The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Since the close Of the civil war the State
of Louisiana has spent more than $50, 900 coo
on Mississippi levees.
Somewhere in the world there are 119, OOO,-
600 big copper pennies, but nobody appears
to know where they are.
Alaska has paid it's cost twenty times.
1t was bought for $500 CO., and has sup
piled $3.50, 100000 in furs, fish and gold.
young Danish author named Madsen
fell down stairs in his house in Copenhagen
recently and was choked to death by his
high collar.
Within the last fifty years 164,5S9 people
nave emlSrated from the county of Mayo,
Ireland or nearly as many as there are
now inhabitants there.
Smyrna is the smartest town in Turkey
so far as trade is concerned. 1t does Il
bigger business than Constantinople. 1t
Is the Headquarters of the wool and of the
rug and carpet trade
Fifty-two islands have appeared (by aid
of volcanic action) during the present cen
fury, and nineteen have Misrepresentation
submerged. This makes a net gain to the
earth of thirty-three islands.
The importation of bicycles into Japan
has more than doubled in the past two
years, the value of the imports in 1901 be-
ing S269,O2I, over % per cent. of which
came from the United States.
OF all the silks used in the United States
S26,OOO,OOO worth is imported and $l07 900 900
worth homemade. The domestic silk in
dustry employs $4,000 men, $1,000 women and
capital.
The Chinese are commonly supposed to
be peace loving and harmless. The Zeit-
schrift fur Missionkunde, however, declares
that China is the greatest warlike nation
In Asia and that they are in warfare worse
than the Huns.
"Of the 600 weeds and grasses growing
in the Northwest" writes Prof. Thomas
Shaw, 1t is estimated by those who have
made a study of it that sheep will eat
$40 of them, while horses consume but eigh-
ty-two and cattle only fifty-six."
The English cotton manufacturers, who
have for so long a time depended on the
United States for their raw material, have
raised a guarantee fund of $2500OO for the
cotton within the British empire
The star Arcturus, the hottest of celestial
bodies, gives us as much heat a stand
ard candle six miles away. This fact was
ascertained by the radiometer, an instru-
ment which will show the amount of heat
! given off from mans face at 1900 feet
distance.
Lawyer Luther r. Marsh, aged ninety,
once the trusting victim of Edith Loleta
Montez, OF Ann O'Delia Diss DeBar and
purchaser of her "spook pictures" writes
| TO a New York paper, contradicting the
story that he is sick, saying that he is
"hunky dory."
Thrty-fve men are continually employed
| in painting the famous Forth bridge in
/ Scotland. They commence operations at
/ the south end of the bridge and proceed
! steadily to paint their way nOrthward, their
/ laborlous journey occupying three years;
then they begin again.
The exporting of American shoes is of
! comparatively recent growth. In 1895 this
country exported only $1.OO0.OO0 worth of
boots and shoes, but for the fiscal year
1901 it sent abroad $55O0.0O0 worth of boots
| and shoes, and England and her colonies
took 81 100000 worth of this total.
! Boston is shade more foreign than Chi
| cago. 1t has 351 per cent. of foreign born
! while Chicago has only 34.6 per cent. But
/ New York is more foreign than either The
percentage of foreign born is 81. These
| three run close race for the lead. San
! francisco comes in with 31.2 per cent.
The Japanese are not a wealthy people
| nor are they, even when possessed of
wealth. much given to costly, extravagant
/ is improbable that the automobile will ever
/ become the toy of fashion or the mere
pleasure vehicle that it is in Europe and
/ America.
| Appeals, has decided that worl1men must
/ be paid in cash. He assessed a fine of 500
| against an employer for paying an en-
| ploye in checks payable in goods at p store
| instead of lawful money. The Judge de-
| clared that a laboTer could not if he so
| desired, waive the benefits of the statute
/ or contract them away.
! Only one characteristic distinguishes the
| little village of Strong. Me, from the thou
| sands of others that are scattered all over
/ New England. That is the peculiar indus
/ try Wnlch serves TO support the entire
/ community. Strong is famous for nothing
/ but tOothpicks but il is known in the
/ trade as the place from which come the
majority of the toothpicks that are used
/ in the United States
! In connection with the anniversary of the
! Bethel Primitive Methodist Chapel, Burn
/ ley, England, a souvenir handbook contain
/ ing copies of old records has been issued. A
! minute passed in 1884 reads: THAT we do
/ not allow young men and young women of
/ our society 10 court with each other on
/ Sunday; neither do we allow our single
/ men and women to walk in the street to-
/ gether arm in arm at any time; neither do
/ we allow them to stand at street corners
| chatting together" BY another resolution
| the chapel authorities forbade girl choris-
| ters wearing bows in their bonnets.