The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Great Britain rules twenty-one of every
one hundred square miles of the earth's sur
face.
OF the nearly two million inhabitants of
Berlin only 1900 have an annual income of
over $3.50.
Pious Russians do not eat pigeons, be-
cause of the sanctity conferred on the dove
in the Scriptures.
The United States and Germany are the
only two great powers of the world that
have no postal savings banks.
Russia, with population of 1877, 900 900. has
only 1884 physicians. The United States,
with about 7G,000,0OO, has 10000.
1t costs y cents Gay to feed a soldier,
according to War Department figures,
counting transportation of provisions.
When English soldiers are on the march
and billeted upon publicans only three-half-
pence per man is allowed for their break
fast.
The present population of the United
States exceeds that of Germany by about
y: coo 900, and that of Great Britain by 34,-
100000.
The doctors of Sweden never send bills
to their patients, the amount of remunera-
ton being left entirely to the generosity Of
the latter.
London is much healthier in summer than
IN %, winter In the third week of January
2,O2l deaths were notified, while in the third
week of June the number was only 1,193.
switzerland's greatest industry, the en-
tertainment Of tourists, has been officially
year, 35.000,O00 more than the whole revenue
Of the COnfederacy.
1t is said that many people in Maine are
so offended at the advertisements painted
on boards and barns along the country
roads that they refuse to deal with the
firms which so advertise.
Formosan rice is so good and so abundant
that that island has earned the title of the
"granary of China The tea raised on the
island goes mostly to America. Other
profitable products are sugar, petroleum,
indigo and coal
A Long Island historian calls attention to
the fact that Sandy Hook was once Cape
Santiago. It's first name was Cape De Santa
Maria; changed in 1886 to Cape Santiago:
then, when the Dutch took possession, it re-
ceived its present name.
Within the last five years several millions
of the Pacific coast salmon have been placed
in Lake Superior. Ley are now frequently
of excellent flavor little milder than that
OF the salt water salmon.
There has been discovered in India a
strange plant which possesses astonishing
magnetic power. The hand touching it i'm
mediately receives strong magnetic shock
while alta distance of twenty feet mag
netic needle is affected by it.
"A resident of Ventura, Cal, recently drove
nine horses a distance of three hundred
miles to sell them. A few days later they
returned to their old home having escaped
from pasture and Travelled the entire dis
lance without driver or herder
The other day smoker in Bath Me-, was
smoking a pipe with celluloid stem when
the mouthpiece exploded, burning his mus
tache and filing the room so full of smoke
that he had to leave it. The celluloid took
f1re. probably from a spark drawn into the
stem.
1t used to be the custom when the chief
priest Of one of the Congo tribes showed
symptoms Of illness to kill him forthwith.
either by stranglng or by aid of a club: the
natives believing that if he were allowed to
die by disease all the rest Of the world
would perish.
:. In the first seven years of Emperor Will
liam's reign, 1883 to 1885, there were no
fewer than 1895 cases of lese-maiesty tried
in the German courts. Among the victims
were seven children under fifteen years and
2Sl other persons under twenty-one. The
average time OF Imprisonment was It's days
>. Lancaster was the capital of the United
States from Sept: q, 1777, to Sept. 30, 1777
for time at Baltimore, York. Princeton
Annapolis Trenton and New York In 1900
the seat of government was transferred
permanently from Philadelphia to Washing
ton.
With the demolition of Mazas Prison in
Paris, the first prison in France constructed
on the old cellular system has disappeared
There were 1000 cells. radiating like the
spokes of a wheel, and so arranged that
each prisoner could see the chapel from the
leaving his cell.
The prize peach story OF the season comes
from Portertown. Nd, where the largest
specimen of the fruit ever grown is said to
Thomas. The peach grew on a twig less
than an inch long, springing from one of
the main limbs. IT is twenty-seven inches
in circumference and nine inches in di-
ameter.
Stanley, the explorer, says that slavery
will never be abolished in Africa until rail-
ways are constructed from the coast to the
interior. This is so because in many parts
of the dark continent slaves are the only
means of carriage for commodities, and for
the most part. goods are brought to the
coast and their exchange value taken back
again on the backs of slaves.
In order that she might become heiress
to $4,000 of her grandfather'S money,
Eteika A. Knapp, of Oakland, Cal. has been
legally adopted by her own father. The
grandfather did not recognize the little girl
who is the daughter of his sons divorced
wife, but provided for future children
Lawyers advised Mr.. Knapp that he could
get around this provision by the process
adopted.
It costs about $4,000 to equip a regiment
OF infantry with uniforms arms. ammuni-
ton. etc. exclusive of camp outfit. and to
maintain regiment of one thousand men
would entail an expenditure approximatine
100000 in round numbers, depending upon
the amount of travel and the location of the
command. OF this sum about $275,G00 or
considerably more than one-half, is charge
able to pay.
One Of the interesting features of the
Transmississippi Exposition is a Nebraska
sod house, constructed under the direction
Of Mrs. L. Bowser, of Norfolk, Neb. 1t is an
exact imitation of the house in which Mrs
Bowser lived when she first took up her
residence in the State many years ago. In
this primitive structure the mistress serves
coffee and biscuits to several hundred Wis
itors every day,