The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
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Russia as recently as the time of Peter the
Great.
India rubber nails for use in places where
ordinary nails are liable to corrosion are
a German novelty.
The Lutheran Church in Iceland numbers
about 1000 baptized members, which is
about the total population.
Minnesota's schools cost about s~5,OoO,OOO
annually, and hat is one-third of the mon
ey raised by taxes in the State.
The average consumption of alcoholic
drinks In England last year was at the
rate of 800 worth per family of five.
Settlers in Siberia along the new rail-
road are buying their agricultural and
other machinery in the United States.
France, with a population of 100000
has a lighting force of 2,000,00 men, able to
appear in the field at very short notice.
Descendants of the missionaries in the
Hawaiian islands constitute about one
twentieth of the white population, exclu-
sive of the Portuguese.
The London Lancet contends that hos
pital patients should be allowed to play
cards as we'll as to smoke, provided this
does not annoy other patients.
Wieden. a suburb of Vienna, has the
largest dwelling house III the world. 1t
contains 1,4O0 rooms, divided into 400 suites,
and affords shelter TO over 1900 persons.
There were no white inhabitants in Kan
sas in 1850; in 1856 there were less than
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enumeration, March, 1898, her population
was LAPS, 119.
The seven provinces Of Canada have a
total area of LOIS, 900 square miles, and the
nine territories 1881, 900 square miles, while
the great lakes of the st. Lawrence system
have an area of $4,000 square miles.
Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county, Cali
fornia, grows mustard for the whole Ma
ton. In that region two thousand acres are
cultivated to the seed, the industry en-
nlnVinQ qhOnt two hundred farmers
After the battle of Spion kop a British
soldier was found dead with his finger on
the trigger of his rifle. a Boer who at
tempted to take the rifle out of his hands
was shot dead by a slip of the dead mans
finger.
Professor Forbes, the State entomologist
of Illinois, has estimated that, without the
assistance of birds, the State of Illinois
would be carpeted with insects, one TO
each square inch of ground, at the end of
twelve years.
Hams are generally sent to Singapore,
India, packed In bran or oats, then sewed
in canvas and afterward packed in salt,
this process preserving the flavor far bet
ter than any other method, besides keeping
the ham moist.
In New York city the Metropolitan
Street-railway Company has 2S4 miles of
track and last year carried on them 255, $685.
600 passengers, or about half the number
carried on all of the steam railroads of
the United States.
A man went into q store in Fairfield,
Me-, the other day and remarked that ev-
erything, excepting boots. that he had on,
viz, stockings, shirts, underclothes, out
side clothes and cap, were spun, woven
and made by his mother.
On a train going from Client to Brussels
such a fierce discussion about the war
arose among some of the passengers that
the alarm was given, the train was stopped
and the disputants were compelled to get
out and finish the discussion on the ground.
Nearly eight million persons i'm Germany
are insured against illness. One-third of
these reported illness in 1855, the average
duration being seventeen days, which, TAX
ing the average wages at only so cents a
day, means a loss of nearly $24,0 0O, 900 a
year.
the mining press of Europe is as to the To-
cation of the oldest coal mine in Europe.
According to Herr Frantz Buettgenbach,
coal was mined before 111S, and it has been
thought that coal was first found in the
Liege district.
The houses of Havana are made of a
native stone. The walls are from three to
four feet thick, and the architectural style
is, naturally. most substantial. The larger
dwellings. are built upon a tiled courtyard.
where fountains play and palms grow
most luxuriantly.
Conditions are highly prosperous in
Kansas. During the past year only one
bank in the State failed. Nearly all the
banking institutions earned large dividends.
Forty of them paid dividends Of 27.9 per
cent, and the general average of earnings
was over 20 per cent.
Grace Church, New York, which has ap-
peared in several plays and many novels.
has the finest and heaviest chimes of any
church in this country. They were pre-
sented by different members of the con-
gregation, and have been rung twice a day
at 10 o'clock in the morning and at 4
O'Clock in the afternoon-for many years.
The total area of Cuba is about forty-ive
thousand square miles. OF this, fifteen
thousand square miles is uncleared and un-
explored forest: seven thousand square
miles is devoted to pasture; ten thousand
square miles, susceptible of cultivation,
has never felt the pillow. and only about
twelve thousand square miles, or a little
more than one-fourth of. the entire area,
is. or ever has been. productive.