The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-18
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Tennessee, with $751; 900, has a larger
debt than any other State.
The dam in the Nile at Assouan will
throw back water 140 miles.
There are 1,575 Young Mems Christian AS
sociations in America. with 323, 224 members
and $2S,0O0,O00 worth of property.
When Queen Victoria assembled the throne
only 100000 a year was spent on education;
now the amount expended is s65.OOo,000.
Frankfort-on Main is the richest city in
Germany. The average annual income or
its taxpaying population is sl,345. In Berlin
it is only $685..
Berkeley, the birthplace of President Will
liam Henry Harrison, near Richmond, Va,
known as Harrison's Landing in the civil
war, has been destroyed by fire.
The city of Cleveland is to get rid of it's
l34 grade crossings at cost of $10,OO0,O00.
Half this expense will be borne by the seven
railroads interested and half by the city.
A train consisting of thirteen cars loaded
with silk passed through Winnipeg, Mani
toba, a few weeks since on it's way from
the Orient to Europe. The total value of
s9,150,O0O
Two churches in Neodsha, Mo-, have Of
fered their bells for sale. The rest of the
churches have none. The church trustees
unnecessary annoyance.
In Austria religious instruction Is COM
pulsory in all schools. The head teacher
must belong to the faith of the majority,
direction Of the religious bodies.
1t is now settled that the Chinese chill
dren of California will not be permitted to
attend the regular public schools, but must
be educated in the institution especially pro-
vided for their race where such schools ex-
list.
. The pulpit which George Whitefield two
hundred years ago carried with him as he
moved about the country among the thou
sands who focked to hear him preach is
a n hQ at ON n IN i'm in, Naxx
York city.
The constant widening of the scope of
school courses is instanced by the recent
introduction of classes in gardening, house
work and basket making in the Hyannis
(Mass.) Normal School, and a course in mil
lfnery in the Boston public schools.
A lawyer in Canton, O., has brought suit
against a local barber for 500 damages,
alleging that his hair was cut in a most in
artistic manner in his shop, making him
an object of ridicule among his brethren
at the bar and his acquaintances generally.
In two Of the corners of the churchyard
OF Warrington Church, Hants England,
stand small, forbidding looking structures
belonging to the truly Gothic" period of
the immediate past. They were erected as
watch houses for the prevention of body
snatching.
The tunnel which is to furnish pure water
to Cleveland from five miles out in Lake
Erie is now practically completed. after six
years work, at a cost of S1,250,O00. 1t runs
100 feet below the lake bottom and is nine
feet in diameter. Fifty lives have been lost
in this work.
l. the fiscal year which ended on June
80, 1902. 64S.743 aliens came to the United
States in the steerage of vessels and 81, 055
as cabin passengers, making total Of $50,
79S. This number was never exceeded ex-
cept in 1852, when the number of immi-
grants was 7SS.992.
The United States has 100000 miles of
railways, upon which there are 54S en-
ployes for each 100 miles. The cost of OPP
Grating these roads with steam power is
500, 100000 year; but to carry on the same
amount of work with men and horses would
cost the country 81 ,90S, 100000
A splendid funeral procession was pro-
ceeding from Hongo. Japan, to bury the re-
den. when the police stopped the ceremony,
as the deceased was believed to be es-
capped convict. The accusation was found
to be true, and the dead man was taken
to the prison burial ground.
Wesley's Chapel, London, still retains the
narrow pulpit, with its steep and winding
ascent just as John Wesley left it. The flu
neral services for Rev. Hugh Price Hughes
were held in this chapel, which seats 100
persons. Great numbers were unable to
enter the chapel, and thousands witnessed
the interment in Highgate Cemetery.
The Christian Endeavorers of Amercia
have built twenty-nine churches in dest-
tute portions of the United States Twenty
one of these have been built by the Chris.
tian Endeavor Missionary League of the
Reformed Church in America. The Chris
tan Endeavor gifts from this denomination
during the past year have amounted to
$10,477.
The calvary Baptist Church, of Provi-
dence, r. l., has opened its doors to the
poor who cannot get fuel, and cots for them
to sleep on have been put in. The church
kitchen is used to prepare meals, and the
usual Christmas festivities were given up
in order that the money could be devoted
to the more practical object of keeping the
needy from suffering cold and hunger.
F'resh-air tablets are a preparation dis
covered by French scientist 1t was while
investigating acetylene that he discovered
that he could combine certain chemicals
into tablet which, on being dropped into
water, dissolved and gave forth pure oxy-
gen. These tablets will be exceedingly use
full in a closed carriage, a submarine boat
mine. or anywhere else where the air
has become vitiated.
Literary people Of Boston are agitating
for the setting up i'm Boston of tablet IL
honor of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born
there in 1909, his mother being a leading
woman at the Haymarket Theater. His
first book signed "A Bostonian." The
present movement is one of the results OF
the labors of Professor Richardson, OF
Dartmouth. in reviving interest in the writ
ingS and history of Poe.