The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-19
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Baltimore has now fewer than $4,000 col
Ored inhabitants and Louisville fewer than
10000. st. Louis has $4,000.
Iceland still clings to the old barter sys-
tenn. Little trade is done in the island with
cash, says a British consular report.
Lake Superior is the deepest Of the Great
Lakes. It's greatest depth is 1,003 feet and
the lake is COL feet above the level OF the
sea.
New Jersey is one of the States which
retains the custom Of making their treas
urer an appointive instead Of an elective
officer.
A wine cask which holds $1,000 gallons.
and is the largest ever built, may be seen
at Maltermora, Cal. TIL steel hoops around
it weigh 10000 pounds.
The mineral-bearing belt in California ex-
tends through it's entire length, a distance
OF over 500 miles. and only a small fraction
OF 1t has yet been explored.
The floods OF the Nile are so regular in
their coming that for hundreds of years
they have not varied ten days in the date
of their arrival at a given point.
The number OF persons to the section Of
land is, In Great Britain. S42; Japan, 500;
Italy, 216; Germany, 270; Austria, DDS;
France, 1S1; Hungary, 154; Spain, 90; United
States, p; Russia, Is.
Last year Germany imported 97S,67S tons
OF petroleum, S25.205 tons of it from the
United States. There has been little change
in the annual consumption Of oil by Ger
many within six years.
When Johns Hopkins left his great for
tune In Baltimore & Ohio stocks for the
university that bears his name the stock
was worth almost 500 a share. 1t after
ward fell to about SIS.
In a recent book of travels in China spe-
cial point is made of the general honesty
Of the people. as illustrated by the numer-
Gus stalls and shops that are left TO look
after themselves without danger of theft.
Chicago has lost a street. 1t was worth
about $1.OOO.0O0, and the city would like to
find 1t again. Gradual encroachments were
made on the street until 1t was completely
covered, and the city will institute eviction
proceedings.
There are several States without debt.
but no American city, with the single ex-
cepton or Washington, the local debt Of
which is an obligation of Congress. State
debts are decreasing steadily; city debts
are increasing.
There is a very strict law in Italy against
the export OF works of art, and a member
Of the royal family even could not sell or
give away a picture or stutue, ornamental
piece or pillar from a palace without the
consent or the authorities.
The annual appropriation for the expenses
of the Presidents office. including the Presi-
dents salary, compensation for his clerks
and secretaries, the furnishings of the
White House and the maintenance of the
grounds, is less than 100000 a year.
Hungary hopes to be able to raise cotton.
although the warm season is only five
months long and the plant requires seven
months TO rlpen. The difficulty is to be
overcome by special preparation of the seed
and by adding certain ingredients to the
soil.
Women are more and more patronizing
life insurance. and many of the companies
maintain a woman's department, presided
over by a female superintendent. The sta
tistics indicate that business women and
women Of great wealth are the principal
patrons.
Thirty-hve thousand day school girls and
1000 young women attending the evening
continuation classes of the London School
Board at 15 cookery centers have been
taught how TO make Christmas puddinEs
and other seasonable dainties during the
past session.
1t seems to be about settled that the two
largest islands in the world are both in the
Arctic ocean. Greenland is unquestiOnably
the largest-if Australia is counted as a con-
tinent-and recent explorations Of Baffin
Land show that it is second only to Green
land In extent.
The postofice OF Buenos Ayres has ADOPT
ed X-rays TO discover struggled articles I'm
registered letters without opening them.
Watches, rings, chains and other valuables
nave been found In astonishing quantity.
More than $4,000 worth of smuggled prop
erty was conhscated in one week.
The fruit industry OF California was prac-
ucaIly begun during the establishment of
missions Dy the Franciscan monks. As
early as 1892 there were about 5000 trees
growing at the different missions. Apples,
pears, oranges. lines. lemons and olives
CONSTRUCTED the greater proportion or these
trees.
The city Of Dallas, Tex, is said to be
the largest depot of farm implement sup
plies In the world. Every big wholesale
house in the United States which engages
in the bushes OF manufacturing tools for
the farmer has its branch at Dallas. There
are twenty-five nine-story buildings devoted
to this trade.
An icicle. dropping into a barrel of I'M
Stacked lime. started a fire in one Of the
buildings at the new State Capitol at Jack
son.. Miss, a few days ago. The watchman
turned IN an alarm. The fremen threw
water upon the fire. but that caused hun
dreds OF barrels OF lime TO ignite. and the
building was speedily destroyed. the depart
ment devoting it's attention TO saving the
new structure and adjoining buildings.
The first canal lock built In America is
preserved as a relic near the present site OF
the 500 canal. 1t was built by the North
western Flu Company In 1870. 1t is thirty
eight feet long and eight feet nine inches
wide. 1t had q lift Of nine feet and a depth
OF two and One-half feet. During the war
OF 1872 II was badly wrecked. The early
day fur companies used this little water
way 10 lock down their small cargoes of
valuable furs.
An Old womnn's Superstition.