The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-08
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


The pendulum was first attached to tho
clock In lG56 by Huygner.
It is said that more money Is spent for
eggs than for flour in the United States.
1t takes eight times the strength to 60 up
stairs that is required for the same distance
on q level.
There are now 1874 newspapers pub
lshed in the United States, OF which l,1o9
are dailies.
The pressure of the atmosphere on the
man of average stature is about fifteen
tons. yet 1t is not felt.
At Bombay all the Hindoo s~entries salute
any passing black cats. thinking 1t posi-
bly, the soul of an English oi1cer.
According to the report Of the Depart
ment of Health for 1890 there are 6S.2ll
females arning their livelihood In Chicago.
In a court in Mississippi an important
case was interrupted because one of the
jurors caught the mumps, and gave 1t to
the other eleven.
originally made to place between tissue
cloth of gold or silver. to prevent its fray
ing or furnishing when folded.
The gastronomic law that oysters should
not be eaten in the months without an r in
them was laid down by a person named
Butler nearly three hundred years ago.
1t is said that the art of printing took it's
.0AA oCAh0
flor the amusement of childrenl from let
ters carved on the bark of a beech tree.
German railway directors are expert
mentlng with rails made of paper. which
are said 10 be as superior to steel rails as
paper car wheels are to those made OF iron.
The cultivation of the sunfower is con-
sidered TO be very profitable In Russia. An
acre Yields on an average 1850 pounds,
making an income for the farmer of $40 an
acre.
Food costs little more here than in En-
rope. 1t has been ascertainec that tho
cost per family for food IN the United
States is S243.65 O year., against S222.52 In
Europe.
A rare relic of aboriginal life. the skull Of
an animal with O flint arrowhead imbed-
ded in the frontal bone, has been exhumed
ON the farm of Edward Albin, south Of
Springfield. o.
The sea Is infinitely more productive
than the land. 1t is estimated that an acre
of good fishing will yield more food In q
week than an acre Of tho best land will
yield in q year.
1t is said that In Russia children are not
allowed to 20 from home to school unless
supplied with passports for that purpose.
another are obliged to have passports.
A woman in Blaine. Me-, only twenty
eight years old. has q chest measurement
of siXty-tive inches: waist. sixty-one
inches, and she weighs 416 pounda. She 10
unable to stand more than q minute or two.
1t is not generally known that an oran &c
hit in the exact center by q rife ball will
vanish OF once from sight. Such. however.
Is the fact. and shooting 1t through the CEN
ter scatters IL in such intnitesimal pieces
that it is at once lost to sight
A Berlin shoemaker has invented an
artificial stone sole for footwear. 1t 10 made
of q solution of some kind of patent ce-
ment and pure white quartz sand. A pair
of such soles will last for years on any
pavement, and are said to be elastic and
easy on the feet.
The first trumpet was q sea shell. and
was used by very old nations. Trumpets
were well known in the days when Homer
lived, and u Hebrew feast of trumpots 10
spoken of in the Bible nearly 1900 Is. Z.
Alexander the Great is SAID TO have used q
speaking trumpet Sc5 b. G.
Pliny tells of an Arabian giant Gabara,
nine feet nine inches. the tallest man in the
days of Claudius. John Middleton, born
at Hale. in Lancashire. in the time Of James
/. was nine feet three inches in height. His
hand was seventeen inches Ions and eight
and one-half inches broad.
An old restaurant bill, printed in Rich
mOnd, Va, in January, 1864, gives the war
time prices in confederate money: Soup,
S1.50; chickens, $3.50; roast bect. SO; ham
and eggs. 50; raw oysters. 81: coffee. 81;
bread and butter, Sl.50; a bottle of cham-
payne, $50; q drink of rye whisky, 80; q bot
tie OF ale. Sl2. and q cignr. g.