The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-24
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Hollow castiron bricks are used for house
building in Germany.
In Brazil a couple may be married by
drinking brandy together.
Over 81 per cent. of the population Of
Philadelphia live in houses having but one
family each.
A scientist says if money were made OF
alloy OF gold and aluminium counterfeit
ing would be almost impossible.
There are $50 iron and steel manufactur-
ing establishments in Pennsylvania. with
an invested capital Of over $200,000,0O0
The negro race in Africa is subject to a
disease which is the reverse of insomnia.
Its victims are in danger of sleeping to
death.
In Sydney, Australia. 1t is the fashion to
keep the bodies of the dead ell Sunday in
order to insure a Large attendance at the
funeral.
at the age of twenty-five. one out of two
will live according TO the tables, to be
sixty-five years Of age.
1t is estimated that foreign stocks
amounting to s., .Oe50o0 are held in
Great Britain, and the interest receivable
upon them $145, 100000 per annum.
In Berlin every cab has registering ma
chine that tells the passenger exactly what
he has to pay, and tells the owner of the
cab what has been earned by the driver.
Street bands are not permitted in Ger
many unless they accompany PROFESSIONS
IN IN Senn nn,v Ihe midSay and sunset
Des Moines. the capital of Iowa, stands
on the site of Fort Des Moines, a United
States post from 1892 to 1897, and then the
frontier.
OF the forty colonies Of the regular army
only eighteen are graduates of West Point;
Of the forty tors eo aw ny
and of the 430 captains only 1SS.
dispatch from Egan, S. d. reports the
discovery of tomb containing the skele-
tons of twenty-five men averaging eight
feet in height. rude altar and many
bronze utensils were also exposed.
With the completion of the street-rail-
way line between Lowell and Haverhill,
becoming what is claimed to be the long
est continuous street railway in the coun-
| try.
In the annual parade of truck horses held
gigantic horses each measuring eighteen
hands-that is. standing just six feet high
| at the shoulders-and weighing at least a
| ton.
Nevada is the most sparsely settled State.
| There are nearly two and half square
| miles to each inhabitant; next comes Idaho,
with one inhabitant TO each square mile.
| Montana and Wyoming each have less than
| one.
| The check cannot be proved TO have ex-
| listed in the commercial transactions OF Eu-
rope outside of Italy, until late in the sew
| enteenth or early in the eighteenth CEN
| fury In England they were not used until
| about 1760
| The largest walnut tree ever known in
this country was felled in Leayenworth
county, Kansas. and taken TO the world S
| fair. Ii was seventy-five feet high and two
| carloads of lumber were taken from its
| limbs alone.
| simple way TO remember the difference
between the harmless Virginia creeper and
(, poison ivy is this: If the vine has five
leaves corresponding TO the hve ringers OF
| your hand you may handle 1t; IL II has
| only three leaves beware.
The vaterworks of Denver, Col, are re-
markable for their use OF wooden pipes.
| These are thirty TO forty-eight inches in
diameter built of slaves or Texas pine
banded with iron Since 1889 over sixteen
| miles of this pipe has been laid.
Robinson Crusoe'' was offered in turn
/ to every publisher in London and refused
| by ALL AT last one book. seller known
| for his speculative ventures. undertook its
1 publicatio and made over 1,o0e guineas.
| IL has made the fortunes OF scores Of pub
| fishers since is appearance
The most wonderful cliff jewellers in the
United States are those of the Mancos, in
| a southern Colorado canyon. Some of these
caves five hundred or six hundred feet
I from thu bottom Of the perpendicular sides
| OF the canyon wall. and how their occu-
pants gained ingrSsS is a mystery
According TO recent statistics there are
| now in Japan 6i3 Christian missionaries.
4 81. churches tof which seventy-eight are
disappearing and $500 church members.
| OF whom 1886 were added during the last
| year. There are also 1885 pupils In Chr -
| tian schools, and 21VoV Sunday school
| scholars.
The late Henry Jackson Ruthrauff. of
| Warrensburg. Pa, in 1881 built the town