The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A st, Louis woman has applied for a
patent to cover the processes OF making
'sweet potato -four"
1t is said that of 100000 persons in this
country in need of wooden legs and arms
only 100000 are supplied.
The Florida coast has floating hotel
which moves from place to place. wherever
the best fishing happens to be.
There are between $4,000 and $4,000 ne
groes living at the national capital In
Washington, and their wealth is now very
large.
The most notable attraction in mosque
at DELHI Is a single red hair which is said
to have been plucked from the mustache of
Mahomet
In the South an average mule is worth
SO. and pair of extra good ones will
bring $500 or more. Louisville is the great
mule market of the South.
Among the exhibits at the worlds fair
from Chief Geronimo. of the Apaches, and
which are made from human skin.
A gentleman In Berlin, Wis, has just lost
q family pet of great price. q canary bird
thirty years Of age. 1t had lost it's voice,
and was almost featherless, but was tender.
ly cared for TO the end.
The term "tabby cap 10 derived from
Atab. famous street In Bsgdad. inhabited
by the manufacturers OF sllken stuff called
atibi or tatfety. This stuff IS woven with
waved markings or watered silk resem-
bling "tabby" cats coat.
The art of making needles was kept secret
until about 1850. when it was taught to the
English by CHRISTOPHER Greening. Needles
now made so cheaDly in England that
that country has no rival In the United
States. and practically the English monop-
Ollie the trade.
twenty thousand pairs of dead mems
shoes every month. The soles are of paste
board, covered with grained paper; the mp
pers are OF quilted satin and orochet-work,
and ribbon tied in b0w-knot holds the
shoe to the foot.
Two miners wore seriously injured by .
fall of slate IN q coal mine at Coalition. o.,
the other day, and they would have proba-
bly, been crushed to death had il not been
for mule. whose body. being large, kept
the slate from striking them. The mule
was. however. killed.
During the last twenty years q little
more than S55.O0O.000 hes been spent in re-
storing athedrsls and churches in Eng land,
and more than S4s. 900 900 has been spent In
building new churches. In London alone
more than g. O00.0C0 has been expended IN
building and restoring churches.
One of the greatest curiosities in the MIS-
sissippi valley is the natural ice cave in the
bluffs of the Iowa river within less than
mile OF DEBORAH. This unique curiosity
IL a natural icehouse-s cavern in which
great Icicles may be found at any season
OF the year. being especially fine in sum-
mer.
Ihe late Duke of Marlborough's will con-
tains the following peculiar and character
istic clause: II particularly dislike the ex-
clusiveness of family pride. and desire not
TO be buried In the family vault at BIen-
helm. but in euch convenient place as 9TH
ers of my generation and surroundings may
equally use."
The Snltan's hsrem costs &C. 600. 900 yearly
About one hundred women leave every
year 20 marry. and each has 1880 dowry.
Yet the number never falls below three
hundred. Every official struggles to get
his daughter in. for each has ten servants.
carriage and four. and the possibility Of
gaining influence over the Sultan.
A man weighs less when the barometer
Is high. Notwithstanding the fact that the
atmospheric pressure on hin is moro than
when the barometer is low. As the pressure
OF air on an ordinary sized man is about
fifteen tons. the rise of the mercury from
twenty-nIne To thirty-one inches adds
about one ton 20 the load he has to carry.