The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Germans weigh nearly ten pounds each
man more than Frenchmen.
A doctor in France is not permitted to In
herit property left to him by a deceased
patient
All the flowers of the Arctic region are
either white or yellow, and there are 1852
varieties.
Only one out of every one thousand mar
ried couples live to celebrate their golden
wedding.
Ants have brains larger in proportion to
the size of their bodies than any other liv-
ing Creature.
The organs Of smell in vulture and a
carrion crow are so keen that they can
scent their food for distance of forty
miles.
Vienna has a bicycling female monkey
at the geological gardens in the Prater. 1t
is a trick rider and has learned everything
by watching men.
The highest death rate of any city in the
world from the of alcohol is found in
Stockholm, the number of deaths from this
cause being ninety per thousand.
1t is estimated that there are no fewer
than TO- 900 Europeans who wear wooden
shoes. Eastwood is ordinarily employed for
sabots, but willow is the best material.
The largest history ever published is 1.-THE
War of the Rebellion issued by Uncle Sam
in 100 huge octave volumes, of one thousand
pages each, with gigantic atlas in thirty
pages.
1t is said that an attempt to calculate the
value of the gold in the Rand district of
the TranSvaal has shown that there remains
about 600000,000 tons of alluvial, worth, say,
81. 100,O00,000
Letters dropped into a box in Paris are
delivered in Berlin within an hour and a
half, and somtimes within thirty-five min
uteg They are Whisked through tubes by
pneumatic power.
Switzerland, though she spends only $500,
900 yearly on her army, can turn out 900
trained men in two days in case of need,
and has a reserve of 100000 more, as we'll
as a militia of 10000.
Japanese houses in the larger cities are
of one general shape, two stories high, and
put together with a curious method of NOR
tising not one nail being used throughout
the construction of the building.
Each letter carrier of India has a run
of six miles and at the end of it is relieved
by another carrier, who at once begins his
run. Thus the mail is conveyed over un-
populous sections in comparatively quick
time
In the order of superiority the navies of
the world rank thus: First, Great Britain;
second. France; third, Russia; fourth, Italy;
fifth, United States; sixth, Germany; sew
enth, Spain; eighth. Japan; ninth Austria;
tenth, Netherlands.
Ancient history records that Zeno, the
famous learned philosopher. who wrote no
fewer than seven hundred treatises: died
at the age of eighty from immoderate
laughter, excited in seeing an ass eat figs
from a silver dish.
Electric tramways and launches have been
installed in the Par1S sewers. Twice
month, on two Wednesdays, visitors are
admitted to the number of about 1000 al
though the applications are nearly always
far more numerous.
The richest deposit of aluminium in the
world has just been discovered near Bowl
inc. Green. KY. An analysis of the clay by
the government assayist at st. Louis Mo,
showed the proportion of aluminium con-
tanned therein to be so per cent.
At Macedonian wedding it is customary
for the bridegroom to lead home the bride
by a halter. AS she enters the house he
knocks her head against the wall as sign
to her that she must behave herself proper
ly or il will be the worse for her.
A ventilated shoe has been invented in
Cologne Prussia. A steel spring works a
bellows between the heel and sole, and ev-
cry step the wearer takes drives a stream
of fresh air. through perforations in the
inner sole, to every part of the foot
1t is eighteen years since the first Japan
ESQ newspaper was established and now
there are in existence 575 daily and weekly
papers, thirty-five. law magazines. thirty
FIVE medical magazines. eleven scientific and
a large number of religious journals.
Greenville, Miss. has new official. whose
entry upon career of public usefulness is
thus noted in IA local paper. Henry III.
Obanon has been appointed justice OF the
peace to succeed his father. the late d. H.
Obanon. Any one wanting TO be married or