The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-29
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

OF the issue of 5000, 100000 Of Columbian
postage stamps ,2OO,0CO.0OO remain unsold.
A speck of gold weighing a millionth part
of grain may be easily seen by the naked
The steamers between Europe and North
America carry on an average about 10000
passengers a month.
Sierra means a saw. and it's application
to range of pointed mountain peaks Is
very apt and poetical.
France now has 44S,OO0 places for the sale
of liquor an increase or nearly ninety
thousand in twenty years
British lies is 26.226, of whom about 10000
were born in the United States.
Potatoes first appear in history In 1903.
In 1892 the United States raised 2O1,OOG.OOO
bushels. In 1884 the world raised 79,oOo.OOO
tons
The Pail Mall Gazette says three billion
gallons OF beer were imbibed in Europe
last year. OF which Germany consumed l.
051, 100000 gallons.
The paper money issued by the first
French republic fell to less than 1 per
cent. A pair Of boots cost 1900 francs; a
pound of butter $50 francs.
Statistics of the yellow fever epidemic
at Brunswick. Ga, show that the mortality
among whites was nearly four times as
great as that among negroes.
BY new route which is proposed from
trip from London TO Sydney, IL Is believed,
may be shortened to twenty-eight days.
The diamond worn by the Sultan in the
aigrette OF his plume on parade days was
picked up from a dust heap by a poor man
of Constantlnople during the reign Of Mo-
harmed ".
The title lieutenant comes from word
signifying holding the place" A lieuten-
ant-colonel holds the place OF a colonel In
the absence OF the latter; a lieutenant holds
the place OF captain.
An electric ambulance is in course of con-
struction at st. Louis. 1t promises to be as
-fa far~ hnr a n hxy
horses, and will be given right of way by
the street car companies.
The greatest speed attained by sailing
ships, according to Mulhall, was by the
.an.es Baines, 400 miles in twenty-four
hours, and Flying Cloud, Alp. The Red
Jacket ran 1850 miles in seven days, aver
aging go miles a day.
A final survey of the ship canal across
the Florida peninsula will shortly be made.
The canal will be about three hundred feet
wide and about $50 miles in length. 1t will
shorten the distance from New Orleans to
Liverpool one thousand miles.
Frogs are mainly juice. If they try to
make more than short journey away from
moisture, in a drought, they Will perish for
want OF water and then their bodies will
dry away. The frogs bones are so soft
that they scarcely leave any skeleton.
The largest place of amusement ever
constructed is the Coliseum at Rome. Its
external circumference is LIS feet, its long
diameter 6l5, its short $40, it's height 156. 1t
had four stories and could seat $1,000 spec
room.
Quill toothpicks came first of all from
France. The largest factory in the world
is near Paris, where several million quilts
10 make quill pens. but when these went
out OF general use it was converted into n
toothpick mill.
There are 1ls. 100000 old copper pennies
somewhere. Nobody knows what has be-
come of them, except once in a while
single specimen turns up in chance A few
years ago n,ons &c pieces
still outstanding.
silhouette the name of French
minister in ante-reyolution times. He was
q stern economist, and the courtiers had
their pictures made in profile and black,
facetiously claiming that Nj. Silhouette had
made them so poor that they could not
have a regular portrait printed.
The Oldest tree on earth with an au-
Amarahoora, Burmah. For twenty cen
turtles II has been held sacred TO Buddha,
and no person is allowed to touch the
trunk, although the leaves when they fan
are carried away as relics by pilgrims
The last instance of boiling 10 death took
place In Persia i'm 1890 The offender was
found guilty of stealing state revenues
was put into n large cauldron of cold wa
ter, which was slowly heated 10 the boil
ing point. His bones were distributed, as a
warning, among the provincial tax collec-
tors.
In Berlin an inventor has succeeded In
deYising a means Tor insurtng a complete
combus ton without the emission OF smoke
and his method has, on repeated tests
proved so satisfactory that two of the most
Important steam shipping companies OF
Germany have decided on adapting IL TO
their steamers.
There is a strange mixture OF names and
cOlors In Greenvile Darke county, Ohio.
IL is said lot OF negro slaves who were
brought there by their master and freed
many years ago have intermarried with
the whites 10 such an extent that nearly
al the Inhabitants are now or mixed blood