The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The tenement inspectors I'm New York
city have found over $4,000 occupied rooms
which have neither light nor ventilation.
The new British Blue Book gives the av-
erage weekly wages of fifteen skilled trades
at 5000 in London and $ls.75 in New York.
G. B. Hall, of Parry. ILL.,. owns the small
est Shetland pony in the world. 1t was
born June and weighed but twelve pounds.
Pennsylvania farmers refuse to pay more
than $50 a month for school teachers, but
are offering 81 per day for men to dig po-
tatoes.
Farm laborers i'm Mexico may be en-
ployed at from eighteen to twenty cents a
day, though in many parts of the country
they are scarce and unreliable.
The number of murders per million in
habitants is: In England. 5.13; in Germany.
545; in France; n.l5; in Austria, 15.42; in
Italy, 1911; and in Spain, A.10.
Farm laborers in Mexico may be en-
ployed at from Is to 20 cents per day.
though in many parts of the country they
are very scarce and unreliable.
Manila has total population of some
thing like 100000, about 10000 being Ameri-
can and European born. The American
population is estimated at about 5000.
A small fraction of an ounce of radium,
properly employed, would provide good
light sufficient for several rooms and would
not require renewal during the present GEN.
fury.
Though there are only 100000 people in
Spain, there are nevertheless 35.OO0,000 in
America speaking her tongue. There are
ITO Spanish-American writers and poets, all
born outside Spain.
With 3S5 pounds of smokeless powder the
new 40-caliber Finch gun will send $50
pound armor-piercing shell through 10 $40
inches of HarVeyiZed nickel-steel armor at
distance of mile and a half.
The coal-handling machinery at a Boston
wharf recently lowered the worlds record
by raising coal from a steamer ninety feet
to storage pockets at the rate of 320 tons
shovel
two tons.
In the interest of making Australia "a
white mans country" a government bounty
Is paid for sugar grown by white labor. OF
seven-tenths was produced by Kanaka
black labor.
There is conclusive evidence to show that
in one unbroken nocturnal flight the Euro
pean bird known as the northern blue
throat passes from Central Africa to the
German sea, distance of 1,600 miles, max
ing the journey in nine hours.
immigration statistics continue to surpass
all records and total of more than a mil
lion immigrants during the present fiscal
year seems now assured. The total last
year s57 ,046, which was 6s.o54 in excess
of the number of arrivals in any previous
year.
The authorized capitalization of street-car
lines in the United States in 1902 amounted
to s2,S10,62 316 while the gross earnings
from operations We're s247, 553. $685. and the
-.
both operating and fixed charges, was $780,
695, 977.
1t is estimated that during the last five
years telephones have been put into nearly
half a million rural homes. The farmer
finds that with the telephone he can keep
in touch with the market, selling his prod
uce or live stock when quotations are the
most favorable
There are 1880 names on the State pension
rolls of Mississippi of persons who served
the Confederacy during the war. and the
widows of soldiers. The State appropriates
100000 for the payments. OF the bene-
ficiaries 361 are negroes who will receive in
the aggregate $9,019.
The Lutheran Church ranks first among
Protestant denominations in the United
States, having 1900 congregations and a
membership of 500, 600; As theological semi
naries, AZ colleges, 80 academies, 10 young
ladies' seminaries, p hospitals, 81 orphan
asylums. 20 homes for the aged and eight
deaconess houses.
The total area used for farming purposes
in the United States is Sil,00O,00o acres-an
area larger than England. Scotland, Ire
land. Wales. France. Germany, Austria.
are 1043S,0O0 persons engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits. while all other indus
tries employ but 1S.S450O0. One-third of the
people is therefore devoted TO farming.
1t is calculated that in the Bay of Bengal
the water lies al a level exceeding that Of
the Indian ocean by fully 800 feet, and that
OF the Pacific ocean along the coast OF
South America may be heaped up as much
2.0o0 feet higher than the waters in the
opposite Atlantic. These water noun tains
depend upon the attraction OF great mount
ain masses the Bay of Bengal upon the
HimalayaS, and the South Pacif1c upon the
American Andes.