The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Al the present DAY a ION OF diamonds
would be worth $3o 100000.
A mummy was found about 1127 with
teeth filed with amalgan.
The first coins of precious metals were
made by the Greeks in 1863.
Steam was applied to river and ocean
navigation by Fulton in 1907.
Electric light was first successfully used
in photography by Van der Weyde, in 1876.
The new Conservatory of Music in Mos
cow is about completed. 1t will cost $780,
900.
Germany has twenty-six thousand of the
fifty-one thousand breweries said to be in
the world.
1t takes an expenditure of nearly 5000
to carry a vessel like the Majestic across
the Atlantic.
Pepin, the Short, father of Charlemagne,
was only five feet high, but had a beard
down to his waist.
The number of unmarried men in England
and Wales exceeds the number of unmar-
ried women by zoe, 600.
Disraeli was the first Jew to become a
member of a British government. He was
made Premier on Feb. Is, 1868.
The Lucania is the largest mail steamer
af1oat, and the Campanfa comes second.
Their official register is about $4,000 tons.
The general testimony of European coun-
ment is that there has been no increase Of
CRIME.
A new census of Russia will be taken in
the fall. The idea is to complete the work
in 1856.
THE coroners' inquests of London show
eighty deaths a year from hunger, without
counting persons who commit suicide in
extreme want.
At Singapore the post of "tiger-slayer-in-
chief for the Straits settlements has just
been given to a. Frenchman with a record
of five hundred tigers killed.
The smallest diocese in the world is said
to be that of st; Helena. Besides the bishop.
DR.. Thomas E.. Welby, whose salary is
5000 If has only three clergymen.
The established religions of this coun-
try show the following increases during
churches. 1870: communicants, 2,s57,2os.
Last year Eastern people who were at
tracted to Los Angeles by it's matches
climate and other advantages added LOO
residences to the population of that city.
The number of depositors in the Paris
savings banks was 1856 at the beginning
of 1884, and 645. TAI at the end, while the
deposits increased from $50, 900 francs to-
159, O00,0 900 francs.
Chinese custom keeps women in the
background: You seldom meet the wives
ladies' are never invited. and foreigners
are. not expected to bring their wives.
Papyrus leaves over three thousand years
old have been found at Thebes, describing
their capture, and at Pompeii ancient adj
vertisements have been deciphered on the
walls.
The first London street to be lighted with
gas was Golden lane, in 1907. Two. years
later gas lamps were lpsgyat up up on T,all Mall
district of the metropolis was thus illumi-
mated.
A body of Sahara troops is to be raised
by France In her arid African possessions,
They are to consist mainly of natives of
those regions, but the officers will be
Frenchmen.
be cleaned by laying them for a few sec
onds in a mixture of one part sulphuric
acid asa and 1,n hfty parts arts a aion6a, washing snd rgn With
dry with a linen rag.
Bells are tolled in some districts of
France when frost IS threatened Imme-
tar between the rows of vines. The tar is
lighted, and volumes of dense smoke arise,
thus protecting the vines.
Babes in the Woods was founded on an
actual crime committed in Norfolk near
Wayland Woods in the fifteenth century:
An old house in the neighberhood is still
is carved the entire history.
An old gray parrot may live for a hundred
American prairie land where no Christmas
is kept, but they are exceptions. AS a rule
bird life is held on short tenure.
The smallest watch in the world has just
been completed by some Bombay jewelers..
1t is not larger than a two-anna bit about
perfect ieweled lever movement and a fully
compensated chronometer balance.
In Paris the practice of doctoring fruit
by coloring it is quite COMMON The latest
development of this business is in connec-
ton with pears, which are dyed red over
a third of their area and blue below, thus
presenting the national colors when peeled.
Divorce has been legal in France now
for eight years. The first year the num-
Der granted was 1,7uo, the second. 1000; in
1894 It was 5000. The total for eight years
is 10000. The working classes supply the
largest proportion, AZ per cent; the peas
ants the smallest, z per cent.
Two comets return to perihelion during
the coming year. The first, the well-known
Encke's comet, which has been seen at
twenty-six consecutive returns since 1918,
was nearest the sun on Feb. A.; the other,
discovered in 1884 at Lick observatory, will
be at its nearest point on June 8, when it
will be about as far from the earth as the
planet Mars.