The Indianapolis journal., 1895-09-22
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are more than $50 acres in extent.
No picture is hung on the walls OF the
Louvre. In Paris, until the artist shall have
been dead ten years.
petrified frog found in an Elmira, ". Y,
stone. quarry in 1888 was feet s inches in
length and weighed over 100 pounds.
In the showrooms of Joseph Rodgers &
Sons, Sheffield. England. Is knife with
a blade for every year of the Christian
era.
Chicago has bird hospital, the only one
OF its kind. it is said. in this country. Here
sick and wounded birds are received and
cared for.
The Mikado of Japan has no mere 1oricul-
tural little country to reign over. He is the
sovereign Of 100000 people, who live in
l3,o towns and villages.
Pins, from their extensive use, are impor-
tant articles of manufacture. 1t is stated
that there are made in England, for home
daily.
The first coach in England was built in
1865 for the Earl of Rutland. In 1861 a stage
coach was two days going from London to
Oxford. and the flying coach in summer was
thirteen hours
The sheep is the only animal that is
made vicious by petting. A young ram
that is raised by hand. at the house. be-
comes bold and soon learns to attack cat
tie and persons.
A treatise on natural history was forbid
den in Turkey because in its chapter on star
fish 1t was supposed to contain some occult
allusion to the Sultan's palace. which is
named The STAR
A single pumpkin vine on Mrs. NJ. A.
Lees lot, in Fredopia, KAN, covers one
fourth Of an acre, nourishes "a large pump
kins, and has 225 blossoms that Will do
business until frost.
New York has the greatest amount of cap
ital invested in farm implements and ma
chinery, the sum total being $40. .6o9. 465;
Pennsylvania is second, with $S9, ,Oi6, $50; Iowa
is third. with sS6, ,66o,3la
miniature electric line suspended from the
iron girders of the roof is used for convey
ing parcels and luggage from one part OF
the building to another.
born whitish. In month they become pale
yellow; in a year. brown; at four, dirty
black, and at six or seven, glossy black.
The change is in the mucous membrane,
below the cuticle.
Solomon was called by the Jews of his
time the White King, from the color Of the
robes he wore. The allusion made in the
New Testament to the lily of the field
white flower. in connection with Solomon,
is thus made clearer.
General Annenkoff, a Russian geogra-
pher, is preparing atlas on a new
principle. The places on the maps will be
put down not according to actual distance
from a standard point. but according to
the cost of transportation
dropped a bowl of butter in well at At
talla, Ala. The other day the well was
cleaned out and the bowl found. In it the
butter still remained intact, and as pure
and fresh as when put in the well.
Seven distilleries are engaged in distilling
oil in the peppermint fields at Decatur.
Mich. The spring frosts did not cause the
amount of damage to the plants which was
feared at the time, and the yield of oil per
acre is nearly as large as last season.
If girls were taught to carry small jars
iof water on their heads without spilling
drop of it, Indian or Italian fashion, they
would gain a greater grace and suppleness
In carriage than any system of backboards
or dumb-bells could give, says an authority.
Alligators grow slowly. At fifteen years
of age they are only two feet long. A
twelve-footer may be supposed TO be
seventy-five years old. 1t is believed that
they grow as long as they live, and prob
ably they live longer than any other AMI
NAL.
A monster chain forty kilometers twen-
ty-five niles long is being made for Ger
many at the Wattelar works, Jurnet. Bel
GUM, the total weight being $50 tons, so
that sxty-eight ten-ton wagons, or a
whole train, will be required for its car
riage.
venomous snakes are slow in doing mis-
chief. The cobra di capello, the toy of In
dian jugglers. retains its fangs, but never
uses them except to resent injuries, and
then, opening its crest and Missing Violent
ly, 1t darts on its victim, who has notice to
escape.
An authority on hypnotism says that
hysterical persons are very difficult to in
fancies-mental and physcal-that they
prove very obstinate hypnotic patients.
Even If an influence is gained, 1t passes of
very quickly.
One of the most singular pecuiarities
of the floral world is the evening prim-
rose, which opens about o'clock p. m.
with an explosion not very loud nor
formidable but still quite perceptible TO
any one who Is watching the bud. 1t re-
mains open all night
The oldest building in the world that has
been uninterruptedly used for church pur-
poses is st. Martins Cathedral at Canter-
bury, England. The building was originally
erected for church and has been regu-
larly used as a place for religious gather
ings for more than 1,500 years.
Fifteen thousand pilgrims annually visit
st. Baume. in Provence, not far from Mar
seilles where Mary Magdalene is said to
have spent the last thirty years of her life.
The legend runs that Mary Magdalene
came from Judea in a small boat with
Lazarus, Martha, the two Marys and
Salome.
The municipality of Geneva now claim
that they have the largest fountain in the
world. This fountain has been erected
at the poets entrance of that city. 1t
is no less than three hundred feet in
height, and may be seen from a great dis
tance, detaching itself like a great white
sail Tapping through the effect Of the wind.
The Game IL on.