The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
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them are paid salaries ranging from $1,000
TO $3.50 a year, the others SeiHgT-t
compensation of ordinary eierks-$sO0 to
$500 a year.
Carroll d. Wright, the United States COM
missioner of statistics, computes that for
the twenty years ending Dec. 81; 1900. there
was a total loss by strikes and lOckouts or
not less than $46S. 96S. 5S1.
During 1881 and 1852 the European immi-
grafton TO the United States reached its
maximum and amounted 10 10000 persons.
The number in 1855 was 80. 600. in 1891. $780,
600; in 1878, 10000; in 1859. 81, OO
Ireland continues 10 far outdistance all
other European countries in crimelessness.
Othcial statistics for the last year just pub
lished show a decrease Of 1912 per cent. in
minor ofenses as compared with the pre-
ceding year.
A Turk holds that the day begins exactly
at sunset. At that time he sets his clocks
and watches at the hour Of i. A watch
which could run for weeks without gaining
or losing a minute would be Of no special
value TO the Turk.
The Russian empire contains more than
siXty-ive independent racial groups. 1t is
a veritable Tower of Babel. Even with the
omission Of Siberia and Central Asia there
remain in Russia, in Europe and the eau
casus alone forty-siX different peoples.
h london School Board has opened the
first OF a series of schools for cripples. The
children are taken from their homes TO
school in an ambulance and afterward
taken home by ambulance. The school cur
riculum includes a substantial midday meal.
American manufacturers seeking new
markets will not succeed, says a writer,
unless they make their packages small
enough for carriage on a mules back and
wrap their wares in red paper instead OF
brown. The heather purchaser prefers red;
Il is luckier.
Between 10000 and $1,000 women pass an
nually through the prisons OF England and
Wales. Taking the hgures for the last year
II appears thai u per cent. had been pre-
viously convicted, ~ per cent. five times
/ and more and II Der cpnf-ahOut 4 Nn urnm-
en-twenty times or more.
The Island Of Java. which is nearly e3
miles long and about rs miles wide. and
located only three degrees off the equator,
has the distinguishing position OF supplying
practically all the cinchona bark from
which the worlds supply OF quinine is
made. There are about $500 acres Of this
island used in growing cinchOns.
Rice forms a larger part Of human food
than the product Of any other one plant,
being the diet Of India, China and the Ma
tables of 80 per cent OF the inhabitants OF
the civilized world. One may safely ven
ture the assertion that So0,OO0,e0 people eat
rice every day in the year.
Because a Seattle elephone girl refused
TO connect a subscriber TO the fire DEPART
ment when he wanted 20 give notice OF A
nre a loss OF $oO,Wo was incurred and now
the telephone company is being sued Tor
damages by the person thus served and by
the insurance company which suffered the
loss, says a California paper
lneTe Is no immigration into Germany.
The increase in the population is entirely
natural and amounted 10 nearly 100000, or
about II per cent, during the decade from
1890 10 1900. and nearly s per cent. during the
five years from 1885 10 1900. The population
Of the empire generally is advancing al the
rate Of about is per cent. annually, but the
increase in the cities has been phenomenal.
Nearly half a century ago the experiment
OF putting horse meat on the market was
made for the first time In Austria. A gov
eminent decree Of April %. 1854. gave legal
permission 10 cut up and sell horse meat
as an article of food. During the rest OF
that year and IN 1856 s3 horses were
slaughtered for food IN Vienna The num-
Der rose in lS39-the last year for which
statistics are O~btainable-to 2,S40 head.
Snow is a substance which offers a most
surprising resistance 10 penetration by a
ride bullet. far more indeed than wood
Experiments made In Norway have shown
that a snow wall four feet thick is absO-
lutely proof against the Norwegian army
rife. which, by the way, Is Of quite excep-
tiOnal piercing power. and that at al
ranges from fifty yards up TO half a mile.
This suggests a new means or defense IN
winter campaigning and snow Is far more
easily and quickly handled than earth CT
sandbags.