The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-10
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The militant spirit IS dominant in Ne
braska. In the Fourth district in that State
there were 400 applications for the West
Point cadetship.
There will be representatives Of forty
two different tribes Of Indians in the In
dian Congress at the Pan-American ex-
position at Buffalo next umner.
Sixty-two per cent. OF the adults in the
kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland and
ireland are able TO read and write. In 1901
only y per cent. could read and write.
1t took a force of auditors a week to To-
cate a discrepancy of y cents between the
accounts OF the city controller and the city
treasurer of Philadelphia In a sum total OF
5000 900.
No man has ever reigned over an empire
SO vast as King Edwards. His Majesty
rules over one continent. 100 peninsulas. 50
promontories, LOCO lakes, 2.G0 rivers and
loco islands.
French. which used TO be the world Ian
guase, now ranks fifth, being spoken by
us. 100000. Russian by $1,000, O0 German by
10000, 0cO, Spanish by 50.0D,oo0.
The distinction among animals of re-
curing least sleep belongs to the elephant.
elephant seldom, II ever, sleeps more than
four. or occasionally five hours.
Robert Morris. the head of America 5
treasury during part of the days Of the
Gonfede ratio .z Is o sstim} ltsS to have been been
the richest man in the United States.
Snow has visited unusual places this sea-
son. II has fallen in Mexico City the first
time In fifty years. and in Madrid, where
Il had not been seen for eight years. In
Jerusalem snow fell 70 the depth of twelve
inches.
The exports OF copper from the United
States in 1900 were more than 500. 900. 0o3
pounds. as against about 100, 100000 pounds IN
1883. Germany AFFORDED the largest indi-
vidual market. taking more than 81. 600. 900
pounds of copper in 1900.
The Cooperative Association. of Basic,
Switzerland, contains 1901 members. who
bought nearly S2.CG),G00 worth Of provisions.
etc. last year. and got back . per cent. OF
their expenditures. This has led to the
formation of an opposition association of
small dealers.
servants in New Zealand or a woman help
OF any kind that IN many places the only
way TO secure the services OF the washer
woman is by sending a gig for her; This is
the experience of a lady who writes TO a
friend in England.
While cutting up a poplar at his sawmill
in Lee county. Virginia. G.. y. kesterton
found an anger hole plugged by a pin. On
$40 gold pieces bearing dates between 1870
and 1860. The coins are supposed to have
been hid there for sGfekeeping during the
civil war.
strength Of the Swiss army have just been
issued, and show that there are 15l,2J3 men
in the first class. S7,54G In the second class.
and 275. 296 in the third, making n grand
total of ga. 295 soldiers. Each man is a
properly trained soldier and a marksman
at LOCO yards.
At an inquest at Columbus, o., where
a baby had burned TO death by an accident.
its clothing having caught fire, one of the
jurymen offered this advice: II people
would only rinse clothing. after washing,
in a solution of alum and water they would
never take fire; II they came in contact
with a lame they would merely smolder.
The London Lancet says that deaths
from starvation a fallen from eighteen
TO twelve in 100000; deaths from scurvy.
one in 1000, COO, have remained stationary;
but with deaths from intemperance the
case is quite othervise-they have risen
from forty-fve per 100000 of those living
I'm the year 1878 to sevenry-seven per 1,00O.-
200 in 1897.
A reader of the Scriptures emphasizes tn !.
fifteenth Psalm as the gentleman's Psalm,
because il describes as among the many
who are entitled to be considered as gentle
men lone who leadeth an incorrupt life.
speaketh truth from his heart, doeth no
evil to his neighbor. is lowly in his own
eyes, keepeth his word even IL it be to his
own hindrance." 4.
Since the Patent Office was first estab-
lished in 1870 only 5.757 patents have been
granted 10 women. There are other inter
esting figures. There have been AIS patents
eight were granted 10 one inventor and
twenty-five to another. More than so per
cent. Of the patents issued are to citizens
Of the United States.
About as much spool wood is sent to
Europe every year as Is manufactured into
spools In Maine. Last year Maine exported
about Is. 0O0.O 600 feet of spool bars. chiefly to
Scotland. and of this quantity about one
half was shipped from Bangor. Several
million feet OF spool bars are also shipped
to other parts of the United States where
there are spool mills. notably 10 Rhode
Island.
At the present rate Of the manufacture
of spools and other articles the immense
white birch forests of Maine cannot last
| many years. Although the birch forests
| are extensive, the fact that seventeen
| spool mills and a large number of s~o-called
| novelty mills are eating up the timber at
the rate Of from 35.5O0.o00 to 100000 feet
annually excites the apprehension OF for
esters and manufacturers.
There are over sixty rulers in the
world. and IL is surprising TO find that the
| Presidents outnumber the Kings. There
, are twenty-four Presidents and only
twenty Kings. But the balance is more
| than made straight by the Emperors. Sui
| tans. Mikados. Rajahs, Khedives. Ameers
and other potentates who prefer their
| special title TO hat of King. Only one
| reigning monarch of the world, II we ex-
cept Her Most Important Majesty Of China,
Is a woman. This Is Queen WiiSelmina.
You Cannot Get Away.