The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-28
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The population of Ireland, according to
the official figures last year, numbers
4,56037S.
Caricatures are found among the sculp-
tured monuments of ThebeS, Egypt, made
2,30o years before Christ.
Scientists say that the cat is almost with
out rival in it's capacity for carrying dis
ease germs from place to place.
A London halter who has been observant
says that mems heads grow appreciably up
to the time their owners are sixty-five years
old.
An eminent French scientist says that
caterpillars cannot see more than a cent?
metre, or two-fifths of an inch, in front of
them.
Some geographers have been surprised by
the recent census in Egypt. The population
of 100000 reported exceeds that under the
greatest of the Pharaohs.
In 1916 the value of a bushel of wheat in
England was equal to that of a pound of
nails. To-day a buShel of wheat will buy
twenty-five pounds of nails
Out of twenty thousand clerks employed
by the government in Washington more
than six thousand are women, with salaries
ranging from $500 to $500 year.
A tunnel ten miles long, which will be the
longest in England, is to be cut through
Shap Fells by the London & Northwestern
Railroad in order to shorten the west coast
route to Scotland.
Solomon's temple was 1O7 feet long. thirty
six feet broad and fifty-four feet high.
Though deemed a wonder of the world it
of the present time.
To bore hole half way through the sole
of shoe is said to prevent its squeaking.
The reason assigned for the , cure is that
the air between the layers of leather is re-
leased by the boring.
A Kansas farmer, John Graham, of Abb
lene, has grown a sweet potato which he
says is the largest in the world. 1t is TWEEN
ty-fiye inches in circumference and nine
inches in length. 1t weighs SA pounds.
The smallest horse in the world is a Shet-
land pony owned by the Marchese Carcano,
in Milan. 1t is twenty-four inches high,
and when standing beside its owner the
pony's back is only an inch above his knee.
The fact that a bride was severely in
jured by having a kernel of rice lodge in
her ear may stop the practice of throwing
rice at newly welded couples 1t would be
safer and better to throw a ton of coal into
their cellar
The oldest newspaper in the world is the
Kin Pan, of Peking For nearly thousand
years it has been published regularly first
as a monthly, up to the year 1851, when it
became a weekly, and for the last ninety
years a daily.
1t is said that rabbits are increasing so
rapidly in some parts of Connecticut that
they are nuisance because of their depre-
dations. They are especially injurious in
orchards. where they gnaw the roots and
bark of fruit trees.
There is not single female voice in the
choir at St. Peters in Rome and yet the
most difficult OratOrieS and sacred music
written are rendered in such a manner as
to make one think that Adelina PATHS high
soprano is leading. The choir is composed
Of sixty boys
On a piece of land in Old Lyme, Conn,
is q rocking stone of the following dimen-
sionS: Around the stone north and south,
q feet inches; east and west, "A feet 10
inches. This immense stone is so delicately
poised that one man can rock it from four
to six inches
Along the Connecticut river, between the
CITY of Hartford Conn.,, and Springfield,
Mass a distance of about twenty-five miles.
there lies a beautifully fertile valley, rich
in picturesque scenery, where in a belt
about twenty miles wide, is grown nine
tenths of the so-called Connecticut tobacco
The most extraordinary township in Eng
land is that of Skiddaw in Cumberland. II
contains but one house, the occupier or
which is unable to exercise the Briton
privilege of voting because there is no over
seer to prepare a voters list and no churcn
or other place of worship or assembly on
which to publish one.
The Neck enburg county. North Carolina,
commissioners have given a plot of land
thirty feet square in front of the new court
house in Charlotte for the erection of the
monument to the Signers OF the Mecklen-
burg Declaration of Independence -Four
thousand dollars of the 5000 desired for It's
erection has been subscribed.
On the summit of the highest mountain
in Germany, Zugspitze, 10000 feet, in the
Bavarian highlands, refuge hut has been
opened, with accommodations Tor twenty
two guests. 1t is built OF stone, secured by
steel rods and the interior is warmly lined
with cork and felt. An Alpine society sup
piled the cost, amounting 10 $4,000.
Marlboro. Hartford county, Connecticut,
has a population of 5s2 but only seventy
nine persons voted at the last election. 1t
has no doctor. no lawyer, no clergyman who