The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-18
GUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Street cars were first used in this country
III lSO, ard in England ten years later.
The average cost Of construction and
equipment per mile of American railroads
Is S54.644.
The total cost of deportation of Chinese
at 1880 90.
The first railroad in the United States
was from Boston TO Quincy, four miles,
opened in 1927.
Seventy years ago there was but one
homeopathic physician in the United States,
where now there are 10000.
drunkenness is very rare in Rio Janeiro,
the cause being that the people drink coffee
10 the almost entire exclusion Of alcoholic
beverages.
Last year Kansas raised field crops worth
S10.0O0,C00. and marketed live stock, agri-
cultural and horticultural products worth
S0S,Oc,OO0 more.
Since the beginning Of the century France
mas fallen from the second to the fourth
pace IN point Of population among Eu-
rOpean countries.
The average cost of wheat per hundred
pounds on a ffty-thousand-acre ranch is
estimated at 40 cents. On smaller ones it is
considerably more.
a single plant Of wheat will often pro-
duce ZOO seeds in one season; a sunflower
Will yield 1000; a poppy. 1900; a tobacco
plant, S60,OV0; a spleenwort, 100000.
In 1898 the skin of a man who was hanged
In England was tanned. and pieces of the
- ~ = u Gill " tdI >, ACCOUNTING "
the statements Of a London exchange.
In 1881 the English ships brought to the
bone factories of England thirty thousand
skeletons OF Turkish and Russian soldiers
VINO had persisted in the Crimean war.
Capital punishment in Denmark is exc
cuted publicly with the AK, and if several
are to be decaDitated on the same date. one
Is not present when the other is executed.
The largest tree in the world lies broken
and petriiied at the end of a defle in north
western Nevada The tree measures 666
feet in length and 60 feet in diameter at
the butt.
The highest broad gauge railroad in the
United States is the Denver q Rio Grande,
and it's highest point is at Marshall Pass.
where 1t climbs to a height of 1855 feet
above the sea.
The idea of the balloon first occurred to
the MontgOlfier brothers from seeing a
large piece of paper fall over the fire, be
come Inflated with smoke and hot air, rise
and sail away.
The originator OF the famous three "'r''
aIIiteration, reading, riting and rithme-
tc,I was Sir William Curtis, a Lord Mayor
of London. In 1895 he proposed it as a toast
before the board of education.
Fagot parties are a new entertainment
in Tucson: a. T; Each invited guest brings
place while he tells a story. All the wood
left over goes into the family wood pile.
A wonderful nugget of tin has been dis
covered In the mines of North Dundas, Tas-
mania. 1t Is estimated to weigh 400 pounds.
The assay of a small piece shows that the
large mass of ore contains 81 per cent. OF
metallic tin.
The various places in London called
crosses were erected by Edward / TO
mark the resting places of the body of his
queen. Eleanor, on its way to Westmin-
ster for interment. Charing Cross was the
last resting place.
The first aerial voyage was made Sept
10, 1lSS, by a sheep, a cock and a duck to a
height of 1,5C0 feet The first human travel
er through the air was NJ. Francois Pilarte
de RoZfer, who mounted the following
month in a free balloon
n scientific observer says that IL is not
improbable that Mashonaland was the
Ophir of the Bible, since the quantity of
gold then used was so enormous that no
old world country except South Africa was
capable of supplying the demand.
The file room Of the House Of Representa-
tiveS in Washington contains many rare
treasures. A letter from General Washing
ton, a petition from Andrew Jackson, after
he had lost three hundred gallons OF whis-
ky, are prominen- relics among the interest
ing documents.