The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

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teachers equally without regard 10 sex.
In England. at the present time. the ratio
OF public houses is one to every two hun.
dred of the population.
In almost every school of Japan it is tho
custom one day in the autumn to take the
pupils out ia bbit-huDting.
The Berlin University is the third largest
in the world. Paris. with 9.2l5 students,
and Vienna. with 6.22O. are larger.
Auctioneers' fees in England aud in the
United States are paid by the seller. In
France and Holland the purchaser pays
them.
A writer in tho Boston Transcript has
coo souls against q population in hell of
175. 000, 00O, 900.
1t is interesting to note that of the $685.
600 divorces granted In the United States
during the last twenty years $4,000 were
granted at the request of wives.
The c~ostliest poeket-knite made Is sold
for sos. Its handle Is of solid gold. and 1t
contains two small blades only, q nail file
and O miniature pair of scissors.
There is q whirlpool in the Santa Fe river.
three miles. northwest OF High Springs.
Fla. into which 1000 feet of line has been
lowered without finding bottom.
Cameron, No.. has q SIPS damage suit,
value of a mule killed on the Fourth Of
July by being hit by o skyrOcket.
The cocoanut trees of Florida arc due to
nuts washed ashore from q wrecked vessel
sixteen years ago. Now the State furnishes
nearly all the cOcoanuts used In the United
States.
Surgical operations are very successful in
japan. and the healing process is rapid. ow-
ing probably to the abstinence of the peO-
plo from alcohol and their not being flesh.
caters.
Among the instrumental resources of the
IT.
eter valued at $4,000. The ordinations on
the scale are so fine that q magnifying
glass is required to read them.
If you wish to take the copceit out of q
peacock pull out bis tail feathers. and as
soon as he finds the glory Of his lumag
dued and ashamed looking bird that ever
walked the earth.
Ar acid is now mixed with sawdust, and
the whole mass nodded into blocks or any
other form. resulting in . fine material for
building purposes. The blocks assume ex-
cally DOn-combustible.
1t has been over 1900 years since the rule
was adopted which makes Easter the first
Sunday after the first full moon after the
sun crosses the line. By this arrangement
Of things Easter may come as early as
March % or as late as April %.
In Peru the cotton plant rises to the dis
tinctIon of u tree, instead of the compare
lively ~diminutive shrub which grows in
this country. The tree commences bearing
when it 10 two years old. and 1t continues
to bear for forty or fifty years.
The Japanese are unsusceptible to scarlet
fever. and smallpox. which was at one
time rife among them. has been checked
and almost exterminated by voluntary vac
cination. The mortality of Toxic, o vast
city which covers ono hundred square
miles of ground, is only twenty per thou
sand
The oldest striking clock in England is
one made at Glastonbury Abbey by Peter
LightfOOt, one of the resident monks, in
1925. and removed in ElIzabeth's reign from
Canterbury to Wells Cathedral. 1t was
exhibited at the South KensinRt0n Muse:
um. having Deen lent by the Dean and
Chapter of Wells.
If every human being on the American
continent were to be taken out or exist
ence." said the late Prof. Asa Gray. and
the whole work OF his hands were cleared
away. so that no trace remained, subse-
auent historians could prove that the eau
casian race existed upon IL by the flow ers
that would be found growing there"
Nearly all of the Partisan funerals are
managed by a syndicate OF undertakers.
There are ten classes of funerals. six of
which are remunerative. The hrst six
range in cost from $4,000 to ESQ. An eighth
class funeral costs about Il; the ninth, 6s,
and the tenth Is free. The funerals direct
ed by this company average 673 q week.
1t Is noted by a n financial journal
as one of the causes of the failure of so
many Australian banks that many of them
hold such vast quantities of land that when
q pinch comes they are unable to realize,
and are comrelled to step payment In
New South Wales twelve banks apd finan-
cial syndjcates own about 49, 600, 600 acres
of land. one institution alone owning s, 50O.-
600 acres.
The imperial eagle. largest of the species
known, flies to q height from ten to fifteen
thousand feet. 1t IS q native of South
America, and its habitat is among the lofty
mountains of that country. Its power of
flying to high attitudes is only exceeded by
the condor of the Andes. which 10 said to
have attained the height of six miles. or
within one mile of the greatest height ever
attained by q balloon.