The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-06
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

a goose drive Is talked OF In WILLOWS,
Cal, where the web-fOOted bipeds have be-
come great nuisance by their strict atten-
ton to grain and other crops.
A trainer of troupe of cats hired band
to play every day before the cats for
month before the first performance, so that
the nervous creatures would be accustomed
to noise.
A tame crow, belonging to q farmer near
Ridgeway, Ont. has been taught to distn-
guish cOlOrs. and will pick out from a pile
of articles of various cOlOrs one of any color
asked for.
A number of plants have been discovered
i'm the Philippine islands, whose flowers are
almost Il yard Ill diameter, the petals five
in number, being oval and of a creamy
white color.
MOcking- birds in California are dissi-
pated set of OrnithOlOgical drunkards. They
feed on the berries that grow on the Chi
nese umbrella tree, and this sort of food
makes them tipsy.
st. SimOn'sisland Georgia, holds the cham
pIonship in one particular at least Some
chap has stolen a whole house. eighteen by
thirty-six feet, and moved it off without
the owner finding it out
A grizzly bear that weighed LOO pounds
Territory, a short time ago: One hundred
and nine shots were fired from nine rifles
before the brute was killed.
The foundations of n church in San Lins,
CAL, have been shifted seven inches by the
roots of eucalyptus and the latter are
perfect giants, their tops reaching thirty
feet above the church's steeple.
A lady living near Armstrong, Fla. while
dressing her Christmas chickens, took a
hard egg, from one hen. Some one near by
remarked: You'll be sure of one sound
egg" But to the surprise of the family,
when it was broken it was found to be
spoiled.
A wOodchopper in Pike county, Pennsyl-
vania met his death in a singular manner.
stumbled and fell, his head lodging in the
cleft of the log In trying to eXtricate
himself the iron wedge became displaced,
and he was SO badly injured that death en-
sued
A little negro boy opened an oyster the
inside little mullet. The fish was alive
and Hopping, and was lying cOntentedly by
the side of the occupant of the shell. How
it got there, and how long it had been there.
are two interesting questions.
On mountain in Alpine county, Califor-
MIA, during a thunderstorm, the lightning
struck a pine-tree, followed it down into
the ground, and Immediately there burst
forth brilliant fire, which has continued
to burn ever since. 1t is believed the light
ming ignited a bed of coal, which is now
feeding the flame.
Two young women of Sacramento went
huckleberrying near Bollinas, where they
were spending a few weeks, and a big
brown bear came into the patch and en-
deavored to monopolize it. One of the
girls had small rife, and finding that
either they or the bear must go, took care
full aim and put bullet through the brute's
brain.
big hawk swOoped down on one of Mrs.
Matte Earnests chickens, at Decatur Ca
Her twelve-year-Old boy Marcellus, heard
the squawks of the fowl and ran to the res
cue He grabbed the hawk, and the bird
sunk both talons in the little fellows arm;
but Marcellus was plucky, and held the
hawk until his mother came and cut Oft its
head with a Ratchet.
Colonel Gibbs, of San Antonio, Texas has
Just been relieved of bullet that he car
ried in his knee since early in the re-
bellion. About two months ago he hit his
and the intense pain that followed doctors
attributed to the ball. An. operation was,
therefore, performed, and the piece of lead
found firmly imbedded in the bone.
At citrus fair in Oroville, Cal. there
were several mammoth exhibits of oranges.
covered with thousands of oranges, a. grand
monument on which were displayed 10000
samples of the fruit, and huge basket in
which Were piled up 12,15O oranges. An
other exhibit was Japanese pagOda, in
which nearly 5000 oranges and lemons were
displayed.
A Georgia newspaper wants the Smith
sOnian Institution to send a man down
there to examine a petrified vertebra re-
Gently found in DOugherty county by
negro school-teacher while digging a well.
The bone is described as six and One-half
inches in diameter and nine inches long,
and the excited editor thinks it must have
belonged to an animal as large as a meet
ing house.
prominent citizen of Fresno, Cal, has
started 'pOssum farm. He has procured
car load of the animals from Missouri. The
ranch is to be fenced with an Old-fashiOHed
rail fence, covered with guard wire. and
each recess of the fence is to be supplied
with hollow log. He is going to plant
twenty acres of persimmons and the same
number of acres of black haws, and his
sweet potatoe patch will be the largest in
Fresno county.
The Norwegian State Antiquarian Mica
laysen has completed the excavation of the
ruins of an ancient monastery on the west
coast of Norway. The assembly room,
sacristy and refectory have been un-
covered, and the covered corridor running
along the courtyard. The roof of the as
sembly hall seems to have been supported
by huge central pillar. All the details of
the architecture show rich and advanced
Romanesque style, and the interior arrange
ments are generally identical with those