible in the open air; second.
touch elbows with the rank and file; third,
talk every day with a man you kno to be
your superior.
One of the blessings which wise rule
would give to South Africa would be a state
system of irrigation. 1t is calculated that
in the Cape alone 5000. 600 acres migh be
irrigated, with an increased value of ea
per acre, which would add over G100, 000, 600
to the value of the colony.
Oranges and bananas reach a delicious
perfection in Porto Rico, and frosts are
unknown. The cultivation of various crops
has increased enormously since 1906. aver
aging fully 80 per cent. all around. The
cultivation Of cane has increased Is per
cent; of coffee, % per cent, and OF tobacco,
800 per cent.
That Senate customs rarely change is
shown by the two old-fashioned snuff boxes
in that chamber. They are as carefully
filled to-day as in the days when il was the
fashion 10 snuff" Few of the present
members use the boxes, though occasion
ally one of the older Southern members will
go VI, ak a pinch" and calmly await the
Sneeze.
Tibet is larger than France, Germany and
Spain combined, and has a population OF
100000. Ii is ruled over by Dalai Lama,
who Acknowledges only nominal allegiance
to China. He is the head OF Lamaism,
which Is the oldest and ~strictest sect OF
Buddhism. Nearly all Mongolia is of the
religion Of the Dalia Lama of Lassa, and
an ambitious man in the place could make
trouble for China.