The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There are more nillionaires and more
paupers in Moscow than in the whole or
England.
The habit of talking to oneself results
from intense preoccupation. IL Is the Initial
symptom of dementia-
The first life insurance society was
started in London in 1898, and another In
100. Neither was successful
Practically the entire commercial wealth
OF midas 100000 inhabitants Is In the
hands of $4,000 Parsees and Rajahs.
Still lying in Havana harbor. the wreck
of the United States battleship Maine is an
object of great curiosity to tourists.
The United States and Great Britain to-
gether handle more letters and periodicals
than all the rest OF the world combined.
In the Farmers Improvement Society or
Texas there are three thousand negro farm-
ers who own fifty thousand acres of land.
Tasajo or jerked beef. is the principal
export Of Uruguay, the amount being $780,
600 pounds per annum. The great marker
for it is Cuba
The Homestead mills produce with about
four thousand men, three times as much
steel as the Krupp works produce with fif-
teen thousand men.
The lead of black lead pencils is now
made from coke. 1t Is ground and mixed
with iron ore and chemicals, and subjected
to pressure under great heat.
1t is complained in London that all the
emigrants from southwestern Europe who
are incapable of earning money enough to
pay Steerage passage TO the United states
stop in that city.
The valuation of the park lands of Great
er New York is now put at 600. 900; OF
Chicago at s65.0O0,0o0; Boston, S53.0oOoo;
Philadelphia, So 000, 900; San Francisco, ILL.,
200, and st. Louis, ss.0o0,0o0.
Charged with being drunk in HIS own
house, a Bury Lancashire, England pub
lican claimed his legal privilege TO be as
drunk as he pleased in his own private
room" The bench allowed the claim.
Experiments now concluded on the banks
of the Nile show the quality OF the cotton
grown there to be the equal OF any In the
world. There are available nfteen million 81,
work 1t are lacking.
Naval cadets for the construction corps
WERE until Ii was closed TO them recently.
trained ad 1b IN the school at fro
Annapolis, sent to the Boston Institute or
Technology for three years.
The gas used i'm the modern gas engine
performs nearly or quite double the work
obtained from IL when used for Steamboat
ing purposes In time the gas engine. I'm utn-
izing the blast-furnace gases, will make pig
iron production more than doubly profit
able.
Great efforts have been made in southern
California to produce tea, silk. opium and
perfumery, and although the climate fos-
necessary plants each has failed because
the high price Of labor makes the crop un-
remunerative.
Unsatisfactory efforts to determine the
depths Of glaciers have been made ever
since the fact that they moved was an
nounced by Tyndall. Two Bavarian stu
dents of glaciers have succeeded In pierre
ing the Hintereis glacier and find IL to be
four hundred feet deep.
The physical director at Yale College has
measured all students entering In the last
nine years. The nonsmokers average nfteen
months younger than the smokers. arc
taller and during the four years in school
gain "A per cent. more in height and 26.7 per
cent more in chest growth than do habitu-
al users of tobacco
A Boston physician protests against the
use of tea by women. He says that $1,000
women in the Hub are addicted TO the use
of the beverage, and that at least 1000 or
them are slaves to Ii. ',The habit" he de-
and il is running not only their compilations.
but their health. digestion and brain pow
|. err"
The pepper plant-piper nigrum-which
| produces the white and black pepper or
commerce, is climbing, vine-like shrub.
| found growing wild i'm the forests of Ira
| vancore and the Malabar coast of India
| Pepper Is entirely tropical IN Its require
| ments The white pepper is the black pep
| per decorticated by maceration and rub
bing.
French postal clerk has evolved a SIM
pie apparatus for dispensing with the post
4 age stamp and enabling any one to get his
| letter ranked after Office hours. The ap-
| paratus be affixed TO any pillar box; a
Il
= the letter is inserted. and the machine
stamps the envelope with the amount paid
| All you have TO do, then, Is 10 drop the let
| ter into the pillar box for collection.
| An American has invented an envelope
| which records OF itself any attempt 10 tam
per with it's contents The flap Is imbued
with some chemical composition which,
| when operated upon by dampening pro-
| cess or any other means Of penetrating 10
| it's Enclosure. records the transaction by
/ causing the words Attempt 20 open 10
| appear. IL is thought that the tnquisitive
will think twice before pursuing their re-
| searches in face OF such an invention
| The policy OF Western educators regard
/ ing the Rhodes scholarships has been de-
| cided upon. Young men. TO be ehglDle, must
| be at least twenty-four years OLD. unmar-
| ried and not under the grade or Juniors IN
| college. according TO the decision or the
| representatives OF twenty-four western
| universities. DR. George H. Parkin. repre-
4 senting the Rhodes fund. was present AT
| the meeting of the educators, whlch was
| held at the University OF Chicago recently.