The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

But 211 per cent. of the people of Bulgaria
are Moslems.
Greece has as many people as Michigan
and as many acres as West Virginia.
st; Louis vegetarians are planning to es-
tablish in that city cooperative vege-
tartan restaurant.
The money sent to the relatives abroad
every year by foreigners living in this coun-
try is at least slO.OO0.0OO.
In 1850 there criminal to every
3,42 or the population; the proportion is
now greater than one to 700
In Cardiff a parrot has just died which
was forty years old. 1t had been for thir-
ty-five years with the family that owned it.
A German mathematician estimates that
the average man who lives TO be seventy
his life.
French cabinet makers have learned a
way OF preparing sawdust and making 1t
into articles of ornament that resemble
carved woodwork.
The farm colony for inebriate women at
three thousand women a year in excess of
the number 1t can accommodate 4.
Thirty-four houses in various parts of
Glasgow Scotland, have in a single day
been closed as unfit for human habitation.
There were lis persons living in them.
The United States provides for the pun
ishment of crime, but makes no effort to
prevent It,. The annual tribute society
10000 600 20 CRIME S'a''S'''s Sh0" to De ''0'-
vented system of telephoning between
stations, utilizing the railroad tracks in
stead of line of wire for the transmission
OF messages. Experiments have been sue
cesSful.
The writer of an article on "Child Labor"
In Leslie's Monthly for April states, on the
authority of government statistics, that
more child laborers are employed in Penn
sylvania than in all the Southern States
combined.
This country invented the parlor, sleep
ing and dining cars, the pressed steel
freight car, many of the best features of
the automatic coupler, and a host of re-
lated devices. and 1t runs the fastest long
distance trains.
Pharaoh's chariot, i'm which he rode at
Thebes has been discovered, says the
Times, in perfect condition in the valley
of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes along
with the tomb of Thothmes ", which is
nearly four thousand years old.
The United Presbyterian Church is the
only American church with missions in
Egypt The mission was begun at Cairo
and has become a great influence through
out the land among Mohammedans and the
Copts
Experiments show that a large ocean
steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour,
Will move over a distance of two miles
after its engines are stopped and reversed.
and no authority gives less than a mile
or mile and half as the required space
to stop it's progress.
The only ancient gold diggings yet dis
covered which are of sufficient magnitude
to be those of the Ophir of David and Solo
mon are those of the Zambesi region. The
gold contributed by David alone to the
building of the temple. being 5000 talents
of the gold of Ophir," would be in value
over $S0,000,000.
Wesley's Chapel. London, still retains the
narrow pulpit, with its steep and winding
ascent, just as John Wesley left it. The
funeral services for Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes were held in this chapel, which
seats LOO persons. Great numbers were
unable to enter the chapel, and thousands
witnessed the interment in Highgate Gem
etery.
The excavations at Nippur revealed not
only the Oldest sanctuary, library and
school that are known to the present time,
but also the most ancient archaeological
museum. In an upper strata of the library
mound the first museum known in his
tory was unearthed. The collector lived
about the time of Belshazzar, and his
specimens were antiquities then.
The Hotel Savoy in New York plumes
itself upon the possession of the largest
mirror in the world. Only two steamships
of the ocean-one OF them the Friesland,
in which it came-have room in their holds
to stow away such a large package. 1t is
little more than thirteen feet square and
is nearly half an inch thick. To get this
perfect plate five different glasses had to
be cast. 1t was made at the ST. Gabian
glass works in Paris.
A traveller has made the observation that
coffee-drinking people are very seldom
given to drunkenness. In Brazil, for in
stance where coffee is grown extensively
and all the Inhabitants drink it many times
a day, intoxication is rarely seen. The eff
feet is not only noticeable among the ma
tives, but the foreigner who settles there,
though possessed Of ever such a passion for
strong drink, gradually loses his liking for
alcohol he acquires the coffee-drinking
habit Of the Brazilian.
The buzzards that have long infested
Vera Cruz and served a useful purpose as
winged scavengers are doomed. A London
firm is putting in a modern sewer and wa
ter system. The birds have become so
numerous that they are a pest. The pro-
lection of the municipality has been re-
moved, and when the new drainage system
shall be completed the city will be rid of
the pest, the numbers of which have al
ready been reduced somewhat by catching
the buzzards and placing them in wooden
cages to be taken to sea and drowned