The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In Germany workngmen are visited at
ofhciais TO collect their savings for bank
ing.
Official statistics show that there are H.
00.oo0 children in Russia between the ages
Women exhibitors work will be placed side
by side with that of men at the St. Louis
exhibition. 1t will also be judged by the
same standards by the same juries.
The number of whites skinned men in the
British colonies is about II 100000. Thy pay
no imperial taxes-not even a part of the
expense of the great navy which protects
them.
An assistant in the Congressional Library
finds that 200 books therein are written by
colored persons. The authors are nearly all
mulattoes. The straight blacks have done
almost nothing.
The Austrian minister of railways recon-
mends that honey yielding flowers should
be planted lalong the tracks and that the
station masters should keep bees and thus
add to their incomes.
1t is said that the profitable hen eats six
teen times her weight in a year. Her eggs
are six times her own weight and worth
six times the cost of her food. Feed plenty
of wheat, oats, grits, clover and bone and
less corn.
While chopping wood near Augsburg.
Germany, boy named Wilhelm Behr
caught his ak against a wire clothesline.
AT the same moment flash of lightning
struck the line, passed down the ak and
killed him.
More than $4,000 acres of land in the In
dian possessions of Great Britain are de-
voted to the cultva ton of tea, nine-t enths
of the area being in Assam and Bengal.
Production is officially estimated at l91, ESQ.,
600 pounds.
Germany has built the finest, fastest ves-
sells afioat, although she is not geograph-
ically maritime country. and no other
country is SO largely dependent on others
for the raw materials which enter into the
making OF a ship.
AS long as Brazil continues to grow 49,
10000 bags of coffee, which was nearly the
amount of her last years product and about
the estimated amount of the worlds con-
sumption, there is no probability that coffee
will advance in price.
The sixty-horse power traction engines
used on Western ranches will pull stimuli
taneously seventeen 14-inch plows, blowing
forty to sixty acres per day, or will pillow,
drill and harrow, all at one time, with
properly arranged tools, from thirty-five to
nifty acres per day.
The power plants now in operation at the
falls divert one-seventeenth of the volume
of Niagara river, and when the fumes now
building are completed one-eighth less
water Will go over the falls-this aside from
the water diverted by the Welland canal
and by the great volume Of the Chicago
drainage canal.
The best calculation that can be made
shows that the average number of children
TO the white native family a century ago in
the United States was more than six; in
1880 it had fallen to less than five; in 1860 to
less than four: in 1872 to less than three; in
1900, among the upper classes in Boston,
to less than two.
The published statement that we now get
no pure Mocha coffee is controverted by the
United States consul at Alden, who shows
that mixing other. eoffees with Mocha or
shipping coffees to Alden to be reshipped as
Mocha is prohibited by the authorities The
United States bought of this coffee last
year 2,6SS,2S5 pounds at a cost of $377, 1852.
The only American exhibit at the Osaka
(Japan) exposition is that of Oregon, whose
Legislature voted $1,000 for the purpose.
Canada voted $4,000 and Austria $4,000 TO
aid exhibitors, and Germany is very well
represented i'm all lines. A syndicate of
japanese Incorporated with a cash capital
of $4,000 has purchased the Oregon ex-
hibit.
The great slave. trade at Kano, the me-
tropols of Nigeria, Africa, having ion, 600
inhabitants, which averaged 500 men and
women sold each day, has been abolished
by the British, who have extended their au-
thorty over 1t. Three provinces on the
Niger were seized because the native chiefs
refused to surrender the murderer of a
British officer.
AT Stamford. England recently a suit of
clothes which belonged to Daniel Lambert,
the Leicestershire giant, was offered by
auction. Lambert was the most corpulent
man of his generation and weighed upward
of 200 pounds. General Tom Thumb once
walked through the arm of his coat. The
bidding reached 1915, at which figure the lot
was withdrawn.
The biggest monkey ever exhibited is a
gorilla feet 10 inches high, with an arm
spread of 8 feet inches, from the CANA
rooms West Africa. He stands, with his
skeleton beside him, in the museum of Ham,
burg The crowds at the museum have been
enormous, and the comments upon its
marked resemblance to the human species
have been general.
The advantage of universal language, as
we have in the United States to the BUSH
ness interests of country can hardly be
Ioverestimated. In Germany 100000 speak
Polish and 10, 600 Danish only, 1900 French,
100000 Dutch, $1,000 Czech and Russian.
Wendish, Masurian, kassubian, MOravian
and other languages each have considcra-
BILE number of adherents.
The Moorish Sultan's army is a wonderful
affair 1t fights by making noise rather
than by killing the enemy. The army con-
sists of 25 600 men. Some are armed with
discarded British Martini-Henrys, others
with homemade limitations of the Martini
Henry, which jam and refuse to fire, while
others have the old flint-lock muZZle loader,
which is of doubtful habits.
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