The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-09
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Hot water drawn from an artesian we'll
Idaho. ''e'
The most expensive harbor in the world
at cost of sl5,0O0,000
New Zealand, with a death rate of less
IMAM IL per LOCO year, is the most healthy
OF all the British colonies.
Denmark holds the record for consump-
ton of spirits, AZ gallons a year per head
against less than one in England and Scot,
land.
One of the prerogatves of Danish men,
Der of Parliament is free service at any
turkish bath establishment throughout the
country.
More than twenty hotels including sew
eral OF the largest size, going up in
New York city at an estimated cost of
S30, 600, 900.
It is peculiar fact that the Emperor of
CHINA and the vfceroy of India. taken to-
Gether, govern more than half the popula-
ton of the world
German telephone companies charge only
Is cents for a five-minute talk over their
encourage the use Of that branch.
Read in round figures. two hundred
through passenger trains come into the six
passenger stations of Chicago every day.
leaving forty thousand strangers in the
city.
The Kansas farmers will save $500 900
this year on binder Irvine by patronizint
the penitentiary factory, which sells it
for S12 cents a pound, while the trust asks
IL cents.
San Franchises largest suburb, Oakland.
obtains its electric force from a stream 15C
miles away. Experience proves that long
distance transmission of power is success
IN every way.
A pretty judicial custom exists in the
small towns of Nova Scotia. Each day
when there are no criminal cases to be
disposed of a pair of white doves is placed
on the magistrates desk
The first census of Russia took place as
far back at 1724 when the number of in
habitants set down at Il. 900. 900 in round
figures; In 1897 the number was given as
lG,0oO,00o, including Finland.
The Philippine Commission has issued "a
law to the effect that not less than six
hours, exclusive of meal time, shall con-
stitute a minimum days work on the part
of all employees of the civil service
In the chief room of every Japanese house
there is a slightly raised dais which is ar
ranged that it can be shut off from the
rest of the room This Is place for the
Emperor 10 SIT should he ever visit that
home.
niterate white inhabitants in Southern
and border States are most numerous
among the mountains. Kentucky has Is
per cent, Tennessee Is, South Carolina Is
and Alabama Is per cent. of iliterate
whites.
Texas which enlisted only 1855 soldiers
in the Union army during the war is now
more than thirty-five years after its close,
the place Of residence OF $500 pensioners.
and the pension payments there are nearly
Sl,0000O0.
A self-generating electric light buoy off
Bunsum on the North sea is so sensitive
and so efficient that the slightest motion
of the waves operates it. This automatic
light has been sufficiently tested TO predict
its general use.
Pearl harbor, Hawaii. will be the site OF
one OF the most important OF American
chine shops and a dry dock will be built
and a first-casS repair station for war
ships will be established
At the Buffalo Exposition is exhibited the
smallest steam railroad In the world The
rails are a foot apart. each of the ten cars
holds two passengers, the line is a mile
long. the engineer sits. on the tender for
there is just room enough in the cab for his
feet.
Since the Louisiana and Texas farmers
learned to raise rice by irrigation they
have invested $5.ocOgO In 100 miles Of
canals, capable of flooding 100000 acres.
and spent 81. 100000 in building thirty mod
crn rice mills Under the new system rice
lands pay a net profit of SIS an acre.
We purchase from Egypt. strange TO say.
ever forty-four million pounds of cotton
6uce substitutes for this cotton by hybrid
ling There Is every prospect that we are
succeeding In producing the long. fine staple
| that now comes from the land of the Phar-
achs, and for which we pay over Sc 600, 00J
annually.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale tells how a
| curious error crept into the translation Of
| the Lords prayer into the Delaware In
| dian tongue The English translator had
| as an assistant an Indian who knew Eng
lisk. What Is 'hallow in Delaware
asked the translator. The Indian thought
/ he said "halloo" and gave him the equiva-
| lent. Therefore the Delaware version of
| the Lords prayer reads 10 this day: "Our
| Father. who art in heaven. hallooed be Thy
name"