The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
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Rome has a water supply of 100000 gall
Ions a day, London only 160, 100000 n Paris
sc, 1000 600.
IT is estimated that $500, 900, 900 of British
treasure lies sunk along the route from
England to India.
TIE world uses $500, 000, 600 worth of cotton
goods i'm a year. OF this Great Britain man.
ufactures So per cent.
The eating of snakes, lizards. scorpions,
centipedes, tarantulas and other reptiles is
prohibited by statute in Kansas.
An electric machine which is intended to
produce rain in times of drought is being
constructed in Paris by a municipal en-
gineer.
There are few women missionaries in At
RIGA because of the deadly nature of the eli
mate and the social conditions of vast ter
%ritories there.
is one which draws 100000 gallons of water
a day, 3S7 miles, to the gold fields at Bulla
Bulling, Australia.
There are about $50 volcanoes on this
earth that have performed in modern times.
| There are many hundreds more that have
long been extinct.
The value of the diamonds in the United
States is estimated to be $500, O0O, 600. OF this
amount $40, 600, 600 worth are owned by res
idents of New York.
! accessible heather on the east coast Green
| land. with its 10000 population, is now under
a uniform Christian influence.
South Africa is probably destined in the
near future to become a formidable rival to
| California and Australia as a competitor
for the English market in the supply Of
fruit.
OF the 100000 people in England more
than half of them live on an income of
| less than s2 a week, and the earnings of
1000. 900 of this number do not exceed S. a
week for the family.
In eleven years British manufactured ex-
| ports have decreased 3.5 per cent, American
manufactured exports have increased ia per
cent. and German manufactured exports
have increased by 35.5 per cent.
ST. Petersburg is to nave a worlds fair
devoted to child education, it's growth,
its achievements and its most advanced
methods" Seventeen million children in
| Russia have no school opportunities at all.
In London, if you want rooms, a servant
or a situation, you advertise the fact in a
machine for a penny. You write out your
| advertisement put Ii in with your penny and
| the machine displays 1t in your own hand
writing.
No government department has a wider
field nor greater possibilities than the new
| one of Commerce and Labor. 1t employs 1.2Ss
officials in Washington and S,S3S In the coun-
try. The appropriation for its use during
the fiscal year is So, l96, S41.
The u. 100000 sheep in Montana yielded
this year 37,5Oo.00 pounds of wool, which
at 16 cents a pound brought s6. 900, 900 cash.
Baled this wool would fill forty miles of
freight cars, and the sheep IL killed would
produce s250.0oo,Oo worth of mutton.
The population of the United States in
1902 is three and a half times as much as in
1850, while the production Of the great ar.
| ticles of manufacturing Is in most cases
from five to fifty times as great, and the
facilities of transportation twenty times as
great.
There are about $500. 900 men in India who
who have given up all earthly employment
who live apart as a~scetics, and spend their
time in roaming around the country as re-
ligious mendicants. They are the most pes
tilential in their morals of all the people
of the land.
For a year the use of phosphorus matches
has been prohibited in Sweden. The new
law has resulted in the invention of a match
by the engineers. Ladin and fernandez
which has been named the 're~psticken," OF
scratch match. Ittwill light against a wet
surface. 1t is said to be less poisonous
than a safety match.
Seventy-hve per cent of our reign- born
population in 1900 was of Teutonic and Gel
tic stock-the very same that made the
English. OF course, a still larger percent
age of the native-born are OF these races
and OF their admixture. IL is an error, then,
TO talk of the American people as a con-
| glomeration of races. There is an Ameri-
| can race. formed by fusion of the original
] races that made the English.