The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-19

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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
1t is estimated that 100000 bicycles have
been built in Europe and America up to
date.
are exported from the United Kingdom
each year.
Russian can plead infancy for long
time, as he does not come Of age until TWEEN
ty-six years old.
Nine hundred pounds of Bartlett pears
were taken from a single tree in an orchard
at Corvallis, Ore, this season.
The profits are said to be larger, for the
amount of capital employed, in poultry
keeping than in any other branch Of live
stock breeding.
1t is said that if the voice of an ele-
phant were as loud In proportion as that OF OF
heard around the world.
Bricks made of plaster of paris and cork
are now used in the construction of powder
mills. In case of explosion they offer slight
| resistance, and ale broken to atoms.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
cided that when a man reaches siXty-six,
the term age can be truthfully applied to
him. No limit has been fixed as to woman.
There is no single interest in the world
as great as that of railways. Including
street railways, there are to-day In opera
ton in the world over 100000 miles OF rail-
ways.
England, of Joshua Northrup, said to be the
| oldest Methodist preacher in the kingdom.
| He was born on March 49, 1799 and preached
! from 1920 to last July.
| Turkey is more correctly written Turkia,
| the country of the Turks. The title, the
Ottoman Empire was given in honor of
| Gilman /, who assumed the government OF
the empire about the year 13OO.
John Smart is a Connecticut man seventy
| eight years old, who is enjoying the skating
ir his neighborhood with the zest of youth.
The, young folk OF Medford Center nave a
hard time to keep up with him.
The largest congregation in America is
| that of st. StanislauS Kostka, in Chicago,
! which has thirty thousand communicates:
| The number OF attendants at the several
| Sunday services frequently exceeds fifteen
| thousand.
Harlow Spencer, of Fort Spring, KY, now
seventy six years of age; vowed three three
| because of the defeat of Henry Clay and
| he has kept his VOW, in spite OF the APP
| peals of all his friends.
Juggernaut's car cannot pass through the
streets of Colombo owing to the interfer-
ence of overhead telegraph wires. Petitions
| have been sent to the governor by the Cey-
| lOneSe, as twenty-five people wish to throw
themselves under the idols car.
The suggested plan of road improvement
| in Connecticut proposes the building OF one
| great state highway east and west and an
| other north and south across the State,
| with low grades, and touching far as
| possible the places of larger population.
Britain was known to the Phoenicians as
Barat,Anac or the land Of tin zoo as far
afterward the island was alluded to by the
Romans under the name of Britannia. which
subsequently became shortened into Britain.
By the term Australia is meant tine
South and by Australasia, southern
Asia" agreeably 70 the Latin australis,
southern. Previous to it's settlement by the
British, Australia was known as New Ho-
land owing to it's discovery by the Dutch
in 1900.
The Supreme Court of California has de-
cided that under certain circumstances a
wife may be compelled to support her hus-
| band. This decision was rendered in the
case of an aged and infirm spouse who was
| deserted by his wife. The wife was ordered
| to pay the husband $24 a month.
The hill near Jerusalem where the cruel
! fixion of Jesus occurred is formed of lime
! stone. The shores of the Dead Sea are
! some volcano that destroyed Sodom and
| Gcmorrah, which cities finally sank be-
| meath the waters of the Dead Sea.
Some of the wooden churches of Norway
are fully seven hundred years DID, and are
| still in an excellent state of preservation.
| Their timbers have successfully resisted the
| frosty and almost Arctic winters, because
| they have been repeatedly coated with tar.
Norway pine, thus treated, seems best to
resist decay.
| The Prohibition candidate in New York
is found by the corrected returns to have
| polled $50 votes, and in the present city of
| Brooklyn, long regarded as strongly inclined
| TO temperance ana SODTlety, bOl votes u LOIal
! in the two cities of 1,257. AS his contribution
| to the campaign was $5,OOO, 1t therefore cost
| him about 81 a vote.
| Perhaps the largest and finest fruit farm
| in the world is at Olden, near West Plains,
| in southern Missouri. 1t is owned princi-
! pally by j. G. Evans of Harlem, and L. A.
| Goodman, of WeStport. 1t consists of 2,2OO
acres, on which are planted 6l,O00 peach,
| 1000 apple and 1900 pear trees, with 40
| acres in small fruits.
Oran, in Algeria has a port health officer
still In active service at the age of l26 years.
| His name is Tremouillet. He was born in
| I'LL was captured by Oran pirates in 1883,
| and has never left the town since. He mar
| London Morning Post, has readopted Euro
| pean costume and, in spite of his great
| age, has quite an elegant appearance.
The Indians of Guiana have queer sys-
| tenn of Enumeration. They count by the
| hand and it's four fingers. Thus, when they
| reach five. instead of saying SO. they call
| Il hand" Six is, therefore, hand and
| first finger" Ten is two hands, but
| twenty, instead of being -four hands," is
| "a man." Forty is two men, and thus
| they go on by twenties. Forty-six is ex-
| ger.''
! AT the Ursuline Convent at Bologna, lives
a nun who has proved very conclusively that
an occasional change of air and scene are
| not as physicians would have us believe,
| necessary to sound health and long life.
! This woman joined the Ursuline sisterhood
| eighty years ago, when she was just twenty
| years of age. Since she took the veil she has
never crossed the threshold of the convent
| nor held intercourse with the world outside
| its walls.