The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-14
OUT OF TEE ORDINARY.

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London has over ZOO 900 houses inside its
city limits.
The lawyers get s65S, 600 OF the 1923. 78s
paid by the city of New Orleans to the
Myra CLARK Gaines estate.
Four-ffths of the engines now working
In the world have been constructed during
the last twenty-five years.
There have been twenty seven cases OF
insanity In the Bavarian royal family dur
ing the last one hundred years.
Chinese paper currency is in red. white
and yellow. with gilt lettering and gor
geous little hand-drawn devices.
John Is said TO have written the gospel
which bears his name at sixty. and the
Book OF Revelations at ninety-hye.
The baby clothes made by Mrs John
Adams TOR her son, John Quincy Adams,
WILL DO exhibited at the worlds fair.
Louisiana las named in honor of Louis
XIV, OF France, and was formerly applied
10 the French possessions In the Mississippi
valley.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the women OF
England earn their own living. There are
nearly $50 female blacksmiths in that
country.
AS rule. married men live longer than
bachelors; yet out of every one thousand
persons in England moro than six hundred
are unmarried.
Portsmouth, N. H.. bears tho proud dis
tinction as the place where the first news-
paper was established in this country.
This was in 1856.
Glass ty De is now used for printing. The
glass 10 OF the malleable kind. and the type
Is said to make clearer work and last long
er than that made from metal
One of the natural curiosities of Asia is
the Great Salt Desert of Persia. 1t is
many miles in extent. and is a solid IN
a IN A
Nearly ell the small silver coins of Cuba
have holes in them. The holes serve TO
keep the coins In that country. as they do
not affect their changeable value there.
The little town of Cumberland in Rhode
Island boasts of Westinghouse which
was built In TAO. The late President Car
fields mother wOrshiped in 1t In her youth.
If the dead OF London were each al
lowed grave 2X6 feet, with . very thin
wall of earth between. each year her so, 900
corpses would fill cemetery of about
twenty-three acres.
A New Yorker has made q clock from
1000 pieces of wood, comprising over three
has had sailors bringing him rare woods
from every quarter OF the globe.
AS An indication of the thrift among the
WORKING classes of France il Is stated that
there are now six thousand depositors in
the French savings banks with an accum-
When seeds are at their best and the con.
ditions for termination good. 1t Is surprIs-
Ing how long q way little weight will 90.
As many as five thousand plants have been
obtained from a, single ounce of onion seed.
King Malietoa, of Samoa, is not paid his
salary ISIS a week. with regularity enough
to keep him in easy financial condition. so
he has been having his wives do washing
tor the well-to-dO white residents of Apia.
At one time ladies' were allowed to wan
der all over the House of Commons, ex-
cept III the actual chamber Itself but now
adays the libraries and tea.roOms are
closed to them while tho Speaker is in the
chair.
There are seven brothers and sisters in
New London. Conn, whose combined ages
are 512 years. Their family name is CONF
stock. and their Christian names are Emily.
Orlando. Cordelia. John. Frank, Ezra and
Stephen. fsgsY srnk = 81
When Jumbo was dissected pint and q
half of gold, silver, copper and bronze coins
were found in his stomach. In the lot there
were coins of three Kingdoms. two repub-
lies. i've dukedome. two prin cipalities and
one dependency.
DR.. Colin, q French army surgeon, has
been studying the effect of regular march
ing upon soldiers. and he asserts that the
regularity of the step causes q shock to the
brain and the bones which willOften break
down the strongest men.
I'D Malta narOOr Is q large dock inclOsed
with gates, In which can be seen several
hundred turtles. all marked with the name
of the owner. They are thus marked when
young and placed there. and can be tax en-
out at will by the owner. ed sst
1t is only q little over forty years ago
that q Russian farmer began the, cultiya-
ton of the sunfiower in order to extract
oil from the seeds. Now 100000 acres In
Russia are in suntiowers. and the riginal
founder OF the industry is q millionalre.
Sir Edmund du Cane, q student of crime.
says there were IS. $50 "habItual criminals
known TO the London police in 1864, and
that in 1890 the numbe had fallen to 81 600.
He scouts the idea that crime would cease
If drunkenness were swept away If any
social habit moro than another leads to
crime" he says, 1T Is that of obetting and
gambling, which derive their attraction
from the hope of getting rich without
work."