The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A traveller in Porto Rico says that cigar
equal to the present average American 10
center can be purchased there for cents
In the eighteenth century Polish ladies
obliged their daughters to wear little bells
in order to proclaim where they were all
the time
BY the death of the widow Of the last
prince, the name of the Venetian family
Giovanelli, that had existed since 1890, has
become extinct.
During the last twenty-five years the
number of college students in the country
in proportion to popula lion has increased
over 100 per cent.
Paper floors for dwelling houses are COM
ing into use in Germany. They are formed
of several layers of stout paper, dampened,
pasted and rolled.
Death from sunstroke in October marks
one of the freaks of our peculiar climate.
That was the cause of the sudden death
of woman on a street in Akron, o.
The totale length of the streets, avenues,
boulevards, bridges quays and thorough
fares of Paris generally is set down at
about 600 miles. of which nearly 200 are
planted with trees.
In France it is a punishable offense for
any one to give infants under one year any
form of solid food unless such be ordered by
written prescription, signed by legally
qualified medical man.
Frozen milk is no longer a novelty in
Europe. Milk is taken when fresh and
frozen in bricks Of different sizes, and sold
by size. The milk is said to be more n.y.
gienic than liquid milk.
Iowa druggists are being assessed the
regular salon license tax of $50 per month
in some towns. Sioux City insists on this
rule, because the saloons of that place
sell less whisky than the drug stores.
Snakes are one of the scourges of India.
Thousands of people die yearly from their
bite. In the last twenty-five years the
number of deaths attributed to this cause
has reached the enormous total of 1929.
1t is an inexplicabe fact that men buried
in an avalanche of snow hear distinctly
every word uttered by those who are seek
ing for them, while their most strenuous
shouts fail to penetrate even few feet Of
snow.
The total amount of money coined by all
the Queen of Englands predecessors on the
reign the mint has turned out s. ,250 Co., 900,
including $3.50. 100000 in India-a record for
all time
The cape used in the Edinburgh Univer-
sity graduation ceremony is made out OF the
seat of an old pair of George Buchanan.s
trousers, just as the cape of St. Andrews
University is made out Of an old pair OF
John Kn0x's trousers.
Jerusalem is said to be filling I'D with
German ard Austrian tramps and vaga-
bonds in anticipation Of the German EN-.
peror's visit there. and fears are entertained
in certain quarters for the personal safety
of the imperial party.
The largest library in the world Is that
of Paris. 1t contains upward of 2000.N0o
printed books and 10000 manuscripts The
umes. and the Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg about the same number. These
are the largest libraries in the world.
Italy has had 2s4 square miles Of land
added 20 its territory u the last seventy
years by the advance of the delta OF the
Po into the Adriatic sea. The measurement
las been made BY Professor Melrinelli. who
carefully compared the Austrian surveys pk