The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The oldest national flag in the world is that of
Denmark 1t dates from 1919.
Crocodes like ostriches swallow pebbles and
food.
The United States has produced two-thirds of
the cotton consumed by the world for the last
siXty-seven years
The average yield of potatoes to the acre in
France is l02 bushels; in Germany, 121; in Italy,
1874; in Holland, III.
Until the discovery of the gold mines in Cali
fornia Russia the greatest gold-producing
country, mining about 49, coo year.
1t is not generally known that rats cannot
sist suniower seeds A trap baited with these
seeds is said to be the most effective method of
catching them.
The ttackage of the street-railway lines directly
connected with Boston is almost thousand
miles, operated by power equal to that of fifty
thousand horses.
Brooklyn became city in 1884, when it's in
habitants numbered 45OO and it is about to end
it's separate history municipality with
population of 600
In the excitement of the last presidential cam
paign the savings bank in New York State lost
in net with lrawals $4,000, 600, but the money has
been coming back ever since.
small steamer now plies upon the Jordan
and makes the journey from Jericho to Tiberias-
that is, from the Dead sea, along the Jordan, to
the Sea Of Cialilee-in five hours.
1t is estimated that more than eighty tons of
diamonds have been unearthed in the South
American fields during the last eighteen years.
These represent a total value of Soc 600 000
All postal cards used in this country are packed
in boxes made from Urbana straWboard. The
Urhana Strawboard Company furnishes fourteen
tons of straWboard every month for that purpose.
All fools day is two hundred years old Bradv's
Claws Calendaria, published in 1872, mentions
that more than a century previous the almanac
designated the LIST of April as all fools day"
There are no orphan asylums in Australia
Every destitute orphan child is sent to a private
family at the expense of the state and main
tanned until he or she is fourteen years of age.
In Fiji the coinage chiefly consists of whales
teeth, those of greater value being dyed red.
The natives exchange twenty white teeth for
exchange a
sovereign.
In poetry violets are always blue never
purple, but a matter of fact but half of the
twenty odd varieties in the United States are
blue. The rest are purple, yellow, white, lilac
and one green.
The -ailway companies of Great Britain carried
$50, 0O0, 600 passengers in 1895, of whom $50
killed. During the same year, in the city of
London alone. $50 persons were killed by falling
hom bulldogs or out of windows.
Late advices from Cape Town report that Or
Koch's attempt to stay the ravages of the rinder-
thousand cattle inoculated under the German
professors direction one-third have died,
When once hlled in a Moslem grave is never
reopsned on any account TO remove the faintest
chance of its being thus defled a cypress tree is
planted after every interment that the ceme-
teres resemble forests than anything else.
The fact that $14, 225. the largest amount ever
paid time into the conscience fund of
the United States government, has been received
that growing better instead OF
worse.
No kissing occurs in Japan except between
husband and wife-not even between mother
and child; no shaking of hands in sautation. Ii
one were TO offer a kiss to japanese maiden
she would probably think she going to be
bitten.
The standard which the Spanish conqueror of
Mexico, fernando Cortes, used in his march
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. nearly
four centuries ago, until recently preserved
at a little church in the capital of the state of
Tlaxcala
1t is said that there is portion of the most
beautiful part of Tennessee where some poisonous
weed is 50 profuse that eight square miles OF
land have been fenced off to keep cattle out AT
lease fifteen persons have died from drinking the
milk of cows who have fed in the Enclosure.
The acreage of corn planted in this country this
year VIII probably exceed last years record, al
though an exact estimate cannot yet be made
Last year there so 00o, coo acres OF corn
an area more than double the total land surface
of Turkey in Europe, and two-thirds the total
land area OF France
1t is said that the hottest mines in the world
are those OF the famous Comstock lode On the
lower levels the heat is so great that the men
cannot work fifteen minutes al a
time. Every known means Of mitigating the heat
has been tried in vain. Ice melts before 1t
reaches the bottom of the shafts.
The little baskets in which Strawberries are
sold by the quart cost the factory, about
thirty-five- hundrcdths of a cent each. Barnes
ville o.. is great manufacturing point for these
goods. The baskets are shipped BY thousands