The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

the British empire seems to double it's
| population in Europe every ffty-five years
| In the colonies every twenty-five years.
There are only three negro TELEGRAPH
| operators in this country but they are all
| first class Somehow black people do not
take kindly to electricity.
The French executioner. Deibler, who re-
Gently retired from his position at the age
of sixty three, had been in service. forty
years and disposed of 500 culprits.
A Minnesota farmer insists that corn
makes better and cheaper fuel than coal.
He raised enough corn on ten acres to heat
his house and feed two horses and a cow
through the winter.
At Usage Kan, r. H. Lyons turned
waste pool on his farm into a fish pond
ten years ago. Now he has a chain of fish
ponds worth $4,000 on the place, all stock
from the waste pool
The little island of st. Helena is said to
be the smallest diocese in the world. There
is q bishop, Or. Thomas Welby whose "a
nual salary amounts to only $500. There
are also three clergymen.
The camphor trees of Japan. China and
F'ormosa beginning to fail, and the
United States government has tried the ex-
pertinent of growing camphor in Florida,
with encouraging success.
The calf, the white COW of SIAM the
hawk, the ape, the ibis, the cat, the asp
the crocodile, dogs, beetles, frogs, mice and
rats have all been held in reverence in diff
ferent sections of the globe.
Probably the Oldest sailing craft in the
world is the so-called Godstad ship. vik-
ing vessel which was discovered in sepul-
chral mound on the shores of Christiana
ford. 1t is not less than a thousand years
old.
Summer A. Leach of Pleasantville Knox
county, Me-, has the hat that his great
eat-grandfather wore at the time of his
wedding 140 years ago. 1t is a black beaver
with very wide brim, and cost 81 when
new.
Nuremberg, the great toy-making center,
has had banquet to celebrate the compile
ton of the 800 O0Oth model steam engine by
certain well-known maker The same fac
tory has turned out more than $4,000 magic
lanterns.
Architecture and Building says that there
is nothing about Dismal Swamp in Vir-
ginia, to create miasma; All is fresh and
sweet, and the air is laden with bamy
odorS." The water is thought to possess
certain medicinal qualities.
st. Louis boy and girl aged. respective
~, sixteen and nineteen, have left their
home because a, kind friend took the pains
to inform them that the woman who has
tenderly cared for their comfort since in
fancy is their stepmother.
The Cherokee form of marriage is per
haps the simplest and most expressive of
any. The man and woman merely join
hands over a running stream, embematic
of the wish that their future lives, hopes
and aspirations should How on in the same
channel.
Berthelot the French chemist, finds that
the copper objects found at Negadah and
Abydos, in Egypt, are of pure copper, not
bronze. They are believed to date from the
first dynasty earlier, and tend to prove
the past existence Of copper before the
bronze age.
The British Museum has books written on
bricks, tiles, oyster shells, bones and flat
stones. together with manuscripts on bark,
ivory, leather, parchment papyrus lead
IRON copper and wood. 1t has also three
copies of the Bible written on the leaves of
| the fan palm.
150,0O0,0O0 square miles, taking the whole
surface of the globe of 1877, COO 900. and its
greatest depth supposedly equals the height
Pacific ocean covers rs, coo 900 square miles
| the Atlantic 25,0000OO the Mediterranean
| 100000.
| Modern man is gradually waking up to
| the fact that he can utilize everything. Coal
| is not only a source OF heat and light, but a
| storehouse of colors, tastes, medicines, per-
fumes and explosives. From 40 pounds of
| gas tar in a ton Of coal over 1000 distinct
| shades of aniline dyes are made.
The value Of the jewels in the British
crown is about 100000, or a little over one
| fifth of the cost Of the crown of little Portu-
| gal, which Is estimated at IS, 800 600 The
| Sultan of lahore, however, on state occa-
sions glitters in diamonds, the value of those
| ing not less than S12,o0O,OOO
! For an hour and a quarter a mine en-
/ gineer. near Bourne, Ore, was whirled
| around with the fly wheel, into which he
/ had fallen. but when he recovered con-
| seriousness after the wheel was stopped it
was found that he was not seriously hurt
was
making 125 revolutions a minute
| Two centuries ago Bristol was the great
| est port on the west coast of England and
many a Puritan ship sailed from its docks.
! A special agent is now in the United States
| negota ting for a steamship line between
| Boston and Bristol, and the municipality Of
/ Bristol mas voted TO eXpend sum of a
million and a half sterling in the construc-
| ton of a dock TO accommodate the largest
vessels at the mouth of the River Severn.
Many of the more careful barkeepers in
| Yuma and Phoenix. 4. t.. refuse TO sell any
whisky or brandy to hard drinkers when the
/ mercury IS ranging from ITO 10 115 degrees
In the shade. Last summer half dozen
miners went on a spree when the mercury