The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


Korean paper is so strong and dense that
it can be used to cover umbrellas.
There are only three structures in the
world five hundred feet in height.
In Zululand the graves of the dead
are decorated with the bottles Of the at
tending doctors.
Only one man in 100 pays income tax in
India though the tax is levied on all IN
comes of 933 and upward.
During the last ten years the records of
Great Britain show that 154 men and 237
women reached the age of one hundred years
or more.
A prince" in Russia is as commonplace
as a plain "Mr." in England or the united
States, and it denotes just about as much
social rank.
Boston claims to have the longest paved
street of one name in the world, Washing:
ton street which is seventeen and half
miles in length.
Venetian coins of 1870 and 1877, bearing
the name of Doge Alloys Mocenigo, have
been found in Mashonaland, in the interior
of South Africa.
The Pinninkinnink Coal Company has on
exhibition at its offices in Clarksburg, W.
Va. lump Of coal taken last week from
it's mines weighing over 10000 pounds.
A parliamentary paper just issued shows
that there are in Belgium no feWer than
1888 600 liquor establishments of all kinds or
one to every tWenty-nine Of the population.
In Arkansas as in South Carolina, the
Democratic caucus or primary is virtually
the election. In Little Rock only 300 of the
1000 voters registered went to the polls on
election day.
A law passed by the Vermont Legis-
lature requires that wagons to carry three
tons shall have wheels with a three-lnch
tire, over three tons four-inch and over six
tons six-inch.
Forty survivors of the charge Of the Light
Brigade, who dined together in London re-
Gently, dispatched telegram to the queen
conveying expressions of answering 10y
atty and affection.
The Swedish bride fills her pockets with
bread, which she dispenses TO every one
she meets on her way to church, every
piece she dispoSes Of averting, as she be-
lieveS, q misfortune.
An interesting test has just been made by
a French woman. With view to testing
the sustaining powers of chocolate she lived
on that alone for sixty days ana lost out
fifteen pounds in the interval.
A tract of $50 acres OF timber land in
West Virginia that was granted TO George
Washington by King George III OF England
for his services in the Indian wars previous
to the revolution has just been sold to lum-
Der spectators.
A majority of the voters of Ellis county,
Kansas, are Russians, and they nominated
a straight Russian ticket this year, but on
election day, for some reason or other, most
of them voted one Of the old party tickets
and elected 1T.
large and exceedingly ferocious black ants
which throw up hills fifteen and twenty
feet in height. They will not hesitate TO at
tack man. and their headquarters are usual
ly given wide berth.
A dispensation has been granted by the
Holy InQuisition permitting the wives OF
Italian soldiers reported missing after the
battle Of Adua, three years ago. to marry
again, 'in view of the special circumstances
and of the valid presumption of DEATH
A matrimonial lottery takes place four
times year in Smolensk, Russia A young
maiden is ratified for, five thousand tickets
being issued at one rouple EACH The money
is given to the girl as her dowry and the
holder Of the lucky ticket marries the girl.
Moritz Frank, who. as child was eX-
hibited as a mathema teal prodigy, recently
tried to commit suicide by jumping from a
Vienna bridge into the Danube His power
to add figures was Ialilng ana ne hdu
learned no other means of earning a living.
Melbourne, which consisted of thirteen
huts and was known as Beargrass, at the
time Of Queen Victoria's accession, is now
classed as the seventh city of the British
empire coming after London, Liverpool,
Glasgow, Manchester, birmingham ana Cdl-
cutta.
In Manila most of the houses and offices
have tiny window panes, made of trans
lucent oyster shells, instead of glass An
average window six feet high by four feet
wide contains 2G0 shell panes, which temper
the heat and light or the sun ana prevent
blindness.
The Massachusetts Gypsy Moth Commits
sion, which has spent S2OO,yV tins year IN
its crusade against the pest for the extermi-
for like appropriation next year. 1t is now
finishing it's work in the infected region for
the winter.
A novel way of securing a crazy man was
used in Prineville Ore, recently me
crazed man took possession Of a friend
house, and with butcher-knife defied the
officers. They had the brass band play on
a corner and when their patient laid down
his knife and went out to hear the band
they took him In.
In June last a swarm of bees took posses
sion of the fue of a copper boiler in the
kitchen of the Cherry Tree Inn at Settling,
in Norfolk England. The bees made their
entrance and exit via the kitchen chimney
and were not disturbed. The landlord Of the
inn, Mr. Jesse Garrod, has now found a hive
of honey in the due.
William Reed Of fredericksburg, Va,
has secured from the Charlottesville bat
tie field a novel relic of the war of 1876.
1t is an open pocket knife. over the blade
of which has grown about three inches of
white oak tree, into the trunk of which
the knife was evidently. stuck by a soldier
and then forgotten. The three inches of
wood represents the growth Of the tree
since that time