The Indianapolis journal., 1893-05-21
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


One out of every $50 inhabitants of she
United States owns or rides q bicycle.
The worth of ton of diamonds at the
present day is estimated at exactly SS6. .000..
600.
The average length of the whale Is sixty
feet: average girth, forty; thickness of blub
Der. fifteen inches.
At q depth of more than four miles the
ocean is without life. without vegetation
and without light.
The number of persons TO the square mile
In England is placed at $50; in the United
States at seventeen.
The total number of American news
papers has grown from 1919 to Il. .006 during
the past twenty-five years.
There are seven men living in one town.
ship in the State of North Carolina who
have passed the age of 10s years.
The amount of air that man will inhale
In twenty-four hours will fill seventy-eight
hoasheads and weigh fifty-tbree pounds
/ During the complicated process of man.
ufacturing stamps they are counted eleven
times In order to guard against pilfering.
No less than 100000 acres were last
year declared by the New South Wales
government to be at the mercy of the rsb-
bit pest.
lice Office in the world. 1t con taIns q room
In which three thousand men can be as
sembled.
A Maine bee hunter declares that bees do
not like solitude and keep near habitations.
and that it is q mistake to look for wild
bees at q distance from cultivated regions.
In on effort to cope with the ra bit pesc in
New South Wales 632 miles of rabbit-proof
fencing have lately been erected nt q cost
Of f5l.O .OC0. and 404 miles of similar fencing
are building.
The Manhattan elevated railway, New
York. carries larger number of passep gers
than any other American railway. The
figures are given as $4,000 q day, or 19i.-
625. 600 yearly.
Expedition island. forty miles from the
northwest coast of Australia. has sunk out
of sight. forty eight feet below the surface
of the sea. 1t was thirteen miles long and
one mile In width.
have not spoken to each other for twenty
years. although living together Each is
waiting for the other 20 speak first, and so
mum" Is the word for llfe
The railroad constructed by Stephenson.
south of Liverpool. and opened for traffi O
in 1852. renamed In use almost the great
inventor left 1t until few weeks ago, when
o new line was constructed.
There has been considerable discussion
as TO who invented spectacles and who had
| the pleasure of wearing the first pair. The
honor Is generally awarded To an Italian
The city of Baniap. In Great Bucharia. Is
ont In the side OF q mountain. There are
1900 artificial caves. some very large, and
two statues. one ninety, the other twenty
feet high. each hewn from a single stone.
The South. which has only % per cont of
the country's population, and which cast
only 80 per cent of the popular vote for
Cleveland. has thus far secured seventeen
embass dors ministers aud consuls to four
teen given TO the North.
At three of the large London railway sta
| tions-Charing Cross, Cannon street and
! London Bridge-as many as 81. 969 move.
ments for signal and pOinr levers have to
be made every twenty-hours. quite apart
from the telegraphic operations
OF King Mithridates of Pontus historians 9
say that he spoke twenty-five languages
and knew by name each one of his eighty
! thousand soldiers. Cyrus. the Persian
/ king. and Julius Cesar were also familiar
| with the name OF every soldier IN their vast
armies.
The expression "Vox populi vox Dep
the voice of the people is the voice of God
was used in the writings of William of
! Malmesbnry. who was born A. ID. 1915 or
1895. and died about 1l42. He quoted the
| expression proverb. even in his time
sufficiently we'll known.
A preventive of colds is said to have been
made III Germany. They are made of a
specially prepared paper imprepaated with
some substance which apparently sucks up
all perspiration as quickly as il Is formed,
| keeping the feet warm aud dry.
| Down in Maine they have some queer
ideas as TO tue fitness OF things The citi.
Zens of Machias are going TO dedicate q
| library next month, and. to add due eclaJ
to this peaceablc undertaking, have ap.
| piled TO the Navy Department for tho pres.
ence of one of the new gunboats
There is no doubt that persons are often
| moonstr6ck. particularly In the tropics
On war ships no one Is allowed 80 sleep on
| deck. and the lunar rays. therefore. cannot
| reach them. but on merchant vessels. where