The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In Italy the manufacture of playing cards
is state monopoly yielding an annual rev.
enue of $000,0O0.
Quails are now said to be extinct in Ire
iand, where they were formerly to be found
In great numbers.
Maria Schemmer ST. Louis woman un-
able to read or write, died there the other
day. leaving an estate valued at 100000.
Rev. Govanus Myers, for seventeen years
a BAPTIST minister at Canton, o., has re-
signed his charge to become an auctioneer.
The first electrical fire engine run with
| power secured by tapping street railways
or electric light wires is in successful use
In Rouen, France.
Every native and natural citizen in Dem
mark over sixty years old and unable to
support himself or family receives a PEN
sion varying from $3.50 to $3.50 per month.
Mr.. James Clark, a rural postman, has
Just retired at Tring, Hertz, England, after
twenly-nne years service, during which
ne has walked over $4,000 miles on his
rounds.
Queen Alexandra won a first, second and
a third prize for white, Japanese and silver
Seprlght 6antams recently at the Bishop
Stortford Farmers Agricultural and Poul-
try Association show.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Eister, a market woman of
Lexington, KY, has died. leaving fortune
valued at $4,000. all accumulated by the
sale OF garden truck che was ponderous
In size, weighing 32G pounds.
Ten and half hours is the limit allowed
Dy law Tor days work in factories, wom-
en- and children as well as men, in France.
Twelve hours is the maximum day in fac
tories employing men exclusively.
The mortality in the colored population
OF the United States is nearly double that
OF the white population Native white
stock has the advantage of foreign white
STOCK at most ages above infancy.
| From 1890 to 1900 the capital invested in
| the silk industry in the United States was
| increased from S51,OO0,OO0 to SS1, 900 600, the
| value of the finished product increased
| from $S7O00,000 to s107, 900, 0O0 and wages to
silk operatives from $1S000,O00 TO 81, 600 900.
curious discovery was made by the
French customs officers at Marseilles on
board the steamer st. Philip: A lot. of
| house furniture was on board, and while
| prodding a couple of mattresses gold coins
| TO the value of about $1,000 were discovered.
On newspaper information that Tacoma
| and other cities on the Pacific coast are
short of manageable women Nora Nelson.
| postmaster of Tacoma that 500 girls in
| Troy would willingly go to Tacoma if as
sured of good husbands and homes.
very curious medical invention has
been patented in Paris. 1t is likely to be
| of great use. 1t is a small apparatus
which, placed under the arm of a patient
| suffering from fever, rings small bell
| directly the temperature reaches a danger
| Gus height, thus summoning the doctor or
nurse.
In nearly all Chinese cities large per-
centage of the inhabitants live in a sort of
hand-to-mouth fashion, buying food from
| restaurants. Hot water is sold from stands
| by people who make business of provid-
ing 1t. The great necessity for economy
| in fuel seems to be the primary cause of
| this mode of living.
| A phenomenon of the volcanic destruction
| of ST. Pierre still unexplained is the instan-
| taneous disintegration of an metals. The
market large hall covering 1000 square
| meters, which had been entirely and solid
| ly rebuilt of steel after the cyclone of 1891,
was annihilated without leaving a vestige
| except fine metallic powder.
A Russian explorer, p. Ignatow, has
| found a queer thing in Asia. He was ex-
| ploring the Telezkoit lake, in the Attain
| mountains. This lake is situated in so de-
| grees north latitude-that is, south of Lon
| don and Berlin and almost In the same lat
| itude as Plymouth and Havre. Yet he
| found many herds of reindeer there.
Hawaiian fuel has heretofore been coal
| from Australia chiefly Within year this
| will be entirely superseded with fuel from
| California, with a saving of 80 to 80 per
| cent in cost Contracts have already been
| signed for the delivery of $50, 600 barrels OF
fuel oil per annum to Hawaii, and within
! year the consumption will be 1000 900 bar
I rels per annum.
At LUCKNOW, in Germany, 129 fathers have
| been fined few cents apiece for allowing
| their children under ten years of age to
| dance at the harvest festival of a village
near by. The village pastor objected to
| police. 1t was discovered however, that
| his children had danced, too, and he was
| fined with the rest.
Since the autumn of 1896 plague has been
| epidemic in India. Official reports fall far
| short of the actual mortality, but it is
| Der, 1896, to the end of June 1901, there were
| 1864 attacks and 525, 401 deaths in the pop