The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-19
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Teachers salaries in the United States
annually amount to more than S6O,OOO,OOO.
An inventor in Germany has made a
clock that he warrants will 60 to the year
9999 without winding.
The largest bay in the world is Hudson
bay, which measures $50 miles north and
south by 600 miles in width.
There are spiders no bigger than grain
of sand which spin thread go fine that IL
takes four thousand of them to equal in
magnitude q single hair.
DE-. Hinkle. of Americas. Ca. has q piece
of chinaware 191 y ears old. The date, 100,
is plainly stamped on the bottom and Its
only flaw is broken handle.
The COreans are the largest eaters known.
Their stOmachs are generally abnOrmsl In
size. and the one possessing the largest is
generally considered the richest.
Spanish milled dollar of 1913 was found
in the dirt under house. in West Paris.
Me. The coin was in excellent condition,
the design and lettering being very clear.
Lawrence, Kan, drug store window 10
Ornamenteh with two native leeches,
which measure a foot each in length. and
have, combined, q blood capacity of one
gallon.
swarm of bees got loose in q Michigan
Central smoking car near Saginaw. the
other day, and the profanity OF the Occu-
pants of the car Is said to have killed vege-
tation In that vicinity.
A 'berdash" was a name anciently given
IN England to a sort of neck dress, and the
person W no made or sold such neck dresses
was called q "berdasher," hence the pres
ent term "haberdasher"
New York city parrot has had over
twenty owners, and has scared each out of
his wits by screaming Fire" at an early
hour in the morning and never desisting
until the whole house was aroused.
Gold coin is shipped abroad in five-gal-
lon, IRON bound oak kegs. Each keg holds
ten bags and each bag cOntaine s., 000 so
that the value of keg is $4,000. Gold
from the other side usually comes in boxes.
1t Is said that an Atchison, Kan, woman
who never pays more than S. for bonnet
once refused to marry Tom Scott. the Penn
sylvania railroad magnate, who died sew
eral years ago worth several millions of
dollars
Kan. the other day which had lived for
twelve months on raw eggs and milk. A
year ago it ate some soft SOAP and after
that its stomach would never retain any
thing but the diet men toned.
The highest inhab place in the world
is the Buddhist monastery, Haine. in
Thibet. Asia. sixteen thousand feet above
the sea. Next to this comes Galena, n rail-
way station in Peru. 1885 feet. Leadville.
Col. has an elevation of 0.200 feet.
III tno Uerlnan custom Oh cllnklng glasses
before drinking the rims are apt to get
Clipped and the PARTICLES of glass to fall
into the cup. AT cOmmers recently in
Caesel a student swallowed a piece of glass
thus Clipped Oft and died In horrible tor
ture.
One of the largest nuggets of virgin gold
ever found In Ameri ca is in the possession
of Mr.. Alfred Berke. of ST. Louis. 1t came
| from an Arizona mine. and weighs trifie
more than thlrty-seven ounces. There is
q Ia oil inf hA
valued at 5000.
A cubic foot of aluminium weighs 157
pounds. A cubic foot of copper weighs 55S
| pounds. sheet of aluminium IL inches
| square and l inch thick weighs IA pounds.
| A bar of aluminium / inch square and II
inches thick will weigh liz pounds. A
| cubic inch of cast aluminium weighs .O92
| There is q tract in Levy county. Florida,
| in which three holes have been dug thirty
feet apart. and each excavation has laid
NAL. The diggers take 1t for granted that
| the bones all belong to the same creature,
| and are wondering what sort of beast il
was whose remains underlie the county.
The credit of having manufactured the
largest gun In existence Is claimed by the
| Krupp company. The gun. which is the
| property of the Russian government, is
| made of cast steel. weighs 235 tons and has
| q calib of thirteen and q half inches. and
| q barrel forty feet in length. 1t fires two
y
| $500.
Voting day in Japan presents some curl
| Gus sights. The voters have to don their
| best garments and proceed to the voting
counter. there to ballot without any parley-
| ing, as soon after 8 O'clock as possible.
| After casting their ballot they make q bow
to the assemblage present. in which their
| head nearly strikes the floor, and retire as
silently AS they came.
On the farm of Col w. B. Worsham, at
|
1t usually contains about eight feet of
water, but when the wind blows from the
north the well goes dry and remains IN
til a change of wind, when the water again
flows In and resumes Its normal height.
| This strange phenomenon has been OBJ
served for several months.
The Egyptians had very remarkable or
dinance to prevent persons from borrowing
lmprudently. An Egyptian was not per-
creditors in pledge the body of his father.
1t was deemed both an impiety and an in
fanny not TO redeem SO sacred pledge. A
person who died without dischargiDg that
duty was deprived of the customary honors
paid to the dead.
An officer of Somerset county, Maine.
while driving along highway ran over q
bears cub. Its mother, attracted by his
cubship's bowls. spranG from the bushes by
the side of the road She didn tstop to con-
slider ordinary difficulties but tried TO
climb into the officers carriage He didn't
care for her company. and. flashing his
horse, put out for civilization. The bear
pursued, nor W IS the race abandoned until
the man reached q house.
DIR. j. Brend0n Curgenven writes to the
London Lancet to say that for the last tw O
years he has treated scarlet fever patients
by Injunction of eucalyptus oils. in eombI-
nation with other essential oils and CAM
phOrs, with uniform success. shortenin 9
the duration of the fever aud enabling pa
tients TO rejoin their families in ten days.
He adds that most of the eucalyptus oil of
commerce does not possess the antiseptic
qualities that are absolutely necessary for