The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


The present population of the United
States exceeds that of Germany by about
% coo 900, and that of Great Britain by 3d.
! 600 COO.
Twenty years ago England had Il, SIC male
and II 901 female school teachers. Last
year there were 66, 80 female and only 26,2lO
male teachers.
BY the last Russian census St. Petersburg
has population of 267, GOO. The next larg-
est city is Moscow. which has $4,000, while
Warsaw, third, has 100000
The Inaia palm, growing on the banks
of the Amazon, has leaves which meas
ure from thirty feet to nifty feet in length,
and from ten feet to twelve feet in breadth.
Factories at Pedregal. Mexico suburb
of Mexico City, are putting in American
machinery and have planned feast for
the operatives when the plants are in work
ing order.
of the largest mining companies in COlora-
do that since the organization OF the com
pany the average cost of producing 81 in
gold has been 81 cents.
In a Montreal park on Sunday a father
was compelled to order his four-year-old
boy to ce~se throwing a toy ball at him,
and was obliged to put the ball in his peck
ct under pain of arrest.
The most wonderful wine cellars in the
world underneath noblemans palace
| at Warsaw. They have been used for stor-
| ing wines for over 400 years. and the whole
place is one mass of fungi and stalactites.
France has again not only to report
decrease in the birth rate but OF the num-
| Der of foreigners who became naturalZed III
| 1896. The number is p per cent. less than.
| for any twelve months since the passage
of the naturalization law in 1889.
Since the Raines law went into operation
| in New York thirteen months ago, there
| has been a reduction in the number OF sa-
looms in the State of 74$ 3D. When the lay lay
| went into effect on the Goth of April, 1896,
| there were 49, 437 licenses In force.
Recent statistics show that the English
citizens heaviest bill after food, rent, cloth
500 10000 year to the gas companies, and
| it is calculated that the gas companies
realize profit of $26,OO0OOO year.
! One would scarcely expect to find bicy-
| RIGA and eight hundred miles from any
railroad. one club in Buluwayo, Matabele-
| land, South Africa, is in a fiOurishing con-
dition, having twenty-five members.
| A preacher in Alabama, having been pub
| licly criticized for leaving his charge, writes
a letter TO the Alabama Advocate in which
| he says that the reason why he left was
because the work paid last year 5000 with
an appropriation of $50 and no parsonage"
A New York paper recently wrote to the
| Governors of all the States and Territories
| for estimates of the present population. All
| the reports have been carefully compiled
and show that the total population Of this
country is now, in round numbers, 1o,OOOOO0
A Birmingham England workingman
! made use of the parcel post recently to
| send his three-year-od boy home by mail.
| The postoffice, under the rule regulating
| the conveyance of live animals, was obliged
to accept the child, and charged Sd for the
| service.
Tales of menacng wild animals of the
| West are not frequent, but their ravages are
| occasionally recorded. Mary Morris,
child, was killed by a black bear the other
| day near Sergeant, Ky, and wolves have
| killed a colt and several caves near Hyan-
| mis-, Neb.
A Blossburg Pa) railroad man had a
cat he wanted to get rid of. so he took 1t
on the train and dropped it thirty miles
! from home. Two days later the cat was at
| home again, with no perceptible change in
| it's makeup except a reproachtul look In
| it's eyes.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
| Boston in July, with the principal of few
companies, bonds then falling due, oa AMOUNT mo
to $685. 40; This. with the 100000 or
more payable in Philadelphia at the same
time will make quite tidy sum for debt
paying and new investments.
| A curious accident befelI Major William
| Heimke, at Chihuahua Mexico recently.
| While walking along one of the streets OF
! full weight struck his hand and actually
| broke one of his ribs Herewith.
! A number of rich Greek merchants in
| Thessaly recently fled TO the mountains in
| order to escape the rapacity of the Turks.
| 1t didn't do them any good, however, for
| they were seized and pillaged by Greek
| brigands, except few of them, who man
| aged to escape to the Turkish army
The city of Duluth has a policeman,
Royal Mckenzie by name whose actual nal
pounds. AS he appears on the street he
| measures Z feet 312 inches to the top of his
| helmet. He was born in Ontario is twenty
| six years old ana says he has not yet
| stopped growing.
Mr.. Mckinley has now 627 places in
| the public service to award. These places
| are worth anywhere from $500 TO $1,000
| year. Any good clerkship is worth more
| Nevertheless Mr.. Mckinley has on his list
| no less than 105,106 names of applicants for
| these 80 627 places, or more than three appli-
| cants for each place
| One of the Pan-Amercan delegates i'm
| Springfield was astonished by an incident
| which he describes as follows why, yes
| terday [ saw three young men talking to
| two girls on the street. policeman came
up and told them to move along. In our
| country we have nothing like that; we have
| much more liberty"
A remarkable account of the flight of
| a homing pigeon is communicated by the
| premier of New Zealand to a colonial paper.
He states that one bird flew from Victoria
to New Zealand in three days. The dis
| lance is about one thousand miles and the
| bird must have flown without a rest at a
speed of about fifteen miles an hour
That rolling stone may sometimes
gather moss appears from the fact that
guard on the Great Western Railway in
| England has just been given a purse of 100
! guineas for being the greatest traveller in
! the world. His journeyingS back and forth
| have amounted to 100000 miles in forty
years. This beats the children of Israel.
A business man in Richmond, Va. has
| attracted local attention to himself four
months after the death of his wife by mar
| rying the granddaughter of his brother
! She is eighteen and he fifty-three. He told
| a friend that he was lonely without his
wife, whom he loved dearly, but had no
| idea of marrying again 50 soon he did
| not care to show any disrespect to her
memory, but his three children, who are
! themselves all married, began to make OBJ
! jections to his taking another wife and he