The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
OUT OF THE ORDINARY,

1t has been found in Switzerland that in
building a railway laborers could work only
one-third as long at a height of 10000 feet
as a mile lower.
The front end of the great glacier of
Alaska presents wall 800 feet thick, and
it's breadth varies from three to ten miles,
while its length is $50 miles,
The royal crown of Persia, which dates
back to remote ages, is in the form OF
pot of flowers, surmounted by an uncut
ruby the size Of a hens egg.
The largest mass Of pure rock salt in the
world lies under the province of Gallicia,
Hungary. 1t is known to be $50 miles long,
20 broad and go feet in thickness.
Lake Huron contains 5000 islands. Loeb
Erne. in Ireland has 800. The Lake of the
Thousand Islands is only an expansion of
the st. Lawrence river, and has 1,7O0
The highest pay given German railway
engineers is $l25 a day., while conductors
receive only 81. Many of them have to be
on duty fifteen to eighteen hours day.
Early morning exercise is denounced now
AT that time, they say, vitality is at it's
lowest ebb and needs the stimulation of
food
During the 10 years the Gordon High
landers have been embodied, the regiment
has only been stationed north of the Tweed
for four years. the last occasion being nine
teen years ago.
An excellent barometer can be made Of
ginger bread. The slightest moisture,
threatening rain, renders it soft and plant.
while dry weather restores it to its normal
leathery tOughnesS
The new British battle ship Implacable is
to cost over $5000,000, the largest sum ever
spent in the building of man-ofowar. The
ar1nOr plates alone will cost $150,eOO, and the
guns nearly as much.
Twenty-Five business men, who acted as
the coroner's jury in the investigation of
the recent great fire in London and served
for fourteen working days, received pence
g cents) each as compensation.
The largest congregation in this country
is that of St Stanislaus Kostka, in Chi
cago. which has 10000 communicates. The
number of attendants at the services on
Sundays frequently exceeds 5000.
The City Council of Toronto has adopted
a resolution that no aliens, particularly the
after employed on any civic work, either to
be- constructed or in process OF construc-
tion
In Nicaragua no private person may re-
of Head, 500 caps and 2G0 cartridges, no mat
ter In how many places they may be depos-
ited under penalty of being considered and
being dealt with as smuggler.
Britain was known to the Phoencians as
Barat-Anac, or ''the land of tin," as far
back as the year 1887 b. G.. Some five hum
bred years afterward the island was alluded
to by the Romans under the name of Brit
ANNA. which subsequently became short
ened into Britain.
Projectiles used by the United States
army for it's great modern guns cost ais fol-
lows: Solid shot, S-inch, $69. 80 each; 10-inch,
$l44.50 each; Pinch, $2l2 each: Pinch NOR
tar shells, weighing 500 pounds, STA Zach.
and Pinch mortar shells weighing 1000
pounds, $l95 eacn.
The Hessian fly is so called because 1t
was supposed TO have been broug from
wheat imported for the use of the HessIan
mercenaries in the British army. 1t has
travelled West at the rate of fifteen to
twenty miles a year.
Dimensions of the Capitol at Washing
ton: Length, 751 feet inches; BREADTH from
III to ga feet; it covers 15S,112 square feet;
From base line of building to the tip of
statue, 2S7 feet II inches. The height of
the dome above the base line on the east
front is PSI feet inches.
The amount OF money that a single toad
might save To farmer in one season by the
destruction of cutworms has been estimated
al nearly so This calculation is based on
the damage that the number of cutworns
toad could eat in a season would be able to
effect among growing crops
In hot countries it has long been the GUS
tom, when a naturalist wants TO procure
perfect skeleton, to leave the body on an
ant heap, when the ants will eat away the
FISH. The American tadpoles Will also rap
! idly bare the bones of any skinned animal
placed in pond where they abound.
Among numismatists one of the most
sought after colonial coins is the Highly
copper They are of several varieties and
We're struck in 1887 by Samuel Highly, who
was physician and a blacksmith at Gran
by, Conn. He obtained the copper from a
mine near by and shaped the coins at his
forge.
pace, nor can it maintain this rate over
two hours. It's usual speed is about five
miles an hour--a slow lounging pace, be-
ycnd which ii is dangerous. with nine cam
els out of ten TO urge them, or else, as
Asiatcs say, they break their hearts" and
literally die on the spot
So far as is known, pews were first placed
Ia English churches by the Norman MOBILES
but It is certain that for many generations
these private boxes for worshipers were
neither numerous, nor, indeed allowed to
any but persons of the highest rank. For
meriy the people sat on rude three-legged