The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-25
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The Elffel tower 10 eight inches shorter
in winter than In summer.
Performances at the ancient Greek thea
ters began at z o'clock In the morning. and
lasted often fully twelve hours.
AMexlcan street car can be hired for per-
sonal use for $3.50 q day, with . right to
stop ct any one place for two hOnrs.
Paper teeth are now manufactured by q
Iubeck dentist. One set has been in use
thirteen years and 10 as good as ever.
Tho last of the Mohawks still lives In
Schenectady, n. Y. He Is James Hartley,
O giant in stature. He peddles roots and
herbs.
According to the satisfies of the Inter-
state-commerce Commission a railway pas
enger stands one chance in 10, SO, 1853 to be
killed while travelling.
Artificial legs and arms were in use in
Egypt as early as b. G. 700. They were
made by the priests. who were tho pbyei.
clans of that early time.
An attempt with electric o~mnibuses is to
be made on Liverpool street, III London.
The cost is estimated at 3 pence q mile,
against S pence for horse power. >.
The Coursnt mas been published in Hart.
ford. Conn.,. since Got. %. 1894. and is the
Oldest newspaper in the United States of
continuous publication In the same town
and ander the same name.
1t is asserted that waterproof sheets of
paper, gummed and automatically SOM
pressed, make o material as durable as
leather for the soles of shoes. It also
makes serviceable horseshoes.
An Intoxicated person, it Is said. IL such
ararity. at Gaylord. Kan., that when one Is
arrested SO much confederation ia shown
for him as re release him from the dilapi.
dated jail for fear Of his taking cold.
1t is estimated that England's wheat
crop for this wear Is about 81, 1000, 600 bush.
haIN mr. laaa than w hrahA1. g. ---l
habitant. She must buy at least $50, 600, 600
bushels more from some outside source.
Our boldest brid ge-jumpers were outd one
by O Sam Patch Of the middle ages. the
Austrian Knight Harras. who survived q
leaf from the top or q cliff to the valley of
che Zohoppan river. o vertical distance of
400 feet.
In the islands of New Britain a man
must not speak to his mother-in-lsw. Not
only is speech forbidden to his relative. but
she must be avoided. and If by any chance
the LADY Is met the son-in-law must hide
himself or cover his face. Suicide of both
parties 10 the outcome If the rule Is broken.
A Roman has offered King Humbert q
novel instrument of warfare. This is q
projectile which. on being shot from q can
non aud striking an object, will produce n
luminous disc of 100. o00-candio power, and
thereby expose TO view an enemy's position
by night at q distance of from three to four
miles.
Father Hennepin. the missionary. dis
covered coal in 1869 In what is now OTTAWA
Ill. This appears to be the first record of
the finding of coal in America. but il was
not mined until nearly a century and q half
later. In 1918 five ark loads of finty coal
were fioated down the Lehigh river and
sold for S21 per tor.
Ii has been left to o resident of North
Carolina to- discover the most novel way to
endow a college. His proposition is to IN
sure the lives of fifty men, between the
ages of forty and fifty, for slO.O 600 each, and
then. as the policies are collected, convert
them into o fund for the college in oues-
ton. That would mean q clear $500, 600.
By the process of breeding at Cornell the
Jerseys in the herd are Is per cent. larger
than the average New England JERSEYS,
while tho ATTEMPT with Holsteins has been
to breed for smaller size. Some Holsteins
that weigh about 1.200 pounds. Tho 5000
pounds of milk grade Jerseys weigh about
800 pounds each.
As soon as the new military laws shall
have come into tull effect the German
army will comprise 5000. 900 men; the
French. 4. $50. 000: the Russian. 1900. coo. the
Italian, 2,zS6. GOO; the Austrian. 1900. 600;
the Swiss. $4,000 and the Belgian. 25S. 600.
Altogether Europe will be able TO dispose
of not less than %. O0O,O0O soldiers, or
5000, 900 more than she he'd in 1869.
One of the famous white oaks of New
jersey and in the Presbyterian Church
yard at Basklng Ridge. 1t measures four
teen feet four inches in circumference at
five feet high. while the branches shade q
circle of lis feet in diameter. 1t has been
a famous tree for more than q century, and
il was. no doubt. o noble specimen In 1880.
when q log church was built on the ground
where the present one now stands.