The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17
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the Romans built London about the year
80 A. D., but London wall was not built
until 306 A. d.
Notwithstanding the war the people in
the Philippine islands still continue to raise
and export the best hemp in the world.
The density of population in the United
States is greatest in the District of Column
bia. There the number of inhabitants TO
the square mile is 81, 645. 80.
There is only one sword factory in the
United States-a Massachusetts concern
and that one has ample capacity for sup
plying the domestic demand for swords.
Only A per cent. of the people in the
United States lived in cities one hundred
years ago. To-day the proportion is over
thirty out of every one hundred OF popula-
ton.
among its soldiers several young Hindoos
whose services have thus been engaged and
who hold themselves bound TO fulfill the
pledge.
In one hundred years, while the popula-
ton of the world has doubled. the popula-
ton of the United States has increased
fourteen-fold. The wealth has increased
ffty-fold.
The Mexican army of more than 5000
men is supported upon a trlne more nan
a million Mexican dollars a month. The
Mexican Congress does not cost a million
dollars a year.
The greater part of the wheat grown in
China is winter wheat. planted in the fall.
1t is not sown in large tracts, as in the
United States, but planted in small lots of a
fraction of an acre.
Chinese are not entirely clothed in cotton.
The ordinary annual crop of silk in China
is estimated at about 1000, 900 pounds, Of
which over 60 per cent. is consumed in the
country where it is produced.
Kentucky, Vermont, Tennessee. Maine,
Texas, West Virginia, Ohio and California
were not Territories before they were adj
mitted as States. All the other States were
Territories before their admission.
The first great fire in al American city
occurred at Boston, Aug. 3, 1919. BY this
confiagration $50 buildings were destroyed,
the loss amounting to over two hundred
thousand pounds sterling.
Paper was invented in China about the
commencement of the second century of
the Christian era, being made from the
banks of trees, from bamboo, old rags, silk,
hemp or cotton reduced TO pulp.
The Bank of Venice, the first establish
ment of the kind in Europe, was founded
in HI. 1t continued in existence without
! interruption until the overthrow of the re-
public in 1897 by the revolutionary army of
France.
There are signs that the immigration of
Northern families to the South, which has
been notably large for the past five or six
years, will be larger this year. Western
States contribute. as much to this flow
southwark as do the Eastern States.
In Richmond, Va. the wards are not de-
signated by numbers, as is the case in other
american cities, out Dy TIE ndIl6S Ol
statesmen: Clay, Monroe. Madison. JEFF
ferson, Marshall and Jackson. Clay ward
is the largest in Richmond in voting popu-
lation.
In the northern part of China grain food
other than rice is the sample. Millet, corn,
wheat and buckwh form the main food
grains. Baked corn bread is a common ar
ticle of diet in this section, and wheat flour,
grown and ground by the natives, is extern
sively used.
Being rich now and a hundred years ago
i'm this country is not the same by some
millions. Robert Morris, the head of Amer
ica's treasury during part OF the days OF
worth about 100000 in 1870 and was then
| the richest man in the United States.
A hundred years ago Spain was greater
in possessions and population than the
United States, but during the century just
ending its fortunes were long at an ebb and
the flood has been with the United States.
| Similar changes have gone on in other ma
tions and in other parts of the world. China
has had the ebb; Japan has had the flow,
There were primitive railroads in the
! eighteenth century, but it was after 1902
when Richard Trevithick took out in Eng
land the first patent for a high pressure
engine adapted for motion. on roads; and
in 1929 the Rocket" which was built by
Robert Stephenson. drew forty-four IONS
at the rate of over twenty miles an hour.
The poor are not being neglected in the
old world. The sum of 100000 is TO be ex-
pended by the County Council of London in
improving the dwellings of the poorer
! classes. There will be a rebuilding of homes
on a vast scale, with an Improvement of
sanitary conditions. The King is greatly in
terested in this project, which has long
been under consideration.
Spain now boasts of possessing more CON-
vents, more monasteries and more Jesuit
colleges, seminaries and establishments of
| all kinds than at any time under the houses
of Bourbon and Austria. The last census,
In 1897, showed 2S,549 nuns. 45.3S monks
and priests, LOO Jesuits. 3 archbishcps,
81 bishops. 50 deans and LIB canons in
kind exceed 1000.
Two-inch ice will sustain a man or prop
erly spaced infantry; four-inch ice will
carry a man on horseback. or cavalry, or
light guns, six-inch ice. heavy field guns,
such as S0-pounders; eight-inch ice. a bat
terry of artillery, with carriages and horses,
but not over 1000 pounds a square foot
on sledges. and ten-inch ice sustains an
army of innumerable multitude. On fifteen
inch ice a railway could be built.