The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-14
OUT of THE ORDINARY.

There is some talk of starting a daily
paper in Jerusalem.
The population of Russia is increasing at
the rate of one million a year.
The recent census showed $1,000 Prot
estants among the 81 100000 of Italy.
Beggars are unknown in Melbourne. The
poorest part of the city is the Chinese quar-
ter.
Microbes are so minute that 25O,0O0,000 can
be comfortably accommodated on postage
stamp.
The time required for Niagara to cut its
gorge has been variouSly estimated at from
1000 to $1,000 years.
A nugget of gold weighing 1886 ounces
and valued at $32,5OO has been found at
Kanowna in West Australia.
Eight churches have stood on the site
of ST. Paul's Cathedral in London. The first
one was built in the year 223.
The amount of gold coin in actual circu-
lation in the world is estimated by the Bank
of England officials to be about 800 tons.
Burglary no longer pays in London. The
police reports for last year show that the
SOC, co.,
Millions of men in India live. marry and
rear apparently healthy children, upon an
income of Is cd a week, and sometimes it
falls below that.
The Lakes Superior. Huron, Erie, On
tario and Michigan have an aggregate area
of 94.75O square miles, which is larger than
the area of Great Britain.
OF the 1850 white laborers who built the
Congo Railway, 900 succumbeS to the eli
mate in two years. OF 1000 black laborers
all but $500 died or deserted.
One hundred and nine thousand locomo-
tives are at present running in various
Asia $500, Australia 1000 and Africa 90.
Last year there were only eighteen Deaths
from smallpox in the thirty-three great cit
les of England, as compared with 1872, $50, 120
and 20, respectively, in the four preceding
years.
The first stone of a monument to be
erected in Dublin to the memory of Wolf
executed in 1898 has been laid on the site of
the old Newgate prison.
Verditschew town in the province of
Kew, Russia, will be sold at auction at
ment and other creditors 3,919SS2 rubles Sc
kopecks which it is unable to pay
Scientists have demonstrated that the pur-
est air in the cities is found about twenty
goes to prove that the healthiest apart
ments are those on the third floor.
Statistics gathered by social science stu
dents show that drunkenness is increasing
with the growth of population; but that
there has been a decided decrease in New
York during the last year
The flags to be hoisted at one time in sig
mailing at sea never exceed four. 1t is an
interesting arithmetical fact that, with
eighteen various colored flags, and never
1852 signals can be given.
Ornithologists tell us that. when feeding
the stride of the ostrich is from twenty
inches to twenty-five inches; when walking,
when terrified, eleven and one-half to four
teen feet or at the rate Of about twenty-five
miles an hour.
Japanese officials are less corrupt than
ceptions, but these are astonishingly few. In
strict attention to duty the japanese Off
Gals of all ranks rival the Germans, but
while the latter are somewhat stiff and
overbearing in manner, the Japanese are
very polite.
The family of Daniel Rhodus, of Har-
rison county, Missouri, has warned people
through the local press against trading with
him, because he is ninety-nine years old.
Whereupon a neighboring county paper
feels called upon to say that it looks like
man, but give him at least one more year. "
There are no professional jurors" in
Mexico. Nine of mans peers try him, and
a majority is verdict. If the nine are
unanimous there is no appeal. To serve on
a jury one must have a diploma In law
medicine, or some other profession, or an
income of $100 2 month; or he must be
member of family whose head has an in
come of 5000 year.
The entire collection of plate In the Lon
don Mansion House is a wonderful, sight
An idea of the wealth of it may be gathered
from the fact that. at the time of the OPEN
ing of the Mansion House in 1853. the plate.
which was deposited in the strong room,
cost e11.53 les Sd. Every year since then
each lord mayor has added to the collection
to the amount of $500. and in addition there
are many handsome presentation pieces.
Wire-rolled glass is one OF the most re-
cent inventions. The glass, which is exact
ly one-quarter of an inch thick. contains in
the center a wire netting. the meshes OF
which are a trifie less than one inch in
diameter. Consequently the wire does not
obscure the light, and wire-rolled glass, IL
is said, will resist fire as long a time as an
equal thickness Of iron.
The golden rose which the Pope gives
loyalty both TO the Pope and to the Church
Of Rome is made Of pure gold. and Is valued
at $4,000. There Is a golden rose on the
center in which the Pope DOurs haIsam