The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-09
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The first watches, made at Nuremberg
and called Nuremberg eggs commanded
nearly $500.
France has more persons over sixty years
Of age than any other country. Ireland
comes next.
A band of 1000 Menominee Indians, men
and women, cut ard banked S25o,UW worth
Of logs in Wise 1sin in 1893.
Darwin found grains of maize in the
earth on the sesshore of Peru eighty-five
feet below the level of the sea.
The people of Great Britain pay 12o pence
per head every year in liquor tax. 80 pence
in coffee tax and GO in tobacco taxes.
Every workman In Japan wears on his
cap and on his back an inscription giving
his business and his employers name.
During the first three months OF This year
not a. single passenger and but one en-
ploye was killed on English railroads.
The carrier pigeon has just been turned
to a curious use in Russia. 1t Is to convey
negatives OF photographs taken IN a bal
loon.
The painting Of the catacombs of Thebes
is SO well done that after a lapse OF 1000
years the colors are as bright as when hrst
laid on.
A spoon in a glass filled with hot water
prevents the breaking of the glass because
the metal easily absorbs a large part OF
the heat.
Robbing graves is the only crime under
Chinese law for which the thief may be
justly killed on the spot by anyone nncirg
him out.
The first patent issued in the United
States was by the General Court of Boston
on March 6. 1916. The invention was a
water wheel.
The English railroads have cost their
owners about $4,000 a mile; ours have cost
about $S3, zoo, or a little more than one
fourth as much.
An analysis OF the mortality at the battle
Of Solferino showed that eco bullets were
fired for every man wounded and 400 for
every man killed.
Tho wofteaf ploco ir the world iS Cher
rapungi, in Assam, where the average rain
fall for fifteen years has been 49S inches.
In 1861 it was 95.
Shaving the beard and hair as a sign Of
mourning was common among almost all
nations, and Is even now practiced in sew
eral parts of the world.
Among the Hottentots when a widow
wishes to marry again she must cut of the
joint of a finger and present it to her new
husband on the wedding day.
The total value of the diamond exports
y sram t nas cs sse.o 81 Coco the Hope eu aIrin pai sTf fouT
times this amount for the gems.
In s4 a drought began in Europe, lasting
four years. The summers were intensely
hot and the famine prevailed everywhere;
three million persons died OF hunger.
From the time of Alexander the Great
down to the time OF Columbus the average
price Of wheat was Is shiilings a ton; from
as much.
The number of Protestant missionaries
lea is $50. representing seventeen mission
airy societies and reporting about a0.9v0 COM
municants.
1t is computed that one hundred years
hence Europe will nave $50, 100000 fnhabi-
tants. Asia 1000. 0O0. 00n, while America will
have reached 6S5, 000. 900. Australia 10000, 900
and Africa 100. 00, 900.
The great hearth fire In the hall of Roby
Castle, England, is said never to have been
permitted to go out for centuries. That in
warwick Castle will burn a quarter OF a
cord of wood at once
A shipment OF fifty thousand bushels Of
corn recently from Alabama to Illinois and
Iowa marks q new era In internal COM
hitherto been in the opposite direction.
On the Gold Coast various poruous have
lately jolned TIE Chxis1jouD not - cem-