The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-31
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BY sowing nitrate Of soda in small guam
titles in showery weather under trees d
most beautiful verdure will be obtained.
All the cork used in the world in a year
weighs just over one thousand tons. 1t
comes from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy
and North Africa.
The great growth Of the demand for auto
mobiles is illustrated by the fact that
100000 worth of French machines have
just been contracted for by a firm in New
York city.
The Nations leading city in making iron
and steel is Pittsburg. whose mills turn out
$50, l9S,OS6. Next comes McKeesport, Pa,
with $34,S39,6 12, and then Chicago, with
SCI, 620,1 ia.
1t is reckone that the United States gov
eminent owns enough arid land west of the
Rocky mountains, if irrigated, TO provide
homes for the total present population of
the country.
Under the blue laws of New England men
could be and were put into the stocks for
kissing their wives in public on sundays.
1t was considered to be 'lewd and unseen
" behavior"
DR.. Jean Jacque, a w~ell-known specialist
of diseases attached 30 the University of
Paris, diagnosed his own ailment as indi-
SestiOn when it should have been cancer of
the stomach, and died.
The postal laws provide that postofice
boxes shall not be rented to minors or per-
sons of unsound mind, and that mail shall
not be placed in boxes so rented If the par
ClltS VI SudlU idAtS ObJCNNs
The worlds zinc production in 1901 in
creased 2S.237 tons over 1900, or 54 per cent.
The largest increase was in the Rhine dis
trict of Europe. 12.965 tons: the next largest
in the United States, 1882 tons.
The exporting of American shoes is of
comparatively recent growth. In 1895 this
country exported only $1,000, 900 worth of
boots and shoes. but for the fiscal year 1901
it sent abroad s~5,5OO,O0O worth of boots and
shoes.
Te +b;o ooo 90 ubi+o ooio+ &c o,t an
the outside of a screen door or window it
will effectively obscure the view from out
doors. The paint is scarcely perceptible
even on the outside, and from within cam
not be seen at all.
The very earliest example of a national
alliance is contained in what is the oldest
historical ocume yet known, inscribed on
a bowl found recently at Sungir, in Chal-
dea-the Shinar of the Bible-and dating
from about O00 B.. c.
Boats instead Of wagons are used by the
rural free delivery carrier at New Suffolk,
/. 1. The route there lies along the shores
of a protected bay, and in ordinary weather
he can sail over mis- course more easily than
he can go in a wagon.
Women insure against being old maids in
Denmark. If they marry before they are
forty what they have paiG in goes to the
less fortunate, and these last are pensioned
for the remainder of their lives on a scale
propOrtionate on they paid in.
The gypsies employ a very simple method
to check the member of their band of must
clans who has to make the collection. They
give him a plate to hold in his right hand,
and a live fly which he has to keep impris-
oned in his left as he goes round collecting
the money.
During eleven months ending June 1, 1902
Cos Libraries in the United States received
gifts of money amounting to S9,977, 79S. 81
OF this sum 1881, 050.63 was for new build
ings. Andrew Carnegie made 203 gifts, ag-
gregating s., 500. 900, besides giving $491 500 tC
Canada and other sums TO Newfoundland
Cuba and Great Britain.
An aged Yorkshireman was so fond Of
Sir Henry Irving's acting that in his will
he said that when he died his body was tC
be buried headless and the skull was to be
cleaned and counted suitably inscribed
actor, with the request that 1t be Away
used for Yorick's skull in the presentations
of Hamlet"
A Russian nobleman has upon his estat,
at SaVinOwka, in POdolia, a paper house o.
sixteen rooms that cost $4,000 rubles, anC
its architect declares that Ii will last Longer
than a stone building. Bergen, in Norway
has a church built of paper, seating on
thousand people. Paper bicycles have beer
made to work. and paper sails for ships ar
not unknown.
In Cuba cabbages frequently weigh 81
much as twenty pounds. All vegetables d.
well. Radishes may be eaten from fOurteel
to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce II
five weeks after sowing, while corn pro
duCes three crops per year. Sweet potatoe
are perpetual. The natives dig VI the tn
bers, cut them Oft and plant the old vines
which produce a new crop in three months
Hundreds of horses and thousands of cat
tie in the Hawaiian islands never take
drink of water. They live on the uppe
attitudes of the mountains, where the cat
tie run wild from the time they are Dor
until they are sent to the slaughter house
! Except possibly for two or three months