The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-05
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The population of London increases by
10000 each year.
A white buzzard was lately shot in Texas,
having on its neck bell marked 1850"
and Rails county,. Missouri
BY short passage of AS miles the Lam
guedoc ship canal, in France, saves sea
voyage Of nearly two thousand miles by the
Straits of Gibraltar.
ing manufactured in Silesla- They are trans
lucent, without its being possible to see
through them, strong and cheap.
The Beers are descended from the Hugue-
the Edlct of Nantes, and from the Holland
ers who engrated at various times in search
of civil and religious liberty.
The first discovery of coal is quite I'M
sns for IT. but ace e st Oca sfm record
have is an alleged license of Henry III to
dig at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1874.
The first trolley line in America, it is said,
was built in 1884 on one of the small piers
at Coney Island. The first extensive prac-
teal application of the trolley in this coun-
try was at Baltimore, Nd, Aug. 8, 1885,
Though butterflies are often blown out to
observers TO belong to a different species to
the ordinary land butterflies, there are none
which can be said to live on the sea.
After the Jewish war and the capture and
Hebrews were sold into captivity that the
price of slaves in the East, Asia Minor and
greece, went uOW0 10 ABOUT savings
William Blackford of Lisbon, Me-, is but
There is nothing extraordinary in this, but
the fact that he already stands six feet,
eight and one-half inches in his stockings.
In Sparta young lads were trained to beat
and even murder slaves for amusement, or
as practice in arms. During one night no
fewer than three thousand unfortunates
were thus massacred IN the streets or
Sparta
The Bank Of England has 1.16o officials on
its pay-rolis, when amount to about s., 500,-
600 year. and one thousand clerks. If a
clerk is. late three minutes he receives a
warning; the fourth time he Is discharged
at once
Life insurance experts contend that a
woman who is in good health at the. age
OF forty-five is likely to outlive a man of the
same aee, because she is, as rule, more
temperate in habits, and is less liable to
accidents. W
Prince Bismarck received about 21s,oOO
postal cards from as many admirers con-
graduating him on his eightieth birthday.
These cards had total weight of 1921
pounds and piled up in one column would
have reached height of 80 feet.
The lines of no two human hands are
just alike. When traveller to China de-
sires a passport the palm OF his hand is
covered with fine oil paint and an impress
sion is taken on thin. damp paper. This
paper. officially signed. is his passport.
Country roads in China are never bounded
by fences, but are entirely underlined. While
the FARMER mas a TlEul 10 ploW up dlt3 Iudu
passing through his land. drivers of vehicles
have an equal right-and they exercise it,
to traverse any part OF the country at large.
The Bishop of Bedford ayers that the
East London district contains a population
Of million and half, nearly all poor.
From this statement some idea will be had
OF the vastness OF the work the clergy are
called upon 10 perform. The difficulty OF
raising funds for SO great q work is very
great
There Is on record an extraordinary In
Milan. A woman of that city, named Eliza
beth. from q depraved appetite. had an In
she made provision by enticing children into
her home, where she killed and salted them;