The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


The average weight of brain is greater in
Chira than in any European country, ex-
cepting Scotland.
entire year is require d to produce a cash
mere shawl of the best quality.
The population Of London includes 10000
Germans 1900 French 1900 Dutch, 1900
Poles, 1850 Italians and 5000 Swiss.
In the Servan army the bass drum is fixed
on a two-wheeled cart, which is drawn by
large trained dog. The drummer walks be-
hind the cart.
Turkish papers were not allowed TO print
the news of the assassination of the Aus
trian Empress They simply announced
that SHE had died
The Imperial Library of Russia, estab-
lished by Peter the Great in TIA. is the
third among the world s great libraries. 1t
contains about &c., 600 volumes and about
$4,000 manuscripts.
A man in London who has been prose-
cuted sixty times for refusing to- have his
children vaccinated was the recipient the
other day Of a testimonial from number
of Observation-Disclosures.
A Kentucky druggist has been sued for
$4,000 damages for selling poison to a young
man who made use of it to commit suicide.
The suit Is brought by the administrators
of the suicides estate
North Carolina has 1,467 registered dis
tillerieS, their product last year having been
,7l6 gallons. The moonshine output for
the same period not scheduled is thought
to have been about the same amount
If a Chinaman dies while being tried for
murder the very fact of his dying is taken
AS evidence of his guilt. He has departed,
but somebody must suffer. and his eldest
son, if he has one, is sent to prison Tor a
year.
Only one pupil attends the Lovejoy school
for colored children, at Alton, ILL.,, and his
education costs the city nearly, $l,2OO an
nually The sum would more than pay his
way through the best university IN the
country.
Dooo,,+ -+o+istios Show that under fifteen
years there are more boys than girls, but
over Seventy-fiVe years there are more Wom-
en- than men, and from the ages OF ninety the
to one hundred the proportion Is ABOUT three
to two in favor OF the women.
A prominent doctor holds that artificial
teeth are an evil in those of advanced years,
cate flesh. When. the teeth fail naturally,
ii is natures design that the Individual
should subsist on vegetable diet.
A chance to make a fortune is offered by
the champagne house of Heidseck, which
will give 10000 francs for, a method OF rem
dering corks' permanently impervlous 10
liquids and gases. including air, Whle re,
tanning their elasticity ard other GOOD
properties.
The Tuskegee Institute, of Alabama, has
just received its first student from Porto
Rico-a fine-looking and promising young
colored man. Other students from Porto
Rico and from Cuba will enter Tuskegee as
soon as the government quarantine regula-
tionS will permit.
long chiefly to the coolie classes The Ger
man officers engaged some time ago by the
Chinese government found that their most
important task was to ovecome the soldiers
own feeling that they were a lower order or
beings than other Cinnamon.
Cheaper coffee will probably be one of the
results of the Spanish American war The
finest coffee in the world is grown in Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, and under
the stimulation of American enterprise
these countries will, Within 2 few years, De
al1ira alxy y Nyn
Educated women in England find great
difficulty in obtaining suitable employment,
as is shown by the enormous number OF
candidates who present themselves Tor
clerkships at the London general poStoff1ce.
AT a recent examination held for women
clerks there were 1880 candidates for thirty
positions.
The TRANSPORTATION of prisoners to their
own country by the victors is not a novelty
in warfare In 1905, after the defeat of the
Fire Trench at fne Oa1 English Escorted
French prisoners, with their equipments,
from Oporto and Lisbon, and landed them
at Brest
The great periodic star shower, which is
seen al inervals OF thirty-three and half
years, is due Nov. IL or IL, 1889 On the
same dates this year, also, conslderaDle
are supposed to consist of matter which is
cold until rendered incandescent by fric-
ton with the earth'S atmosphere.
A race between a stag and a. locomotive
on the railroad was lately witnessed near
Labelle Canada The engineer noticed the
stag on the track, about two hundred Ieet
ahead, end ne blew warning whistle. The
animal started on a run, keeping to the
track. and continued the race for three
miles. then gracefully bounded aside until
the locomotive had passed.
Boston is preparing to celebrate the TWEEN
ty sixth anniversary of the big fire of Nov.
8, 1872 in which sSO,000,O00 worth of prop
erty was destroyed III things were nfn-
aged on the Boston plan in Philadelphia it
would be in order about this time TO hold
great carnival of rejoicing over the one
hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary OF the
fever plague of 1925, in which nearly five
thousand persons lost their lives out or
population of 5000.
If a child in Switzerland does not attend
school, on a particular day, the parent gets
q notice from the pubic authority that he
is fined so many francs; the second day
the fine is increased, and by the third day
the amount becomes a serious one. In case
OF sickness the pupil IS excused. but II
there be any suspicion or shamming q doc
tor Is sent III the suspicion proves 70 be
we'll founded The parent IS required TO pay
the cost or the doctors visit
The Japanese are RUTHLESS u their tam.