The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Throughout the entire world there are
annually about 10000 suicides
United States postage stamps '>are the
most valuable to foreign collectors.
In 1900 per cent of our population lived
in cities. In 1890 it had increased % per
cent.
The manufacture of tinware in England
originated in a trade secret stolen from
Holland.
Eight thousand tons of gold have been
mined throughout the world during the
present century,
yineIaEn,d, n: j., has a paper bottle fac,
the United States
Statistics show that Russia produces and
consumes q smaller quantity of beer than
any other nation.
1t is claimed that one-tenth of the mem
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
the South live In Texas.
Incandescent lamps are ridculously cheap
In Sweden, tine price OF those with all volt
ages up TO 125 being about 20 cents.
The scales used in the London mint can
show the difference in the weight Of card
after a name has been written upon 1t.
The first glass windows in western Eu-
rope were made by a Greek in 54S for
church built by the Frank King Chidlebert.
Phidias understood the art Of softening
ivory SO as from a single tusk TO produce
a plate from twelve to twenty inches
broad.
The United States government issues
bank notes of the following denominations:
ST. 81, s., So $40, $50 500, $500, $1,000. 5000
and $4,000.
The annual salary of the Queen Of Eng
land IS N.92o,OO; the Prince of Wales gets
100000. and the rest of the royal family
somewhat smaller amounts.
Plowmen and reapers in Bohemia are
paid 80 cents a day; females employed at
the same labor receive 20 cents neither
board nor lodging being furnished.
Thirteen of the smaller German states
ial oro1
Connecticut might be laid down in the
State of Colorado a score Of times
The home Of the Hebrews was about the
was not as large as Maine, and that of
the Romans was smaller than Montana.
Modern study of bird habits reveals the
fact that nearly all birds are the friends
rather than the enemies of farmers as they
prefer insects and pests to grain and fruit
The Van Rensselaer, House, near Albany,
is believed TO be the oldest inhabited house
in the United States. The building was
erected in 1912 Of bricks imported from Hol-
land.
In the middle ages the value of count
as fighting man was f. per month; of a
baron, I'll; of knight, 10 shillings:, of a
man at arms, shillings; of an archer, 6
pence.
Some Of the early kings of England and
France, when they were travelling, were at
tended by coiners, who supplied them with
money as 1t was needed, fresh from the
portable mints.
a German female farm hand employed in
hoeing the fields receives from u to II
cents a day, with schnapps at 9 O'Clock,
potatoes and coffee at noon and black
| bread and beer at 4.
1t is not generally known that Baltimore
has become the headquarters of the spirit
| ualists of the United States. Believers
| have proposed the erection of a 81, 900, 900
| church in that city.
Sweden is said to be the most Protestant
| country in the world. OF the popula ton
| of coo there are only 1000 Roman Cath
| olics the remainder Of the population be-
| longing almost entirely TO the Lutheran
| Church
Before the enactment of patent laws
workmen were put on oath never to reveal
| the process of manufacture on work on
which they were engaged. Visitors were
excluded and false operations blinded the
! artisans themselves.
| A curious feature of Japanese journalism
| is that every important paper is said &c
| have prison editor" Japanese journal.
| lists are so constantly being fined and sent
| to prison that the sole occupation of the
| individual is to go to Jail when called upon
| The punishment for drunkenness in ST
| Petersburg is to make the offender, no mat
| ter what his social position, sweep the
| streets. Weli-attired gentlemen some OF
| them in dress suits, are occasionally seer
| sweeping the streets after nights Carouse
| Diamonds occur in the United States in
| two regions. one extends along the south
| ern base of the Allegheny mountains from
| Virginia to Georgia; the other on the west
| cade ranges in northern California and
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