The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The number of persons TO square mile
in England is placed at 4S0; In the United
States at seventeen.
There are two places in London where
clergymen can buy sermons already printed.
They cover all subjects, ana can be had
for every season.
An English inventor has devised a trans
parent umbrella covering, so that the car
rier, facing head wind, can see through
it where he's going.
The introduction of sugar into England
is often dated as late as the hfteenth
century; but 1T was really In use In that
country in the thirteenth century.
New England apples find ready sale in
the markets of Germany. Barrels contain
ing two and one half bushels have beer
sold there recently for as much as s. per
barrel.
Wedding rings were first used by Chris
tians about the year $50, but the ancient
Egyptians and Romans used them The
fashion of the plain gold wedding ring Is
Saxon.
Grain riots have already occurred in
several parts of northern and central In
dia on account of the failure or the har-
vest There is no hope of rain there now,
and prices are rising.
The Old scare that the worlds coal Il
near exhaustion is now pretty well ex-
ploded. New coal areas are constantly
being opened, and the old ones are by no
means near exhausted.
1t is a curious fact that in the northern
parts of Ireland and Scotland alphabetical
characters closely resembling those of the
Saxon Were in common, use until the end
of the sixteenth century.
Next to Great Britain and her colonies
and Austria Hungary, the United States II
the greatest consumer or German products,
we are also third in Germanys list OF
rations that supply her with products.
Experts have come to the conclusion IN,
what kills trees in London is not the 500
flakes or the want of air or the drought,
but the sewer gas, which attacks the roofs
so that the tree soon withers and dies.
A woman of Florence Mo, recently
threatened her drunken husband that she
time he did. She stuck to her word once
and her husband has not touched drop
since
1t is a singular fact that as the white
population of Australia increases the blacks
die out. In New South Wales and Victoria
il is becoming a rarity TO see woman
native, except on the reservations given
them by the government
II Is said that in the last twenty-five
wears the members of the Church of Eng
land have voluntarily contributed more
than 500 100000 to foreign and home mis-
sions TO church building ana repair, 10
elementary education and TO charity.
Australia has no orphan asylums Every
child who IS not supported by parents be
comes ward OF the state, and is paid
a pension Tor support, ana paced III q.
private family where hoard and clothes
are provided until the fourteenth birth
day.
he balloon has become a marine life
saving appliance. The big ocean grey
POUNDS will soon. it is thought. re equipped
nth life beats harnessed 10 balloons so as
70 be practically unsuitable This novel
device has been patented by shrewd Con-
ne cticut Yankee
Sedan. where Emperor Napoleon III sur
rendered himself and his army 10 the Ger
mans. is small fortified town of the
French Department of Ardennes. $50 miles
northeast OF Paris. Ii Is famous for having
been the place where the Sedan chair was
invent I'd and first used.
There has been invented new horse
sboe-a steel frame about which is built
cushion of vulcanized rubber. The advan-
tage claimed for il is that as the rubber
instead of metal strikes the ground there
;s no concussion or jar. ard the horses
hoof. leg and shoulder are saved.
Foreigners will be excluded from the
brazilian coasting trade after the begin
ming of next December. By the new aw
then i'm force only vessels owned by Bra
ziiians having Brazilian captains, and at
least two-thirds of the crew Brazilians,
will be permitted to engage in the trade.
In the Kansas State Reform School Is a
twelve-year-old incorrigible. Alonzo Hart.
IT.. whom his parents were at last after
four years Of trouble with him. obliged to
send him away. He has robbed houses aud
stores and stolen horses He began his
criminal career when eight years old and