The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-06
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

No married man in Vienna is allowed to
go up in a balloon without the formal con-
sent of his wife and children.
Probably the oldest operative treaty is
the Concordat Of Horns, which has gov
erned the relations of the Catholic Church
in Germany since liz
A monograph is being made for use at
the Paris Exhibition of 1900. which is ex-
pected to be of sufficient dimensions to be
heard by ten thousand people.
Tarring and feathering was once a legal
punishment for theft. 1t is said to be found
in the statutes of both England and France
about the time of the Crusades.
The House of Capet has the longest I'M
broken succession in the male line-from
Hugh Capet King of France in $751; to
Louis Philippe's abdication in 1S4S.
Greek and Roman doors invariably open
outward: person passing out of the house
was therefore obliged to knock on the door
before opening it, to avoid collision with
passer-by.
The American soldiers so defaced the
famous tree outside of Santiago, under
which ali the peace negotiations were held
that General Shafter had to place a, guard
around it.
is now four and a half times greater than
it was half a century ago. No other dis
ease can show anything like such an i'm
menSe increase.
A medical paper says that in railway coll
lisions nearly all the passengers who are
asleep escape the bad effects of shaking
ana conclusion, > OWL dIdeSlneLC
preserving them.
A German trial for swindling with forged
autographs of Martin Luther brought out
the fact that the ink used by Luther $50
years ago is so good that copies can still
be taken from it.
Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has the curl
Gus property of turning red every ten years,
owing to the presence of certain aquatic
plants which are not known in any other
lake in the world
The Japanese language is said to contain
10000 words. It is quite impossible for
man to learn the entire language, and a
well-educated Japanese is familiar with
only about 10000 words.
Free libraries are not wanted in some
parts Of London. The three adjoining par
ishes of Islington, St. Pancras and Maryle-
bone have refused to establish them even
where the books were offered as gift.
More than one-half the lord chancellors
of England during the past fifty years were
the sons Of poor men. One of them was the
son Of country barber and the father of
another was a Newcastle coal-heaver.
The icebergs of the two hemispheres are
entirely different in shape. The arctic bergs
are irregular in form, with lofty pinnacles
and glittering domes, while the antarctic
bergs are hat-topped and solid-looking.
In the early days of Rome the ladies of
that city wore such heavy earrings that
they made the ears sore, and sometimes
tore the lobes. There were doctors whose
business was chiefly to heal ears thus in
jured.
The Bank of England notes are made from
new white linen cuttings-never from any
thing that has been worn. So carefully is
the paper prepared that even the number
of dips into the pulp made by each work.
man is registered on dial by machinery.
Vienna telephone girls are required to
change their dress and wear uniform
when on duty. as the dirt they brought in
from the streets affected the instruments.
with sleeves striped black and yellow, the
Austrian national colors.
curious watch has been brought out in
France. The dial is transparent but there
are no works behind it, and the hands ap-
concealing the works. at the edge of the
case. and communicating the motion to the
hands by means of glass disk.
Wire fences, which the American army
utilized for telephone lines in Cuba, are
now serving the same purpose in Australia,
thus enabling farmers to communicate with
each other over distances extending thir
teen miles. The system relieves the monot-
ony and isolation of life in the back coun-
try
The moment that young crocodile breaks
active as 1t is at any time during its life.
1t will make straight for the water even If
it be out of sight and a good distance off,
and it will pursue its prey with eagerness
and agility during the first hour of it's free
existence.
OF John Millions. ten London residences
it is said not one is now left, though two
three have been standing within MEM
DRY. 1t is proposed to turn the little church.
yard of st. CHESS Church, Cr1pplegate,
into a public garden and to place thereon
a statue of the poet. whose bones lie in the
channel of the church.
One of the busiest workers on the new
Washington county, Maine. railroad, is
woman who has charge of the cooking for
big crew of men who are laying rails. She
has three male assistants. and every day
makes a whole barrel of flour into bread. to
say nothing of the potatoes bacon, pork,
salt beef and other articles that go to make
up the bill of fare.
King street Westminster says the Lon
don Mail, is in process of demolition. Here
dwelt many notable personages. including
oliver Cromwell. the Earl of Dorset, Sir
Thomas Kuyvett (princiDally famous for
the capture of Guy Fawkes), Thomas
Carew, poet and courtier, the second Lord
North and many others equally famous to
students of English history.
In the earlier ages dancing was sdvo-
Gated as a cure for sickness. Lycurgus
brought back from India and Egypt to
I4acedemonia notions of medico-religious
dances and eracted that the Spartan youth
should be brought up gracefully and sym
metrically. In Greece, Socrates commended
and body, for he looked on it as a health
giving device
Bright red spectacles, accompanied by in
specific against seasickness. 1t is deduced
from Epsteins Investigations on the influ-
ence of color on the blood vessels in the
brain. Seasickness is due to lack Of blood
in the brain, while red sends blood to the
brain with a rush. BY looking at one point
for some time through the red glasses the
patient is cured radically.