The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-28
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A machine has just Deen conipie.Su lnae
will count and bind In packages oVO'VV pos-
tai cards In ten hours.
Six years ago the price OF a complete
eouipment of a trolley car was $4,oOo; now IL
is between 81 900 and $1,000.
The average European woman's life Is
shorter than the mans. but over two-tnircs
of the centenarians there are women.
A balloon carrying a man can't rise over
five miles on account or the rareness OIL tne
air. A self-registering balloon has risen
ten miles.
New York public schools now teach near
ly Az 600 children, and there is still a de-
mand for new buildings to hold many more
thousands.
gregate of land amounting TO 800 acres for
each man. woman and child, without count
ing Alaska.
Pepsin, which Is used as a remedy for
INDIGESTION and stomach trouble, is obtained
from the membrane that lines the stomach
Of various animals.
A bat finds it's way about without the as
sistance OF it's eyes. A blind bat will avoid
wires and distractions as oeXterously do
though 1t could see perfectly.
Wyoming has a wonderful alum cave
which Is fifteen feet across the opening ana
easily accessible. The alum on the walls or
the cave is six feet in thickness.
A Nebraska woman owns and personally
operates a travelling steam threshing ma
chine outfit. She goes about the country
and makes her own contracts.
From Long lSland 10 the extremity VI
the Fioridan peninsula is a stretch OF l,5uO
miles of shore line, unbroken by a single
mountain eminence or headland.
The dimensions of the celebrated Heidel-
ne- Cask'' In Munich, which IS 15 feet in
diameter and fifty-one feet deep.
Boo, the exclamation used to brighten
children, is a corruption Of Bah. the name
Of a famous Gothic general. 1t has been
used for a terror word for centuries.
The width OF the Atlantic could be ,ge1
duced one-half by !, lowering Sri its its depth ept c6 6Sss
feet BY loWering II thIee mriSS one couiu
The banner natural gas year for the
United States was 1883, when its product
reached the value of SZ2,O0O,0W. Last year
the product was worth less than Sic, ", 600.
Half a pound of dried currants, in lieu OF
oats, is said to be fed TO the Sultan's
horses in Egypt, and this is claimed TO be
the secret of the animals great endurance.
Scientific research shows that meats, FISH,,
milk and other animal fooas cost three
times more than -four, meal and other sta
pie vegetable foods to get the same nu-
tritious result.
Moses H. Katzenberger. a wealthy He
brew citizen OF Memphis, Tenn, who died
recently. left In his will directions that fish
ing tackle should be put In his coffin and
buried with him.
Twenty-Five miles of the Kongo railroad.
and Kenge, are now completed. The work
has cost 100000 q mile. The line will be
ninety-three miles long.
In proportion to the population France
has more money In circulation than any
other country. In France 1t averages $40.56
per capita; in the United States, $24.34; In
England and Germany, 1882,
According to the statistical abstract of
the United States the total cost of liquors
consumed In this country annually is over
SIC per capita, twice as much as the total
amount of the federal revenue.
The sending OF a message and reply be-
tween NanChpStpr EnQlln1 and Victoria
British Columbia, recently, occupied only
ninety seconds. The total distance by wire,
out and return, is eighteen thousand miles.
A blue-book has recently been issued in
which is summed up the statistics of ghost
seeing. OF seventeen thousand persons
questioned, 1,634 asserted that they had
seen ghosts at different periods In their
lives.
A resident of England, who has been
three times married, welded a woman who
We're born in all cases. so that children of
seven different percentages live under the
same roof.
In the Coventry workhouse recently died
John Fleming. the last survivor OF the
English sailors who fought at Navarino,
where the Turkish navy was destroyed in
1927 by the combined English, French and
Russian fleets.
On the field of Waterloo a topaz seal set
In gold was recently found, bearing the
arms and motto of Viscount Darlington. 1t
belonged to Ensign harrington, who was
killed at Quatre Bras, June 16, 1916, and had
lain undiscovered for Eighty years.
The railroad running from Ismid, near
Constantinople, to Augora, is built entirely
OF iron; bridges, ties, telegraph poles and
all. Three hundred miles long, il has 100
bridges, sixteen tunnels and is the only
railroad in the interior of Asiatic Turkey.
The fire in a Boulder county (Col.) coal
mine, which has been burning for thirty
years, now covers an AREA OF about three
hundred acres. and spouts flame, cinders
and smoke through numerous outlets. 1t has
destroyed property worth millions Of dol
lars.
Buenos Ayres will soon see the compile
ton Of the largest opera house in the world.
1t will seat five thousand spectators and
the stage will hold eight hundred persons.
The house is so constructed that box-hold-
ers can have their carriages driven UP TO
their tiers.