The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Ostrich eggs weigh about three and one
nalf pounds each. They are sometimes
eaten in Africa.
The Massachusetts Legislature appro-
prlated 100000 to be used in road building
In various parts of the State
The Chinese dress in white at funerals
ana in black at weddings, and old women
always serve as bridesmaids.
German soldiers each carry a four-ounce
religious book, and the British soldier car
ries pound of sacred literature.
The highest priced American coin is the
Lord Baltimore farthing a tiny piece, for
which as high as $3.50 has been paid.
Russian families when moving to new
homes kindle the fire on the hearth with
Goals brought from the old residence.
The Japanese are remarkably free from
the vice of drunkenness, one of the reasons
being that whisky is very bad for them.
A -twenty-one-pound baby lately born to
a farmers wife at La Hulpe, near Brus-
sells, holds the Belgian record for weight.
The Finland women have the right of
suffrage; but they also work as carpenters
paperhangers, bricklayers and slaughter
ers.
1t having been discovered that there was
no copy of the Bible in the Georgia State
Library, the Legislature has appropriated
IS to buy one.
Tristan d'Acunhas yearly mail has been
dispatched from st. Helena. 1t consists of
ten letters, three newspapers and two pack
ages of books.
The. largest mule in the world was bred
in Missouri, is 10 hands 21s inches high and
weighs $3.50 pounds. He is to be sent to a
London menagerie.
The annual expenditures of the Swiss for
wine, beer, cider and brandy are 175,0O00OO
francs, or about six times as much as is
spent on the army.
The Egyptians practiced the art of hatch
ing chickens by artificial means century
and half ago. though they knew nothing
of the modern Incubator.
portant article Of commerce in Germany.
In AiX-la-C hapelle alone the output
amounts to 5O,OOO,OoO needles a week.
An Iowa husband and wife were admitted
to an insane asylum at Mt. Pleasant at the
same time. 1t was the first case of the
kind in the history of the asylum.
Before 1856 the average number of labor
strikes of all kinds in this country was
about five hundred a year. Since that date
the average has been fifteen hundred.
Mountain climbers frequently find butter
flies frozen on the snow, and so brittle that
they break unless carefully handled. When
thawed the butterflies recover and fly away.
Women in France have just been ac-
corded the right to be legal witnesses to
the registration of births, marriages and
deaths, and to the signature On legal docu-
ments.
The genuineness of an Egyptian mummy
having been questioned, it's British owner
subjected one of the hands to the X-ray,
when the perfect outline OF the human
bones was shown.
The police statistics of Paris show that
in twenty-one cases of robbery, accom-
panied by murder, the average amount Sc
cured was only SIG, and all the assassins
were guillotined.
1t is estimated that the summer resort
interest in Camden, Me- is larger than the
capital invested in the mills, and that these
summer visitors leave more money in Cam
den than the mills do.
There is an Americn hotel at Limon,
Puerto Rico. 1t is called the Grand. 1t
,aicr sat in hn
ceaSeless spray from the nearby surf re-
fleets rainbow tints in the sunlight
In Cape Town, Africa, eggs sell for from
As to Y cents dozen, and they are scarce
at that F'irst-class butter and cheese are
almost unknown. Canadians are beginning
to secure a good trade in these articles.
An acre was originally as much as a
yoke of oxen could plough in day, but
in the thirteenth century it was made by
law of it's present size. The word acre
is from the Latin ager, cultivated field.
In London, judges, artists, lords and gen
tlemen attend prize fights in evening dress.
The other evening when Croot was killed
by Barry by d blow in the twentieth round
most of those in the audience were OF the
upper class.
The burial of a colored veterans body
in the special G.. A. r. plot at Hiawatha,
Kan, so incensed the widow of white
commander of the post that she had her
husbands body disinterred and reburied in
private plot.
The Marquis de Nadaillac, a well-known
French SaVant. is AFRAID that IN rev CEN
turtles there will be more mouths than meat
for them In Russia alone he thinks there
will be SO0,COO0 eco if the present rate of in
creaeS continues
Every public school in Paris has a can
teen on the premises, where the children
are provided with warm meals, free to
those who are too poor to pay. The cost of
the food which is thus furnished is about
a penny head.
The richest gold mine in the world is To-
Gated under the thriving town OF Balarat.
Victoria, Australia 1t yields but half an
ounce of standard gold to the ton, and yet
the Band Barton & Albion mine has yield
ed more than $3.50 600 900 of gold since it was
opened thirty years ago.
An Indian professor, who took out So
insurance policy IN 1850. received an offer
from the company twenty years ago to
cash the policy for $1,000 or pay him an an
nuitv of $40 He elected to take the an
nuity and now, at the age of ninety, has
drawn from the company more than $eOOO
The decking of churches, houses and
shops with evergreens at Christmas springs
from period far anterior to the revelation
of Christianity, and seems approximately
to be derived from the custom prevalent
during the saturnalia of the inhabitants OF
Rome ornamenting their temples and dwell
ings with green boughs.
Thirteen young men students of Portland
University have been camped near Yank-
TON Ore for several weeks cutting cord
wood most Of which will be used at the
university Something like $50 cords is the
result of their summer vacation, which Will
materially aid them financially getting
through the next school year.