The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-25

cred in the upper valley The city lacks,
however. two essential elements of pros
perity-bank facilities and telegraphic COM
munication with the outside world.
The valley of the Amazon still remains
almost UNEMPLOYED. What has been done
has been accomplished, in great measure.
by Europeans.
Those who live long are always small
eaters. The enormous task the liver and
stomach OF gourmand have daily Is TOO
much for any system.
The advanced prices which turpentine
rosin and naval stores are now bringing in
the market are making hundreds of Flor
ida producers of those articles rich.
In saloon in Glasgow is the following
notice pasted on the wall: discussions
on the war and the twentieth century will
not be allowed till the close of both.
A few years ago there was, on farm
near Stuart. Va, an apple tree which pro-
duced at one bearing 100 bushels 1t shad-
ed at meridian ninety feet of ground in
diameter.
The total of the Spanish losses in the
Cuban war were as follows: Killed in bat
tie. 1855; died of wounds. 1881; died or vel,
low fever, 20.629; died of starvation and
otherwise. 30120; missing, "A; total, 5i,o6s.
Treatment of soil with lime has been
suggested to the Paris Academy of Science
as possible remedy for malaria, as II has
been noticed that countries having sur
face rich in lime are free from the malay.
The rubber plantations of Mexico, as
rule, are remote from centers of population.
They are always thinly inhabited. Orien-
tai labor must be imported. The approxi-
nate wage is 81 silver (47 cents gold per
day.
1t is well-known fact that American
footwear is not only the cheapest and best,
but also the most stylish in the world. Its
lasts and shapes are readily copied by Eng
lish firms, who sell their goods as Amer
lean shapes.
The smell of pure prussic acid is always
fatal, the discoverer of the poison himself
having been instantly killed by one whit
of it. 1t kills the instant it enters the
lungs as gas. Pure prussic acid is never
sold nor handled.
A member of the Kansas Legislature has
| announced his candidacy for reelection on
a platform in opposition to the employ
| ment of women about legislative assem-
blies, or, for that matter, in any branch or
| the State government.
One of the curious sights in Charleston,
| S. c., is a flock of buzzards which, six
| days in the week, hover around the streets
| and alleys, and particularly the market
places of that city. They are the public
| scavengers, and are protected by law.
While women are only now being adj
| mitted to German universities, the doctors
| degree was conferred on a young woman
| nameu Dorothea Won Schlozer as early as
| 1887 at Gottingen after an examination In
Latin. architecture, mining and algebra.
| Blasting with nQulQ ar DIT HleuId iidS
| led to the conclusion that to be effective
the liquid should be used within fifteen
| minutes after preparation. AS tried after
seventy-two hours, when half of it had
| evaporated, it had no destructive effect.
| Usually with long-lived folk the trunk Is
| long and the legs short in proportion. The
| habit of deep, slow breathing also belongs
| to this section of the human race. A
| calm nature is necessary, too, for person
| always in flutter either with rage or JOY
wears himself out.
1 Two miles from Stuart, Va, on the
| farm of J. w. Robertson, stands the ia
! nous Robertson tree, the parent of all ap-
| pie trees of that name in the United States.
| 1t bears a large. red apple. which keeps
| WELL and ii has produced at one bearing
| eighty-five bushels. is about eighty years
| old and is still bearing.
| 1t is shown by the record that in all the
/ fighting before Santiago, the only real bat
| ties of the war with Spain, there were only
! twenty-nine amputations. OF these cases
| six terminated fatally. OF the twenty-three
| remaining eleven of the amputations were
| of fingers. Only twelve soldiers came out
of the battles with the loss OF more than
| a finger.