The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Bible. Noahs ark was larger vessel than
the Great Eastern.
At the present rate of increase there
will be 190,O0O0OO people in the United
States in fifty years.
A midshipman in the United States navy
receives pay equivalent to that OF q lieu
? tenant In the British navy.
In $50 the King of Northumberland gave
eight hundred acres of land for one book,
containing the history of the world.
There are 10 women lawyers in the
United States, and eight of these have
been practicing for three years without a
flaw in their career.
According to the last English census
there are five thousand women gardeners
in that country and Six women looking
after town drainage
The Sclavic countries. Russia, Rouma
mia and Servia, are the most illiterate In
Europe, so per cent. OF the population De-
ing unable to read or write.
To prevent boots creaking the soes
should be soaked in linseed oil by letting
them stand I'm in it s; on plate; this also
Several Of the leading florists in New
York agree in saying that the amount OF
business done yearly in New York In pot
ted plants and cut flowers reaches 81
OOO, 000
The number of people who attend st.
Paul's London. on a Sunday, may be put
down at eight thousand, thus; Morning
service, 900; afternoon service, 2oVO; even
ing service, 5000.
Brooklyn boasts of two women who are
employed as blacksmith and decorator, re-
spectively. Mrs. Bridget Dugan is en-
ployed in the former trade and Miss Mary
Leaf in the latter.
Quick steps are Indicative Of energy or
agitation. Tiptoe walking symboiZeS sur
prise. curiosity discretion or mystery.
cupied and absent-minded people.
The universities and colleges Of this
country have ss.635,3S5 worth of scientific
apparatus and appliances; their I grounds lno.
and buildings are worth S6i, 250,344, ana they
have $74,070,415 in productive funds.
South American ants have been known
to construct tunnel three miles in length,
which would be required for men to tun-
mel under the Atlantic from New York to
London.
The word Pharoah was not, strictly
speaking, a name of an Individual, but OF
a class or race For ages all the Egyptian
kings called themselves Pharoahs, just as
the Roman Emperors were each styled
Augustus.
Afghanistan has 100000 of population
and no missionary, India one missionary
to $4,000, Persia one to 100000, Thibet one
to 100000. If 10000 missionaries were sent
to India there would still be only one to
every $4,000.
The temple of Ypsambul, in Nubia, is
cut from a solid rock, and its entrance is
guarded by four statues each sixty-fiye
shoulders, the face seven feet long, the ear
over three feet.
There is a theory now that appendicitis
Given Is the Seef bS the Se"s
prevalence Of the disease in Chicago, where
one physician has operated on los cases
since the fair opened.
England to. run one hundred miles an hour.
1t is 1000 horse power, the driving wheels
II feet in diameter. The three cylinders
are 40, % and IS inches diameter with a
3O-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is 200
pounds.
The maxim murder will OUT Is dis
proved by statistics. In the ten years end
ing with 1856 there were 1,766 murders
committed in England and Wales and in
1904 of these cases no trace of the GRIM
inal was ever found that led to his APP
prehension.
Contrary to the general belief that Ire
land leads the world in it's fondness for
''praties," statistics show that the people
OF Germany and Belgium are the greatest
potato eaters; the consumption in these
countries annually exceeds 1000 pounds per
head of population.
The largest family is that of the King
of Siam. He has two official wives. eighty
eight of the second class and seventy-two
children. He has fifty brothers and sisters
and 22G uneles and annts- The. They all board board
than two hundred cooks in the royal
kitchen.
The ella monster has only recently been
recognized as a useful animal. It's skin
is utilized for making fancy leather. The
ella monster is of the most repulsive
looking of the lizard tribe and is the only
member of it's order known TO be venomous.
1t receives its common name from the ella
river in Arizona
The telephone is said to be in more gen.
eral use in Sweden than in any country
in the world. and in no other is the service
so cheap. 1t has been proposed recently to
connect by means of submarine tele-
phone cable the Norwegian and Swedish
capital with Copenhagen. King Oscar is a
telephone enthusiast.
The longest day of the year at Spitz-
bergen is 31s months. At Wardbury, Nor
way the longest day lasts from May q to
July %, without intermission. At Tornea,
Finland, June q is % hours long, and
Christmas has less than hours Of day
light. AT st. Petersburg the longest day is
10 hours and the shortest is hours.