The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
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A new lighthouse costing over g. SOC. 900
is in course of erection at Folkestone.
Some Chicago burglars used an acid test
in order to take only real silver from a
house they had broken into.
The Bodleian library at oxford is just
three centuries old 1t is the largest uni
versity library in the world
Owing to. the cool weather of July the
death rate in the large cities is 10 to 16 per
cent. less than the average for that month.
A collection of stamps formed by G.
Owen Wheeler of the London Philatelic
Society, was sold by auction recently for
$3.50.
According to the monks of the Hospice of
ST. Bernard, their famous dogs save on an
average twenty lives every year on the
mountain.
The cotton plant first came to America
from Asia; now the greater part of the
central Asian crop is grown from American
cotton seed.
The crop of apples this year is estimated
at 600 barrels. which is more than half
a barrel for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
The output of bituminous coal from the
Ohio valley last year was 165.0ooOW tons.
which was nearly four-fifths of the entire
production of America.
The consular service of the United States
employs over LOCO men, whose duties are
mainly commercial. Those i'm the diplomatic
service number less than 400.
The number of employees in the New York
municipal service has reached 1879, of
of the police and fire departments.
The Vatican, in which two Popes have
been technical prisoners, is the largest
palace in the world. and within its in
closure is park of thirteen acres.
The Yellowstone Park proper is one-third
larger than Delaware and the adjoining
government forest reserves make an area
nearly equal TO that of New Jersey.
During the past two years not single
order has been given to any shipbuilding
company or firm of the United States for
the construction of vessel intended Tor
the foreign trade, says the Marine Review
The statement that the British navy
would protect British commerce in time Of
fact that there are $500 British merchant
men aflOat.
Such has been the Improvement in en-
CINE boilers and fire boxes that the power
derived from pound of coal to-day is
nearly three times great it fifty
years ago.
The question of the comparative economy
of petroleum and coal fuel is one of To-
cality. In New Orleans. San Francisco and
Texas the saving in cost with oil is ~ per
cent. In New York coal is 90 per cent.
cheaper than oil.
King Menelik has bought mint, to be
set up at Adds Ababa. The machines will
have a caravan journey of more than a
month. 1t is said that 1l0.23O pounds Of
silver bullion have been gathered into the
Abyssinian treasury
The Buddhists are building temples in
many parts of the Sandwich islands, and
the membership is running into the thou
sands. In some places churches which
were built for Christian Japanese were
taken over by Buddhists.
The figure representing the white popu-
lation of Great Britain's colonies will sur
prise many persons. The important ones
are: Canada. 5.52500C; Australia. 5.S60,000;
South Africa, $1,000 New Zealand. $4,000.
There are. however, says the London Times,
2D.G0 white persons now going to the col
onies to settle each month. a result of
hard times in England.
Ground-up mummy makes a brown OF a
certain rare color that nothing else can
give. 1t is on account of the asphaltum in
the mummy that this is so. The Egyptians
wrapped their dead i'm garments coated
with asphaltum of an incomparaby fine
and pure quality. This asphaltum, as the
centuries passed, impregnated the tissues
of the dead themselves. 1t turned them
into the best paint material i'm the world
Being exceedingly expensive il Is used only
by portrait painters i'm depicting brown
hair.
Until about fifteen years ago life insur-
ance companies uniformly refused TO insure
the lives OF women on any terms. Until
five years ago such companies as did write
policies on female lives Disseminated
against them TO the extent of s. I'm the
thousand. Only very few companies even
now-and these quite recently--insure
women on the same terms as men. And yet
the life tables OF sevehty-fivc years show
the average death rate of all males To be
81 s per thousand and OF females TO be ~. Z
per thousand. Female lives are therefore
1915 per cent. better risks than male lives