The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Women's tailors, rapidly becoming as thick
as sparrows are invariably men. Most of
the tailor-made dresses are manufactured
|, by men.
A Hutchinson CKas.) man has mortgage
on his farm he wants to pay off and the
loan company refuses to accept the money.
The farmer has begun suit to compel the
company TO accept his money.
Young Australia got it's first sight Of
year. when for the first time in about
sixty years a fall took place in the popu-
lated parts Of South Australia.
Horses, mules and donkeys go loaded to
market in Turkey but the road is strewn
thousands of turkeys, which may be bought
at y cents apiece, feed on the dropping
grain.
1t is a curious comment on the changed
conditions of politics in Virginia to read
that OF the five living ex-Confederate gen.
erals in that State four were present at
Roanoke as delegates TO the Republican
convention.
Everywhere religious orders are on the
increase. In Belgium, for instance, in 1916
there were lI9 converts and monaSteries,
with 1900 inmates. In 1900 the number had
increased to eco converts and monasteries,
with 1900 inmates.
Germany is now the best-educated ma
ton OF Europe, yet only hundreds of years
ago German teachers in many parts Of the
country were poorly paid they used to
sing in front of houses in order to add to
their income by cdd pence.
The old Liberty bell is to make yet an
other trip from PhiIadelphia. Since its re-
turn from the Chicago worlds fair 1t has
been quietly at rest. But in the latter part
of December, probably, it Will be taken to
the exposition at Charleston. S. c.
I'VE don't want any ore deposits" is the
sign an Inman (Kan.) bank has posted on
its front door The owners say they have
more money than they can place and
they don't care to run the risk of keeping
Lot more money which they can't make
earn them something.
1t is reported that a copper mine owned
by j. d. Meenach, at Ellmar, on Prince
William sound, Alaska, Will prove to be the
greatest copper deposit yet discovered any
where. It Is estimated that there are IN
sight 100000 tons of copper ore which will
run $50 per ton in copper and several dollars
in gold.
Farmers about Cortland, N Y, pro-
hibltion district, were puzzled to find that
their hands got drunk without any visible
liquor supply. They finally discovered that
the employees had tapped the silo for the
juice OF the green cornstalks, which, fer
mented, makes liquor that is pleasant but
most terrible.
People die faster in cities than in the
country, yet in every part of the world
people are flocking to the cities more and
more every year. In New York there are,
on the general average, fourteen persons in
each dwelling house while the proportion
or population to the square mile for the
United States is only about twenty-five.
1t is stated by an authority that the
weight of a mans brain has nothing 10 do
with his mental power. 1t is a question of
climate not of intellect. The colder the
climate the greater the size Of the brain.
The largest heads Of all are those of the
Chugatches, who live very far north, and
next come the heads of the Laps.
At the bottom of the wonderful physical
vitality Of the Turkish race is the univer-
sal abstinence Of the common people. They
are the most abstemious race on the earth
and the healthiest. The soldiers, peasants,
merchants and members of the learned pro-
LESSONS never touch alcohol, although the
upper classes Of COnstantinople drink con-
siderably
The biggest moonshine distillery was dis
covered I'm Brooklyn the other day In a
suburban cottage inhabited by Russians.
It's capacity was 80 gallons of proof spirits
a day. and its profits were $500 a week. A
wagon load Of its product was captured.
and the officers found the place by allowing
the horse TO choose its own route home
ward.
In Lahore there is, or was, a massive
building made only of bricks and mortar.
but the builders who erected it in about 80
&. c., understood their business so well
that the fabric defied the engineering ef-
forts of four successive governments TO re-
move il. India, too. can show plastered
buildings white and shiny like marble and
as smooth and polished as glass.
The black handkerchief which the sailor
OF the English navy knots around his
throat was first worn as mourning by Mel
son, and has ever since been retained, while
the bright stripes around the broad blue
collar of the sailors jumper commemorate
the victories OF Trafalgar, Copenhagen and
the Nile The broad blue collar itself IS
older than Nelson. and was first adopted Fl
that period when sailors plastered their
hair into a sti1 pigtail with grease and
powder.