The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

No death warrant has been signed by
a sovereign of Great Britain during the
! last $50 years
During the last fifty years Great Britain
has been at war more frequently than any
other nation. The total number is forty
wars for fifty years.
In Nicaragua, with the temperature in
the heat is seldom oppressive, owing to the
influence of the trade winds.
Window plants should not be taken out
to the garden and syringed with cold water
when in bloom; it will check the flowers
and may destroy them altogether
Tea was first imported into England from
Holland in 1900. In 1866 it was sold in Lon
don at sixty shillings per pound, and con-
tinued at this exorbitant price until 1907.
A Bridgeport Comm couple sold their
want it back again. AS the purchasers of
the child refuse to yield the little one the
parents have begun suit
Almost everyone in Hyderabad India is
armed to the teeth, and the spears, sabres
daggers and pistols which CLEAN amid the
white and crimson robes, or bristle in sash
or turban, convert the entire city into a
formidable armory.
King James's Bible is the English trans
lation now in use. 1t took about three
years to translate. The work was per-
formed by forty-seven of the best classical
scholars at the universities. The transla-
ton came out in 1911.
The Chicago postoffice is being demoI-
ished. 1t was built in 1880, at a cost of
$4,125,000. Last winter it was found to have
settled SO MUCH that it was declared I'M
safe. and in May it was sold old build
ing material for $15,519.
There are sheep in Japan, and wool is
not used as clothing, silk and cotton being
the staples. There are no pigS-pork is an
unknown article of diet, and lard is not
used in cooking. Neither are there any
goats or mules or donkeyS
Every scion of a reigning house from
the very moment of setting foot on French
soil, is Swallowed by a perfect crowd OF
members of the secret ponce who exercise
a surveillance that only ceases with the
departure of the illustrious guest.
A serpent in confinement has been known
to refuse all food for period of twenty
one months. A viper will live ten months
without food, and bear six months, while
even morse VIII live twenty-five days
without solid food merely drinking water
The apple crop of the United States and
Canada last year was estimated to be from
81, GOO TO 60,0000 900 barrels, from 1000
900 to 10000, 900 barrels more than were ever
produced in any previous year. This years
crop will equal. if not surpass, that of last
year.
The policy of the British War Office in
allowing military savings banks to die out
is explained by the report on the working
1885. AS in the case Of the naval BANKS hanks
more money was drawn out than was de-
posted.
The heaviest locomotive in the world was
made at Providence, r. l.. and is in daily
operation on the most difficult and noun
famous section Of tf the ood Mexican Central
tons. and is especially designed for noun
tain climbing.
The only place in the world where violin
pie industry is INSTRUMENTATION. in Saxony
Germany. with its surrounding villages
his 5istrict enpaeed excI1sive, peJ IL; I'm IN
manufacture of violins.
1t will surprise most people to know
that there is an English law TO punish SER
wants who invite their friends into their
masters houses. 1t seems the intrud<rs
can be charged with being suspected per-
and rha mt hn 1x-.sf- Il
with aiding and abetting them.
Japan is a land without the domestic ami
mails. 1t is this lack which strikes the
stranger so forcibly in looking upon Japan
csc landscapes. There are no cows-the
Japanese neither drink milk nor eat meat
There are but few horses and these are
imported mainly for the use o. foreigners.
During the last year no less than TO- 900
American horses have been sold in London
alone A large number are used for the
omnibuses and street-cars- The cabmaster
and smaller dealer profess not to touch
them. the former believing. and possibly
rightly, that the majority of foreign horses
are somewhat soft
The Norman-English laws enacted that
a leper had neither power to sue in any
lifetime he was permitted to enjoy the
usufruet or any property In his possession
dl the a.ils ne Wa iounu suiity so 10
position over IL he lost
Scotland claims the credit of having the
smallest burial ground in the world 1t is
Bridge street and High street. 1t measures
only twenty-five and a half feet by four
teen and a half feet and is surrounded by
a rfckefy wall about seven feet high 1t
nj been closed as burial grou I'd TO many
years
The great fire of London took place In
September, 1866. Its ruins covered 4se
acres, and extended from the Tower to the
Temple Church, and from the northeast
gate to Holborn bridge. 1t began at a bak-
er's house in Pudding lane. behind Monu-
ment Yard. and destroyed. in the space OF