The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Jerusalem is rapidly becoming modern
ized; There are now large printing offices
in the city
Laboring men have 312 workdays a year
in Hungary; 30S in the United States, 278 in
England and 267 in Russia.
The University of Calcutta is said to be
the largest educational corporation in the
world. Every year it examines over ten
thousand students
Farmers of Northampton county. Vir-
GINA, have received more money for the
1905 900 barrels of potato slipped this year
than for the 2S4 GO ship ..4.st year
In the town of Passaic, ~ j. two little
girls have had fines and costs entered up
against them to the amount of $S7.25 for the
crime of keeping pet robins in a cage.
A defender of English sparrows comes
forth with the plea that, inasmuch as they
feed on seeds of waste plants and weeds.
they are a positive benefit to the farmer.
Thousands of bushels of cherries have
rotted on the trees in Oakland county,
Michigan, the owners not being willing to
pick them when the fruit commanded only
30 or 40 cents a bushel
In certain parts of Persia the thermome-
ter stays at 100 degrees night and day for
the greater part of the summer, while so
unbearable a temperature as 1870 degrees is
not unknown in that country
A gold plate which Charles Bonaparte
pawned in order to pay the travelling ex-
penses of his son, Napoleon, to the mill
tary school at Brienne, has been placed in
the town museum at A1accio.
1t took 235 trains, consisting of 2507 cars,
to transport the seventy thousand odd peo-
ton with the recent pious junket called
the Christian Endeavor convention.
Roszdin, in the coal-mining district of
Silesia, is collapsing rapidly, owing to the
reckless mining close to the surface. One
thousand people are already homeless and
S50O0O0 worth of buildings are destroyed.
A saloon in Iowa has been closed by in
junction. 1t was located in a village and
the judge held that under the present muIct
law, there is no authority for running a
saloon outside of city or an incorporated
town.
An advertisement in an English paper
reads: Wanted, place as house paror
maid maid "A; 5000 wa!tng and nee 4I
fringe means that the maid is not a
wearer of curled bangs.
1t is said that the German military au-
thorties have decided to demolish the forti-
fications and the walls of Mayence, the
most strongly fortified city of Germany,
which has Witnessed so many fierce strug,
giles and historical tragedies.
The corner stone of Ohos Capitol was
laid July 4, 1889, and it took twenty years
and more to finish the building The State
was proud of it when it was done and in
at this day 1t cost 1859 l21.45.
Near Boise City, Ida, four hundred feet
below the earth's surface, there is sub
terranean lake of hot water of ITO degrees
temperature. 1t has pressure enough to as
cend to the top floor of most of the houses
and will be piped to them for heating pur-
poses.
The new Canadian census shows that
seventeen in every one thousand of the
Canadian population were born in the
United States. This is seven more in the
one thousand than the number reported
from all European countries outside of
Great Britain.
The first man who discovered gold in
Australia was hanged for his pains He was
one of the first conVcts transported to
Botany Bay, and when he learned the great
secret he brought a sample to show his
success and DrOmDtiV hanged fO at
tempted escape.
Switzerland. though She spends only half
a million dollars yearly on her army, can
turn out 10000 trained men in two days in
case of need, and has Il reserve of 1000 900
more and Landstrum of 10000. The army
maneuVers this year will be held in the
mountains of the Engadine.
The territory composing western Austria
liza. according to the latest computation.
covers nearly one million square miles, and
constitutes about one-third of the Austria
liam continent. The area of this single
colony is larger than that of eight leading
countries in Europe combined.
A midwife at Stolpe. near Berlin. cele-
brated the six thousandth anniversary on
which her services had been required by in
viting all the children she had helped into
the world 20 dinner at her house They
afterward formed a torchlight procession
and marched through the town.
The librarian of St. Pauls. London has
in his keeping very many interesting docu-
ments among others a deed of gift from
King Ethelbert of a farm in Kent, which
he made over to st. Pauls at time when
the cathedral was but an insignificant
structure of wood. The rent for the land is
received TO this day
1t is commonly believed that the first
factory for making friction matches on
large scale was established at Vienna in
1888, but, according TO the Springfield Re
publican, there was such factory at least
as early as that in the center of the Con-
nectcut valley in the historic community
known as Chicopee street
Many of the fruits and vegetables now
eaten in England were almost unknown to
our forefathers. Not until Henry Wits
time were either raspberries. or straw
berries, or cherries grown in England, and
we do not read of the turnip. caulihower