The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The largest clock is said to be in Buffalo,
n. Y. Its dial plate is twenty-five feet in
diameter.
The largest sponge ever sent to market
was from the Mediterranean. II was ten
feet in circumference and three in dame
ter.
A hot bath, with or without soap, is a
sedative, and a help TO the body when ex-
hausted. 1t is best taken at night, when
tired.
The British isles comprise no fewer than
1000 separate islands and islets, without
counting the jutting rocks or isolated pin
nacleS.
Twenty-Five per cent. of all the babies
born in Russia die before they are a year
old, and AZ per cent. do not reach the age
Of four.
The heaviest man whose weight is re-
corded automatically was Miles Darden. of
Tennessee. He weighed a little less than
1000 pounds.
The table upon which Cromwell wrote
when he affixed his signature to the war
rant for the execution Of Charles ], was
recently sold for f145.
A woman with apparently lots of time of
little value, in Ransom, Mich, has just
completed the sewing Of an even 1900 little
bits of cloth into a patchwork quilt.
Osborne House, Isle or Wight, is the pri-
vate property of Queen Victoria; Windsor
Castle, Buckingham Palace, ETC., belong to
the nation, and cannot be disposed of by the
sovereign.
4ndl "a CCiCOAd lCQ II the lark. Is
quite a sluggard, as 1t does not rise until
long after the chaf.inches, linnets, and a
number of hedgerow birds have been up
and about.
Mexico produces anything that can be
raised in any other country. So varied is
the climate that in the same State can be
raised any product of the tropics and of
the polar region.
In comparison with population the
wealth of the United States is by no means
wonderful, the ration per head being sur
passed in three countries of Europe-Great
Britain, France and Holland.
Cars in which aluminium will be used for
all metal work, save the wheels and axles,
are to be. put on the state railroads of
France, The saving in weight for an ordi-
nary train will be thirty tons. :
In Vienna a bath may be had for 3 cents.
cost is from "a. to ~6,cents: In London a
cold bath costs 2 cents and a warm bath
!. while in Paris the cheapest bath costs
s cents.
Arrangements have been made by the
German military authorities, on the first In
timation OF war, to instantly convey by rail
all the women and children in such large
smaller places, into Germany.
An artificial larynx has been inverted by
/ Prof. Stuart, OF the University Of sydney.
and tried with success on a man who had
lost his voice. The mechanism can be reg
ulated so as to make the voice soprano,
tenor, contralto or bass at will.
1t IS a breach of the eleventh section of
the British Mines Regulation Act. 1887, to
pay men their wages in a public house.
A Hanley man pleaded ignorance OF the
law the other day, and for being enlight-
ened has had TO pay forty-one dollars.
The total railway capital of the world Is
q .o0o,0 100000. of which Great Britain owns
one-sixth. The total mileage of the world
is 10000. and OF this the British empire
has 10000, employing 10000 men and carry
ing annually 900,0oo.oO0 of passengers.
The flying fish is not a supposititious
creature. They are to be constantly met
with in certain ATTITUDES. The flying fish
rises ten or twelve feet out of the water
AID keeps in the air for one hundred yards,
when 1t is obliged to wet its fms by dipping.
AS late as 1850 smoking was allowed In
some. churches in Wales. The communion
table stood in the aisle. and the farmers
were in the habit OF putting their hats
upon Ii, and when the sermon began they
lit their pipes and smoked, but without
any idea of frreTerence.
"Auld Lang Syne'' is of uncertain orig
in, there being several versions Of this
deservediy opular song. One of the besf
Is by Burns, but only the second and third
stanzas are by this poet, the remainder
being from the pen Of Ramsay. The song
IL OF uncertain antiquity.
A report OF the wild animal market In
| Europe issued In Liverpool says that . lion