The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-09
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

! In China books are read backward and
the footnotes are made on the top of the
page.
| The fastest flowing river In the world is
i the Sutley, in British India. Its descent is
1900 feet in $50 miles.
An American grain elevator is being erect
ed on the ship canal, Manchester, England.
| by John S. Metcalf & Co., Chicago.
OF the twenty thousand Washington gov
eminent clerks nearly one-third are wom-
en-. who receive from 5000 to 81, 800 yearly.
The New York Elevated Railway has
LILY passenger cars, 335 engines, $500 en-
ployes and runs trains only fifty seconds
apart.
Berlin has restaurant where a beefsteak
( prepared in the highest style Of culinary
| art costs $3.50, and the waiter expects a tip
of 80 cents.
The steam craft Of the United states last
year carried 65OcOO.OO passengers, with
loss of forty-six passengers and 1877 men be-
I longing to the crews.
In Germany and also in Holland. girls
are chosen in preference to young men in
all employments in which they can be adj
vantageously employed.
Omnibuses were originally started in Par
1 is in 1862. They died out, however, and
| they were adopted in London.
| Robert Morriss Bank of North America,
founded at Philadelphia at the end of the
| year 1881, was the first banking institution
founded on the American continent.
During the year just closed the tonnage
which passed through the Sault Ste. Marie
which passed through the SueZ canal
For a short distance lion or tiger can
outrun man, and can equal the 'peed of
fast horse. but the animals lose their
wind at the end Of about half mile.
Girls in New Guinea have s:saG chances
OF clipping. Every night they are put in
little house at the top of a tall tree. The
ladder used to reach it is then removed.
Furnival's Inn, London where Dickens
lived as a reporter, where he spent his first
year of married life and where his eldest
oh Id was born, is the latest add ton to dis
appearing London"
An English statistician has figured out
that in the year 1901 there will be no further
| use for insane asylums for the reason that
there will be no sane persons left to lock
up the crazy ones.
The largest house in the world is situated
in Weiden, a suburb of Vienna. 1t contains
1,4OO rooms, divided into 400 suites. and shell
ters 2,l12 persons, who pay an annual rental
of over 100000 forms.
The New Zealand old age pensions bill
provides that persons of good character
attaining sixty-five and having resided for
twenty years in the colony shall be entitled
to pension of 83S annually.
In 1870 the Duke of Goliera began TO
ton of rare, stamps, ana his collection is
now believed to be the finest in the world.
1t is estimated to be worth $Iz5j,Vvu.
While surveying some land that he inner
of selling it, Max Dukes, of BridgevilIe,
Del, found and dug up. $1,000 in Spanish
coin that had been buried in an old pot
Brussels being obliged to have an elevated
RAILROAD TO connect the stations at opposite
ends of the city, is going to build 1t $50 feet
from the ground on ornamental pillars, with
low W ~ ''''' = ~ - 80 -
All English swords are tested by a 800
pound giant, the most powerful workman
in the realm, man who would attract at
tention in a dime museum, who drives each
sword with all his force into a huge elm
block.
A sensation has been created in Madagas-
car by the appearance of a carriage in the
streets of Antananarivo. 1t is the first one
that has ever been seen in the country, and
belongs to the mayor of the city, Captain
DeonS.
The thickest known coal seam in the
world is the Wyoming near Twin Creek, in
the Green river, coal basin, Wyoming. 1t is
eighty feet thick, and upward of three hum
dred feet of solid coal underlie four thou
sand acres.
Robert Croker Mercer county penn
sylvania) farmer, caught two hundred rats
in his granary, and when he went in with
a club to kill them the rodents overpowered
him. He was taken out unconscious and
badly bitten.
The first vessel to cross the Atlantic
ocean which used steam as a propeling
power was the Savannah, of $50 tons,
She left port May 26. 1919, and arrived at
Liverpool after twenty-five days.
To show how completely absorbed in re-
ligion the Hindoos are, the whole of midas
800 100000 population, very many of them
illiterate, seem to have known of Vivekan-
anda's mission to Chicago to attend the
Worlds Parliament of Religions.
Live bees are sometimes shipped on ice
so as to keep them dormant during the jour
ney. This is particularly the case with
humble bees, which have been taken to New
Zealand, where they are useful in fertiliZing
the red clover, which has been introduced
into the colony.
The four most popular books Of the sea-
SOn-that is to say, the books that have
commanded the largest sales-are said to
have been Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Wards
THE Story of Jesus Christ" Hall Gaines
1.-THE Christian Sienkiewiez's Quo Vadis''
and DR.. Mitchells Hugh Wynn"
A minister III Springfield, Mass, IS said
to have received a bicycle as a pres ent from
the manufacturer condition that it
should be advertised by him from the pull
pit. In order to fulfill his contract he
preached a sermon on Sunshine from Be-
tween the Wheels" and at the close he an
nounced to his hearers the name of the
wheel he rode and advised them to get only
good ones.
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