The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The British House of Parliament covers
nine acres and contains 1900 apartments.
A shipyard at Omnato, Japan, still in
operation, was established over 1900 years
ago.
Belgium, 1000 square miles, is about the
combined size of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island
A cannon ball fired from one of the great
Krupp or Armstrong guns travels 2,SS7 feet
per second.
Every German soldier carries a four
ounce religious book with the rest of his
personal equipment.
The length of the Grand Canal from
Tien-Tsin to Hang-Chau, in China, is $50
miles 1t connects great ports with rich
coal regions.
In Peru it was once the custom for do
nestle servants to have two of their upper
front teeth extracted. Their absence lndi-
Gated their servitude.
Experiments made in Paris show that an
electric wagon costs AZ per cent less 10 run
than a horse wagon and 81 per cent. less
than a petroleum motor.
Egypt is the only country in the world
where there are more men than women.
The male sex in the dominion OF the
Khedive exceeds the female by 10000.
IT having been decided to levy house or
hut tax of shilingS on each owner in
Sierra Leone, the natives are pulling down
their huts and living under trees rather than
pay it.
The Japanese are curiously alike physical
w. Recent measurements taken of an in
fantrv regiment showed no variation except
two inches in height or twenty pounds IN
weight.
Two teaspoonfuls of ounce juice were re-
Gently administered to a sufferer from an
aggravated case of hiccoughs in Chlllcotne,
o. and cured after many other remedies
had failed.
Much has been said of late in regard to
the wholesomeness of apples, and a Paris
specialist says that women who want to
have clear compilations ought to eat three
foIlY or a Thew
The two biggest shoes in the United States
have just been completed by Cheboygan
shoemaker named Kucinski. The shoes are
sixteen inches long, ana were made Tor a
customer six feet four inches tall, who
weighs 2l5 pounds.
Wisconsin possesses a natural bridge with
nearly as much attractiveness as the one in
Virginia made famous by the visits OF
George Washington. The Badger bridge is
located in the town of Honey Creek, eight
miles east of Prairie Du Sac.
Benin's ex-King, who is detained as a
prisoner by the British at Old Calabar, hav-
ing been reduced to three wives instead of
the three hundred he had before. has taken
to smoking briar-wood pipe and attending
services at the Presbyterian mission
The baptisma1 fee in the Philippines is s25
and the death fee is $50 for an adult and so
for an infant. A poll tax OF $25 for each
and when a man builds a house he must
pay SO for having the chimney blessed.
The King of AMMAN has an original idea
in the way of strong box. He has the
trunks Of trees followed out filled with gold
and silver and flung into his private lake,
where a large staff Of crocodiles wards of
intruders. What will he do when he wants
his treasures?
The otter is the fastest swimming quad
ruped known. In the water it exhibits an
astonishing agility, swimming in a nearly
horizontal position with the greatest ease.
diving and darling along beneath the sur
face with speed equal, If not superior,
TO that OF many fishes.
The smallest inhabited island in the world
is that on which the Eddystone lighthouse
stands At low water ii is thirty-eight feet
In diameter; at high water the lighthouse
whose diameter at the base is twssnty-eight
and .hree-fourths feet. completely covers It.
1t is inhabited by three persons.
English capitalists are already preparing
10 hIlx the railroad which Sir Herbert Kifch-