The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-02-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A Key West fisherman rubs his body with
kerosene oil and swims among the sharks
in safety. N''
Pennsylvania woman 1O2 years old is
said to have been an inveterate smoker for
more than fifty years.
A diamond of wonderful purity, weigh
ing 240 carats, was found at the JagersfOn-
tein mine, in South Africa, Christmas day.
A stone crab was exhibited at Charlotte
HarbOr, Fla, last week, whose claw meas
ured six and a-half inches in circumfer-
ence.
Joseph, Charles and Frank Klouchek,
brothers, of Portland, Ore, were all born
on the 4th of July, two in Austria and one
In this country.
A baby born in Yonkers, N. Y, weighed
only two and One-half pounds. The nurses
lingering was easily passed over the child's
hand and wrist. The %yOungster Is healthy
and expected to live.
The kerosene used in Dakota freezes
solid at seven degrees below zero, and it is
as much a part of the household work to
melt the cake of kerosene as it is to wash
the dishes or sweep the floor.
Living in Japan is very cheap. You can
rent a big house, keep three servants, have q
drive every day and live of the fat of the
land for s. per week. In addition to this
the natives will take Off their hats to you.
AS the result of an election wager Charles
Hlndman, of Chicago, is now engaged in a
weary tramp from that city to Washington
via New Orleans. He is now somewhere in
the interior of Georgia. MI. Hindman has
worn out three pairs of shoes since he began
his tramp.
The basement of the Interior Depart-
ment at Washington is overrun with rats,
who come out in battaliOns as soon as the
CLOCK strikes four, when the clerks quit
work. They traverse all the passages and
open rooms in search of remnant of lunch
eous, and are very bold.
"A man IN Craig county, Virginia, has
three children whose names are, respective
y, Jailey Green Bird Maylower Brickey,
Oregon Texas GeOrgianna Brickey and Mo-
lima Truxilla Eutaw Sebilla Tootater
Brickey. The names are declared to be so
entered in the family Bible.
A man and his dog were walking on the
railroad track, near Sp~ringvale, Me-, last
week. and, when q train approached, the
man stepped from the track, but the dog
did not; The engine struck the dog and
knocked him against the man with such
force as to render him insensible for a time.
An Emperor William clockn has been
made in Berlin. The case represents the
Old Emperors palace. When the hour
strikes the palace guard marches past, and
William |, with his first great-grandsOn,
now the little Crown Prince. appears at the
historic corner window where he So often
showed himself to his people.
For blandness of expression the foIlowing
advertisement, taken from a London paper
wants a good deal of beating: II, Eman-
uel Emanuel, sole surviving partner of the
hrm OF E.& +. Emanuel. gOldsmiths. etc,
peg TO inform my customers and friends
tnat the announcement in a London paper
OF my death and burial is premature
There is a water-wheeli in use at Bowdoin-
ham, Me-. which is probably the only one
OF Its kind in existence. tits twenty-seven
feet IN diameter, with a foot of its rim out
of water at high tide; the spokes are wide
and set diagonally, like the vanes of a
Windmill. 1t turns eighteen hours of the
day by tide power, running one way with
the flow. the other with the ebb. With one
foot fall of the tide this wheel gives about
fifty horsepower.
A young man of Hawkinsville. Ga. and
his best grip quarreled some daysago, and
renamed at outs with each other until
the young man relented and began to de-
wise some plan to make up." He finally
decided to try the effects of a flag of truce.
and cutting a delicate piece of Whit rib
bon INTO the shape of q miniature flag. he
sealed 1T in a sweetly-perfumed~ envelope
and forwarded it to his fair enemy. 1t had
the desired effect, and she at once gave him
permission to cross the line and be happy
again.
In n graveyard in Griffin, Ca, are ten
graves In one plot, containing the bodies of
of that town. The slabs are so arranged
that the first is that over the first wife:
then comes that over the first little chlld's
grave. Then the second wife and the Sec
ond child follow. The whole series. there
fore, reads as follows: My wife Marie,
aged twenty-five. Little Simeon. NV wife
Jane, aged thirty-one. Little Georgia. My