The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The province of La Plata. in the Argen-
tine Republic, has population of 49, 3S
and a debt of S70,0O0,000.
A San Francisco jeweler has just received
five years ago. The purchaser was honest
but he had bad luck.
Kansas has built school houses at the
rate of one for every day in the year for
the past four years, and has Isl more to
spare for good account.
A new varnish has just been brought out
in England. 1t is called 'ardenbrits," and
is said to be proof against water, steam,
smoke, sea air and sea water.
A Cleveland man has just married again
the woman from whom he was divorced
ten years ago. Meantime he had married a
second wife and became widOwer
In a st. Louis hospital a man had a dream
which covered 10000 miles of travel and six
months time. yet he was only minute and
half covering the whole distance.
A horse over nineteen hands high, and
weighing $500 pounds, was shipped from
MyerstOwn, PENN, recently. The pur-
chaser will put the animal on exhibition.
Some years age John Mcclure took up a
piece of cactus land in Los Angeles
Last spring he refused S150,OO0 for the
place.
Chan Chu Sing, a converted Chinaman,
has been licensed as a local preacher in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and will en-
gage in mission work among his own peO-
pie In Los Angeles, Cal.
A girl OF fifteen at Remove, Pa, became
insane Immediately after drinking glass
of ice water a few days ago, and died soon
after. The doctor attributed the result to
the effect of the ice water on her brain.
A Bombay newspaper announces two
marriages, in one case the bride being
aged two years and in the other fifteen
months, while the bridegroom was thirty.
This is the system which Pundita Ramabai
is struggling against.
Professor Flower exhibited at Lambeth
recently the shell of tortoise which had
lived $50 years, outstaying eight archbish-
ops: At Peterborough there are the re-
mains of another tortoise which, when it
died, was $50 years Old
The unusual sight of a rat up tree and
several birds after it was seen in Xenia
doOryard recently. The birds chased the
rat up a high limb, from where 1T sprang
upon the roof of the house and was lost
from the sight of those watching.
The tallest chimney in this country is
ny, at Kearney. near Newark, n. j. 1t is
circular shaft 335 feet high and 2Sl2 feet in
diameter at the base. This chimney cost
$4,000, and contains 6,697. 900 bricks.
The assembly-rOom in the new Madison
square building, in New York, is to have
seating capacity for 12OOO and will be SO
arranged that 5000 of the seats can be
speedily removed, Transforming the room
into great amphitheater for circuses or
other shows.
There is a gentleman living near Quit
man, Brooks county, Georgia, who never
ate morsel of bread or meat in his life.
He subsists principally on fruits and pota-
toes He weighs nearly 200, and was
never sick longer than an hour in his life
He drinks a gallon of milk day.
An ingenious device for preventing the
odOr of cooking from escaping into room
has been patented. The invention is of the
of hood with folded sides or leaves which
covers the sides of the stove. The odOr
passes into the hood and is carried directly
into the chimney.
The practice of cremation is spreading
rapidly in Italy. In forty-two commune
ties it has been adopted to the exclusion of
every other method of dsposing of dead
human bodies In twenty -one commune
ties furnaces have been in operation for
several years In nineteen communities the
authorities are trying to raise money for
the erection of crematories.
A German patent has been granted to
Nj. Ladewigg FOR much-needed article-a
fire and waterproof paper. 1t is made by
mixing twenty-five parts of asbestos with
twenty five or thirty parts of aluminium
sulphate, molstening with zinc chloride,
and, after washing, treating the pulp with
a solution of one part OF resin soap and
eight to ten parts of aluminium sulphate.
Paper is then produced as with ordinary
pulp.
plumbago mine has been discovered in
Someryille. twelve miles west of Augusta,
Me. Specimens have been analysed, and