The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Frances production and consumption of
milk amount every year to 1850, 600, 600
gallons, which is three times in excess of
the production of wine.
The British consul at Nlsh, in Servia, says
that at Avala. near Belgrade. a ~green-col,
ored mineral has been discovered. and
called avalite, which, it is thought, may be-
come a substitute for arsenic.
The range of the Mannlicher rife was
proved again in a startling manner the
other day when an Austrian soldier was
killed by one at target practice at a reputed
range of over two miles and q half.
A mole catcher put a mole's strength to
the test before several people. The animal
was attached by its tail to q toy cart. AL
though its weight was only two and three
quarter ounces, it drew sixteen pounds. .
Enough rain has fallen in Pennsylvania
miles square and thirty-five feet deep.
Nearly 1000, 900. 900 tons of water deluged
the mountain plateaus of the State during
the three DAYS of the Johnstown flood.
James e. Holway, of ~Skowhegan. Me-. is
patiently working on a clock which will be
something of a marvel when completed.
1t will be six feet high, III five sections, and
modelled after ST. Peters, at Rome. Among
its ornaments and mechanism will be forty
movable images.
Italians are not very strong in domestic
ties. Of 43. 600 Italians that landed in Castle
Iva AtON 1CoAs cIfVOO WIN htlOc AN
emigration of females from Italy is smaller
than from any other country, averaging but
IL per cent. of the whole number who
landed. From Germany the percentage is
40; from Ireland. As.
Within the last few weeks more than
$4,000 acres nave been bought in the Ba-
hamas by British aud American capitalists,
to be devoted to raising sisal hemp. The
Bahamas had for some time lost all their
hQmu vvOu1H Aouriah fbara hoc who11vy
changed their prospects.
Denmark for twenty-five years past has
spent $780, 900 yearly in the maintenance of
dairy schools. AS q result of the training
the butter-makers have received at this
school the butter of the country has so
much improved in quality that within
twenty years Deninark's exports of butter
have increased from 50, 100, 600 to Sl3, 0O0, 900
per annum.
A man named Jones. in Kansas. who is
widely known as Buffalo" Jones. has de-
voted twenty years to the study and rear
ing of buffalo calves, and has an immense
range in Utah and one in Kansas, from
which he supplies parks and private indi-
viduals. He says that his large, fine brutes
are free from the detected appearance noted
in circus animals.
Warren Humes,- the oldest guide and the
most experienced hunter in the Adiron-
dacks. makes an estimate that will be in
teresting to all sportsmcn. He claims that
there are to-day no less than $4,000 deer and
5000 bears in those regions. Mr.. Humes has
hunted there for the past forty-five years.
n during that time has killed over 1900
deer and more than 200 bears.
j.. c. Ruff, Gloucester, Mass, has four
tomato vines trelliscd on his premises.
which have reached a height of nine feet
| four inches, and are still growing. There
are over one hundred green tom atOes grow
ing on the vines. He has also q pea vine
which has grown to ten and one-half feet
in height, from which s~eventy-seven pods,
each pod containing seven peas, have been
picked.
Very few people know how many differ
ent ways there are of changing a quarter of
a dollar. According to a Philadelphia man.
who had more leisure than business on his
hands. there are 3l5 ways of changing that
piece of money. The pieces used are the
Scent piece. 2-cent piece and the 1-cent
using the same coin twice would require
1883 l-cent pieces. GA tw0s, 37S threes, 1874
fives, 50 tens aud Q twenties, making 1854
pieces, worth S53.75.
The value to Scotland of the opportunities
for sports is very large. The deer forests,
of which there are 100, covering 1000 square
miles of land useless for agriculture, rent
for f100.O0O annually. Twelve Thousand
five hundred pounds of this goes to the
local taxes. If any forest fails to be
rented, the whole neighborhood feels it
greatly in the diminished amount of money
expended there. The grouse moors rent
for f44o.00o. and Day $4,000 in taxes. Most