The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-16
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Abraham presented his sons wife with o
pair of earrings, the first of which there Is
historic mention.
In ls4l each individual consumed thirteen
ounces of tobacco: in 1891 he consumed
twenty-six ounces
All of the 81. 200, 900 royalty on Moody and
Sankey's gospel hymns has been devoted to
charitable purposes.
Awoman's chance to be married is cal
culated to be only ola ner cent. when she
reaches her fortieth year.
The largest sized railroad engines each
REQUIRE from ninety to one hundred gallons
OF oil yearly for fabrication.
A doctor in st. Augustine. Fla. owns the
oldest house in America. and lives in IL, too.
1t was built in 1850 By q Frenchman.
Single women live longer than single
men, while married women, on an average.
live two years longer than single ones.
The golden rod. which grows wild so
freely, is cultivated in Central Park, New
York, and persuaded to grow six feet high.
Few men have legs of equal length. and
to every one thousand men Ins the British
army only eighteen are over six feet IN
height.
public schools of Belgium. and ZOO 600 of the
100000 primary pupils have deposited over
100000 francs.
Suicide is less common among miners
than any other class of people, and self-de-
strnction. strangely enough, is most pre-
valent among soldiers.
The Pettijohn family, of Walla Walla,
WASH, consists OF ten people who are re-
puted to average 241 pounds in weight and
Six feet six inches in height.
The proportionate number of births in
Russia is nearly double that of France,
while the German population increases
faster than that of any other country.
In accordance with Chinese etiquette all
business OF state requiring the Emperor's
attention is transacted between the hours
Of o'clock and o o'clock in the morning.
The first Union flag was unfurled on Jan.
!. l776, over the camp at Cambridge. Mass.
1t had thirteen stripes of white and red,
and retained the British cross in one cor
ner.
A unique way OF celebrating the Column
bus centenary in Spain ia proposed by the
artists of Barcelona. who intend TO project
o colossal shadow of the navigator upon q
nelgbboring mountain peak.
One hundred and three thousand dollars
has been offered and refused for a Hebrew
|. Bible now in the library of the Vatican at
Rome. This makes the most valuable book
in the world, so far as dollars and cents 20.
If you wish to increase your chances of
life. marry, for, as a rule. married men live
longer than bachelors; yet We are told that
out of every one thousand persons in Eng
land more than six hundred arc unmarried.
Swedish women often work as farm la.
borers. those that rave babies carry them
on their backs in a leather bag, as sQuaws
carry their young. This plan permits the
motherl to use both hands ut her farm
work.
Atab, q famous street in Bagdad inhabited
by the manufacturers of silken stuff called
atibi or taffety. This stuff is woven with
waved marking of watered silk resembling
. "tabby" cats coat.
There are Is stars. 13' letters in the scroll
held In the eagles beak, 10 marginal
feathers in each wing. IL tail feathers, Is
parallel lines in the shield. Is horizontal
bars, Is arrow heads in one foot, and - let
tiers In the words quarter dollar"
/ The perpendicularity of a monument is
visibly affected by the rays of the sun. On
every SUNNY day q tall monument has q
regular swing leading away from the sun.
This phenomenon is due to the greater ex-
pansiOn of the side on which the rays of
the sun fall.
France has the cheapest rate of postage,
but possesses O capital in which, lt Is said.
more murders take place in SIX months
than occur in London, Berlin and Vlenn
together In twice that length Of time; but
altogether more murders take place IN the
United States than any other country.
Some German scientists have recently
furnished in regard to the
ages of trees. They assign to the pine tree
500 to 700 years as the maximum, 423 years
to the silver fir, 275 years TO the larch, PAS
years to the red beech. 2l0 years Ia the as
pen, 200 to the birch. 10 to the ASH, AS to
the elder and $50 to the elm.
Some interesting results concerning the
transplanting of oaks were mentioned in o
recent paper read before the Edin-
burgh Botanical Society. A number of
trees were transplanted at an early age,
some later, and some left in the seed bed.
Measurements of their Rirth, taken annu-
ally since 1909. show conclusively that the
transplanted oaks are ahead at least fifty
years of the others. Merely lifting the
trees was also found to make them mature
rapidiv.