The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

OF the eleven Emperors and Expresses of
Russia between Peter | and Alexander Ill,
four have been assassinated.
At the battle of Waterloo $1,000 men were
killed or disabled There were $4,000 SOL
ders in that great struggle.
Postage stamps came into existence about
sixty years ago. In 1850 there were ;bout
five hundred varieties in existence
The Oldest firearms were used in China.
The Chinese were fighting with guns at
time when Europeans uSed bows and ar
rows.
Weather officers in Montana propose to
use kites to display weather signals, so
that they can be seen by the ranchers at a
distance. s9sr
According to computations the black race
embraces about onetenth of the living
members of the human species, or 15O,000,O0O
individuals.
The word hairbreadth, now used for in
fnitesimal space. once named a regular
measure. 1t was the width OF sixteen hairs
laid side by side.
The Oldest sailing craft in the world is
the so-called Godstad ship, a Viking vessel.
which was discovered III a sepulchral
1t is LOCO years old.
1T is said that the longest-lived people
have generally been those who made break
fast the principal meal of the day, as the
stomach has more vigor in the morning
than at any other time
The United States is ahead of all other
countries in the art of making arthcial
teeth. A recent computation makes the
number of artificial teeth Fabricated here as
high as 100000 annually.
The OWLS eyes have no muscles by which
they can be moved; but extraordinary mex
Utility in the muscles of the neck enables
the owl to move his head with Incredible
rapidity in any direction.
At sixty-six years of age a French Ca
madam widow in Montreal mas been
obliged to have her Oldest son; aged forty
two the first of twenty-six chlldren she mas
borne, arrested for abusing ner.
1t is stated that five-eighths of the pas
tors of the Methodist Church in Canada live
on salaries ranging from 500 to $4e s TR sISS
and only ten receive 81 ,0e0 year.
About Walla walia. Ore, the squirrels
are so plentiful that young ones are run
crops demands united effort and hard work
by the farmers to exterminate them
The largest proportion Of single, persons is
found in Ireland and Scotland, ana the
smallest i'm the United States. In ireland
81 per cent. in Scotland IS per cent. but in
the United States only 50 per cent. are In
that condition.
In Canada they utilize the post Tor keep
ing the British flag in the constant remem-
brance of the people every letter posted in
the Dominion bearing the imprint on a. dle
cut to represent the union JACK py means
of which the stamps are de1aceu.
It is often supposed that lions are
drugged or surfeited with food prior TO go
ing through their performances though
both suggestions are wide OF the marx.
Drugs are unknown. and from ten 70 four-
teen pounds of food is given once DAY.
There could not possibly be a whittier city
than CadiZ. unless it were built OF snow:
AS you near the coast you see IN Iront OF
you white mass which appears 70 pc noat-
ing upon the water. The first thought for
foreigner is that he is in sight OF an Ice
berg.
Glasgow. KY recently advertised tne safe
of two negroes who were persistent va
grants 1t was the first procedure or the
kind since 1866 The law orders the SAFE OF
their services for the term OF tneaf sen
tence. the purchaser being oDhged 10 reed,
house and clothe himsnngt
Gaust is the smallest republic. in the
world. 1t has an area Of one mile ana IS g
population Of 40. 1t has existed since ioae'