The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-29
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ABOUT 10 per cent, or the WHISKY QlSIl1leQ
in this country is made from corn.
Benedictine is one of the most ancient
liquors ana is said to date from 665 a. D..
The rearing of worms and manufacture
of silk were completely broken up in Amer
lea by the revolution.
The State of New York has more saw
France or the United Kingdom.
In the last century geese were raised IN
Russia and Poland in vast hocks, almost
entirely for the sake Of their quilts.
The retail price of musk at present is
about $50 an ounce, $500 a pound, apothe-
cary, or Pr times the value of pure gold,
"a karats fine.
In Zante, one of the Ionian islands, there
is a petroleum spring which has been
known for nearly 1900 years. 1t is men
toned by Herodotus.
In the census Of 1910 Tench Coke men
tions a nailery in indian Territory which
produced in that year 1900 pounds of nails,
valued at $4,000. He did not locate the en-
terprise.
Womans' Relief Corps, auxiliary to the
Grand Army, has grown from fifty to 1fS, 600
member and disbursed 81. 600 in aid TO
veterans and their families.
In 1868 Capt. Thomas Clarke. in company
with John Winthrop and others, put in
operation an Iron worke' at New Haven,
Conn. This enterprise embraced a blast
furnace and a refinery forge.
All Southern California cities look for
ward 10 be supplied with electric power
from Kern river, where at first 1900 and
later $1,000 horse power will be obtained
from an eight-hundred-foot fall.
With the exception Of the British Parlia-
ment the Swedish Riksdag is the oldest
legislative body in the world. The King
dom of Sweden has maintained fits integ-
rity for not less than 1900 years.
Pineapples come into bearing in Hawaii
when the plants are four months old and
bear in abundance for years. Lettuce cam
be planted at any time and it develops
quickly. The same is true of celery.
The Nebraska state game warden has
forbidden the farmers to fight the grass
hoppers with poison, saying that the loss
of birds and game is too costly a price to
pay for the destruction of comparatively
few insects.
The total emigration Of Swedes to Amer
lea during the last fifty years has exceeded
$4,000, while about 10000 Swedes have gone
to other countries. OF the emigrants to the
United States only . per cent. have returned
70 their native country.
Here is a simple method of making half
a ton of coal go as far as fifteen hundred
weight: The plan is to place a quantity Of
practically i~neXhauStible from combustion
and gives out great heat.
The tourist in Egypt now takes a trolley
on the main street Of Cairo that carries
him direct to the pyramids. In a short
time a line Will be built, equipped with
American cars, to run from the ocean front
at Piraeus TO the Parthenon at Athens.
The American city which is showing the
most rapid gain in population is Los An
geles. This California town. which was
settled by the Spaniards in 1850, gained $50
per cent. in population between 1880 and
1880 and 100 per cent. between 1890 and 1900.
The longest bridge in the world is the
Lion bridge, near ~Sangang. in China. 1t
extends five and a fourth miles over an arm
OF the Yellow sea, and is supported by 300
huge stone arches. The roadway is seventy
1eeT ABOVE the water. and is inClOgpd in
an iron etwor
How great. are the possibilities Of Hawaii
as a fruit and vegetable growing country
will be understood when it becomes known
duced in twelve months. Radishes become
edible in ten days after sowing. Straw
berry vines bear fruit all the year.
1t is evident that Americans are wearing
out a great deal of shoe leather these davis
In Lynn, Mass, the center of the shoe
trade, the faetories are running full time,
ting enough hands to do the work. Be
tween 10000 and 5000 pairs of shoes are be-
ing turned out in this one city.
Blenheim Palace was built by the British
at a cost Of 9500.O00, in the days OF Queen
Anne. In the grounds are a triumphal
arch and a column 80 feet high, with a
statute Of Marlborough on the top. The
magnificent park surrounding the palace
comprises 200 acres and has a circuit of
twelve miles.
America leads in the matter of women
practicing medicine. The first was Eliza
beth Blackwell, who graduated as physi-
clan in 1S49. Three years later there were
six in Philadelphia. In 1889 there were 5000
women doctors in the United States. in
1896 there were 4,555, and now there are
probably 5000, some Of whom have a very
lucrative practice.
When a cargo OF bananas arrives at New
Orleans or Mobile the fruit is sold at once
TO local dealers. while the green binchos
are sent northward by a special train. AS
1t proceeds the train slowly dwindles. for
that and sent off in various directions nm
til finally 1t is broken up altogether and
the last car is sidetracked at some town
In the far Northwest. ""H