The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

1t takes the constant labor of $4,000 people
to make matches for the world.
DIR. H. K. Carroll reports the total church
membership in the United States in 1891 to
be 2S,090637.
Spain holds the record for cheap working
Of her railways. Only As per cent. of the
gross earnings are spent in management.
The average value of a horse in the
United States is S49.07, being lowest in Ari-
IONA Cs13.6D and highest in Rhode Island
($S612)
The spoon is very ancient, and many fine
specimens are In existence that were used
by the Egyptians in the seventeenth CEN
fury, b. G.
Paris. according to the latest census re-
turns, has a population of 2,650,0OO persons,
of whom over 100000 are either foreigners
or provincials.
Swedens last census records the lowest
death rate yet attained by civilized ma
ton. During the last ten years 1t only av-
eraged 1919 per 1000.
An order for $4,000 Lighthouse plows to be
used for breaking UP the virgin soil in South
Africa has been received by the Farquhar
agricultural works, at York, Pa.
A regiment of 1000 men could readily find
shelter under a regular banyan tree. In
India there is one of these trees which has
400 main trunks and over 900 smaller ones.
A wonderful statue edorns a public
square in Yokohama. 1t is a seated image
of the god Diabutsu, and it's height is 631z
feet. The total weight Of this great statue
gold.
The most curious cemetery is situated at
Luxor on the Nile. Here repose the num-
mified bodies of millions of sacred cats.
Their remains are side by side with the
bodies of kings and emperors in mauso-
leums.
There is a marked increase in the growth
of rice in Texas and Louisiana-so marked
that the industry is spoken of as being
transferred from the South Atlantic States
to this new territory.
Each Iowa soldier who marches in the
grand parade at the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic in
Washington in October will be expected to
carry the largest ear of corn he can find.
A wooden chimney stack 160 feet high
is in operation at Mapimi, in the province
of Durango, Mexico The interior is lined
with corrugated iron, and there are plat
forms at intervals to throw water on the
wood II II catches fire.
South Africa, says the Tobacco Trade Re
view, is now being looked to in the trade as
the future great producing field of first
class tobacco. 1t is said that with proper
irrigation and cultivation the South African
would be more popular than the American
leaf.
Less than 10 per cent. of Manitobas land
has been taken up; the neighboring terri
tory to Assiniboia has nearly 60.0OOOoo acres.
mostly suitable for wheat cultivation; AL
berta, near the Rockies, is 500 by 300 miles
in extent, and Saskatchewan is another
empire in area.
The Strait of Canso between Cape Bre-
ton and the mainland of Nova Scotia is to
be bridged. The task is an immense one
involving great engineering difficulties, and
the outlay is about 100000. The bridge
will be a cantilever. with a span of 1900
feet, the longest in the world.
The exodus of Scandinavian emigrants
to the United States continues to be the
greatest in twenty years. The hard times
the CONSUMPTION of soldiers, together with
the reported prosperity in America. are re-
sponsible for the universal movement.
The cid black and white spotted Dali
NATHAN dogs, better known as coach
dogs" that were so numerous and popular
throughout the United States from 1869 to
1882, inclusive, appear to have become ex-
tinct in this country, having, like the New
foundland, which has shared the same fate,
gone out of style.
The uncommon occurrence is reported
from Australia of a woman being ordered
by magistrate to support her husband.
The man, Ii seems, was an old-age pen
sioner in receipt of shillngs a week: and,
as his spouse owned some land, she was
made to contribute another shillings
week toward his maintenance.
The government has begun to withdraw
lands in Colorado and other Western States
from settlement in order to furnish sites
for great reservoirs and other immigration
works under the provisions of the recent
law Work will be carried on as rapidly as
possible, though on such comprehensive
scale it will necessarily be very gradual.
In St. Augustine. Fla. there is an old
piece Of industrial machinery in the shape
of water power wheel, of which there is
no other like it in America. The wheel is
16 feet in diameter, the well 612 inches and
240 feet deep Since the well does not sup
ply power enough. however, a second wheel
has been driven near by to reinforce the
present one.
Chinaman who acted as secretary to a
former Chinese minister to England has
published book in which he says: There
is nothing which an American won't say,
there is nothing which an Englishman
won't eat. there is nothing italian won't
| sing, there is no measure to which q
Frenchman won't dance and nothing Rus
slams won't covet."
For many years Russia has been deport-
| ing TO Siberia its men of the most active
| intellect and turning them loose in new
| country to make a livelihood for themselves
| and for their families IL is not strange,
| then. to note that universities and museums
are springing up in Russas eastern posses
| sions, nor that many Of the men of science
and teachers on the staff are exiles. There
| Is scarcely a town of 10000 inhabitants in
| all Siberia but has public museum. under
| the care OF a learned and competent cura-
| tor.
September's Promise.
o sweet September. thy first breezes bring