The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There are over 10000 total abstainers in
the British army, but no moral lessons are
being drawn from the fact.
Cremation is not permitted in Bavaria
1t is still crime TO shout 'NlVe Ia
Francer' in Alsace-Lorraine.
The Ohio Senate has made a law TO In
crease the maximum salaries of assistant
physicians to state hospitals from 500 TO
$1,000.
Hawaii has a population of 10000, OF
which $1,000 are Japanese and 10000 Chi
nese. There are also Porto Ricans and
likewise some Hawaiians.
If all the land in the United States
planted in corn this year was massed its
area would equal the British isles, Hol-
land and Belgium combined.
An American syndicate is said to be ne
gotiating for the purchase Of the Mexican
volcano. Popocatepetl, for the purpose OF
securing its sulphur deposits.
Frozen meat, which has been eaten ex-
tensively in Durham, South Africa, since
the war is held responsible for the dys-
pepsa prevailing in that town.
Herr Stor, a wealthy resident of Bar
ringen, Bohemia, has just had his thirty
seventh child baptized. This would not be
remarkable in Utah years ago
There are three States which have no
debt-Iowa. Nebraska and Illinois. There
are three other States which have almost
none-California, Montana and Nevada.
The atmospheric pressure on the body of
the average man is 81, 400 pounds. The ordi-
nary rise and fall of the barometer in
creases or decreases the pressure $500
pounds.
The rose is the emblem of secrecy in
Greece and was formerly hung over the
table where the guests were entertained
in token that nothing heard there was to
be repeated
Making paper from wood, a method dis
covered by DR.. Hill, Of Augusta, Me-, has.
in few years, become one of the most i'm
portant industries in the country. He got
his idea from hornet.
A steam engine constructed in 1909, the
oldest in the business, has been working
continuously since that time at Farme
Colony, Rutherglen, near Glasgow 1t is
q Newcomer winding engine.
With the cutting down of the forests
much faster than they can grow again ex-
perts declare that the time is near at hand
when people will be forced to use other
material for articles now made of wood.
Down in Atlanta recently the body of
deceased Protestant Episcopal clergyman
was refused interment in the church lot in
the public cemetery because the law for
bids the mixing of the races, even in grave
yards.
The Island Of Ascension, in the Atlantic
ocean, is the property of the British Ad-
miralty and governed for them by a cap
tain in charge. Money is useless there, as
there are no rents or taxes and food is is
sued in rations
s NJ Vauclain, superintendent OF the
Baldwin locomotive works, declares that
the majority of mechanical training
schools are woefully behind the times in all
that pertains to the various trades as prac-
ticed in America.
Miss Florence A. Fensham. of CONSTANT
nople, Turkey, has had conferred upon her
by the Congregational Church the degree
of bachelor of divinity, the first time in the
history Of the church that this degree has
been conferred on a woman
OF the 1900 citizens of the Creek Nation
who are entitled to quota of the tribal
lands, 5000 are negroes. The Creeks for
me-ly owned slaves, but later gave them
the rights Of citizenship, and since then
there has been considerable mingling Of
the races.
Not all of Uncle Sans pension money is
spent at home. for 427 pensioners live in
Ireland 32S in England, 102 in Scotland. 10
in Wales. go in Germany, Y in France, .
in Russia, 10 in Norway, y in Denmark.
in Spain. in Portugal 80 IN Italy in
Turkey and Is in Africa.
Investigation OF a child's ability I'm the
matter of identification conducted in a Ger
man school showed that the girls described
q mans clothes with more or less accuracy,
but said nothing of his face. while the boys
lust as generally described his face but
could tell nothing OF his clothes.
There are in the borough of Brooklyn 90
600 apartment tenement houses Qess
than half the number OF New York;. II. 900
stores, 10000 stables. 5000 factories, al
hotels or hotel-saloons, 3l5 schools, so
churches. - theaters. 81 lodging houses. 2l5
clubs, 46 station houses, l26 engine houses,
15S hospitals and asylums and 1900 ware
houses
AS one has to go abroad TO get the news
Ii is interesting to learn from a London
paper that American fashionable women
are wearing belts ornamented with Chi
nese hieroglyphics IN silver. and that one
woman was chagrined 10 learn from Chi
nese diplomat that the hieroglyphics she
wore read May all my enemies die by
torture and May have fifty sons