The Indianapolis journal., 1903-06-21

Capetown. have announced their intention
OF placing fresh fruits on exhibition each
week. Even In London this feat has never
been undertaken
New York has the largest apartment
house In the world In the Ansonia. 1t is
seventeen stories high and has sixteen ele-
vators, 1.S0o people can live in it. and the
building alone cost $4000,000
Were it not for the multitude of storks
tnat tnrong to Egypt every winter there
would be no living in some parts of the
country. for after every inundation frogs
appear in devastating swarms.
Electric street cars have killed 1916 per-
sons and injured 47.42S in the last twelve
time the number OF passengers carried in a
year has increased from 100000 900 to s.
900 900 900.
The diamond trust known as the De Beers
Consolidated Mining Company limits the
output to small fraction of what ii might
be and makes the price high enough TO pay
~ per cent. dividends and put 30 per cent.
In the reserve fund.
A New York church that keeps silence
respecting its wealth is the Dutch Collegi-
ate, which Is reputed to have an income
from investments OF 100000 year Trim
ity Church has an income from it's invest
ments OF over N,0o0,o0o per annum.
There is one physician to each GOO in
habitants In the United States-in cities Ii
Is to 500. Death and increase of popua-
tion make room for about 1900 new doctors
year, but the 156 medical schools are turn
ing out over 5000 year, making surplus
The oldest collection of moral maxims
known is that Of the Presse papyrus dating
z6O0 years B. C.. recently found in a tomb
at Ihebes. They have been translated by
Philippe Vivey, the famous French Egypt
ologist, and rival in excellence the proverbs
of the Hebrews.
For high-grade work requiring great pre-
cision and excellence there is to be found
in nearly every leading machine shop in
Germany group OF American tools-a
silent tribute to the remarkable position
held in the world to-day by the American
machine tools work.
There are In New York city to-day 1920
millionaireS as against 294 twenty years
ago and twenty-five in 1853. There were no
millionaires In the city 100 years ago. The
hrst person to reach that distinction was
John Jacob AstOr, who became a million
aire about the year 1870.
The American Bridge Company completed
twenty-seven bridges on the Uganda (Afri-
ca) Railway in ffty-three weeks. The
British contractors had built eight in two
years previous. The British builders en-
ployed more than one hundred men in put
ting up bridge, while the Americans used
five.
The plans for the building of the Travel
ers Protective Association at the World S
Fair, st. Louis. have been completed The
contract for the building will be let this
month. The structure will be So feet by
40 feet and oAe-story high. 1t will contain
a large central hall, which will be used
for receptions during the fair.
s. o. Collins, of New York city, a young
colored janitor, is to have an exhibit OF
landscape paintings at the worlds fair, ST.
Louis. Mr. Collins has studied for the last
four years at Cooper Union, paying his ex-
penses by attending to furnaces and acting
as Janitor of a building. His paintings are
to to be % entered in the competition in which
of the fair are to be selected.