The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The amount of money held by various
London banks Is not far short OF 81, 15O, OOO,.
600.
The first King to whom the title Of "Mai-
esty" was applied was Louis Al. In France
In 1463.
The total expenditures for common
school education In this country in 1890
were Sl4S, 724.647.
The len 9Th of the largest tiger skin over
taken. after being stretched and dried, was
IL feet On inches.
$1,000 table Is on exhibition at the
worlds fair. Ii is made of metals found In
the vicinity of Santa Fe.
The first discovery of land in the limits OF
the United States was on April 2, 1872 By De
Leon, and the land was Florida,
The first brid ge- builder was the spider.
and the ropes and stays Of spiders web
are always attached with geOmetrlcal 40
curacy.
Nothing is wasted in China. The stones
of various fruits and the shells of nuts are
cleaned, dried and carved into ornaments
of the most graceful kind.
Andrew jackson at New Orleans in 1872,
WAS presented to the JOhnstown, Pa, Grand
Army Post Decoration day.
The largest Of the pyramids 10 54S feet
high. and 6a3 feet on the side; It's base
covers eleven acres. Many of the stones
are thirty feet long. four broad and three
thick.
When tho thermometer registers 1000 the
cable which draws the cars of the East
river bridge, New York, is seven feet ak
inches longer than when the Thermometer
ls at zero.
Liberty cap was first used in the United
States as one of the devices OIL q flag of the
psuy of militia organized some time prior
TO the revolution.
The "Whistling Well" at Tacoma, Wash.
has resumed operations after o silence of
two years Previous to every storm the
well, it Ia said, produces kind of whist
ling noise, forcing out air of gaseous ma
ture.
Scientists ars of the opinion that Averv,s
island. situated IN the delta of the MissIs-
sippi, Is composed below the top soil en-
tirely of salt The salt occurs in more or
less Transparent masses and Is Quarried for
export.
Suits of q uniform color and pattern for
soldiers In the British army date from 1914
when the Foot Guards were clad in gray.
The introduction of q regular uniform for
sailors dates from 1746. when tho "blue
jacket became customary.
The English Black Friday was May II.
1866. the height of the commercial panic of
that year: the American Black FRIDAY was
Sept. q. 1869, when a group Of spectators
in New York suddenly advanced the price
of gold and produced disastrous panic.
Atypical South African household de-
scrIbed by Olive Schriner had an English
father, a half Dutch mother with French
name. Scotch governess. o Zulu cook. a
Hottentot housemaid and Kaffir stable.
boy. while the little girl who waited on the
table was Basuto.
A million dollars in gold coin will weigh
3,6S5.S pounds. and q million dollars in sil-
yer coin will weigh IS. 929 pounds. A ton
of pure gold is worth S6O2, 799 81, and a ton
of pure silver is worth S37,7O4.O4 Bows
who are starting out to make their fortunes
should remember these figures
It's not customary for a housewife 10
CHERISH stale bread. but good Mrs. Soar. of
Ambaston. England, has loaf of which
she is extremely proud. 1t Is six hundred
years old. and was originally given to one
OF Mrs. Scars illustrious ancestors by King
John. who accompanied it with grant of
land.
The sofa on which Generals Grant and
Lee cat together when the latter eurren-
dered to the former was placed on exhibi-
tion in the West Virginis State Building at
the worlds fair recently. The sofa, to-
gether with the secretary on which the pa
pers Of surrender were drawn up. have