The Indianapolis world., 1900-01-27
PRICE FIVE CENTS

the total amount consumed were
divided equally. New York is by far
the most important Ice market in the
world.
The death of Chicago's talIest and
thinnest citizen is announced. He
was "a feet tall and weighed 125
pounds. He was quite appropriately
born in Poland.
An ingenious mechanical device
pastes paper labels on 100000 cans in
10 hours. Down a chute rolls a cease
less procession of cans and each can
picks up label as it passes.
Mrs. Rebecca Van Zandt, who died at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, aged LOG, had been
personally presented to and had
shaken hands with every governor of
} New York, except Roosevelt.
Letters dropped in the poetoftice at
Paris are delivered in Berlin in l u
hours aud sometimes within % min
utes. The distance is $50 miles, and
the letters are sent through pneumat-
ic tubes
The heaviest train ever hauled on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
with one engine, On March II, 1899,
was coal train of 30 steel cars, weigh
ing 6,459, lC8 tons, of which 4,758,lOO
was coal.
The highest income received by
any church singer in Europe or Amer
lea is 800 year paid to Miss Glenn
entIna de We're for her services as
leading soprano in DR.. Paxton's
church New York.
At test of interior standpipes at
the Manhattan Life Building, New
York, water was forced to the top of
the building, $40 feet above the street,
with sufficient force to seAd stream
Is feet higher.
The Monthly Weather Review states
that the greatest thickness of ice or
the harbors aud rivers of the country
during the past winter was during
the week March 20-57 at Moorhead,
Mimi, when ice A inches was meas
ured.
/ The recent record obtained at the
i; Indian Head proving-grounds of
1000 feet a second velocities for the
shells Of one of the new 45 caliber
6 inch naval guns of the United
States is declared by ordinance Of
ficials to be the best showing ever
made by gun of this class.
At Asti, California, 2 years ago, a
cistern 1O4 feet long by 81 feet wide
and a deep was formed in hillside
for the storage of wine. The immense
tank was lined with concrete 2 feet
thick and coated inside with glaze
as impermeable as glass. The capac-
| ity of the tank is 100000 gallons,
| A,dog show by the Kennel Club az
the Crystal Pal7ce, London, year
ago had 1851 entries of high quality.
n the collie class, Southport by Per-
fection, valued at 9j,O0C (s25.000,) won
all the prizes. George r. Sims won
the championship in the bulldog
class with his dog Barney Barnatc.
The largest salary received by any
person in the United States was paid
to Mr.. Eenry b. Hyde, late president
of the Equitable life insurance COM
pany, New York, which he founded,
leaving a clerkship in the Mutual
Life company for that purpose. For
years his salary was 100000 year.
A shaft recently completed for the
Boston Elevated Railway is % feet
long, and the diameter of the fly
wheel fit is 81 inches the diameter Of
: journals, 81 inches; the diameter of
the crank disk ft, 81 inches. The
shaft is hollow, the axle hole being
, liz inches in diameter. The weight
is 65,4l0 pounds.
With "peace on earth, good will to
| men" theoretically in the ascendant,
, practically almost every nation is
, overtaxed to meet the expenses of
maintaining its army and navy.
France runs behind TO the amount of
S100,0C0,0O0; Austria has an annual
deficit of s8O,OOO,OOO; Russia of $5O,-
O9O,00O, and Italy OF S30,0O0,O00. And
Great Britain acd the United States
are, though Slightly dishgured still
. in the ring"
The great telescope which will be
+ seen at the Paris Exposition is in
f. Continued on Eighth Page.