The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-31
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The United States is nearly thirty-two
times as large as the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.
The $4,000 barmaids of England work
fourteen hours a day. Their wages are
$3.50 "a week and free beer.
In the matter of population Germany
C6,345,OO ranks after European Russia QO6,-
$4,000 and the United States C6, 300, 000.)
At present some of Great Britain's coal
mines are worked at a depth of 1900 to $500
feet. The average depth of her coal mines
is $50 to $50 feet.
In the Gettysburg National Park 225
mounted cannon have been placed and a
total Of 80 tablets and about
800 monuments have been erected.
Charcoal is the great Italian fuel, Naples
alone consuming 10000 tons OF wood char
coal. at a cost of from ga to f5 a ton, the
rational consumption being 10000 tons.
The only persons who have held the rank
of general of the United States army were
General George Washington. u. s.. Grant,
William IT.. Sherman and Philip II. Sher-
idan.
all the higher courses for women in the
medical institute of the University of st.
Petersburg have been closed indefinitely by
official orders.
Subterranean arcades are the latest real
estate novelty in New York. Plans have
been drawn to erect booths and stores I'M
foreground connecting with mercantile and
office buildings.
Inc present DODuldllOn Ol AlDtHS III
| Greece, is only $4,000. There is no accurate
census of the city when in its ancient glory.
but it is supposed at one time to have con-
tanned 100000 inhabitants.
Missouri is not burdened with expenses
for the care Of its convicts. The $50. 900 APP
propriated for the penitentiary for the past
two years is offset by the $s3. 1871 remaining
in the treasury from the earnings.
1t is. proposed to illuminate the Yosemite
Falls. 2.000 feet in height, by use of twenty
arc lights in connection with means for
producing color effects. Some of the roads
are also to be lighted with electricity.
In Russia the sunflower is cultivated as
4 staple crop The sunfower seeds are
an article of diet, being eaten either raw or
roasted. The oil is also used literally in
cooking, being practically equal 10 olive
oil.
A naturalist says that every time a
farmer shoots q hawk he throws a fifty-dol-
lar bill into the fire, for, though the bird
takes an occasional chicken, II destroys at
least a thousand rats, mice and moles every
year.
With the exception of a few small con-
Germs in Warsaw. there Is only one large
shoe factory in Russia. This concern does
an enormous business and l. one or the
most prosperous stock con pa MES In the
empire.
The letter carriers of Canada are paid
$50 a month at the beginning. with an
annual increase of $3.50 a month until the
carrier receives $50 a month, or 5000 a year.
This is subject to deductions for super
annuation account
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 HOW
southwark as do the Eastern States.
A London hrm has just sold to the Brit
ish Museum natural history department,
South Kensington) for $3.50 an elephants
tusk measuring ten feet and two and one
half inches and weighing 2261s pounds. This
f~ cold 70 he fha largest ivory tlSk ever
known.
1t was a woman, and a Chinese Empress
at that, who first took note OF the product
of the silkworm and perfected a method OF
utilizing il. Her name was See Heig and
she lived about $500 B.. c. 1t is 10 her we
owe that delightful fabric in all its many
variations.
Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri g%iantess'
who is eight feet four inches in height, re-
Gently completed a house for herself at the
town of Gown, in that state. Her new
house has doors ten feet high, ceilings hf,
teen feet high, with chairs, tables, beds and
everything in proportion.
The largest building ever erected was
the temporary structure known as the Man
ufactures and Liberal Arts building at tho
olumbia exposition, at Chicago, 1893. IL
was 7S7 feet wide. 1857 feet long, 2S fee
high, covered 3Oh acres and had Al acres Of
floor space, including galleries.
A poor family in Boston overlooked {
credit Of $40 in a savings bank)in 1880, anc
the matter was forgotten until 1881. wher
the accumulated amount was s432.51- i
was allowed TO remain, and on Jan. 10
1901. was 81. 5000. THE interest allowed
has gradually been reduced from 4 to
per cent.
The production Of tobacco in the United
States is now about. 725.000,0W pounds, o
which about one-half is consumed by oul
own people and one-half exported. Som'
idea of the rapid increase alike in tn
worlds production and or TO
bacco is gathered from the fact that TIL
production of the United States alone ha.
been almost doubled since 1870.
A Kentucky farmer claims TO have sue
ceeded in cultivating ginseng In earl
times the plant grew abundantly in tn
forests of central and southern Indiana
and was extensively gathered for medicinal
purposes. being largely exported TO China
II IS still found in some localities. but il
limited quantities. Its preparation or cul
tivation was supposed 10 be impossible.