The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-05
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Spencer. Ind -Jethro C. Culmer.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
In the orange fields of New Zealand the
crop has been known to net as high as $1,000
an acre
OF the shoes imported into British colo
MES more than As per cent are of American
manufacture.
The wall around the city of Babylon at
the height of its prosperity was fifty-siX
miles in length.
The only two animals whose brains are
heaVler than that OF man are the whale
and the elephant.
The average age at which men marry is
21.7 years, while the average age at which
women marry is 2512 years.
In fifteen years Russia has sent 624000 per-
sons to Siberia, fully 100000 relatives of pris-
oners having accompanied the exiles of
their own free will.
The British soldier has not always worn
a red uniform. White was the prevailing
color under Henry VIII. and dark green or
russell in the time of Elizabeth.
The time necessary for the conversion of
a forest tree, or a part of it. into a printed
paper in a recent test made in Germany was
two hours and twenty-five minutes.
China has drawn the largest check on the
Bank of England of which the bank has
any record in settlement of the Japanese
indemnity. 1t was for Ell, 00S,S57 los 3d.
Paper artificial teeth are now made in
Germany. They are said to be not brittle,
china. teeth, and they do not melt in the
mouth. .-.--+---
The greatest depth in the Atlantic ocean
has been found some one hundred miles to
the northward of the island of ST. Thomas,
soundings of 5,S75 fathoms having been OBJ
tanned.
In order of superiority the navies of the
world rank thus; |, Great Britain; z, France;
many; Z, Spain; g. Japan; 3, Austria; 10,
Netherlands.
Bank notes were forged to such an extent
after the introduction of one-pound notes
that in 1902 no fewer than seventy extra
clerks were employed at the Bank of Eng
land merely to detect them.
More coffee is used in the United States
than any other country, the annual con-
sumption being not far from 100000
pounds. for which American importers pay
about $50 000.0 900 to the growers.
One can speak by telephone from Berlin
with any part of Germany for three minutes
for % cents; for a conversation with any
place outside of Germany the fees range
between so cents (Prague) and 81 (Buda-
PestE) --...
Birds cannot open the foot when the leg
is bent; that is the reason they do not fall
ing. you will notice that it closes its toes as
it raises the foot, and opens them as it
touches the ground.
The average yield of potatoes in the
United States ranges from sixty to ninety
bushels per acre, according to the condi-
lions, while in some portions of Europe the
average is from three hundred 10 hVe nun
dred bushels per acre.
There are two great walls in China-one
is forty feet thick and fifty feet high and
surrounds Picking. 1t is sixteen miles IN cir
conference. The other-the great wall of
Chna-is nearly 1900 miles long, and was
built 2,115 years ago-217 years b. G.
The greatest density of the population in
the world is claimed for Bombay, and is
Bombay amounts to $50 persons per acre in
certain areas and in these sections the
sire ct area only occupies one-fourth of the
whole.
One firm in Austria uses ten tons of phos-
rhorus a year, and turns out 25,00o, 100000
matches Another company, an English one.
uses 100000 pounds of sulphur, 100000 feet
of choice white pine timber and $50 tons of
strawboard for their boxes in the same
time.
During the most peaceful years there are
in the world 100000 men who are with
drawn from productive occupations to act
as soldiers. The pay, equipments. food and
clothing OF these men cost the worlds tax
payers sum amounting to nearly $S,0o0,00
a day.
Well-preserved flowers discovered at Dab
sourh, in Egypt, in tombs of the times of
the Pharaohs. have just been placed in the
Cairo Museum. The commonest of these
were the white or blue lotus, the red poppy:
the saffron and of the crocus.
The Svantians who live in the inaccessi-
Bile mountain range between the Black and
Caspian seas. are probably the LATEST peo-
vance toward civilization in 800 years. 1t
is their inNariable rule to observe holidays
four times a week. with saints days as
extras.
A story IS going about that when a guam
tity of stores were destroyed in the Nile
campaign of 1875 for want of transport Sir
Herbert Kitchener was in charge of the OPP
Grafton and to his surprise found he had
thrown into the Nile two boxes containing
10OeO sovereigns instead of two boxes of
cartridges
Mrs John beverly, Of Machias, Me-. exam
ined a pin cushion recently which she had
used for thirty-Seven years and found there
in 10 needles as bright new. The cushion
was made of sleeps wool, and probably the
oil in the wool acted as nOncorrosive. Her
find made four and one-half papers OF
needles as needles are now sold.
The bodyguard of all European sover-
eigns consists of men chosen for their fine
physique aud great strength. The King of
Siam however does not trust the guardian
shin of his person to men, but has BODY
guard of female warriors four hundred
strong chosen from among the handsomest,
doughtiest and most robust women of his
kingdom.
recognized in Munich, as four of the stu
dent corps are erecting $4,000 clubhouses
adjoining the new Hofbrauhaus. At the
opening of this years Hofbrau book beer
season nearly 10000 quarts of beer were
drunk on a Sunday afternoon, the beer hav-
ing been tested the day before by eight hum
dred officials. headed by the governor of
Upper Bavaria and the finance minister.