The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Five hundred trading vessels leave the
Thames daily for all parts of the world.
Tien-Tsin and other Chinese cities have
no light at night except such as comes from
private houses.
The human heart is six inches in length,
four inches in diameter and beats on an av-
erage of seventy times minute.
Paris policemen are provided with a piece
of chalk with which to make a mark, in case
of emergency, on suspected persons cloth
ing.
The oldest university in the world is Ell
Ayhar, at Cairo. 1t is the greatest Moham-
medan university, having clear records dat
ing S75.
A Chinese gentleman always sends a pair
of geese to the lady of his choice, and they
are looked upon as the emblems of conjugal
felicity.
No one must touch the King of Korea un-
hidden, and anyone who does so accidental
ly is compelled afterWard to wear a red cord
round his neck.
The value OF sermon has been fixed by
the Georgia, legislature at 50. This is the
amount paid to the ministers who preach
at the state convict camps.
For many years the Indians of the Yaqui
Mexico, gold country have sold gold to
traders, but it has been impossible to de-
termine how rich the deposits are.
The front end of the great glacier of
Alaska presents a wall FIVE hundred feet
high and it's breadth varies from three to
ten miles, while it's length is $50 miles.
Great Britain has a longer sea coast line
ures 2,775 miles, with Italy second, 2,472
miles. Russia ranks third and France
fourth.
The soil Of Siberia at the close of summer
meath the surface, and the dead who have
lain in their collins for over a century have
been taken up unchanged.
At Marseilles the manufacture Of jewelry
| twenty years ago counted more than one
hundred workshops, employing five hum
dred artists. At present these shops num-
Der sixty, and the workman have decreased
by 70 per cent.
1t is said that the inventor of the under
running trolley wheel offered it to many
capitalists for 800 00O but without success
| Finally an offer Of S. for each car fitted
| vas accepted, and the inventors heirs have
| since made 500 900.
| The German army has a swimming school
| for troops, where every one must learn to
| swim. The best swimmers are able to
| cross stream of several hundred yards
| width, even when carrying their clothing,
rifle and ammunition.
| After fighting at Waterloo, Victor Ballot
was discharged from the French army at
the age of twenty-five, because the doctors
said he was consumptive. He survived the
doctors over half century, and has just
| died at La Roche aged 105 years.
Incidental information concerning NUM-
| cipal STRENGTHENING methods in st. Peters
| burg, Russia, is found in big petition be-
| ing circulated there asking for the abolition
| of rubber-tired vehicles because rubber tires
| splash up more mud than the old kind.
Inc 'DOttI0 post is an old institution on
| the south coast of Iceland. Letters are put
| into corked bottles, which are waited by the
wind to the opposite coast: They also con-
| tain cigar or other trifle to induce the
finder to deliver the letter as addressed
The trifing matter of having neglected to
| pay some overdue taxes prevented the
mayor elect of Platte City, Mo-, from TAX
ing office, and as consequence the presi-
| dent of the Board of Aldermen will be the
| chief official of the town during the coming
year.
| teaching the hardest thing she has to fight
against in her work in private houses IS the
nonventilation Of the sick room; To shut up
an invalid as nearly air tight as possible
l. seems to be the shibboleth of the majority
of persons.
The latest catalogue of the University Of
Chicago shows that that institution has the
largest proportion of female students Of
any of the great universities in the coun-
try. The total number of students in at at
were men and 459 were women.
The income of the Emperor of Russia for
turkey g e sOo ? Emperor Of Austria. ' S. oC5 o.
Sc, 500: queen Victoria, $500; King of Bel
GUM, Sc, 500; President of France. $1,000;
President of the United States, $3.50.
Human beings have six muscles to each
eye, that they may move it on either side;
but horses, cows, sheep and other quad
rupeds, which habitually incline their heads
to the earth in search of food, have muscle
by which their eyelids are suspended and
supported, and which we do not need.
In Berlin the firemen wear water jackets
with double skin, which they are able to
FIJI with water from the hose. If the space
between the two layers becomes oVerflled
the water escapes through a valve at the
top of the helmet and flows down over the
fireman like a cascade, protecting him
douby.
In China hens are employed to hatch fish
eggs. These are sealed in an egg shell and
placed under the unsuspecting hen for a
few days The contents of the shell are
then emptied into a shallow pool, where
they can bask in the sunshine until the
minnows are strong enough to be turned
into lake or river.
The Importance of properly selecting the
location of a cable is shown by the fact
that 1.-The military and naval reserves were
called out in Australia in 1888, when the
simultaneous interruption of two cables cut
off communion with the rest of the world
for nineteen days and gave rise to the fear
that war had broken out in Europe"
Pens are made by machines which seem
almost to think. The steel is cut into rib
bons as wide as the length of one pen, and
these are fed to machines which cut out the
blanks then fashion, stamp them, split the
points and place the makers name on the
backs. The pens are now complete, save the
anneaIing, and this forms separate opera
ton.