The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-25
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A restaurant composed entirely Of paper
has been constructed in the port of Ham
burg.
Matches have not yet displaced the tin
der box in certain rural districts of Spain
and Italy.
Insurance companies claim that cycling
is more dangerous than travelling either by
railway or ship.
Imperfect teeth are a sure sign of civil
iZation. Perfect teeth are found, as a rule,
only among SavageS.
1t is always q sure sign of rain when
snuff the air for long time.
In the dominions of the British empire
alone some eight thousand individuals van
1sh every year without leaving any trace.
The Arabic vernacular furnishes a sin
gular illustration of the popularity of war
in the East. 1t has over fifty names for
the sword.
The first locomotive in America was
brought from England in 1929. In the same
year the first American locomotive was
built by Peter Cooper.
The first indigo grown in this country was
from seeds sent by Governor Lucas, of An
tigua, who forwarded them to his daughter
in South Carolina in 1743.
Russia has the most rapid increasing pop
ulation of any country of Europe. The
growth in the last hundred years has been
a fraction under 100000 annually.
The Chinese divide the day into twelve
reckon twenty-four hours round. instead of
two divisions of twelve hours each, as We
do.
Two boys of Haskell county, Kansas. re-
Gently applied a lighted match to a SPUR
reIs tail to see if it would burn. The souir-
rel ran under the house, and the blazing
tail soon set the building fire.
The average yearly profit to the British
government from lotteries from 1888 to 1924
was over $1.70o.0 0o On the ground of in
jury to public morals, lotteries of all kinds
were abolished in England in 1926.
After having escaped work and arrest
for twenty years a Vagrant known as Dad
Stephenson. of Springfield Mo-. who was
taken into custody said that until his night
in Jail he had not in ali that time once slept
in q bed.
A feature of the population statistics of
western Australia is the large proportion
of males to females. The disparity is main-
tanned in the arrivals by sea. At present
there are forty-five females to every one
hundred males.
Duplay, and during the bloodiest days of
the revolution spent his evenings at home
with wit. her and her mother. You would think
him a priest" she wrote; he read to US
poetry and the Bible
There was a Californian in Los Gatos,
twenty-five years ago who died and left
school children. The fund is still faithfully
administered and in Los Gatos that tes-
tator is bigger than Washington
One of the oldest of actual specified dis
eases would probably be smallpox, which,
on the authority of Masudi, attacked the
African tribes who made excursions into
ter half of the sixth century, a. d.
gold coin passes from one to another
1000. 100000 times before the stamp or i'm
preston upon it becomes obliterated by
friction, while a silver coin changes be-
tween $3.50 000, 900 times before it becomes
entirely defaced, says a calculator.
The great city of London Invested of ia
BILE, began on the bank of the Thames sur
rounded on all sides except the river by a
buwark of forest interspersed with
SwampS. and Paris rose on an island of the
Seine. with a protecting wall of water all
around.
In Minnesota there is a girls school of
only one in the country 1t is quite old
now, and the results are quite satisfac-
tory. The students receive instructions i'm
cooking. canning, household chemistry, en-
tomoloSy and sewing.
Verona, in Italy. boasts of a pair of
twin sheep each having six legs. The extra
legs are hind ones, of the same size as the
normal ones, though they do not reach to
the ground The owner viii not sell them
to q museum, as he thinks he can make
more out of them as mutton.
Mention may be made of an inscription
according to PennanD on a tomb in Con-
way, England churchyard: Here lietn tha
tleman, who was the forty-first child of his
father, William Hooker by Alice. his wife;
ESQ., nsa the father OF 'wen'y-SeVen children
In 1772 slavery was declared by the Judges
to be contrary to the law of England but
during the years Immediately preceding
country. In the previous year the Bir-
mingham Gazette advertised for sale "a
negro boy, sound healthy and of mild dis
position
Information comes from ST. Petersburg
that the transportation of convicts to ST.
IBERIA Is about to be brought TO an end
General Duchovski. the Governor-general
of Siberia. has urged in high quarters the
acceleration of this measure, and 1t is ex-
pected that imperial order to this effect
will be issued shortly.
The authorities at one time We're so con-
WINGED that Europeans could not live in In
dia without alcoholic stimulants that they
actually prohibited the formation of tenn
perance societies among the soldiers. The
theory Is now altogether changed, and the
English soldiers in India include no fewer
than 90 900 total abstainers.