The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-06
Our OLE rnE oRpINARY.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Almost as old as the world is the art of
embalming.
When a visitor enters a house in Japan
he must lay aside his street SHOES at the
door.
metallic gailium, which is worth 100000 a
pound.
The increase of our manufacturing prod
ucts was from S,00o,0cO,WO in 1881 to Ss.WW,-
100000 In 1880.
The statement is made that the products
of Southern factories now exceed the prod
ucts Of its soil.
TIE Jupiter man. il his size is proror-
tiOnal to that Of the men on the eartn.
is sixty feet tall.
The drill plow in every essential point
was known to the Chinese nearly four
thousand years ago.
There was coined in silver under the
Bland. act, from 1878 to the passage OF the
act OF July IA. 1880. about $3I0,OV,OOO.
When the daguerreotyps was a new in
ventlon the face of the sitter for a por-
trait was busted with a white powder
New York, with en- assessed valuation of
IS 500. Ccc, 0O, is the richest state IN the
Union. Pennsylvania is next with a valua-
ton Of $6,U0 0.OC0.00.
A geographical expert estimates the fer
tile portion of the earth's surface at ~
260,2O square miles, ana the barren region
az 2,96J,000 square miles.
II is estimated that fifty persons have
been lynched in the United States since the
beginning of 1894. of this number thirty
eight victims were colorsd.
During the great Irish famine of 1917 and
the following years it is computed that 49,
W0.O00 were sent to that country TO releVe
the sUfferings of the people.
So great is the echo in one OF the rooms
Of the Pantheon that the striking together
Of the palms of the hands is said TO make
a noise equal 10 that Of a twelve-pound
cannon.
14~~1 mo
that which accompanied the earthquake or
1858 off the coast of africa, Peru. 1t was
fifty feet high and extended to New Zea-
land and Japan.
f2,Ct).0OO received from the sale o. the strip
bonds per capita among all the. Cherokee
Indians, every man, woman and cnild IN
the tribe viii receive over 5000 In cash.
The largest damned body Of water in
the world will be secured by the building
OF a dam at Cloquet, Mimi, On the st. Louis
river, 900 feet long and 81 feet hlgh, py
which back water will be extended sixty
miles.
To make animals unconscious before
s~laughtering is considered humane in Berne,
switzerland. A test was recently made
there by legal enactment, and ii took six
quarts of alcohol to rende an OK unfeeling-
ly drunk.
A French physician has constructed an
acting model of the human heart. 1t is
of the same hue, size and consistency as
the natural organ, with every detail, and a
red fluid courses through it, and through
artificial arteries.
An expert declares that he knows of at
least six hundred counterfeits of the old
masters which are now hanging in private
galleries in the United States, and all of
which were originally purchased in Europe
at very high prices.
SO broad is the scope of modern charity
that in many cases, particularly in Europe,
II has taken f~anciful form. if not absurd.
London has three or four refugees for lost
Ia~- TT-nco HliChn nanfG IRA kent M hU
requests and donations.
Professor Horse:ay. the English vivisec-
ZIONIST, thinks that he has discovered that
death in cases of gunshot wounds in the
brain does not result from stopp3ge OF the
hearts action as heretofore believed, but
from arrested respiration.
According to some recent statistics on the
cost of living, reprinted in the Scientific
American. an .Englishman spends. on an
average, S4S a year for food; a F~renchman,
$7; a German, $i2; a Spaniard, $685.; an
Italian, S24, and a Russian, S3.
The patents applied for in Washington
last year number 10000. The total number
Of patents outstanding on Jan. l was 545,-
600. The receipts of the Patent Office are
81, 2O0,0D a year and the expenses $3.50, 600
less. New York stands first in the number
OF patents applied for. There are $4,000
Dostoffices in the United States. and about
$1,000 of them do not pay their running
expenses. The profit of the New York city
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