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

Barrooms in Norway cannot net fortunes
to their owners. for by law no person may
| spend more than cents at one visit to a
| public house
| the house in Upper Holloway, London.
formerly occupied by Claude Duval and
| Dick Turpin.
A church building in Chicago is jointly
occupied by. Baptist and Hebrew con con
gregaton, the one having services on Sat
urday and the other on Sunday.
The largest sum of money paid into the
state treasury of Illinois under the inherit
ance tax law was $22, 40, received the other
day from the estate of Benjamin sheldon,
of Rockport.
Ostriches which are supposed to flourish
only in very warm climates, have been
raised successfully in southern Russia, the
feathers being of good quality and the
birds healthy.
A woman clerk is editor of the Official
Postal Guide with it's So 600 offices. man
clerk whom she formerly assisted, received
$1,000. She now does his work anu her own
and gets 81 400.
Somebody has discovered that blotting
paper is an admirable absorbent for water
as we'll as ink, and the result is so-called
bath towel, which is, however, full SUIT
of blotting paper.
Patent 90. 400 in the German Patent Rec
ord is: "Fraulein EIfrida Latikiewitz; ap-
paratus for keeping the cheeks full ms
apparatus is worn in the mouth and is
fastened to the jaw"
In the University Of Paris there are over
ten thousand medical students. AT vienna
there are about one thousand more. IN
Paris there are eight thousand students at
the School of Fine Arts.
Gold was known much earlier than sill
YER and was at first the cheaper or the
two metals, but the price of silver was low
cred by the discovery of silver mines IN
Ciiicia- Spain and Laurium
Even the Japs appreciate the value of
printers ink. The Mikado's government
has appropriated $4,000 to be expended III
advertising throughout the United States
the merits of japanese tea.
An experiment was recently made to see
| how fast bee could fly. Its hive was at
tached to the roof of train, Which at
tanned a speed of thirty miles an hour be-
| fore the bee was left behind.
In Mexico everything and everybody pays
direct tax from the street porter to the
| largest mercantile establishment. and the
stamp tax for documents is equally iucra-
tive Even placardS and posters must bear
stamp
In eastern Australia 100 coo sheep now
| find sustenance in a region which, thirty
years ago. was a sandy desert. The sheep
gradually trampled the soil into firmness,
| so that it now grows dense mass or veg
| citation.
Barber shops in Sweden have bowls in
which one can wash his face without using
| the hands. On touching button the water
spurts up like a small fountain, and the
man who has been shaved holds his face
in it till the soap is all washed away.
| A Providence man of iconoclastic dispo-
sition has put an old fable to a destructive
test by letting pet fox have the run of a
| vineyard, with grapes within his reach.
The fox cares neither for ripe grapes nor
sour. but will eat chicken every time.
Emperor william has begun at Berlin
churches of the city open throughout the
| day on week days. Until now only the Ro-
man Catholic churches have been left thus
| open to stray Worshipers on week days.
| "A female town crier fulfils her duties in
| the SCOTTISH town of Dunning PerthShire.
She is a hale, hearty old dame of seventy,
very proud of having proclaimed the
Queens birthday for ffty-three years rum
| ming.
| Next to having wealthy Americans living
to have them die in that country. 1t is
| said that the heirs of William Louis
Winans. of Baltimore, who died recently
in England. will have to pay into the Brit
| ish treasury probate of 1851, 200.
Many people eat altogether too much
| salt The result is that the skin and kid
the salt, and both are injured by it.. Few
people have healthy skins, and it is be-
lieved that many cases Of arrangement OF
| the kidneys are due to the salt habit.
A French general has inaugurated plan
of permitting soldiers to sing when on the
march. privilege which has been strictly
| denied until recently. 1t has also been ar
ranged that any soldier who can play on
any of the smaller musical instruments
shall be provided with such instrument at
| che expense of the state.
| military establishment. They have now an
allowance of $3.50 a year apiece for train
ing, medical care, food and badges They
are employed to protect the .depots of mil
| itary stores from mice. Professor Pooffier,
| however having. discovered typhus bacil-
| lus fatal to mice, this will be substituted
| for the cats.
The "OId Tree" one of Lexington's IA
| nous landmarks, was lately noticed to be
decaying, owing to its age. 1t is now over
| $50 years old, and was in very good state
| of preservation until recent years The old
| tree is situated in front of Buchanan Tav-
| ern, whose walls are riddled with bullets
| from the battle in IT'S. So it is supposed
| that there are also many more imbedded
| in the heart of the old tree.
A North Bath milkman has, perhaps the
unique pasture of Maine. 1t is an island,
and when the is high the cows have
| to swim for it. The Bath Enterprise says
| the COWS have become so accustomed to
| this that they will strike out without a
moments hesitation, and remarks 1T
makes a spectacle worth looking at when
the fifteen COWS all plunge into the water
and swim for their feeding ground
|
Sailing Beyond Seas.
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