The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-13
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Our Indian population is not skillful in
any line of manufacture save their own
crude industries.
OF European continental nations Germany
takes the lead in cotton consumption with
81, 100000 a year.
The recent census shows that about IL
per cent. of the population of the United
States is colored.
1t is the custom of the Alabama district
of the United Mine Workers to elect a ne
gro as vice president
Envelopes were first used for letters In
1889, and the first issue of postage stamps
was authorized in 1S47.
Land and the improvements upon il con-
stitute the first and most important item
of our national wealth.
The Bible has been so called only for the
last 200 years. 1t was formerly called ''The
Books or the Divine Library"
The heaviest metal is platinum; the light
est potassium. The latter will float on the
surface of water like a piece of cork.
A hundred years ago the largest fortune
IL the United States was $250, 600. Now
there are several fortunes of more than
500, 000, 600.
In 1900 there were 903 postofices in the
United States, and 1,S75 miles of postal
routes. In 1899 there were 5000 postoffices
and $4,000 miles of postal routes.
Among the war correspondents at the
front in South Africa the casualties were
about 80 per cent. Seven were killed and
a like number died from disease.
Wild deer are increasing in all parts of
Connecticut, and they are occasionally
found feeding with domestic animals. They
are more numerous in the State than at any
time for $50 years.
A New Jersey baker. who was fined for
selling bread on Sunday, demonstrated the
absurdity of the blue laws by buying on
Sunday a cigar at the drug store kept by
the justice who fined him.
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world, costing 81, 900, 900 each, are found in
Hawaii, and there are planters in the
islands who produce $500 worth of sugar
and $500 worth of rice to the acre.
In Germany, when the vote of the jury
stands six against six, a prisoner is ac-
quilted. A vote of seven against five leaves
the decision to the court, and on a vote of
eight against four the prisoner is convicted.
Women are rapidly displacing men as
teachers in the schools of New York. Dur
ing the last year there was q decrease of
217 in the number of men employed, while
the number of women teachers increased
lob. :
Iowa almost from the date of its admis-
sion has been called the "Hawkeye State"
.Hawkeye was the name of a noted Indian
chief. who, in the early days. caused no
little trouble along the western border of
American civilization.
Ordinary tumblers will hold water be-
cause the giobules of water are too big to
squeeze through grass Dul glass - DIS iuii
OF holes as a sponge. and air blows right
through il, because the specks Of air are
smaller than the holes.
A hundred years ago a woman and all
her possessions practically belonged to her
husband. To-day a man may not, under
any circumstances open his wife's letters
without her permission. She has her legal
rights and controls her own property.
The first Y. NJ. c. A. was organized in 1874
by George Williams. There are now l.42o
associations in North America alone, with
&c. 900 members The American associations
own and occupy 344 buildings of their own,
and their total property is valued at $40, 00o,-
00.
North Carolina. in colonial days, was
called the '.Old North Colony" and the
name. with State instead of colony. has
been retained to the present time II has
also been called "Turpentine State from
the Importance of this article in the list of
its exports
There are thirty flag factories in the
United States. They have an invested cap
500. 600 annually. The majority are situated
in New York State. The others are In Mas
sachusetts. Pennsylvania, Louisiana and
South Carolina
Forced by the increased navies of her
rivals to greater efforts than ever before.
If she is TO maintain her naval supremacy,
Great Britain will begin the century with a
nrogramme for 1S.000-ton battIeships. That
will mean warships 20 per cent. larger than
any now anoat.
Louisiana papers explain that iroproved
nrocesseo IN making sugar are 20 th0fQuxb
that the world - deprived o4 The old Nav
og1oom uuGMxnoCQo mo&n4Do4 NAM CO.