The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

hour from 10 in the morning till 5 in the
evening, and there are twelve deliveries a
day in the city.
According 10 a census taken there are
lI,lS0 Hebrews in India. Scarcely one-third
of them are European. The rest are de-
scendants of those who claim TO have emf
grated TO India during the reign of Solo
mon.
Of the United States is: Harvard. $3.50; Co.
lumbia, 4,22; Michigan, 3.Sl2; Chicago. S,127;
California S,540; Minnesota, 1895; Cornell,
$40; wisconsin, 2,S2; Yale, 1850; Pennsyi-
vania, $50.
Fffty-hve thousand packages of vege-
table and flower seeds are being sent TO the
British troops in the South African block
houses by an English firm Of florists TO
enable them TO relieve the monotOny OF
their existence.
Bank notes for about half a cent each
circulate freely in Paraguay. II takes two
notes TO get ones boots BACKED and eight
TO pay the postage of a letter TO England.
Yet one OF them will buy. in season. hf-
teen oranges. three bananas or a water
melon.
The negroes from the Tuskegee Insti-
tute who were engaged in 1900 by the Ger
man government TO teach the natives OF
Togoland, German West Africa, how TO
grow cotton have succeeded in producing
cotton which Is graded above American
middling.
During March sixty-four aliens became
naturalized British subjects. OF these thir-
ty-eight were from Russia, ten from Ger
many, four from Austria-Hungary. three
from France, two each from Holland, Swe-
den and Switzerland, and one each from
Denmark. Greece and the United States.
Boston is a shade more foreign than Chi
cago. 1t has 3l per cent. Of foreign born,
while Chicago has only 3i6 per cent. But
New York is more foreign than either. The
percentage Of foreign born is 81 per cent.
These three run "A close race for the lead
san Francisco comes in with 81 per cent.
Immense areas Of cattle range have been
destroyed by too much crOwding and by
sheep. Sheep In large punches nip the grass
so close and so cut its sod with their hoofs
that IL dies. The railways Of the Northwest
have combined TO find the grass most suit
$1,000 acres of land into thirty subdivisions,
each Of which will be planted with a differ
ent kind OF grass.
In Korea visiting cards measuring a foot
square are in vogue. The savages Of Da-
honey announce their visits TO each other
the branch OF a tree artistically carved.
When the visit is paid the card returns
10 the possession OF its owner. who prob
ably uses il for many years. The natives OF
Sumatra use for a visiting card a piece OF
wood about a foot long. decorated with a
punch Of straw and a knife.
The population Of the great American
desert. as shown by the late census, -
about 100000. or IL persons 10 the square
mile. This was made possible by the build
ing OF railways across IL There are now
nine hundred miles OF railway In the region,
including the part OF the desert which lies
IN Mexico. The great desert must. however,
remain almost entirely u~nprOductiNe, Tor all
the water that falls upon IL and the noun
tains adjacent would. IL gathered, be sufh-
cient 10 sustain vegetation on but > per
cent. Of its surface. The rainfall on twenty
I'VE acres is but enough 10 irrigate one.