The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

One in four Of the $4,000 immigrants VINO
arrived last year could not read or write.
A Milwaukee (Wis) tobacconist has been
fined SIS and costs for using the union label
on cigars not made by union labor.
Chinese girls are being employed in San
francisco as telephone operators for the
accommodation of Chinese merchants.
In the silk factories of Italy the usual
work hours are from in the morning till
at night, and the wages 10 cents a day.
Authorities of British Columbia have es-
tablished travelling libraries for the bene-
fit of the numerous lumber and mining
camps in that province.
Damascus is undoubtedly the Oldest exist
ing city in the world; Benares and Con-
stantinople, exclusive of Chinese towns,
come next in point of age.
The Oldest voter in Texas at the last cleo
ton was Antonio Lopez, aged one hundred
and six. He has lived. in the county where
he cast his ballot for eighty years.
1t is not an absurdity to say that among
those who recover from smallpox there
are those who are the better physically
for having had the disease says j. l..
Tracy, NJ. D., in American Medicine.
Shirts and hats that are never in need of
ironing are worn by the Indians Of the in
terror of Bolivia. They are made of the
bark of trees, which is soaked in water
until the fibre Is softened and then beaten
with stones to make it pliable.
Glass is being used also in the manufac-
ture of bathtubs The glass is about three
inches thick and annealed to make the tub
durable. The effect is clean and beautiful
The idea is a German one and is rapidly
gaining favor in this country.
Fashion was the old name for certain
disease of the horse. 1t is alluded to in
The Tanning of the Sbrew,". where Pc
truchio's horse is said to be infected with
the fashions" The complaint is a common
one now, but not among horses.
The decision of the directors of the the
alter at Halle, in Germany, to distinguish
hui Df III ffnsx.
posters between plays that are fit for
young persons to witness and those that
are not is causing some amusement.
The mountings for ship guns and guns in
coast Notifications are SO designed and
constructed as to throw into the power
of one man, in so far as possible, the whole
control of directing the gun at the desired
target and firing it when ready, says the
Engineering Magazine
The fruit brick is the latest form of pre-
serve. 1t is rectangular or disc shaped and
done up in oiled tissue paper. The con-
sistency is that of a small gumdrop and,
of the fruit is retained admirably. These
bricks will soon be the market from
California
A fence nearly 200 feet long at Livingston,
Mont. is made entirely of horns of the elk
more properly called wapiti. These animals,
like the others of the deer family, shed
their horns once year and grow new ones.
The old horns are found in large numbers in
the forests and are used for various COM
mercial purposes.
Three hundred and sixty-five tons repre-
sented the entire amount of anthracite
coal marketed in this country in 1920. In
1899 the country produced SO ZOO, 600
long tons Of Pennsylvania anthracite. Be
fore the year 1920 hard coal was practically
unknown, except in a few CRATES in the
houses OF people of means.
Postal cards which have been spoiled
and not sent through the mails, If entire
are now redeemed at all postOffices under a
sliding scale Of valuations by which the
postmaster will pay cents for ten cards,
is cents for twenty-five cards. 81 cents for
fifty cards, Is cents for 100 cards. The
cards are to be wrapped in bundles of
twenty-five
After mining in South Africa has been
fully resumed, which will probably be dur
ing the early part of 1903, the Rands annual
product, 1t is estimated by experts on the
ground, will soon go up to 500 000, 600, and
by 1906 or 1906 it will be sl25,0O0,OO0, making
the worlds output $500 100000, or almost
four times what it was in 1890. The great
est production of California was $50, 0O0, 900
in 1852, and II now averages about SIS, 100000.
The big tree recently described by the
Scientific American as the largest in the
world is outdone by another which has just
been reported from Fresno. This newly
found tree measured six feet from the
ground, is 154 feet and eight inches in cir
conference, from which ii follows that it is
about fifty feet in diameter. Fortunately,
the tree stands on the government reserve,
and will therefore be spared the attack of
the Unsuitable AK.
AS a memorial of their victory in their
final and desperate struggle at Platea TO
hurl back the invading East, the ancient
Greeks made tripod from the golden
cups of the Persians' table and the bronze
of their soldiers armor. 1t bore its
sides the names of every city whose SOL
diers fought and fell in the supreme mo-
ment of a nations life. That tripod still
exists at Constantinople, a national relic
which has endured longer than the states
whose deeds it consecrateG-