The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-22
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The first fire engine used in this country
in 1871.
Three million acres of Montana land are
TO be auctioned off at a minimum of $40 an
acre.
Cairo is much the biggest town in Africa.
with $4,000 people, of whom 25,O00 are Euro
peans.
Any child over seven can be prosecuted
as a criminal in England. but in Germany
twelve is the limit of responsibility.
Holland has 10, 100 windmills. each of
which drains 80 acres of land, at an aver
age cost OF 70 cents an acre a year.
One OF the Buenos Ayres newspapers has
q consultation room, in which the poor can
daily get medical or legal advice free.
The building with the largest stones In
the world is not in Egypt, but at Baalbec,
In Syria. The stones are sixty feet long and
twenty feet square.
At the Pan-American Exposition Con-
rectlcut has the largest and best display Of
farm products, and also a good display Of
fruits In horticultural building.
The latest thing in the eating saloon and
lunch cafe lines is the automatic or waiter
less restaurant. There is one of these
unique restaurants at Buffalo.
y bushel of corn makes Az gallons Of
spirits, making II cost 1874 cents at 60 cents
a bushel for corn. At IS cents the spirits
cost 10 cents, a difference of 3 13 cents.
The big gray kangaroo Of Australia
measures about seven feet from the tip OF
its nose TO the end OF it's tail. 1t can run
faster than a horse and clear thirty feet at
a jump.
The Chicago s~tockyards are the biggest in
the world. They can hold 10000 cattle daily,
besides 10000 sheep and 10000 pigs. They
contain twenty miles of streets and fifty
miles OF feeding troughs.
The trade and wealth Of Canada are in
creas1ng far more rapidly than its popula-
ton. With only one-ffteenth Of the p~opula-
ton Canada has a trade OF more than one
sixth OF that of the United States.
In every State and Territory prize fights
are now forbidden by law. Not one of the
fighters is a successful star in any the
ater, and nearly all of them have lost
money in the keeping OF barrooms.
Chemistry says that 40 per cent. Of green
wood consists OF water. They estimate that
Il is almost impossible to expel all the
water from seasoned lumber, about 10 per
cent. remaining in highly seasoned WOODS.
Georgia farmers and planters are APP
peal1ng TO negroes 20 help them out with
their turpentine getting. Builders of new
cotton mills are greatly concerned as to
where they will get hands to run their
mills.
Until after the sixth century OF cur era
all silk imported from the East to the West
was valued at its weight in gold. The silken
goods were put into one scale and enough
gold to balance them was placed in the
other.
1t is estimated that the total reduction
of the Boer forces in South Africa from
January OF this year amount to 12,OJ9 men,
Of which 1920 have been killed and 1000
wounded. while 5000 have surrendered or
been captured.
The first American locomotive that was
built for actual service was the Best
Friend, Of Charleston, which was built at
the West Point foundry, in New York city,
for the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad.
and was successfully put in use on that
road in December, 1880.
The population of Kansas has not in
creased much during the last ten years.
Quite an emigration out OF the State during
the period of depression. and the large
number of emigrants to Oklahoma, nearly
overbalance the natural Increase. In 1890
the total population was 1~,427,O96; in 1900.
1.444, 70S.
One would think tha the identity Of the
architect Of such a superbly designed build
ing as the Cologne Cathedral could not pos
sibly be lost to the world. But il is. The
cathedral took centuries TO build. and many
architects have modelled parts OF il accord
ing to their " ideas. The result is the
most beautiful cathedral in the world.
Probably the largest breeder of Angus
cattle in America is Nelson Morris, of Chi
stake plains is thirty-fve miles long and
has an area OF IA square miles. Its csc, 600
acres and fifty windmills now provide grass
and water for nearly fifteen thousand cat
tie. the majority of which are let black in
color and without horns.
The eight-hour day is not such a new
thing. On April 2, 1872, the town Of Partridge
field. Mass, now Peru, voted ito grant
a15O,OOO for repairing highways in said
town, to be worked out two-thirds in June
next at IS cd per day, and the other third
in September at SIS per day, eight hours in
a day TO be deemed a days work"
For six scholarships recently awarded by
the Georgia School OF Technology there
were SEQ applications. This is accepted as
evidence tina the young white men OF the
South are inclining toward manual and
mechanical work as a career. Georgia pa
nars note this change of sentiment with
much satisfaction. Formerly there was a
prejudice against mechanical labor.
The greatest surrender in the annals of
warfare was that OF Metz, on Oct. q, 1870.
AS a fortified place Metz, with It's surround
irg forts, was practically impregnable, but
bad generalship permitted IL to be COM
nieteiy surrounded and cut off. The surren-
der Included three field marshals. sixty-six
generals, ak thousand officers OF lower de-
gree. over four hundred guns. a hundred
metrailIeuses. nearly sixty standards and
1900 rank and file.