The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-24
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Very full cheeks indicate great digestive
powers.
Fifteen widows of veterans of the war
of the revolution are still drawing pen
sions.
Paris has an insurance company that re-
fuses to issue policies on the lives OF any
who use hair dyes
The apple parer was given to the Il puec
firm makes over 1900 year.
There are 1900 Cherokee Indians in North
Carolina They own $4,000 acres of land
and have four government SCHOOLS.
The Queen of Corea employs a female
physician at a salary of 5000 per year.
When the Queen is sick the salary stops.
The first horse was brought to this conti-
nent In 1913. Now there are, In the United
States alone ii, 056 $50, valued at $9i1, 100000.
Backing for boots was invented In 1886.
and now the manufacturers in this country
and England sell over 100000 worth
year.
Nearly 10 per cent. of the yield from
this years cotton crop in the South is FROM
cotton-seed OIL once thrown aside as use
less refuse.
The largest estates in Austria are those
of Prince SchwarZenburg, $4,000 acres;
Prince Lichtenstein, 100000. and Archduke
Albert, 100000.
The Chautauqua salute, waving white
handkerchief was first given at the re-
TO q deaf mute.
According to decree just rendered by
the British courts of law payment cannot
legally be enforced for any order given to
a debtor on Sunday.
In the thirty years of its operation the
London underground railway system has
carried over a billion and a half of pas
sengers and has not killed one.
1t has been demonstrated that bullet
fired into a human being carries into the
wound any bacteria which may exist in the
clothes through which it passes.
Paris is trying a wood pavement made
than it used to be, but still dearer than
the woods generally used for this purpose.
There is a steady increase in the value
of old English mansions. Oakley Hall. in
Essex, fine property or six hundred
acres. valued forty years ago at $4,000,
has been sold at $4,000
During the siege of Sebastopol the bat
teries of the allied army threw into the be-
sieged city over 10000 tons of shot and shell.
The cost OF the artillery firing and the
value of the guns ruined and condemned is
estimated at Sl20OO,0O0.
The first aerial voyage was made Sept.
49, 1888, by sheep cock and a duck, to a
height of 1850 feet. The first human trav-
eler through the air was NJ; Francois Pr
latre de RoZier, who mounted the following
month in a free balloon.
During the Franco-P russan war the Ger
mans fired 3O,OO0,OOO rifle cartridges and
tally wounding 1900 Frenchmen, Showing
that four hundred shots are required to kill
mortally wound one man
The college town OF Granville, O., about
300 miles distant from Chicago, sent AS Of
total population of 1856. This is said to
be a larger proportion than sent 10y
any other town city in The country.
Statistics just issued show that during
the past year but twenty-one passengers
and nine employees, thirty persons in ali,
killed in railroad accidents in Great
Britain and Ireland. In the same period
nearly 9O0.0OO.000 passengers were carried.
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned EN-
peror of the French Dec. 2, 1904, and won
the battle of Austerlitz, his greatest vic
tory. Dec. 1905. Louis Napoleon Bona
parte, President of the second French re-
2 1852.
A flying bolt hit the head Of George G.
Hunter, of Oakland, Cal, and knocked the
memory out of it. He has forgotten his
arts of reading and writing. Except in
this one respect he is said to be as well,
10 all appearance, as before his mishap
The electric light was invented in 1916,
high scientific authority "a pretty toy
and the prediction made that it would
never be anything else. AT present over
two hundred cities and thousands upon
lighted by means OF electricity.
An invitation to dinner in Japan com
nences as follows: Il beg pardon for thus
my house to dinner. The house is small
and very dirty. our habits are rude. ard
you may not get anything fit to eat: ard
yet | hope you will condescend 10 be pres
ent with us at o'clock on Dec. O.
A scientific man says that he has made a
discovery. Ii is that the worst air is found
in two strata ia;, one near the ground.
a height of about ninety feet This height
represents the average altitude of the dis
charge of gas smoke and offensive fumes
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