The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-21
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Nudes Circulating Library, in London,
has three million books constantly III clrcu-
lation and employs rs people.
The population of greater London a. was va
estimated to be in July last about 6,177, 1913,
that of inner London being 4,42l, 1872
Alaska has a sea coast of $4,000 miles, ex-
ceeding that of the remainder or the United
States nearly two and half times.
A Massachusetts man seventy-two years
old was recently sent for two years to the
penitentiary for stealing three hens.
London has 10 piano factories, in which
$4,000 instruments are made every year, TO-
600 elephant tusks being required for the
ivory.
Last year carriages valued at $294,OOO were
imported into South Africa. America got
$l64O00 of that sum, England $llS.OOO and
Germany $1,000.
The offensive weapon of the ostrich is his
leg. He can kick as hard as mule, and it
is a remarkable fact that his KICK is for
ward, never backward.
Out of every one hundred young men
called out for military service in Italy in
1895 fifty-two were excused for physical UNI
fitness or other reasons.
This years crop has been so good in Mani
toba that a good number of the farmers
have been able to pay the first cost of their
land and improvements out of this years
profits.
When Russian family moves from one
house to another it is customary to rake all
the fire from the hearth of the old domi-
cile and carry it in a closed vessel to the
new residence.
Chicago has spent for street pavements
in eight years the enormous sum of $32,225,
1898. And still it has the unenVable dis
tinction of being the worst paved OF all the
large cities in the world.
Not long ago a professor of the University
of Chicago advertised in Il morning paper
for information concerning heXadactyious,
or SiX-fngered people. He received 155
answers from six-toed or fingered people.
Under a rule by which parcels weighing
twenty pounds and of the value of $lO0
may be sent by mail between England and
France, 1t is said that the postal authorities
have had to handle bicycles.
Owing to the low rate charged for the use
of the telephone ii is said that Stockholm
uses Ii more than any other European city.
The central station has about l0O,O 900 calls
day, or about one for every three persons
in the city.
License fees on 1,436 occupations amount
to 81, $50, 900 year in st. Louis. This en-
ables light taxation on the land, and vacant
land is assessed at 16 per cent lower than
the occupied land, thus helping the real es-
tate SPECTATORS.
with mice that most of the pastors have
been obliged to keep cats in them, at the
risk of provoking comic scenes like those
sometimes witnessed in theaters when cat
walks across the stage.
In the Dominion of Canada women have
also in the Northwest Territories In On
tario they vote for all elective offices, eX-
cept in the election of members of the Leg
islature and Parliament.
St. George Bay. Newfoundland, contains
an immense coal field fully twenty miles in
length and ten in breadth 1t has been esti-
mated that il the output were to reach ESQ.,
600 tons per annum the coal bed would not
be exhausted In a century.
1t is said that letters dropped in the post