The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-29
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The site of the city Of Boston was sold in
1886 by John Blackstone for $50.
The Mohammedans. it is said, consider
silk unclean, because it is produced by a
worm.
The French War Office has provided for
the enrolment of between COCO and 7.COO
bicyclists in war.
In the Chicago postofice 100000 letters
are sorted. stamped and bagged In thirty
five minutes. by 217 men.
A merchant has been fined 100 marks at
Frankfort. Germany. for using a Bible
quotation to head an advertisement.
There are eighty thousand barmaids in
England whose hours average fourteen
daily tor a wage of 10 shillings per week.
Ducks fly at AN average rate of ninety
miles per hour. With q fair wind it Is be-
lieved that they can make $50 miles in the
same time.
A dIstin guished microscOpist says that
wool is a kind of hair. and that hair is
simply a species of plant rooted In the skin
of animals.
Bread must no: be cooked on certain days.
and on Holy Friday lin Brittany. or during
the night of All Saints. when the ghosts
would eat it.
One of the largest of Boston's retail dry
goods stores now has q gymnasium on the
top floor for the use OF the saleswOmen and
other female employees.
The only official in tho country whose
right to be addressed by the title Of honor
able ID constitutional. 1t Is stated. is the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Massachusetts,.
One hundred and fifty negroes were
lynched In this country during the past
year, and it is stated on good authority
that the number of lynchers is Oh the in
crease.
The largest child ever born, it is said.
was the son of Bates, the Kentucky
Giant" and his wife. the Nova Scotia
Giantess." This infant Hercules weighed
234 pounds.
A little more than a hundred years ago
the work of a man at common or unskilled
labor was worth but 80 cents n day, and
on this he supported his family in what
was no doubt regarded as entire respect
ability.
Cold iron has been rolled so thin that
eighteen thousand sheets. one upon an
other, would measure only an inch in
thickness. 1t is added that 1000 sheets of
tissue paper make but little more than an
inch In thickness.
The oldest hotel in Switzerland and
probably the Oldest III the world is the
Hotel of the Three Kings. at Basic. Among
its guests In 1926 were the Emperor Conrad
III, his son. Henry Ill and Rudolph, the
last King Of Burgundy.
There Is n tribe of South American saw
ages who live in tree-tops near Venezuela.
and their sin gular mode of existence gave
the the name to that province. The viii
lagos of theee people are built over the
bosom of a great fresh-water lake-to es-
cape from the mosquitoes.
The Russian likes no sleeping place so
we'll as the top of "a big soapstone stove in
his domicile. Crawling out Of this blister
ing bed in the morning he likes to take a
plunge III a cold stream, even If he has to
break the Ice to get into IL.
The hose used in sprinkling the plazas of
Paris is q queer coDtrivancc. 1t consists
of lengths of iron pipe. each length mounted
at the end on short nxles having two small
wheels. and the lengths Joined together 10y
short pieces of flexible hose.
Some of the Nenitinps-those who have
never been To the m~ainland-have never
seen a horse In all their lives. A Snowman
once brought one TO. "A fair and called il n
monster. and the factory hands paid Is
cents each to see the marvel.
An aged person who recently visited
Caribou, Me-. stated that he had written
and delivered 1.J00 ermons, and that it
took lust seven hundred of the manuscripts
10 I'LL a barrel. Drv measure is what the
unappreciative villagers called II.
1t is claimed by competent authorities
that there is n aving in the use of alumni
ium accoutrements Of nearly one pound in
the weight carried 10y infantry soldiers.
while in horse equipment and cavalry nc
coutrements the saving Is one pound aud
two ounces.
There ARC manv people now living who
will have only one birthday TO celebrate
tor nearly twelve years to come. This
strange circumstance 10 due to the fact