The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-26
OUT OF I'LL ORDINARY.

The total school enrolment for the
United States last year was l4,2OO,OO
The oldest building in the world 10 the
Tower of London. 1t antedates Caesars
conquests.
If cork is sunk two hundred feet deep in
the ocean il will not rise again, on account
OF the pressure of the water.
In one hundred years five hundred dol
lars worth of pennies would only DO worth
$50 so quick does copper money wear
away.
Miles Darden. who was living in the State
of Tennessee in 1857, was the largest man
known to history. Clad In thin summer
clothes, he weighed l.03I pounds.
If there was but one potato in the world
a careful cultivator might produce lo.oo0.,,
0 1000 from il in ten years. and that would
supply the world with seed again.
Prior to 1866 the horses of England were
never shod. William the COnaueror being
the pereOn who is given the credit OF intro
ducing horseshOeing into the British isles.
Railway managers of Holland have found
1t impossible to get men TO Work the
switches who can be depended upOn to let
liquor alone, and have therefore substituted
women.
A recent real-estate deal in Chicago set
the citizens of that town Attacking. email
lot, 4Ox20 feet, sold for $500, 000. At this rate
m acre of land In that neighborho0d would
cost nearly 81 900, 600.
Labrador, a country which we always
associate with arctic snow-drifts, iceberRs,
ETC.. has nine hundred species of towering
plants, fifty nine ferns and over $50 species
of MOSES and lichens.
Watch crystals are made by blowing q
sphere OF glass about one yard In diameter,
after which the discs are cnt from 1t by
means Of q pair of cOmpasses having q dl8-
mond at the extremity of one leg.
An Arizona paper announces the finding
nf a 1Al0.pnnnA nnuUof in the plannhaA
placers. Sonora. Mexico. This is said to be
the largest nugget of gold on record. The
percentage of puro gold was 81 fine.
recent estimate places the number of
women acting as postmistresses in the
United States at 6 1856, of which number 463
are IN Pennsylvania. and 400 IN Virginia.
North Carolina stands third with 322.
belgium now has 133, 600 voters; q house.
hold suffrage would raise the number to
9C0. COO: giving the suffrage to oil who can
read and write would raise it TO 1,l00, 600,
and universal suffrage would mean 1.500, 600
voters. sFf 'ysh n9t-lf
Gold was probably the first metal dis
covered and used. 1t was mined in Egypt
and we'll known in the eastern empire 1900
years b.. T.. 1t was doubtless known nnd
used in India many hundred years before
this period.
soft substances thrown into 1t. 1t 10 in
the great Colorado potato beetle belt, and
at the time of their migration thousands
of them strike the water and are converted
into solid stone.
They are fond of old things down IN Del
aware. A Sussex countysfarmer preserves
with piOus care and exhibits with pride an
ear OF corn grown upon Ills fathers farm
in ISIS, and another produced from the an
cestral acres in 1875.
A lock on the door of q house i'm Plym.
outh, England. on being taken to pieces for
repairs, was found to contain an inscrip-
tiOD stating that it was formerly on the
door of the chamber in st. Helena in which
Napoleon breathed hls last.
Some New York ladies were DESTROYS of
finding out whether the people who sang
In the streets made q good living. They
adopted a sufficient disguise. and, taking q
guitar. went forth 10 try their fortunes.
After singing and playing for IN hour aud
q half. they had collected $I.Sa
In some parts of Arabia the shieks of
certain tribes always have their own por-
traits tnttOod upon their backs. After
death the cuticle bearing tho portrait 10
carefully cut away and reverently carried
fropls place To place by the bereaved tribe.
These pictures will bring from SIS to 800 in
Paris and London.
One of the most expert money handlers
in the Treasury Department OF Washing.
ton 10 q woman. who has the remarkable
record of counting 1900 coins in q single
day. So delicate and sensitive Is her sense
of touch that even when counting At this
tremendous rate she detects q false coin
with uDerring instinct.