The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
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Over 100000 copies of Charles Dickens's
novels are sold annually.
Telegraph rates in the United States av-
erage double those in Europe.
required to pay the policeman for his
trouble In taking them to Jail.
The earliest library was that of Neb-
u-chadneZZar. Every book was a brick en-
graved with cuneilform characters.
The beds of peas in Colorado sometimes
include as man as two thousand acres,
and there is one bed exceeding in size
$500 acres.
About sixteen million tons of freight are
annually CARRIED on the Ohio river, which
has a length of one thousand miles from
Pittsburg to Cairo.
just equal In volume the Gauges, three
Gangeses the Mississippi, and two Missis-
sippis the Amazon.
When free from ice the Yukon river is
distance more than twice as great as that
from Chicago to New Orleans.
Robinson Crusoe'' was the first novel
with Illustrations ever published In Eng
land. This was in August, me. The Illus
tration was a map of the world.
General Burgoyne's headquarters in the
Saratoga campaign In III at Sandy Hill.
Washington county, New York, is about to
be RACED to make way for factories.
The latest statistics compiled for France
are IOE Tile year lcU, III THESE SlOW tldI
for the fourth time in eleven years the
number of deaths exceeded the births.
In return for a monopoly of the prepara-
ton of opium in China a German firm at
Shanghai has offered the Chinese govern
ment an annual payment Of over SIS, 900, 600.
1t is affirmed that in the foreign mis-
sionary world there are now not far from
q. loo schools of all grades, in which a
Christian education is being given to over
one million pupils.
~
lates that when Bismarck died about ten
| thousand bottles of the choicest wines were
found in his cellars, mostly gifts from
friends and admirers. They came from all
countries.
Although there are over three million
fakirs IN India. a beggar never starves ex-
cept voluntarily, in self-punishment, SC
afraid az are tb the m nafiyes of lne gnds z the
holy men are not cared for.
A scheme for the manufacture of paper
buttons is being put forward In San Fran
cisco. These buttons, say the promoters
bone and metal ones. quite as serviceable,
and of as good an appearance.
Lace-making was taught the natives OF
| Paraguay by missionaries two centuries
ago. To-day in all towns of eight thousand
inhabitants many of the men and nearly all
| the women and children make lace collar.
cites, handkerchiefs and ladies' ties.
The New York City Record, an Official
publication owned and issued by the mu-
| nicipality, is the biggest newspaper in the
\ world. 1t appears every day in the year
Sundays and legal holidays excepted, and
sometimes contains as many as $50 pages
In the annual value of carriages and
wagons manufactured Ohio ranks first
with SIG. 900, 900; New York and Indiana
| about $14, OO0. 600 each, and Michigan, S12, 600.
900. The aggregate for the United States
than half is for $4,000 pleasure carriages
which are sold In each year.
In British India there nave been. during
the past thirty or forty years. quite a mum,
Der of Englishmen who, yielding to some
monomania. have adopted the rola of fakil
and nave ended their days as her;uits, sub.
jecting themselves to all those dreadful
forms of asceticism and OF penance prac.
ticed by the Indian dervishes-
A Russian explorer. p. Ignatow. ha.
found a queer thing in Asia. He was ex.
ploring the Telezkojt lake, in the Alta
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 HI
found many herds of reindeer there.
The word Bibls furnishes a striking in.
staIce of a worlds rise from very low &c
high estate. To the bulk OF EngIish-speak
ing folk II now means the book Of books
! In Chaucer's day 1t meant any book what