The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


BY curious coincidence the number of
| lives lost at sea during 1896 in British mer-
chant ships is returned as exactly 1897
| If a tin of water is placed at night in the
| room where people have been smoking the
| usual smell of stale tobacco Will be gone IN
| the morning.
| The swiftest bird is the kestrel/ or En-
| glish sparrow-hawk. 1t has been known 10 10
| achieve a speed of one hundred ana nlty
| miles an hour
| In Paris the chairs in the squares and
| gardens are let out to visitors for trife
each From this source. an income OF 15OOOO
| francs year is derived.
A woman headed the list of 221 persons
after an examination for position as ward
| and street inspectors in Chicago. Her mark
was almost perfect, being 1886 in possible
| 100.
Missouri farmers realize as high as $50 an
acre by the sale of their corncobs to the
manufacturers of corncob pipes A new
| factory has just been opened at New
| Charleston, Mo-
In Letcher county, Kentucky. there grows
a great walnut tree which has just peen
| sold for $500. The tree IS nearly sixteen
feet in circumference and about ninety 1eeI
high to the first limb
The assistant postmistress at Fort Rus
| sell has created a shortage of 81 800. which
/ she has Squandered on lovers. rms IS In
wyoming, where they believe in the abso-
| lutte equality of the sexes.
A San. Francisco woman has sued a dem
| fist for damages because he would not pull
| her aching tooth when she wore boomers.
| He had refused the plea that boomers
| would injure his business.
The gambling carried on in the slot ma
chimes of Chicago is said to cost their GUS
toners 100000 a year of which only one
| fourth is returned in prizes. A rake-on or
| So in 81 goes to the gamblers.
perhaps in the world, is the Dumont planta-
| ton. established by a Frenchman in the
| State of Minas Geraes The number of
coffee plants in 1896 was 471S,OOO.
Al yiJ17s'' ic
| found in Finland. The people use it as
barometer because in foul weather it turns
! black, or blaclSish gray. while when me
| weather is approaching it becomes almost
white.
French colonel is teaching his officers
| and men to crawl on their stomachs and
process. The regiment can now travel one
| hundred yards in this manner without ia
| tigue
| The war in Greece did not interfere with
| the taking of the census in that country.
| The work has been completed, and the little
| kingdom is found to have population OF
| 2,435 S06. This is an increase of IL per cent
| in eight years.
An interesting character is Mrs. Jacob
| Wallace, ninety-two years cid, who mas
| lived in the same house on Dutch Neck, in
Waldoboro Me, for seventy-one years, and
who has smoked a pipe every day In the
/ last sixty years.
The amount of capital invested in the
manufacture of bicycle tires in the United
| S. COO co., the number of persons employed
| at 5000. and the number of tires produced
annually at 4,OOO,OOO.
The steamer Diana, sent up to discover
| if the Hudson bay is commercially naVlga-
| bic, reports being nipped in the ice on the
18th of July. She was held captive ; nVe
| days, lost her rudder and had her SIDES
| strained in the jam.
The city of Santa Fe. the capital of New
Mexico, was founded three hundred years
ago by Juan de Onate, and there has never
cnrsp cot wit
| poratc limits. The air is too high, and dry
| for rodents and felines.
A colored boy has started a new industry
! trolley cars run. He boards the cars with
| glasses of lemonade carried in a tray made
/ Of a cigar box Conductors and motormen,
ne says. are his best patrons.
| Many barrels OF sawdust are shipped from
| Bowdonham, Me-, every day. 1t is used TO
! cover the floors of express cars in which
| fish are shipped the sawdust absorbing the
| wet and moisture coming from the hSh ana
| ice with which they are packed.
North Cardinals system of working con-
victs on the roads has rid the State OF
Who v5ip use - the ' roads! The State law gives
| judges and magistrates the option OF SEN
| fencing prisoners to bodybuilding.
According to the authority of an English
magazine Great Britain controls twenty
| one out of every one hundred square miles
of the earth's surface and twenty-four out
of every one hundred square miles of ter
! rtory in North and South America
Some of the Oldest trees in the world are
! to be found in Great Britain. The tree
| called William the Conquerors OAK in
| Windsor Park. is supposed to be 200 years
| old. The famous Bentley and Winfarthing
oaks are at least two centuries older
The report often circulated that Pope
| F ius TX sent his blessing and congratula-
lions to Jefferson Davis during the civil
| war seems to be without foundation. A let
| ter has been discovered in which the Pope
| treats of the subject, but he expresses the
/ hone OnlV shall
not seem to favor either side.
| A German paper calls attention to the ex-
| traordinary fact that in Aachen (Aix la
Chapelle) eight hundred tons of steel wire
| needless 500, 600 in number, valued at
| 81, 500, 600. And it again asks the old ques-
ton, What becomes of all the needles in
| the world?'
| According to official statistics the city of
| Berlin has little over eight thousand
noblemen, of whom four thousand seven
| hundred are in the army, six hundred in the
| civil service two hundred in trade and one
| hundred and fifty day laborers. 1t is pre-
sumed that the remainder, who are not ac-
| counted for, do nothing with dignity.
John Miller, of Berkeley county, West Vir-
| ginia, has just sold his apple crop for
| little more than $4,000. This is the product
| of thirty-four acres of mountain land, the
assessed value of which is less than 50 per
| acre AS a side issue Mr.. Miller realized
between $1,000 and $4,000 from his peach
| crop. His father, from much smaller
appIe orchard, realized between $4,000 and
| $4,000
When the Council of Ten ruled Venice
| they issued a decree regarding the art OF
| glass making. 1t runs: IF a workman
| carry his art beyond the limits of his coun-
| try to the detriment of the republic he
| shall be desired to return; If he disobey.
| his nearest relatives shall be imprisoned.
| If in spite of their imprisonment, he remain
| obstinate in his wish to live abroad, an
emissary shall be told off to kill him."
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