The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Tories were originally bands Of Irish out
laws. The Celtic word toree means robber.
But twelve cities of the world nave over
100000 inhabitants and four of these are
in China.
In some weeks as high as 100000 fowl
reach London from the poultry farms Of
France. Italy. Austria and Russia
Secretary of War Lamont has sent to the
House a report showing that S,22,997 men
are available for military duty in the United
States.
The Boston fire department has a wreck
ing wagon-a portable machine shop, which
carries tools sufficient to meet all ordinary
emergencies.
Out of the forty-two cities of America,
with populations averaging from 100000 to
10000, all but one are using the electric
railway system
a writer on elephants declares that when
very hot the elephant will insert his trunk
into his throat, draw up water and sprinkle
it over his back.
The peacock throne of Shah Jehan was
valued at $50, 600, 600. his crown at $12,O 600, COO,
and when he died $50, 100000 of gems were
found in his treasury.
When the skull of a man who has died
of delirium tremenS is opened the gas which
escapes can be ignited, and burns with a
blush, alcoholic flame.
The greatest depth recorded of Lake
Michigan is $40 feet, or about one-sixth OF a
mile. The mean depth Is about 325 feet, or
one-sixteenth of a mile.
The Krupp works at Essen. Germany.
turn out 2l.UpO cannon a year. over ZJ,VuV
men are employed and an average of LOCO
tons of coal are consumed daily.
Artificial India rubber from cotton-seed
oil is one of the latest industrial products
and claimed to possess commercial adap-
tations of peculiar practical value
In Bengal. India, there are three har-
vests reaped every year-peaS and oil seeds
in April, the early rice crop In september,
and the great rice crop In December.
The name of the State of Wisconsin is
derived from q mixture of French and In
dian. 1t was formerly spelled Ouls,con-
sin, which means westward howfng.'
An ordinary hive of bees contains from
four to fve pounds of bees. or between TO-
COO and $1,000 individuals; but some swarms
nave double this weight and number or
bees.
If a Chinaman. in his native land. saves
a mans life. ne is compelled to support
him during the balance of his years. In
consequence poverty prevents many reScueS
from being made.
Elephants drink thirty-six buckets of
water and eat one and one-half trusseS or
hay. forty-twO pounds of turnips' one bush,
ell of chaff, ten pounds of warm mash and
one bundle of straw every day.
The Public Building of Philadelphia, when
finished, will have the highest tower on any
building in the world. 1t will be 5S7 feet
high. The building covers four acres, and
will be finished next year at a cost or SlO,-
coo. OO0.
country is said 70 have sbeen John Roeb-
ling, Of Saxonburg, Pa, in 1910: The rope
was -three-quarters of an inch in diameter
on a subsidiary plane at Youngstown.
The reason why red infuriates animals
of the OK family is because red Is the COM
Elementary color OF green, and the eyes or
cattle being long fixed on heritage while
feeding, when they espy anything red it inn
presses their sight with greatly increased
intensity.
The Capitol at Washington has cost more
than $50, 600, 900. 1t covers three and a half
acres, the dome is 500 feet high and 1@5 in
diameter, and is exceeded in size only by st.
Peters in Rome, st. PauIs in London, the
Invalides in Paris and ST. Isaac's in st.
Petersburg.
With It's tributaries, many Of them large
and important rivers, the waters of the
Amazon form an inland navigation of not
less than $1,000 miles, a line double the cir
conference of the globe. The area drained
is 2,5CJ,WO square miles, equal 10 ten times
the area of France
The expense of each individual telephone
instrument Is larger in a large circuit than
in a smaller one, because the switchboard
and other connections Increase in geometri-
cal ratio as the number of Instruments in
crease This is why rentals are higher in a
large city than in a small one.
When prisoners resist Paris police they
to walk like My son John" He is so ham
pered usually by this treatment that there
is no further trouble If TINS is not o eno T;I,
to use his HAND TO hold on his garments.
Professor Hazen. of the Weather Bureau
expresses the opinion that all the concus-
sion experiments TO produce rain have been
failures. and that those conducted in Con
necticut last summer seemed to prolong the
drought in that section, while there was
plenty of rain in all the region roundabout.
San Francisco is the most cosmopolitan
city in the world. The holidays of every
nation are concentrated by public pa
rades. Every civilized language may be
heard and the ships of every maritime ma
ton from the British man-of-war 10 the
Maltese felucca and the Chinese junk are