The Indianapolis journal., 1892-05-22
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

South Carolina is the only State In the
Union in which no official record of mar
riages is kept.
The ROumanlan crown IS made OF metal
from the cannon that were captured from
the Turks by the Roumanians at Plevna IN
1877.
It may interest reformers to know tn at
the total manufacture of cigarettes In this
country last year was three billions. as
against 24o,0O0 In 1878.
The American Bible Society will make
an exhibit at the Columbian exhibition. In
which will appear copies OF Bibles in more
than two hundred different languages.
Some people have an idea that macaroni
grows like asparagus. 1t doesn't. 1t IS
made of -four from peculiarly hard wheat.
grown principally In Russia and Algeria.
In Burmah it is rather suspicious thing
to give money for O charitable object 1t
IS supposed to mean that the donor has
been very wicked, and IS desirous to make
amends.
Frenchman, NJ. Brandeley. has suo-
ceeded in making pearls by simply boring
holes In pearl oysters. dropping In minute
glass beads and then hermetically sealing
the holes.
Hitherto the British bushel has been
reckoned es sixty.one pounds of grain,
but q change having been made In the
standard weight the busbel III the future
will be defined by SIXTY pounds.
Forks were not introduced into England
before the reign of James /. The English
derived this piece of refinement from the
| Italians. The use of forks was at first much
ridicnled in England as an effeminate piece
| of luxury.
It is said that some of the Venetians-
| those who have never been to the main
| land-have never seen horse In all their
| lives. Snowman once brought one to q
! fair and called it monster, and the factory
| hands paid Is cents each to see the marvel.
Mormon colonization scheme has been
| perfected between Elder Andrew j. Stew
| art. of Salt Lake. and the authorities of the
| Mexican government. by which Mormon
| colonies may be established in all parts of
the republic, the city of Santa ROsalie to
be the headquarters.
WIS. Holiday. whose home is at Tucker.
| IN RIPLEY county. Missouri, has a curiosity
| in the peach tree line which he is thinking
| of sending to the worlds fair. The tree Is
| three years old, about liz inche in diam
eter at the butt. is thirty-seven feet high.
and has no limb or branch On it.
Australian journals announce the discov-
cry of . seam of natural COKE" IL occurs
| in q coal measure covering $50 acres. In
comparison with the manufactured article
| the natural coke is q little the heavier, and
! contains less fixed carbon and much
smaller percentage of ash and sulphur.
| The artificial light which comes into q
majority of sleeping-rooms not alone from
the gas, but from the electric lights from
| the outside. has something to do with iu-
! somnIa. Without sleep no man can work,
| no woman be at peace. The nerve centers
| must be relaxed if recuperation is TO be
| had.
Professor Lors. the Greek rifle shot, is at
tracing much attention by his feat of
shooting glass ball from his own head
| The trick is performed by shooting at the
trigger of rifle held in a frame. with the
muzzle sighted at q glass ball dan aging by
string directly over the marksman's 9
head
A lady is applying 10 the authorities in
| Vienna for permission 10 disinter the body
of her sister. who was buried ten years ago.
She had very valuable jewelry buried with
her sister and being herself reduced in
| circumstances she had no other means of
getting out OF her misery than by appeal
/ ing TO the dead.
There have been curing the past years a
series of fashionable crazes in Japan. The
year 1878 was the rabbit year. The Jap
snese went wild over these little quad
rupeds. As much as $500 was paid for q
and f200 rabbits were of daily occurrence.
| scription, boating. whist, walfZIng. gigan tic
funerals and table-turnlng are among other
| recent crezes
The streets of Berlin are soon to be en-
rched by a large number of so-called
! .Urania pillars" of winch it is proposed to
set up in oil three hundred. These pillars
will be about eighteen feet high. con-
structed Of cost iron. and wlll each contain