The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The first fire engine used in this country
was brought from England TO New York IN
i731.
The wealthy Hebrews of Bagdad now
cwn all that remains of the ancient town
OF Babylon
The first iron nails mae in this country
were hammered into SHAPE at Cumberland
r l., in III.
The Gazette de France, which was
founded in 1851, is the Oldest newspaper
In the world.
Only twenty-four white elephants have
been captured since the beginning of the
Christian era.
The largest room in the world is in
the imperial palace at ST. Petersburg. 1t
Is 100 feet long by $50 wide.
The. merchant ships Of the United King
no European power has so much as 100000.
No human head was impressed on coins
until after the death OF Alexander the
Great ALI images before that time were OF
deities.
The salaries Of the eight thousand teach
ers Of Georgia. due on Nov. l. have not
yet been paid. because there is no money IN
the State treasury.
state forest of Victoria, Australia. Tney
belong to the eucalyptus family and range
from $50 TO 500 feet in height
The farther north the more injurious to
the human system is the use Of coffee.
Greenlanders have found it necessary to
prohibit its use by the young.
The workers at Barrow on Furness make
i a poin. Of carrying black cat on every
that this brings luck TO the ship.
DR.. j. w. Spencer places the age of Nj
agard river at 81 900 years, and that or the
cataract at 81 900 years. At one period.
many thousand years ago, the height of the
falls was 40 feet
1t has been estimated that at least 2l1
per cent of the entire population of the
United States make their living out OF the
electric light and power industry and the
. branches of trade directly dependent upon
Illinois has a greater number of miles of
railro&d than any other State. 10.599.59.
Pennsylvania is second. with 1906 miles
Texas third. with 9222.S So miles. Rhode
Island has the least mileage, 22l.O6. New
York has sO7S.25 miles: Ohio. s.599.23; In
diana. 6.2952S-
A German physician says that Stanley
owes the fact that he has survived the tn,
having submitted five times to a transfu-
sion OF African blood into his veins. which
Is believed in Africa to be a great aid to
acclimatization.
There Is a home for women inebriates
In Brooklyn, N. Y, kept by a woman of
whom the Brooklyn physicians speak high
ly. The patients are not treated like priS-
oners but are amused and entertained in
different ways, going to the theater and
other places of amusement.
In contradiction of the assertion that
English sparrows drive away other birds.
a Bangor. Me-, man says that all last sea-
son a pair of yellow birds nested in q tree
in his garde1 which was fa ave- t;dT resort S
terniZcd and had no trouble.
In many parts of Germany, particularly
in the Hartz mountains. women make a
good income solely on canarfeS. They give
up two or three rooms in the house to
them. and i'm one room sometimes have as
many as two hundred cages, each contain
ing q pair of birds busily engaged III rails
ing families
The number and size of modern manu-
factories In Shanghai will surprise those
who havI Se st1died 1his mills WiS
900 spndles either working or about
ready for operation There are eight cot
ton-ginning plants. with thirty-two to sew
enty-two gins each, most of which are run
ming
The present so-caIled famine in India is
not likely TO prove serious. There is a
ana viii be readily supplied. Former
famines-like that in Orissa, which de-
stroyed ten million lives--have been disas-
munication and transportation between the
provinces.
The origin of the sidesaddIe in England
is attributed to Joan Stuteyille, OF the
manor Of Hessle. five miles W.S.W. of Hull.
The ancient manor of Hessle was formerly
in the possession of the Stutevilles. Lady
Stuteville carried the estates TO Hugh de
Wake and the device on her seal exhibited
q lady In that posture, hClding the bride
In her right hand.
On the Monday before election day clerks
in Henry Kurtz's grocery store at Sagi-
nav. Mich, saw a bee fly in and eventually
make it's way to a shelf where there was a
lot of new honey. The bee came back with
more bees. and on the following day so
many came that the clerks were driven
from the place and only recovered posses
sion after a hard tussle.
Starvation caused seventy-one deaths in
London the last week of October. as
against thirty-nine i'm the previous year.
In only few cases vas the privation that
led TO the fatal Issue due to self-neglect.
The majority of cases as, We're women and
widows of lsborers. None OF these poor
lief. - = '' '''~
In Genoa there are regular marriage
brokers, who have pocketbooks filled with
tie names OF the marriageable girls of the
different classes. with notes of their figures,
personal attractions. fortune and other cir
cumStances. These brokers go about en-
deavoring to arrange connections in the
same off hand mercantile manner which
they would bring TO bear upon a merchan-
disc transaction
Some three thousand people are employed
at BASES Burton breweries. and the num-
Der OF clerks employed is nearly three hum
dred. The brewerieS cover about two hun
dred acres OF land. The annual output Is
of bottling labels with the red pyramid
on them is about 23000O.OO0. Moreover. no
less than $1,000 acres are employed in
growing hops for the manufacture of
Bass ale.
Baron Ferdinand Rothschild possesses
an old '.grandfather'S' clock that original
ly cost over $lJf0O0. The mechanism records
the day of the week month of the year.
the phases of the moon and strikes each
hour. The quarters are chimed with diff
ferent bell. and Ia rare thing with these
was made by Wertheimer and stands four
teen feet high. IL was originally the prop
erty OF Louis XVI