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

Out Of all the European countries only
Austria and Great Britain have the rule
that all travellers on the roadway must
keep to the left.
The most violent lunatic at Jacksonville.
Ill, is a Chicago man who tried to count
for five hours all the bicycles which passed
a certain point on Michigan avenue.
Negotiations extending over three years
were necessary before a Michigan man
could buy two islands, comprising five
acres, from the government. The price paid
was $3.50.
1t was in 1747 that a German chemist
could be made from beets, but the beet
sugar industry did not begin till half a
century later.
The largest mass of pure rock salt in the
world lies under the province of Galicia,
Hungary. 1t is known to be five hundred
miles long, twenty miles broad and 250 feet
in thickness.
The New York Tribune expresses the
opinion that the project for converting Nj
agara Falls into d source Of electric power
will raise Buffalo's population from 300 900
to 1,O0O000 in ten years.
A man cannot be convicted. according to
Chinese law, unless he confesses himself
gguiI6y; and confessions h5 are often extracted
tiOgging with the bamboo.
Few people are aware that the Bermudas
consist of a group of $50 small islands
eighteen or twenty inhabited), situated $50
miles east of North Carolina. The popula-
sand.
In the reign of William III of England
all chtld-stealers apprehended were branded
with a red-hot r, for rogue. on the shout
ders. A big NJ on the right hand signifed
manslaughter while T was burned into
the left hand for thief.
Great Britain's second oldest ship in
commission. the Grampus built in 1884. has
been sold to be broken up. 1t has been used
for many years as a powder bulk at Ports
mouth. Nelson's Victory is the only older
ship in the service.
The extent of the gold fever in Alaska al
present may be inferred from the fact that
a man who offered $l25 an hour to assist
ants ants could only get four all others pre-
which would pan out" better.
The manner in which business affairs of
a city are too often managed is illustrated
in the fact that the New Haven city gov
eminent is paying about $1,000 in adVertis
ing the assessments for street sprinkling
and the total assessments will bring in less
than $1,000.
The famous Giants Causeway, on the
north coast of Ireland, has recently been
declared by the Irish vice chancellor TO be
private property with no public right of
way in spite of the fact that during living
memory the causeway has been freely Wis
tied by anybody who wanted to go there.
In fifty years of the existence of savings
banks IN Massachusetts they have had UNI
der their control the enormous sum Of 3d.
00OO0. They still control upward of $500
100000, and yet the entire loss to depositors
in this half century, chargeable TO fraud
fault or error, has been less than 81 5000 900
Royal wedding cakes are never sent out
until they have matured at least six
months The actual baking process lasts
from five to seven hours. So great is the
demand for cake on the occasion of a royai
wedding that the makers have always a
stock of more than two thousand pounds
in the seasoning room.
The number Of dark-haired girls who get
married greatly exceeds that of the fair
ones, a statstician tells us. and in order tC
prove this is owing TO man choice not
the redundancy of brunettes he proceeds
to show that an overwhelming majority OF
those women who live and die unmarried
have fair hair and blue eyes.
Russia's population according to the re-
ports of the first general census, lately
taken, is l2l 600 600. exclusive of the granc
duchy of Finland, which has just taken :
census of its own, and of some remote dis.
| tricts of Siberia and of the Caucasus anf
| the wandering tribes of the steppes thu
reports OF which have been delayed
| Rag picking sometimes has it's sum,
| side. A woman now residing in North Wal.
| pole, VT. not so long ago was employed IN
| rag room at Bellows Falls. One day sht
found sum of money stitched into ths
| lining of an old coat. She quit work al
| once and no one has ever been able to as.
certain the amount OF her find. but she has