The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The word Asia is derived from the San
skirt Ushas, meaning the land of the morn
ing dawn.
The famous rich man of ancient times,
Croesus. is calculated to have possessed
about $20.O00O0O.
The cost of running big ocean liner from
Liverpool to New York and back is some
thing over $4,000.
Nickel, which has of late become very
important metal. is practically supplied by
two countries only-New Caledonia and
Canada.
A rose bush bearing blossoms of five diff
ferent colors was one of the principal at
fractions al a Belfast CMe.) flower garden
this summer.
A line soldier in England costs 1915 a
wood. he is often mere boy or an Invalid
and weakly man.
Among the many mysteries of bird migra-
ton is the fact that oversee journeys are
generally conducted in the darkness and
Invariably against head wind.
The bank checks passing through the
clearing houses in London and New York
in one month exceed the value of all the
gold and silver in the world.
The average number of horses killed in
Spanish bullfghts every year exceeds five
thousand, while from one thousand to
twelve hundred bulls are sacrificed.
are so limited in Brazil that the inhabitants
of the ports find it cheaper to import grain
from North America than from their own
farms.
dress with extra care before a battle,
they believe physical cleanliness to play
important part in helping them to enter
heaven.
If the day is going to be fine the flower
opens about or o'clock in the afternoon;
but if wet weather is in store the marigOld
does not open at all.
The hours OF work in the Calcutta jute
mills are from 4:30 a. m. to 8 p. M, or 1872
hours per day, Saturdays included and all
repairs and cleaning of machinery have to
be done on Sundays
The dryest of all fishes is, perhaps, the
river eel, yet according to analysis by a
German chemist, 60 per cent of its sub
stance is water Salmon comes next, with
81 per cent. HOLSTERS and oysters are four
fifths water.
Household servant girls Throughout Mon
about Sc week besides board. and the
washing" including that of the servant
herself, must always be sent out to the
laundrieS.
The expenses of Great Britain are now
about $500, coo, 600 yearly, or nearly $1,000 per
minute, but every tick of the clock repre-
sents an inflow of a little over $40 into the
treasury thus leaving an annual surplus of
about $50. 1000
In the Island of Minora. one of the Philip
pines, the humming birds are pugnacious lit
tie creatures. thousands OF them frequent.
ly attack huntsmen without the slightest
provocation inficting sometimes serious
wounds on the face and neck.
James Fisk, of Tioga, Pa. lives to tell
of his experience with lightning His cloth
ing was stripped from the left side of his
body and cut into strings: he was rendered
unconscious and paralyzed in the left arm
and leg and Scorched on the back.
There is a town in Maine of seven hundred
inhabitants. called Weston, in which only
two foreigners are living, both of them
Irish naturalized citizens AS might be ex-
pected, both are Office holders One is the
mayor and the other is constable of the
town.
The small town Of Werda, in the king
dom of Dahomey, is celebrated for it's tenn
PIE of serpents, a long building in which
the priests keep upwards of 900 serpentS of
all sizes, which they feed with birds and
frogs brought to them as offerings by the
natives
The report of the Secret-service Depart
ment of the United States treasury shows
that in the following States there were no
cases calling for the services of it's officials:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, the two Dakotas, Idaho, Utah and
Wyoming.
The magnitude of the EseuriaI, the great
Spanish palace may be inferred from the
fact that it would take four days to go
through all the rooms and apartments,
the length of the way being reckoned at
twenty-three Spanish leagues, which is
about 100 English miles.
Bangor manufacturers are sending canoes
of birch and canvas to Palestine, Japan,
India and China. One recently sent to India
was made to the order of a British officer,
and the cost of transportation was more
than SIS. A canoe just ordered is intended
for a trip up the River Jordan.
1t is an interesting fact that the very first
use made by the British government of the
Atlantic cable laid down by Bright in 1858
Immediately resulted in saving the treasury
$3.50, 900. The cable enabled the government
to cOuntermand an order for the transmits
sion of troops from Canada to England.
Lava streams that have flowed out of
Vesuvius during the last three years have
deposited los, 600 cubic meters of lava on
the sides of the mountain. A cone of lava
800 feet high has been formed. out of which
fresh streams flowing. The valleys
been completely filled up.
Within the last twenty years the French
have annexed no fewer than two million
square miles of Africa They own Alebira.
Tunis 1.-The light soil of the Sahara. Sene-
gal. the Ivory coast the western Sudan,
Dahomey, the French Kongo and a large
tract on the SOmali coast, while in AbyS-
sinia they are making steady way.
The Yellowstone National Park which
has always heretofore been patrolled by the
soldiers of the regular army was this sum-
mer without guard or patrol until June %,
when a detail of civilians undertook the
work. They found the park to be overrun
with sheep, which had been driven in by
the owners during the spring, contrary to
law. The civilian guard has thus far elected
10000 sheep from the prohibited territory.