The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
OUT OF HI ORDINARY.

1t is not generally known that Sunday is
a legal holiday in all the States of the
Union.
Every Saturday afternoon is a legal holt
day in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
A French explorer recently found an AS
syrian loaf of bread supposed to have been
baked $50 B.. c.
A piece of iron was found in an air pas
sage of the great pyramid which has been
there b. C.. 3700.
The fattening of live stock on cottonseed
hulls and meal is becoming an importaIlt
feature in the South
People turn their faces toward a sound
in order to hear it better. because then the
sound Is conveyed to both ears.
The largest continuous street railway
in the United States is the f-orty-two.mile
strip from Lowell to Haverhill, Mass.
The annual fire loss from incendiarism
in the United States and Canada is $39, OO0,-
600, according to conservative estimates.
A radish three feet and eight inches in
length and twenty-five inches in circum-
ference is on exhibition at Winter Haven,
Fla.
All Saints Day, Nov. /. is said to have
been begun by Pope Boniface Nv, about
6o7. and was established by Gregory ~,
Probably the most extraordinary journal
in the world is published weekly at Athens.
1t is written entirely in verse, even to the
advertisements.
Over 400 diamonds are known to have been
recovered from the ruins of Babylon. Many
are uncut, but most are polished on one or
two sides only.
the largest single gift made to Yale College.
Inc money came from Governor Yale, the
founder of the college.
Buenos Ayres will soon witness the COM
pletion Of the largest opera house in the
world. It will seat 5000 persons, and the
stage will hold 800 people.
The vast region called Western Siberia
forms less than one-ffth of Siberia, but
contains two-thirds of the population-num-
bering nearly 5000, 600 souls.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps at an
elevation OF $500 feet; in Brazil, at 5000; in
the Caucasus, at 5000; in Abyssinia, at TO-
coo; in Peru and Bolivia, at 1900.
An examination of the earthen vases
found at Troy and elsewhere shows that
they must have been turned on a potter's
wheel, just as are those nowadays.
The Japanese are fond of bathing. In the
city OF Toxic there are 800 public bath
houses in which a person can take a bath,
hot or cold, for the sum equal to one half
penny.
The French industry of icing milk is an
original departure in timed commodities.
The milk is frozen and placed in block form
into tins, and on the part of the purchaser
requires to be melted previous to use.
The highest death rate of any town in the
civilized world is that of the City Of Mexi-
io-40- per 1000. TIL city is 1900 feet above
sea level, but in spite of this fact it's defec-
tive drainage makes the mortality very
great
The Lulea-Gellivare railroad, built for
the purpose OF carrying IRON ore from the
Gellivare mines to the seaport at Lulea, ex-
tends fifty miles above the arctic circle and
enjoys the distinction of being the first
railroad to open up the frigid zone.
A note of warning was sent to all the prin-
cipals of the public schools in New York,
at the instance of Superintendent Jasper,
forbldd1ng the collection of money by the
pupils in schools for the purpose of making
presents to any of the teachers or for any
other object.
"A Philadelphia phrenologist has examined
SIDD heads in tbirfU PC Tho vpo1lac
adult head that ever came under his OBJ
servation measured sixteen inches in cir
conference, and the largest tWenty-six
inches. Each was the head of a man of
fair intelligence.
The streets of Toronto are sprinkled by a
trolley water car. The city contracts with
the street car company to sprinkle the
streets and with the trolley tank the COM
pany does it for sixty-ive cents a mile a
year. In the hot weather the principal
streets are sprinkled every thirty minutes.
A Mexican paper states that a new pro-
ject for the sanitation of the sewers in the
City of Mexico. at a cost of about So, 900.
calls for the building of some twenty-five
windmillS in different parts of the CITY to
rotate paddle wheels in the sewers and
quicken the current to one meter per sec
ond.
1t is claimed for the University of Penn
sylvania that for the second time in it's
history it is the third largest university in
first. with something over 1900 students:
Harvard second. with about $500, Pennsyl-
vania coming next with 2, 1889, and Yale cora-
ing fourth, with 1850.