The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

Railroads in this country employ over a
million people at an annual cost for wages
and salaries Of over $500. 100000.
Every rural school in Sweden possesses
a garden in which the scholars receive prac-
teal instruction in horticulture.
In the silk factories of Italy the usual
work hours are from in the morning till
at night, and the wages 10 cents day.
The whole number of Seminole Indians
as shown by a census just taken, is but
339 Nearly all of them are in the FLORIDA
Everglades
There are about 100000 farms in the
United States, of which 100000 produce
corn. The average cost of producing an
acre or corn is 1913.
The cheapest postal service in the world
is that of Japan, where for two sen-about
seven-tenths of a penny-letters are con-
veyed all over the empire
In nearly every street in Japanese cities
is a public oven, where for small fee
housewives may have their dinners and
suppers cooked for them.
Berne has the reputation OF being the
most honest town in Switzerland. 1t is said
that not single article has been lost with
in the city without being recovered.
The turnover of 1000 cooperative socie-
ties in Europe last year was S40o.000.00o. In
1889 1t amounted to only S250,0O0. Corpora
tive stores are in successful operation in
thirty-eight cities in California.
woman of Maiden, Mass, recently re-
FUSED TO return $40 in change given her by
mistake by the conductor of a trolley car
and has, as a consequence, been sentenced
TO year in the house of correction.
Modern science is making itself felt in
Persia. traveller from that country re-
ports that prisoners arrested for offenses
against the state are branded by means of
| acids specially imported for that purpose.
The dairy products of Wisconsin now
| rival in value all the animals sold each
being worth about $27,000,0O0 per annum.
Little more than half of the State is in
a
acres
The United States consumes now eight
times as much sugar per capita as in the
| first quarter of the last century, four times
| as much as the average per capita during
| the decade ending with 1850 and twice as
much as in any year prior to 1870.
Official statistics show that during the
year 1901 no 2. less than S;eS1 murders were
| an average of more than twenty murders a
| day. a figure that throws much light on the
standard OF civilization in Russia.
In Cuba cabbages frequently weigh as
| much as twenty pounds. All vegetables do
well. Radishes may be eaten from four
| teen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce
| In five weeks after sowing, while corn pro-
duces three crops per year. Sweet potatoes
are perpetual.
1t is stated that San Diego, in southern
| California, is fast becoming the Buddhistic
| center OF America In one house there has
| been erected a shrine to Buddha, and the
| owner, woman Of means, has brought q
| Buddhist priest from India, who gathers a
large congregation together every week.
| Whether we are going to become a rice
eating nation or not we are certainly GO
| ing to be rice-producing country, the rice
| product increasing 65 ZOO, 900 pounds the past
year Where the land is so situated that
| the necessary irrigation can be secured it
| is proving one of the most profitable crops
1 to raise.
The largest center of the Roman Church
In America is the archdiocese of New York.
| with an estimated Catholic population of
| 100000. Its numbers surpass those of all
| the most crowded centers of Italy includ-
ing Rome, Naples or Milan. and only the
Prlnclpai afehdle ess S in Europe such as
with 100000 go beyond it.
| Not even does the shrewd instinct of ami
| mails always prevent them from eating
food which is injurious. In Montana from
| 5O,OV TO 100000 cattle per annum are poi
| soned and die as the result of eating two
| poisonous weeds-wild larkspur and poison
camass-while great losses are sustained
each year in the Southwest country from
| stock eating the loco weed.
| Land crabs are pest in jamaica They
| are black or brown and look like woolly
spider about the size Of an ordinary crab.
| They penetrate everywhere, frequently
waking sleeping persons by moving about
the rooms of dwellings. Once a year they
migrate to the seashore for breeding At
| these times they cover 1.-THE land like a.
| plague. They are not venomous.
woman's hall is being erected at the
| cost OF about $4,000 by the University of
| Montana. 1t will accommodate seventy stu
| dents and will be ready for use about jan
| i, 1903 The portion of Science Hall recently
| destroyed by fire has been rebuilt, with adj
| ditional space for a school of pharmacy not
| yet organized. The foundation has also been
| laid for gymnasium to cost $4,000
The site of the lost Indian city Mascou-
tens, which was reported having 10000
| inhabitants in 1875, has been determined by
| the labors of Thomas Clithero of Portage
| Wis, now extended over many years. 1t
| was the largest city in all Indian history
| so far as United States territory is con-
| cerned. and the descriptions of the Jesuits
| in the course of the seventeenth century,
| closing with Marquette and Joliet in 1913,
are said to have been verified.