The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

About twice as much power is required 60
stop an express train as TO start one.
The United States collects $3.50 and
spends S4Gl every minute of the night and
day.
E.A Howard, of Belfast. Me-, has a clock
still keeping time that was wedding pres
emit to his grandfather In the fall of l765.
George Schweich, a merchant of Rich
! mond, Mo-. owns the table upon which the
Book Of Mormon was written. He values
1t at 5000.
DIR. CT. Rand of Washing on. possesses
q curious relic of the rebellion. tits piece
of hard tack" that formed a part of one of
the doctors rations just thirty years ago.
Sheriff West of Camden. n. j.. has seized
q cemetery lot owned by Jacob Stranger, on
execution issued at the suit of j. j. knight.
who secured Judgment against him for S22.
Doniphan. Kan, is said to be the only
town in the world that had river and two
railroads and lost them all at a swoop.
The shifting of the Missouri river channel
did it.
Three telegraph poles. two fifty feet and
one sixty feet, were cut from the same tree
at Harlan. Mich, q few days ago. The tree
forked about the stump. which was four
feet In diameter.
hotel has been built in Hamburg en-
tirely of compressed wood as hard as iron,
and rendered absolutely proof against both
FIRE and the attacks of insects by subsection
TO chemical processes.
Canada only lacks 237. 900 square miles
to be as large as the whole continent of
Europe; ii is thirty times as large as Great
Britain and Ireland, and is 100000 square
miles larger than the United States.
For fourteen years "Son of the Marshes
in Scotland has been trying to get a sight
of q wild animal in the act of guarding its
young in time of danger. He has trampeS
day after day for the purpose, but without
success.
An Arab test of q good horse is that he
must stand straight on his legs when
drinking out of q shallow pond. This is q
good test of conformation, and q little OBJ
servation will convince one that few horses
are built just right.
Physicians of this country are paid an
nually nearly one million five hundred
thousand dollars for medical examinations
for life insurance companies. Three CON-
panies pay over two hundred ana fifty
thousand dollars each.
There is post at the corner of the public
square in Paramount, No.. which gets a bolt
of lightning from nearly every thunder
storm that comes along. Three men. five
horses and twenty or thirty sheep have been
electrocuted at this spot.
The hours of the cabinet-making trade in
England have, since 1850, fallen from sixty
and seventy a week to fifty-six. In Lon
don the hours in the tobacco factories were,
in 1850 from fifty flour to fifty a week; they
are now from forty EIGHT TO fifty-four
sequoia tree has been found in Kings
river canon. in the Nevada mountain range,
whose original diameter exceeded forty
feet. but has been reduced by fire TO thirty
nine feet. THIS is larger than any of the
gigantic trees discovered In California by
seven feet.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedbug was quite common
in the armies of the world at least 40 years
before the Christian era. and that he was
ever a sea rover, as the fleets of that day
had their timbers stocked with this breed
Of nocturnal providers.
The method of purifying water invented
by Dr. William Anderson. and now en-
ployed at Antwerp with success. consists IN
passing the water through slowly-revolv-
ing cylinder containing metallic iron in
the form of scraps or filings. The esti-
mated cost of purifying 1000, 900 gallons in
this way is about Sl.50
Pomona Valley, California, expects to
have the biggest fig orchard in the world.
Over seven hundred acres will be planted
with seventy three Thousand trees, import
ed from Syria. The projectors expect TO
produce fruit equal to the best smyrna
varieties. At Vacaville q fruit-raiser re-
ports profit of S225 an acre from apricots
on an orchard of forty acrea
The origin of "windfall." in the sense of
good luck" dates from the time of Will
lam tha COnquerOr. 1t was then q criminal
offense to cut timber in the forests. Only
such conld be gathered as the wind had
blown down: hence, q heavy wind-storm
was hailed by the peasants as 80 much
good luck and from this comes the modern
application of the expression.
Nathaniel Witherell. who died at Glens
Falls, n. Y. always regarded himself as a
living oddity. He was the thirteenth
child of the seventh son of his parents, and
the youngest child in the family. Mrs.
Witherell, who still survives her husband,
occupies the same relative position In her
fathers family. being the thirteenth and
youngest child, and the seventh daughter
of her parents.
1t is the long-winged, not the red-legged.
grasshoDpers that are infesting the West
ern plains this year. The red egs are fond
of a gra,n-dlet; the long wings enjoy grass,
and are now devonring it in certain regions
of Colorado and New Mexico. 1t was the
red-legs that ravaged Kansas in 1874, when
they had travelled eastward from the Rocky
mountains. and 1t Is the red-legs that are
feared there now.
According to The Scientific American the
earliest Connecticut patent found on record
was granted in October, 11l7. TO Edward
Human, of Strat.Ord. for the exclusive
right and liberty of making molasses from
the stalks of Indian corn, IN Fairfield cOun-
~. for ten years, which grant ended with
the words: ALWAYS provided the said Hin
man make as good molasses and make it az
cheap. as comes from the West Indies"
curious example of natural ''inarch-
ing" of trees exists in Lawrence county,
Illinois. The trunks of two elm trees.
standing about twenty feet apart, have
met ct quite a distance above the ground,
where they blend into a symmetrical TRUNK
of large dimensions. The trunk is nearly
one hundred feet high and weil-developed,
and wagons can easily be driven through
the great triangle which forms the base.
Ivan Lvovitch Bakhmutoff arrived June
% In Moscow from Vladivostok, having
travelled all the way on foot. The distance
is 1000 versts. and it took him one year
and sixteen days TO make il. He had to
pass through the wilds of Siberia. and at
one time he spent forty days in succession
in the praires in and storms. He
wore out nineteen pairs of shoes on his
| long walk, and fed mostly on crackers, get
ting piece of meat very seldom, only
when he came to q large city.
Not Sentimental Admirer.
| Marie Jansen, in Kate Fields Paper