The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There are said to be 1880 0 famllles In
London living in single rooms.
To be perfectly. proportional e man
should weigh twenty-eiRht pounds LOT eV-
cry foot of bis height.
On an average there are LOG boys born TO
every one hundred girls, but more boys Ole
in infancy than girls.
1t is estimated that about thirty thou
sand horses were Ousted from street.car
service last year by electricity.
In making gold threads for embroidery,
1t has been found that six ounces of gold
can be drawn into two hundred miles OF
wire.
Mrs. Annie Roush. who died in Meigs
county. Ohio. q few days ago. was two
years older han the government or the
United States.
The smallest spots that we can see on the
moon with the unaIded eye occupy about
one.twenty.fourth of Its visible area, l.. g..
some $780, 900 square miles.
The biggest university in the world is at
Cairo. Egypt-a country which is not men
toned ut all in the statIstics-and 1t has
eleven thousand students.
At the present time the Shah of Persia Is
the owner of q Shetland pony which Is but
twelve inches high. This pampered pct of
royalty wears gold shoes worth f3 each.
In 1870 the London school board began
their work with not o single school under
thOtA y
schools. affording accommodation for 42s,-
600 children.
The great equinoctisl tide called the
masoaret. which drivesa solid wall of water
up the Seine and which 10 one of the great
seaside spectacles of France, was this year
the greatest on record.
Blood travels from the heart through the
arteries ordinarily. at the rate of about
twelve inches per second; its speed through
the capillaries is at the rate of three one
hundredths of an inch per second.
Flatholme, an island in the British chan
mel. is only q mile and q half in oIrcumfer-
ence, but, consisting mostly of rich pasture
land, supports q farm house. besides the
lighthouse. with q revolving light loo feet
alb owe the sea.
1t is not a new fact. but yet O remarkable
one. that il a fruit tree. apple, pear or
cherry. be stripped entirely of it's bark in
the second week in June. a new surface
bark will Immediately take the place of
the older one.
Only two congregation of the Armenian
Church are in this cOnntry-one at Worces-
ter. Mass, and the other at Hoboken. n. j.
at Worcester grew out of what WAS
perhaps the earliest immigration of Ar
menians to America.
1t is computed that If the traffic of the
city of London were to be dispatched by q
procession of trains. each with the engine
touching the preceding guards van. as far
as Liverpool and back. the first to return
TO Eusron would find 2l4.OO o persons wait
Ing to start.
1t is sometimes difficult to get grass to
grow under trees on the avn on account
of the dense ehade. The common periwin-
kle and Japanese honeysuckle will, how
ever, make good substitutes for grass In
such places, and may be started without
any trouble.
A person one year old may expect to live
fhfrfu nin pnnra N Ravs IF tan vnoro fEep
one; of twenty. forty-one; of thirty years.
thirty-four longer; of forty years. twenty
eight; of fifty. twenty-one; of sixty years,
fourteen more; of seventy years. nine; of
eighty years, four.
There are abont lOO,o oo islands. large and
country alone has $500 around it's .coasts.
there are G65 in the bay of Rio de Janeiro.
$1,000 between Madagascar and India a
some 1900 oil the eastern coast of Aus
tralia, between its mainland and New
Guinea.
The sevres vase, siycn by Louis XIV! to
TIppoo Sahib. was sold il London in 1876
for a sum equal to 1925 in American COR
rency. The vase Is very thin. u~ra-sbaped
and only eight inches high. The gold ex.
changed at the purchase price of this relic
weighed upward of two thousand times as
much as the vase itself.
The bicycle has been introduced into
Central Africa. Two Engiishmen arrived
at TabOra o few weeks ago with two of the
latest improved bicycles. They had trav-
eled a large part of the way from the coast.
more than three hundred miles. on the
machines. and they soy they worked finely
along the well-tr0dden native paths.
T~Tajan's Wall is a rampant made of
earth and about thirty-tive or forty miles
long. extending from Rassova. just at the
big bend of the Danube to the shores of the
Black sea. Though only an earthwork. it
is q most formidable line of defense. Even
now, eighteen centuries after its construc-
ton. it is from eight TO ten feet in height,
with a clear-cut fosse In front of it.