The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-22
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

american tourists annually spend abroad
an average of S75.0O00O0 and foreign tourists
leave about s20,Oo0OO0 here.
The Himalays have several peaks over
S.ooO feet, and more than thousand which
nave been measured exceed 10000 feet.
Many Swiss manufacturers of watches
Germany to save tariff charges and to Sc
cure cheaper labor.
The telephone can no longer be legally
used by German physicians in debating
prescriptions 10 druggists. because of the
chances or fatal misunderstanding.
The fines and forfeitures imposed upon
and collected from the enlisted men Of the
army were vastly increased during the year
subsequent TO the abolishment of the can
teen.
surance policies aggregating $99, ,9S9 are
carried by japanese. The heather in his
blindness seems TO look out for the future
or his family.
higher wages than the British manufac-
turer, but the cost of making a shoe is less
because Of the greater efficiency of the
American workman.
An offer has been made by the Hamilton
and Lake Erie Power Company to the
mayor or Toronto to deliver 10000 horse
power Of electrical energy in Toronto at so
per horsepower year.
Japan is getting the bicycle craze. 1t i'm
ported S,1OOOOO worth of wheels last year.
mostly of the cheaper grades. costing from
$12 to s25. They are chiefly used for busi-
ness and army purposes.
There are 1000 varieties of postage stamps
In circulation to-day, all of which have to
be Identified by the postmasters. There
have been upward of 10000 different varie-
ties issued since postage stamps came into
use.
The Monterey (Mexico) steel plant, with
capital Of about $4,00O.000. gold, in which
several wealthy Americans are largely in
terested, started working on the 1st of
March. 1t Is expected to produce 800 tons
a day.
An expedition under control Of Mr.. Ea
kenstein has started for the Himalayas
with the intention of climbing to the high
est point i'm the world, the peak Of Mount
Everest. The ascent is expected to occupy
several years.
The deaths from pneumonia per 10000 of
population In 1860 wwere 4.40; In 1870, 1924;
In 1880. 125S; in 1890. 1884: in 1900. 19.7S-an
aggregate increase of 1896 per cent. of
pneumonia as compared with an aggregate
decrease Of 1915 per cent. of consumption.
The fall Of eleven feet seven inches in the
level or the Great Salt lake is chargeable,
says the director of the Weather Bureau
for that section, to deficient rainfall, and
not to water being used for irrigation. He
predicts that the lake will soon begin to
rise.
1t Is a familiar fact that a lawn which
was once watered during dry season will
have to be frequently watered or the grass
will suffer oftentimes more than If 1t had
not been watered at ALL The first watering
induces a superficial root development
water.
A Cincinnati firm was called upon to dis
mantle lot of woodworking machinery
which 18th It had d installed @ for firm In Sweden;
not stand the work-the speed was too high.
The feed had been gauged by the American
scale. An expert reduced the feed and
after that all went well.
1,4 f1I,
ceeds four feet in length. is a very venom
Gus snake and is more to be dreaded than
the rattlesnake, as 1t will attack anything
and everything on sight and without ap-
parent provocation. With its mouth wide
open it erects itself bodily and darts for
ward with a rapid spring.
Shooting is by far the most popular meth
cd of ending life, with poison and drowning
in the order named. The percentage of
suicides is highest among those whose
mothers were born in France, with Ger
third. The death rate from suicide of those
whose mothers were born in the United
States Is much lower.
Tortillas, the Mexican substitute for
wheat bread, are made from selected corn.
The kernels are boiled soft in lime water,
and after being thoroughly washed are
rubbed between the hands to remove the
outer husk. They are then ground while
wet to q soft mass with stones or a peanut
butter mill, patted into thin cakes, baked
on dry griddle and eaten while still hot.
The teaching of Max Muller that the hu-
man race was Graded in northern India
has been hitherto generally accepted.
Muller determined the origin OF people
by their language. The view now adopted
by a number of ethnologists is that shown
by the work of Professor Hirt, who thinks
that he can fix the primitive home OF the
Aryans in the territory north of the Car
pathian mountains near the boundary line
between Austria Hungary and Russia, now
occupied by Let's and Lithuanians.
With the object Of discovering cure for
typhoid fever a remarkable experiment is
being conducted at Ann Arbor University,
Michigan. Six big tanks have been con-
structed with layer of gelatine, and on
these IA square feet OF the FEVER germs
are grown at a time. These living germs
are scraped off, killed and bottled up. Two
ounces of them would kill 10000 guinea
pigs. The object is, If possible, to extract
the poison from the germ bodies, feed
animals with it and try to discover an an