The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-27
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Canada is little larger than the United
jtates.
The Russian government expects. to COM
1901. -.
Pupils in the public schools of France who
are found using tobacco are promptly dis
missed. ts
A Japanese peasant woman goes every
where with bare head. In the cities Eu-
ropean millinery is worn.
"A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican weighs
800 pounds, and is the largest Bible in the
world. 1t is all manuscript.
The largest island in the world is Aus
tralia-greatest length, 2 400 miles; greatest
breath, 1000: area, 2.948.79S square miles.
pounds, is three feet from the tip of his
bill to the tip of the tail and has wings of
seven feet spread.
Peters pence in France used to be $780,
900 francs a year. In 1893 the sum contrib
uted was 100000, and last year it was
less than 100000.
In tree cut down on the Faulconer
place in Spottsylvania, Va. three pistol
balls and a carbine ball We're found en-
beded in the heart.
OF every man and woman living to-day
at the age of twenty-five, one out of two
will live, according to the tables, to be
Sixty-fve years of age.
In the country districts Japanese women
work in the fields like those of continental
Europe; This goes far to account for their
strength and good health.
The first provision for public education
voted that one hundred acres should be
laid forth and appropriated for school.
The Chinese Emperor has his dominion
acknowledged over 4,218,000 square miles of
the earths surface. a territory one-fourth
larger than that of the United States.
Paper straws for drinking iced bever-
straws, are being placed On the market
and so is a peculiar cloth paper for print
ing bank notes on.
The only portion of the human body
To a m iror
in size) throughout life and not to cease
with the attainment of maturity, is the
crystalline lens of the eyes.
Gloves are mentioned in the Talmud as
being worn by the Hebrews In the time
of the judges. Homer mentions them, and
the Greeks of the time of Aenophon ridi-
culed the Persians for wearing them.
Guns are said to have been used by
the Chinese before the beginning of the
Christian era. The oldest dated piece of
European artillery bears an inscription de-
claring that the gun was cast in 1903
Delaware is not large. having only about
1wo tws tss Sze miles nf st and but is
while Connecticut is four times as big, New
Jersey seven times, Massachusetts, eight
and New Hampshire nine times as large
Coats of arms were first employed in Eng
land during the reign of Richard I, and
became hereditary in families in the follow
ing century. They originated from the
painted banners carried by knights and
mobiles.
Pliny describes a boat he had seen which
hot water and some machinery which he
did not understand and could not explain
1t was probably the first attempt at a
steamboat.
The Battle of the Thirty was a duel,
fought in 1851. near Josselin, in France
by thirty English and thirty French knights
to settle a boundary dispute. At first the
English We're successful. but the French
rallied and finally won the day.
Mulhall estimated that the agricultural
earnings of the United States are 49, 400. 600
600; the earnings from manufactures $780,
100000: from mines, $3.50 900 600; from trans
portation, 81, 155, 900; from shipping $780,
100000; from banking, $260Oa0.000.
The sky is whittier over the cultivated
than over the uncultvated portions of the
earth's surface because a great deal of
coarse dust is present in the atmosphere
in the former instance, with the result that
larger proportion Of white light is Diff
fused.
Many razors have been found in the
ruins of Pompei They are of different
shapes, some resembling knives, others he
ing not unlike the razors of the present
day. The barber shops of antiquity were
also provided with bottles of perfume and
boxes of pomatum.
On the wall of a grocer's store in Pompeli
was found the following inscription. Xix.
I'D. IVL. AXVNGIA. Pee. ALIy MAN
VPLOS. CCL.''-xhich has been interpreted
dred pounds; garlic. two hundred lunches"
Whether these articles were bought or sold
does not appear.
Not Qualified to Speak.