The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A Russian thistle nine feet In circum-
| ference was recently found growing by the
wayside in the Santa Fe valley, New
| Mexico.
There are three varieties of the dog that
never bark-the Australian dog the Egyp-
| tan shepherd dog and the ''iion-headed"
| dog of Thibet.
| The revenue of the government. from the
| tariff, the tax whisky beer and tobacco,
! and from all sources is now $4.59 annually
| for each person.
The greatest force known to science is
| that produced by the contraction and eX-
| pansion of metals resulting from the action
| of heat and cold
| The city of Duluth, Mimi, is in such hard
| financial straits that it has had to close up
| five of the fire stations and dismiss third
| of its police force.
| During seven months of the present year
| SOSS horses have been imported into Ger
many from America and utilized for the
| manufacture of sausages.
According to Nilsson the zoologist, the
| weight of the Greenland whale is one hun
| dred tons, or 2240o0 pounds. or equal to that
| of lightweight elephants or 440 BEARS
| The old log cabin in Front Royal, Va.
| in which George Washington lived while
| surveying between 174S and 1852, is still
standing in fair condition. and is used as q
springhouse.
Gold was first discovered in Colorado in
1858, and since then the State has produced
$3.50, 600 in gold and silver. Out of the fif-
ty-six counties of the State twenty-six are
gold producers
To an diGary rubber hose the superin-
tendent OF me Congressio on Library has
tube system. and airily dusts his million
books by turning on the hose"
writer in the Outlook says that about
ten wears ago a bereaved husband in a lit
the grave of his wife on which he had in
scribed the words, She done what she
could
An expert in the matters of inks and pa
hooks n no ont
| period are printed with such poor ink on
| such perishable paper that future genera
uons Will not have an opportunity of read
| ing them.
New London Conn, with population of
| about twenty thousand, is not divided into
wards. Members of the Council are elected
| lat large" and it often happens that i'm
! portant sections of the city have no rep
| resentation.
The amount of capital invested in the
manufacture OF bicycle tires in the United
| States is estimated by exchange at
! $S.O00,000, the number of persons employed
| at 5000 and the number of tires produced
| annually at 100000.
fire bell blown away in the st. Louis
tornado has just been found. The remark
able thing is that ii was not three miles
away wedged tightly in the fork of tan
premises where it had rolled.
White men first made their appearance
in Hillsboro county, Florida, three hundred
years ago. but the first white child born
within its borders has just died. This was
Uncle John Hartman aged ninety-two
and known all over the State
of the entire number of English peerages
only five go back as far as the thirteenth
century. OF the 5eS temporal peers $50 have
been created during the present century. 1926
during the past century and only sixty-two
trace their titles beyond the year 100.
Mrs. ole Handy, of Cobb county Geor-
gia. is the twenty-sixth child born to her
parents. Mrs. Handy had seven brothers
who were Baptist preachers and has six
nephews engaged in the same calling Her
descendants now number seventy-seven
Some one has been looking for an Ameri-
can book published in 1872 entitled THE
Home; Where Ii Should Be and What
Should BE Put Into It, and makes the dis
coycry that the household equipment. cost