The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

st. Charles. No.. has been under the do
minion of three flags; namely. Spain, France
and the United States.
Bees never store honey in the light. be-
cause honey so exposed graduates and Is
thus useless to the bees
The Austrians consume more tobacco
than any other nationality or race on the
globe, civilized or savage.
A new Methodist Episcopal church is be-
ing built at Glasgow, Mont. the nearest
church being 267 miles away.
Greek handles like Alcibiades allowed
their hair to fall on their shoulders and ct
night rolled the curls round a stick.
The empire of japan comprises nearly
thirteen thousand cities. towns and viii
lagos. in which forty million people live.
Jonesboro, Ca. has q resident who, it is
reported, has only spent Ss in the last six
years for clothes. lie Is said to be worth
over $4,000.
Testing the big Krupp guns is said to be
responsible for the cracking of every brick
and stone house In Essen, the seat of tho
great arInory.
At Dundenong. Australia. there is a blue
gum tree which has on estimated height of
$50 feet. 1t is believed to be the tallest
tree In the world.
Niueyeh, the ancient CITY, was fourteen
miles long and eight miles wide, sur
rounded by wall one hundred feet high
and twenty-nine feet wide.
An average of three British seaman lose
their lives every day by drowning. and
three hundred British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost at sea yearly.
At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia there
is mountain. on the summit of which
the sun shines perpetnally during the five
days of June, -, 20, u, % and %.
Able LISTS first concert programme,
when he was only nine years old. has been
discovered. 1t bears the date of 1920. The
performance WAS given In OldeDburg.
The highest lakes in the world are in the
Himalayas in Thibit. where there are some
bodies of water as high as twenty
thousand feet above the level of tho sea.
A curious circumstances i'm connection,
with the recent epidemic of cholera at Ham
burg was the departure of all the birds
from the city only few days prior to the
outbreak.
The Democrats have not had full control
of the government. that is, the presidency
and both houses of Congress. at the same
time since the Thirty-fifth Congress. which
met In 1851.
chain made for the United States gov
eminent at Troy, n. Y. In 1883, was ak
miles and fraction in length. 1t was made
of bars of iron each two aud half inches
in diameter.
The origin of the symbol "cwt." for
hundredwelghts is as follows: is the in
itial letter OF the Latin word "centum,"
and last letters of the word weight and
are used as a contraction for 1t.
During the winter of 1SS-S7 q petrIfied
frog was found in n quarry near Elmira, n.
v. which was two feet eight inches in
length and weighed over one hundred
pounds. This Is the largest specimen of
fossiiized frog yet brought TO light.
Desecbo. an island adjoining Porto Rico.
Is infested with rats. There are millions
of them there. and it is unsafe for n man to
set foot on the island. They have destroyed
all the goats. which were formerly bred
there. and are now es ling the shrnbbery.
Ii was not until the reign of the Empress
Josephine In France that the pocket hand
kerchisf was tolerated at all as an article
for public use. No lady would have dared
TO use one in the presence OF others. Even
the name was carefully avoided in polite
conversation,
The largest specimen of extinct ami nal
ever found in the world was the skele ton