The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-16
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The British Empire, in 1888. did not con- cor
| tain 5OOO0,O0O inhabitants; now 1t mas 5oo,-
OOc Ooo and is still growing.
Camels are perhaps the only animals that
cannot SWIM Immediately upon entering
water they turn on their backs ana are
drowned.
A mole's home in the earth has always
| four or five outlets. BY means of one or
the other the inmate is always able to
elude danger.
The vine attains a great age. continuing
| fruitful for at least four hundred years 1t
is supposed TO be equal TO the oak as re-
| CARDS longevity.
At the junction of Cheapsde and Alders-
gate street, London, there were counted, In
one day, lately, 1900 carriages and 1900
| foot passengers.
The FIVE civilized tribes are re 5t the Shero-
saws, 49,: Choclaws, 1887; Greeks, li,6S2;
Seminoles, 2561.
During the last twenty years it is claimed
that the consumption of alcoholic liquor in
England has fallen of one-half while 1t
has doubled in France.
An Old Orchard, Me-. man, who ran a
needle into his foot extracted the same IN t bs
local electric light plant.
Statistics prove that nearly wo-thrds
of all the letters carried by the postal serv-
ices of the world are written. sent TO and
read by English-speakng people.
Glencoe, in Scotland. where. according to
local legends, when it is not raining, II is
showing, the annual rainfall is ia inches,
or nearly as rluch as S1tka, IN AlaSka
According TO the Commander-in-chief OF
India, fifty thousand out of seventy thou
sand men composing the army have been
sent to the hospitals within two years
A Parsee sacred fire. which Is burning in
have not been eXtingu;shed since the days
of Rapbereth, who lived twelve centuries
Ii was stated some time ago by of
the heads of departments or the London
* Northwestern Railway that that COM
tickets.
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced smoking
into England. and IN the house where he
on shield. on the top of which was TO-
bacoo pipe.
The Indian manufactures were confined
to the making OF canoes. the building or
lodges. the weaving of baskets and coarse
fabrics. and the making or rude weapons
and images
There are no undertakers in Japan. When
a person dies il is the custom of mis- nearest
relatives TO put him into coffin and bury
him and the mourning does not begin until
after burial.
The ursan population of this country, that
is the population living in towns OF four
thousand and upward. constituted IN 1870
30 Fer cent Cf the who!e. IN i.SS ene
In 1887 there were thirteen electric roads
in the United States, operating about one
hundred cars. There are now in this coun-
try not less than $50 electric railways, ag-
gregating 1900 miles of track and operdt-
ing 1000 cars.
Stockings and clothing are now made
from 'nettle woor'@of all things IN the
special treatment with olive oil, yields fab
rics of great warmth and with all the ad-
vantages of flannel
In Holland the laws of nature seem TO
be reversed. The sea is higher than the
lard. The lowest ground in the country is
twenty-four feet below high water mark,
ard when the tide is driven high by the
wind no less than thirty feet.
Before one of the New York subcommit-
tees Of investigation gas meters received at
metep regstered in Wet most
or dry atmosphere; that the gas OF differ
ent companies would register differently on
the same meter.
Divorce has been legal in France now for
granted was LOO; the second, 5000; in 1884,
II was 5000; the total for eight years is 49,
coo. The working classes supply the largest
proportion, AZ per cent; the peasants the
smallest, per cent.
A single log. thirty-two feet long: six and
10.l5S feet of lumber, was cut from tree
felled in Mason county. Washing ton. last
re the eis p iT of the tree several short
logs measuring eleven feet in diameter were
cut from the lower part.
The Frauenkrche Church of Our Lady,.
at Dresden. is bull. entirely of stonc, even
TO the dome. which is of such solid con-
| struction that the shells and balls directed
against IL by Freueflck the Oredt, curing
the seven years war. in 1850. rebounded
from it's surface. The inside is fitted up
just like ii theater, with pit, boxes, etc.
The French are experimenting with sim
gle-track temporary railroad that can be
laid on a country road or across the fields.
They expect TO use II in military operations
and in harvesting crops. The barrows and
| cars used are on the bicycle principle and
! they can be operated either by hand or
| horse mower The gain in the use of the rail
| is the great diminution of friction.
1t is said that there are in the State of
| Kansas twenty well-built towns without a
| single inha oitant. Saratoga, in that State
| has $4,000 opera house, large brick no.
| tel. a $4,000 school house. and number of
| fine business houses, and we; there is not a
| single person to claim that city as his
| home. At Fargo a herder and his family
constitute the sole population of what was
| once an Incorporated city.