The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The 10000 immigrants who arrived in
New York last year brought with them an
average of less than 81 each in money.
The share of land falling to each inhabi-
tant of the globe in the event of a paru-
ton would be about twenty-three and a
half acres.
The only two civilized countries in the
world in which white man is not per-
mltted TO acquire civil rights or own prop
erty are Liberia and Haiti
The census of Egypt taken on June II
showed a population of {, 700, 900, an increase
of 100000 since 1882; in other words, a gain
OF AZ per cent in 10 years.
The crystal palace at Sydenham is capa-
BILE of holding a greater number of people
than any other building in the world. More
than 100000 can be accommodated within
its walls.
A clock in st. Petersburg has ninety-five
faces, indicating simultaneously the time at
thirty different spots on the earth's surface,
besides the movements of the earth and
planets.
the world is that between the Mansion
House and Aldgate stations. in London,
which required the expenditure of close
upon &2OO0,0o0 mile.
School teaching seems to be the most pop
ular of all fields that are open to college
WSomen. In 1880 there were in the United
states 735 women who were professors in
colleges and universities.
The British War Office is about to make
an exhaustive test of a new gun, which
fires 1000 shots in two minues and three
tre eleven shots per second.
Every dollar of gold in the world has
cost over 81, and of every fifty thousand
gold mines in the world only two have paid.
These are statistics which ought to stagger
even a person who is getting ready to go
to Alaska.
Until few years ago the wholesale price
OF ivory was 50 pound In consequence
of the opening up of new districts in Africa
to colonization the value has fallen to 81
An ordinary elephant yields about 10
pounds of merchantable ivory.
The Spectators who hoped to make a
large fortune during the English jubilee by
renting seats found that instead of maxim 6
money they were lucky to escape total ruin.
One concern which went extensively into
the business lost nearly $4,000.
1t is a curious fact that the delicacy as
to mentioning the age of women is no piece
of modern sensitiveness. In the Old Tesla
ment although great numbers of women
are mentioned there is but one-Sarah
Abraham's wifc-whose age is recorded.
The pass of Thermopylae was defended
not by 300, but by at least 1000 Greeks, or,
according to some writer's, 49, 900. The 300
were the Spartan contingent, who showed
no more bravery on that occasion than their
companions in arms from other Greek
states.
All the flags for British ships of war,
except the royal standards, are made in
the government dock yards, and the enor-
nous number required may be judged from
the fact that in the color loft at Chatham
alone about eighteen thousand flags are
made in year.
The French method of administering cas-
tor oil to their ailing children is truly char
acteriStic. The oil is poured into a pan
9Ter IA TTe an egg DTT bo into
thus made is served with little salt, sugar
or a spoonful of currant jelly.
In 1875 law was passed prohibiting the
use of the portraits of living men on the
United States stamps thus placing living
men in the same position that women occu-
pied. whether dead or alive, for no woman's
portrait has ever graced a stamp belonging
to the United States, postal or revenue.
Tobacco is now known and cultivated in
the far East, but there is no trace of it
before the journey of Columbus. At the
present day the amount of taxes our gov
errment has collected from tobacco since
1868 is about 1000 100000 France, Spain
and Italy make tobacco dealing monopoly.
The library of Congress ranks sixth
among the libraries OF the world In It's pres
ent contents. France has the largest, Eng
land next then comes Russia and Germany
follows with her Libraries in Munich, Ber-
lin and Strasburg, the last named holding
almost equal rank with ours in Washing
ton
The little village of Hartford on the Per-
quimanS river, in eastern North Carolina,
boasts the possession of the only floating
bridge supported by air-tight whisky bar
rels, in the world. The bridge was the hap
Ply idea of an old inhabitant half a century
ago, and its result still stands, mOnu-
ment to his genius.
IT is a strange fact that while the teeth
of the negro on the old plantations were
remarkable for their whiteness, those of
the freed negro of the present day are in an
infinitely worse condition than those of
his white brother. This is owing entirely
to the change of diet, and the colored man
weakness for SWeetmeatS.
There are 10 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over 1900 feet above the
ocean level Forty of these are higher
than $4,000 feet. and more than half of that
number are so remote and rugged lhat no
one has dared to attempt to. climb them.
Some of them are massed with snow,
others have glaciers over their approaches
and others are merely masses of Jagged
rocks.
The distance from Liverpool to London is
POI miles. On each side of the railroad, as
far as the eye can reach, the most beautiful
and most splendidly cultivated farms pre-
sent themselves. But not one foot of the
brought it to such beauty and perfection.
1t all belongs to six men, who own it be-
cause they happen to be the Oldest sons of
their fathers.
gust, 1S47, but were so little used that the
government had to pass law enforcing
prepayment of postage, which went into eff
feet in 1855. Before this action was taken
with a stamp affixed. To-day the post
offices of the country sell 00O0O0,000 stamps
Counting postal cards, stamped envelopes
and stamps of all ktndS), valued at fo,0OO,-
600, during a single year
Salt cellars first came into use in medieval
times; there was only one on the table,
and it held from two to three quarts. The
salt was placed about the middle of the
tables length. At the upper end sat the
lord of the castle or palace and his init
mates and the salt cellar marked the di-
viding line between the associates of the
nobeman and his dependents, so that to
"sit below the salt" meants social in
feriOrity.