The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The Northwestern is the first university
to officially appoint a college ''drQmmer''
to get students.
Irrigation works in British India which
cost SIPS, 100000 water 100000 acres and
pay per. cent. on the investment.
The record yield of timber from one tree
is $4,000 feet from a redwood twenty feet
in diameter, cut last year in California.
If you fear sleepless night undress in
the dark. Light stimulates and arouses the
activities. Darkness is supposed to produce
drowsiness.
The growth of the tobacco industry in
South Carolina has been phenomenal The
Darlington market alone reports sales of
more than 100000 pounds Of the 1902 crop.
The South African colonies and islands
own owned % by o Germany have no local iegisla,
by an autocrat appointed by the Emperor
The most highly concentrated industry is
the making of collars and cuffs, of which
1916 per cent. is within New York state
and S5.2 per cent Is in the single city of
Troy.
Umbrella bearers are shown in ancient
sculptures at Persepolis. where king is
depicted in royal state attended by fly
happer and an umbrella man. In Persia
the umbrella is still an appendage of roy
atty.
1t is said that the profitable hen eats six
teen times her weight in year. Her eggs
six times the cost of her food Feed plenty
of wheat, oats, grits. clover and bone and
less corn.
Baron De Sibert has entered an action
against the Paris Metropolitan Railway for
twopence. the price of a toy balloon which
his child was not allowed to take into one
or the carriages and was obliged to leave
behind him.
Ninety-five per cent. of mortgages. as
shown by the census, are made in order
to increase the original holding of property
Or to raise money for business operations,
ana put per cent. are because Of threat
ened disaster.
The contractor for the New York rand
transit subway said that owing to the rapid
developments In electrical art generation
of electricity is now only three years
What becomes of the old machinery and
who pays for the new?
Goichi Abe, coal dealer of Toxic has
deposited $500 in a local bank with instruc-
tlons That 1t is to remain there at compound
posterity Is then alive will become nos
sessed of big fortune.
Great efforts have been made i'm southern
Cailfornla to produce tea, silk, opium and
perfumery, and although the climate fos-
tiers the most satisfactory growth of these
plants each has failed, because the high
price OF labor makes the crop unremunera-
This country invented the parlor. sleep
Ing and dining cars, the pressed-steel
freight car, many of the best features of
the modern locomotive, the airbrake, the
automatic coupler and a host of relared
devices, and 1T runs the fastest long-t.js-
lance trains.
The Isle of Pines. south of Cuba. is the
orIginal OF Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island" Prof John E,inley has
been visiting the island, and in writing of
the experience says that even at this late
and unromantic day he found men digging
for treasure there.
The total assets OF Chicago University are
Sl5,lzS3I5.95. President Harper wishes to
increase the salaries as follows: Profess
sors' from 5000 to LOCO; associate profess
fessors. from s.. 900 to 81 500 pension sys-
tenn is also being considered.
The drinking of kerosene is such a grow
ing evil In France that measures are being
prevailed among the Indians of the south
Pacifc and to such an extent that the i'm
portation of kerosene for drinking is an i'm
portant trade in Peru and Bolivia
pair of women's shoes made I'm LYNN
Mass, to establish a record for rand eboa'
making required fifty-Seven different onera-
tons and the use of forty-two machines ana
one nnndred pieces. All these parts were
SHOES ready TO wear in thirteen minutes.
1t is reassuring to be told by our consuls
that. whether overproduction should ra
SUIT from overstirnuiation of our industries
or from diminished home consumption tho
foreign markets are becoming more and
more accessible To our goods, and that in
even the remotest corners of the earth we
are gaining Substantial headway.
in
Belgium, Germany and the United States
are shortly to be introduced In France.
The value of the COIN will be Is centimes.
equal to cents. 1t will weigh six grains
The new coin will be of considerable mil
ity as at present there is no intermetjiafe
money between the 10-centine and the half
franc.
Sonora Maria Francescade La Guerra.
Mexican woman residing in San Francisco
has been sentenced to a. term of one davss
imprisonment I'm San Quentin Penitentiarv
for bigamy. She has had eight husbands
during the past twenty-four years. The
onense committed was in wedding the
eighth man before his predecessor in her
affections had died.
The impression that British North Amer
lea Is covered with valuable timber Is fall
lacious- Black walnut, red cedar and white
oak are not found north OF Toronto line
drawn from the city of Quebec to SauIt Ste
Marie will designate the northern limit of
beech. elm and birch. The north shore of.
Lake Superior win mark the norfherr,
boundary OF sugar hard maple.