The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-12
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The star Campus surpasses the sun In
brightness by more than ten thousand
times.
Texas now produces more cotton than
Georgia and Alabama, the next two largest
cotton States, combined.
During the last year California produced
twice as much gold as Alaska and Colorado
produced more than three times as much.
The number of ~irrigating bitches and
canals in operation in the United states eX~
ceeds 10000, and their combined length Is
not less than $1,000 miles.
is a public oven, where for a small Zee
housewives may have their dinners and
suppers cooked for them.
Figures recently published I'm Christiana
from the United States by immigrants from
Norway last year was S,1S0,O0.
There are 107, SS dressmakers employed
by firms in London. The highest wages OBJ
t~ainable-except in the case of about a
dozen heads of de-partments-are is shill-
ings a week.
British India buys abroad $3.50, zoe, 1000
worth a year, of which the United States
supplies s3.772.00O, or about on%e-ninetieth.
The largest item from the United States is
$l,OO,OO0 worth of kerosene oil.
Two hundred and sixty-four out of every
LOCO of the worlds population own King
Edward VII as their sovereign. Ninety are
Russian, sixty-three French, sixty United
OldtCS supJCClo uiiu lOEts-niiC otfi 70
According to statistics Just issued by the
Rheims Chamber of Commerce, 22.523. 7i6
bottles of French champagne have been ex-
ported during the last twelve months, while
only 14.0ll,S5 bottles were sold In France.
Umbrella bearers are shown in ancient
sculptures at Persepolis, where a King is
depicted in royal state attended by a fly
fapper and an umbrella man. In Persia
the umbrella is still al appendage Of roy
atty.
TA1 1900, x1- - 1-o,or. T. A.
world is said to be the aniline and soda es-
adjustment of Baden. The works employ
lS scientific chemists. Is technical engi-
neers, 35 clerks and more than 5000 work.
ingmen.
That automobile racing will be perma-
mently prohibited in France is unlikely.
Automobile building now engages more
than 10000 skilled workmen i'm France and
the races give worldwide advertising to
French machines.
Animal foods. judged by bulk and weight,
are more expensive, pound for pound, than
vegetable foods. But, as a whole, vegetable
foods are not more Animal
foods furnish more than six-tenths of the
protein and nine-tenths Of the fat of the
total food consumed.
For the manufacturing year 1901-02 our
factories produced about $4,000 tons of beet
sugar. So recently as 1855 the years manu-
facture was less than 1000 tons. The fig
ures of Germany's annual production is
10000 tons. and that Of Austria and
4AohSO ibvVVsVV tOhs Noth.
Sport is apparently not considered a nee
essary element In a French schoolboy's edu-
cation. A fiat has just gone forth from the
director general of the elementary schools
to play leap frog, football, FOUNDERS, tops,
hopscotch and other games.
Great Yarmouth. England, has the mar
rowest street In the world. There are
but the narrowest is Kitty Witches. which
is only hfty-five inches wide. You can lean
out of your window and shake hands with
your neighbor across the street.
The value of many a photograph is great
ly lessened or entirely lost through the fail
ure to place some object In the picture the
size of which is readily understood by the
observer. The difficulty can be obviated by
placing a foot rule against one of the OBJ
jects while the picture is being made.
Undertakers test bodies to see IL life is
extinct by raising a blister with a match.
IL the blister Is dry the body is dead; If IL
the cut made for the embalming syringe
bleeds the body is alive. The only abso-
lutely certain sign, however, is beginning
decomposition.
canal in the great waterway to the sea-
board at Montreal and New York has been
rapidly increasing, the Welland and Erie
canals have fallen into disuse. Now thirty
take the lake freight from Buffalo TO New
York. Philadelphia and Boston.
A half dozen men worked all one day in
a Greenwood CMe.) mill recently trying to
get ii started. and two OF them continued
the next day. In despair they took the en-
CINE to pieces. Inside the cylinder were
several quarts of nuts. bits of bark and
other fire stuff. A squirrel had gone in
through the exhaust pipe and had discov-
cred an excellent place for a winter store
house.
The highest point for wages reached be-
fore the panic OF 1893 has now been regained
or passed practically and I'm all lines of
work. Labor unions have increased in
strength and number in a distinctly sur
prising way. 1t is asserted. for example,
that in Chicago the list of unions has
heightened from 327 to 500 during the past
year and that the membership has adj
vanced from 10000 TO twice that number in
the same period.
Figures have just been published which
the Canadian press claims as an Indication
or the military spirit which animates young
Canada. The State of New York has a pop
ulation OF nearly 100000 more than the en-
tire Dominion of Canada. yet its National
Guard has an enrolment of only IA. 4SS men.
Canada, on the other hand. has 5000 men
In Its active militia and thousands OF others
who have gone through militia training and
are now on the retired list.