The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

police.
Since the organization Of Yale College
$3.50 students have graduated. Of whom
$500 are living.
The Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadel.
phia is the Oldest hospital in the United
States. 1t was built IN 1855.
An ounce of pure gold ls worth S20.64,
therefore ton OF pure gold. which con.
tains "A. 90 ounces, is worth S495, $50.
Twenty. five pictures by modern French
painters. now exhibited at the ST. BotOlph
Club. Boston. are insured for 624S.0 900.
The membership of Masons in the United
Ststes is about 600, 900; Odd Fellows 70O0 900;
knights of Labor. 297, AIS: Knights of Pyth-
las, $4,000.
A daily paper can be sent from any part
of the United States to Stanley Falls. In
Africa. one Thousand miles beyond Stanley
pool. for cents.
The diamonds not among the earliest
gems known to man. 1t has not been found
in the ruins of Nineveb in the Etruscan
sepulchers nor in tho tombs of the PhDni-
CLANS.
The last Will and testament of Queen L.
0bella,t In which she makes q number of
references to the new world, will bs q very
Interesting object in the Spanish exhibit at
the worlds fair.
1t costs about sl4o to have ton of goods
transported by carrier from Mataddi to the
Pool in Africa, q distance of $50 miles. An
American railroad will forward ton this
distance for $1.44.
A Michigan woman recently received in
change silver quarter of 1927. She didn't
want to take it at first. thinking its age
made 1t valueless. but che finally accepted
1t. and next day she sold 1t to q collector
for $780,.
The winning exhibitors ut the worlds
fair will each receive bronze medal and
o handsome diploma setting forth the
speoific purpose for which the modal was
awarded. Provision Will be made 1t is ex.
peoted, for $4,000 medals and diplomas.
This country is one third the size of the
British empire, nearly one-half as large as
the Russian empire. fourth smaller than
tho Chinese empire. fourth larger than
France and all Its colonies. twice rs large
rs the Turkish empire. and nearly as large
as Brazil.
The population of New York is increas.
ing during the winter months by as many
as 5000 patients undergoing operations or
treatment In the hospitals and at the houses
of doctors. They como and 60. many get
well, some die under the knife, some lipaer
in hopeless invalidism.
The recent statement of the amount of
unclaimed funds standing to various &C
counts at the British Pay Office brings out
she fact that the national debt has been re-
duced by some f12.OO0.0OO IN the present
century through the use of unclaimed
money from various sources.
An estimate made by the London Philate-
list OF the extent and value of existing
postage stamp collections. based largely on
the shOwiDgs of a census taken for the pur-
pose. places those existing IN Englan at q
total market value of fl25, 0O0 and those in
the rest Of the world at 100000.
London has 1000 ships and 5000 sailors
In It's port every day. Ii has ON an average
upward of $1,000 persons annually taken
into custody by the police $1,000 persons
living In Its common lodging houses. %. 600
persons annually arrested as drunk and
disordery, and more than one third of all
the crime of the country is committed with
in Its radius.
The waters of the river Unto, in Spain,
are as yellow as topaz. and petrify the
sand IN short time. If a stone falls into
the river aud rests upon another they both
become perfectly united and conglutinated
in year. 1t withers all the plants on its
banks. as well as the roots of trees, which
it dyes OF the same hue as it's waters. No
fish live In the stream.
Nearly one hundred years ago the Jesuits
were banlshed from Mexico. 1t was known
that they had immense boards of gold. but
feared TO tempt cupidity by taking il with
them. What they did with the bulk of
their savings has just been revealed by
buried beneath the old cathedral in tho
little town Of Typozottan, and it il be-
Iieved TO be there yet
Very little macaroni was made IN this
country before the passag &c Of the Mckinley
law. That law has. however. shut the Ital-
ian product ont OF the market, and to-day
there is more manufactured in this country
than is imported from France and Italy
combined. And not only that. we are ship
ping macaroni to London: and outsellIng
the foreign article. That shows what clean
American products. American machinery
and American workmen can do when they
have chance.
A Hungarian inventor claims tn be able
to spin ordinary wood pulp cellulose, into
yarn. from which all sorts of textile tissues
can be made in the ordinary way. equal
ing in durability. appearance and fastDees
of color the best cotton goods. Ii his
scheme is practicable it will revolutionIze
the textile industry. 1t is claimed the
method Is applicable. not only to cellulose.
but to every sort of short fibrous material
rags. scraps of cotton and linen goods, and
the like. and the fibre can be dyed before
being spun into yarn.