The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Egypt exported last year 65.0o0 tons OF
sugar, $500 tons of WHICH came to America.
The Hindoo chronology extends to 6l4
z. c.; Babylon, 675S b. c.; China, 6l5I
8. c.
One woman to every ten men worked for
wages fifty years ago. but now the ratio Is
one to four.
The largest sponge ever sent to market
was from the Mediterranean; it was ten
feet in circumference and three in dame
ter.
The difference between the tallest and
shortest races in the world is one foot and
one-half inch, and the average height Is
five feet four inches.
The highest trees in the world belong to
a species of eucalypti found in Australia
Single specimens have grown TO helght
exceeding four hundred feet.
The lowest human habitation is said to
be that of the coal miners in Bohemia,
some of whom make their dwellings at a
point over 1000 feet below the level or the
sea.
According to recent statistics, there are
Az colleges in the United States, having
total estimated property value, including
grounds, buildings and apparatus, OF Sloo,-
100000
Our largest and most important prize of
the war with Spain. the cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes, now lying at the navy yard at Ports,
mouth, is to be RENTED as training ana
station ship.
The first currency issued by the whites
within the limits Of the United States was
wampum. which was adopted by the Mas
sachusetts colonists in 1907 in their inter-
course with the Indians.
Thirty-fve prominent American sculptors
will contribute to the embellishment OF the
grounds and buildings of the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo. They are at work on
lbs original groups of statuary.
The town of Eatonville, Fla, has 100
inhabitants, with not q single white among
them. 1t has full quota Of officials. a
bank and other business establishments
requisite in a town of It's size.
On one of the Indian reservations in New
York State is a toy factory which employs
several hundred Indians all the year
around. The toys manufactured there are
being shipped all over the world.
The highest price ever paid for Here
ford COW was brought by Carnation, which
animal was sold old to 7 g. adaKms nsa OF M1
exhibition. recently. The previous high
price record was $3.50
Coal is the latest discovery in Yukon. 1t
has been found in unlimited quantities,
and the great trading companies are sup,
deposits are In Rock creek, only twenty
miles from Dawson City.
One hundred and sixty miles hour
is the speed aimed at by new electric
railway company in Germany. under the
direct patronage of the Emperor. Cars with
accommodations for fifty persons each are
being built, and will be tried on thirty
Cattlemen are considering the advisable
ty OF reseeding the Black hills and East
ern Wyoming ranges. where native grass
has been nearly killed by overcrowding
OF cattle. 1T has been found that five
grasses and two alfalfas will grow in that
section without irrigation.
Up TO the present time Germany has i'm
ported each year from SIS 900 900 to $50 600 900
worth of American petroleum This indus
try, however, seems to be threatened some
what by the introduction of acetylene as an
illuminant, In a convenient and safe form,
for house, store and other uses.
Prof. Robert Gersung. an eminent sur
geon of Austria, is credited with an i'm
portant discovery in the scientific world.
/ 1t consists of the use of a mixture OF paraf-
| fin and vaseline in curing physical deformi-
ties and filling in cavities caused by the
removal of portions OF bones.
Colored people are stisl willing to brave
the disadvantage of emigration to Mon
rovia, I'm West Africa Only recently six
| teen adventurous members of the race
sailed from New York for that country
where land will be given them by the
Liberian Colonial Society. Of Birmingham.