The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

France has 6,500000 farm owners, while
Great Britain has but 17650O.
The average annual product of each Ia
borer in India is estimated at sou
Less than one-tenth OF the arapie iand
of the Russian empire is under cultivation.
Denmark has the greatest amount to the
inhabitant in the savings banks, pelng
about $50 each.
The worlds agriculture occupies the at
tention of $50, 100000 men, represents a capt.
tai of S24. 600 100000 and has an annual
product of $4,000 100000.
Last season $4,000 head of sheep were
sheared at and around casper, Wyo;, ana 10
it is estimated that 100000 Will be sheared III
the same territory this year.
When a dog banks at night in Japan the
owner is arrested and sentenced TO WoTk d
year for the neighbors that We're dlstufpe9.
The dog gets off easier, being simply killed.
A generous gentleman in Bangor. Me-,
has asked for a donation to a hospital ana
the convalescing patients smlled When tn icy
learned that he had sent z2Vo clsdle C'e" ioi
their use.
The really great American tree of to-
day is the big tree at Tule, Mexico, In the
State of Oaxaca. That tree, cypress, sun
in full Vigor and active groWlH' 10 10f l0eI
in circumference.
The consumption of whisky per person
last wear was less than in any year since
a record has been kept-lSM. me con
sumption of beer per capita was Ilree IlIiles
what it was in 1867.
A ST. Petersburg paper says that in con-
sequence of a silly rumor that the Turks
had poisoned all the herring IN the ocean,
the peasants of some parts Oh Foldhu re-
fuse to eat any more of them.
In the United States 100000 farm hands
raise half as much grain as 90, UoOoV0 IN Eu-
rope. Thus the use of proper nnacnlnery
makes one farm laborer IN the CHlIeu
States worth three in Europe.
In consequence of the increasing distress
and poverty in Spain, the mlgratlon mas IN
creased enormously within a lew months.
Most of it, however, Is by way Oh the
French ard Portuguese harperS.
The city of Bantam, in Great Bucharia,
Is cut in the side of a mountain. Ihefe are
twelve thousand artificial caves, some very
large and two statues, one ninety ana the
other twenty feet high, each heWn from a
single stone.
There are few immigrants to Greece. only
Der cent of the population being foreign
horn The country is not attractive to one
who wants to make his own living. 1t does
not produce enough of anything LOT It's own
consumption.
A North Carolina man has committed sui
| eide because he voted for negro Tor pub
| lie office last fall. He was a new convert
| to Populsm and was actuated py tHe eA-
| cessive zeal. but had brooded over the mat
| ter ever since
Ireland sends out as immigrants to other
| lands from TO- 600 to $4,000 of her sons and
daughters annually while Scotland parts
with only from 5000 TO lS,01O. The hgures
| last year were: For Ireland, 42,222 and for
| Scotland. 1886.
| The Tower of Babel at Babylon was com
| posed of eight square towers, one upon the
! other. the pile being Geo feet high. Babylon
| the walls being eighty-seven feet thick
| and $40 feet high.
| In the public schools in Japan the Eng
ish language is required TO be taught by