The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-04
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Food. drink and tobacco cost the people of
New York city $1NO00O0 and over per day.
Paper money was first issued by the no.
torious John Law. His issues exceeded 120,-
COO 900 pounds.
There are already 1900 horseless vehicles
in the streets of Paris and on July l 800
automobile cabs were added to that num-
Der.
The British national debt is $3.50 900, 600,
being about $50 per inhabitant. In France
the national debt amounts to $160 per in
habitant.
Paper floors are in use in Einsiedein,
Switzerland. It is laid in pasty mass,
smoothed and then pressed. Footsteps on
1t are noiseless.
Greater Glasgow is often held up as a
model municipality. There is something in
the claim: With population of $4,000 it
has only 494 doctors.
Austria is the country most lenent to
murdererS. In ten years over eight hun
bred persons were found guilty of murder,
of whom only twenty-three were put to
death.
There are in the United Kingdom 222. 900
families of gentry, whose average income
is $500, but there are 4,775,000 working
class families whose average income is
only $4S5.
The government will furnish Grand ARMY
committees with marble headstoneS for the
unmarked graves of soldiers of the revolu-
ton, of the war of 1872 and of Mexican
war veterans
The British Empire has an area of II, 400. =
600 square miles and population of AGO.
600 900. The British Empire is six times
as extensive as that of ancient Rome in its
palmiest days.
1t required just five hours to arrest. try.
convict and imprison an Ohio postmaster
who was $685. short in his accounts The
facilities for locking up the small thieves
are unsurpassed.
Elkton, KY has the second largest bow
OF his age In the United States. He is
sixteen years of age and stands six feet
three and a half inches in his socks, and
weighs 1S9 pounds.
With her red petticoat as danger signal.
eighteen-year-old Mabel Gemble saved the
express on the Fall Brook Railroad from
going over q thirty-foOt embankment into
Pine creek, near Williamsport, Pa
The spot on Long Island where Nathan
Hale, the martyr spy of the revolution, was
captured by the British has recently been
marked by a huge bowlder. with a suitable
inscription 1t was quietly dedicated on
Decoration day.
At San Meto. Fla. a team of mules be-
came entagled in wild grape vine and dis
turbed a nest of hornets. Before the mules
could be extricated the hornets had stung
them TO death, and all in the short space
of five minutes.
Andross, the great Rosshire estate of
$4,000 acres, on which the second Duke of
Sutherland spent 50 000,000, has been sold TO
a sauce manufacturer. There are Is 900
acres of grouse moor and 900 acres of
deer forest on the domain.
Grasshoppers are now worth 50 cents a
bushel in South Dakota, that being the
rate paid by the State authorities for the
destruction of the insects. They are so
numerous in some localities that they are
a more profitable crop than wheat.
In order that young men may not ex-
cuse themselves for church attendance up
on the ground that it is too hot, tine Young
Mems Christian Association, of Wilmington
Del, is thinking of furnishing fans and dis
pensing ice-cold lemonade TO all attendants
upon its meetings.
Rev. Charles Plumer. of Oxford in Eng
land declares there was never any such
person as ST. Patrick. The reverend gen
tleman shows his good sense by making
such remarks in midsummer He knew
better than 10 talk that way along about
the 18th of March.
"Oxiln" is the name of the new sub
stitute for India rubber. which 1t is claimed
Will do for hydraulic packing. 1t is imper-
vious 10 oil, and stands 200 to 400 degrees
Fahrenheit in its natural and Vulcanized
forms, respectively. 1t can be sold mucn
cheaper than India rubber.
The Woman's Exposition of the Carp
linas. now in progress at Charlotte, N G.,
is the most popular fair ever held in that
neighborhood and is drawing visitors from