The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In Parls Zo6WO families occupy but one
room EACH
labor strikes in any line.
midas population is 100000, oO0-one-fifth
or all the people in the world.
Thirty thousand people a year are going
from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa into
the Manitoba wheat regions of Canada.
The maximum weight of the male brain
Is attained at the age of twenty years,
and that of the female at seventeen years.
The production of pig iron in the United
States last year was 17,S21,30 gross tons;
in 1901 1t was 15,S7S,354 and I'm 1900 1t was 49,,
1920 tons.
When a lemon is large enough to fill a
test ring two and five-sixteenths of an inch
inside il is picked, and If il is still green 1t
is stored until 1t ripens.
German trade statistics already show the
serious damage done to trade with Latin
American countries by the action of the
Kaiser against Venezuela.
The trolley car is not drawn or pushed by
the electric current at all, but is lifted
again and again by the attraction OF mag
nets for the armature coils of the motor.
There are at the present moment in
France 100000 houses which have no win
dows, because-incredible as it may seem
there is still a French window and door tax.
The cattle king Of the Western plains is
passing away forever. A few years ago
there were nearly 100 miilionaires. exclu-
there are but thirty.
Russia has invested in Manchuria mil
lions for railways, millions for standing
army to protect them and twenty millions
in building the city of Dalney. The total
Is hundreds OF millions.
There are not more than 1000 general
advertisers in the whole country-an
astonishingly small proportion of the total
number of firms and corporations engaged
in advertisable lines of business.
structed as high as fifty tons capacity.
Such a crane will swing loaded freight car
from any place within reach or raise a To-
connective after its easily detachable parts
are removed.
Since 1870 the area Of the United States
has increased from S27. S4 to 3,622.933 square
miles, the number OF counties has increased
from 800 to 1851, and the total population
has increased from 3,929, 214 to &c, 303, 1857, or
nineteenfold.
Constant employment, according to an
advertisement in an Italian newspaper can
be obtained by experts capable Of initiating
the handwriting of old manuscripts. Sell
dom, perhaps, has forger been advertised
for quite so openly.
The recent fad in the fashionable world
of London is hotel for pet dogs. This es-
adjustment has been started by Mrs. Chan
Toon in dainty house in Belgravia. Mrs.
Chan-Toon, a year OF SO ago. ownec the
Dogs Toilet Club in Bond street.
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In other words. conjugal life seems neces-
sary condition of longevity. An authority
cites the cases Of fifty centenarians, not
one of whom is a bachelor. A curious fact,
too, is that these fifty centenarians were
all widOwerS.
Nature seems to have provided that no
poison which acts externally shall have
any effect internally, and vice versa. Thus
the most deadly snake venom can be swal-
lowed with impunity. the juice of the
stomach presumably decomposing it and
rendering ii harmless.
In New Holland the women cut them
selves with shells, and, keeping the wounds
open for a long time. form scars in the
flesh, which they deem highly ornamental.
Another mark Of beauty consists of hav
ing finger nails so long that castings of
bamboo are necessary to protect them from
injury.
The annual demand for railway ties is 400
Of tie is seven years. 1t is an unusual
acre of forest that has 800 trees that will
make three ties EACH, and 1t takes fifty
years to grow a tree that will make three
ties. Therefore twenty-five acres Of for
est are necessary for every mile of track.
Electric railways included, there are in the
United States about $4,000 miles OF road.
The treasures that lie at the bottom of
the sea are now more easily obtainable by
the invention Of an instrument known as
the MICROSCOPE. This contrivance is short
ly to be put into operation in order. to
find the lost fleet Of Xerxes. which has
reclined on the seas bed undisturbed for
about $500 years. Search is also to be
made for the ship chartered by Pompey to
carry Roman art treasures to Athens and
wrecked in the archipelago 1850 years ago.
There is at least one lighthouse in the
world that is not placed on any mariners
chart. 1t is away out on the Arizona
desert and marks the spot where a well
supplies pure, fresh water to travellers.
1t is the only place where water may be
had for at least thirty miles In any other
direction. The house" consists of a tall
lantern is hoisted every night The light
can be seen for miles across the plain in
every direction.