The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-08
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Lake Superior is larger than Scotland.
The population of the Sudan is numbered
at 100000, nearly all wholly uneducated
The grave of an unmarried woman in
Turkey is often indicated by a rose carved
in stone.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has
unanimously decided that theosophy is not
religion.
1t is said that the Turks were the first
to bury their dead in cemeteries adorned
with ornamental headstones.
In 1890 Iceland will celebrate the nine
hundredth anniversary of the introduction
of Christianity into the island
France is burdened with 100000 public Off
Gals, costing the state 615, 100000 francs
year, according to the estimate OF LIE
Temps.
1t costs about $4,000 to patent an inven-
ton all over the world. There are sixty
four countries in which patent can be
protected.
London is delighted with the novelty of
having some of its fire ladders drawn by
horses instead of by hand. These are called
'horsed fire escapes"
OF the thirty-eight Sultans who have ruled
the Ottoman empire since the conquest OF
Constantinople by the Turks thirty-four
have died violent deaths.
According to official figures, Great Britain
expends $50, 600 ESQ a year on the support or
the poor and Germany about $25,0OO'OOO.
This does not include private charities.
Camel coal was once used as a substitute
for candles. because it can be cut into
blocks or strips and burns with clear yell
low flame. Its real name IS candle coal
The baya bird of India has the curious
habit of fastening freflies TO its nest with
moist clay. On a dark night such nest
might be taken for an electric street lamp.
There is a belief among the South Sea
islanders that no man can enter paradise
who has lost a limb, and for this reason a
man will often die rather than submit to
amputation.
Iron visiting cards are popular in Ger
many The name is printed on them in sill
yer, and the sheets are so thin tnat forty
of them only measure one-tenth OF an inch
in thickness.
The famous Bowery in New York was
originally the road through the bOuWerle,
or farm, of Governor StuyVesant or the
Dutch colony of Amsterdam. 1t was the
post route to Boston.
A million silver dollars would occupy, in
round numbers, 120 cubic feet Therefore, a
room, or, rather, a box, six feet long, nVe
feet wide and four feet high, would accom-
modate them comfortably.
Warm suppers will hereafter be provided
for the German army. The change went
into effect on New Years day. The increase
of cost for pork and sausage for the Berlin
garrison alone will be 100000 a year
Spiders are a serious plague in Japan.
They spin their webs on the telegraph wires,
and are so numerous as to cause Il serious
loss of insulation. Sweeping the wires does
little good, as the spiders begin all over
again.
A feature of the population statistics of
western Australia is the large proportion
of males to females. The disparity is main
tanned in the arrivals by sea. AT present
there are forty-fiVe females to every one
hundred males
A cargo of parrots that arrived in Leith,
Scotland, was bought up at once by nrm
of whisky manufacturers. The birds We're
taught to cry. Drink Blanks whisky, and
We're then distributed in gilt cages to Liver
pool saloon keepers.
The largest price ever asked and paid for
a eli 1,dl which
value of the great TraVernier pearl. 1t IS
the largest and most perfect gem of its
kind known. 1t is exactly two inches IN
length and oVal-shaped.
In God we trust first appeared on the
copper 2-cent issue of 1864 and Is the first
use Of the word God in any government act.
This sentence was introduced by James Pol
lock. an Ex-Governor Of Pennsylvania, oil
rector of the mint. with the approval of ).
2. Chase, then secretary of the treasury.
The States in which the death penalty is
forbidden by law are Colorado, Rhode
Island Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. In
Rhode Island the only alternative is i'm
prisOnment for life. In Kansas the sigma
ture of the Governor is necessary to an eX-
ecution.
Rev. DIR. r. NJ. Patterson, after a study
of reports, finds that more than half the
PRESBYTERIAN churches of the country have
a membership of less than one hundred
each. One-seventh of the Presbyterian and
one-ffth of the Congregationalist have less
than twenty-five each.
A London plumber is under arrest for
stealing two houses. He was two, months
at work tearing them down and taking
away the material without any one inter
fering with him. 1t was only when the
owner went to look at his houses himself
that he found they were gone
New York is not the only large American
city in which the number of saloons for the
sale of intOxicants has been reduced by
statutory regulation. In January, 1885, there
were in St Louis 4O67 saloons This year
finds that number reduced to 2.029 a de-
crease of 203S. The Missouri law PROMPTS
the adulteration of liquors
The gifts to colleges in the United States
last year amounted to $13,0S6, $50, and libra
ries received 81, 166 500. Museums and art
galleries, whose object is partly educational,
were generously remembered to the extent
of 81 472, 900. For these various institutions
the aggregate of gifts was Sl5 l24 $50, IN a
total for all purposes of $23,9S4,900
The metal coal scuttle found in American
homes painted. japanned, enameled in many
styles and shapes, is not used in England;
In it's stead there is used an ornamental
hardwood box, made of any one OF the diff
ferent kinds of wood, furnished with solid
stationary brass carrying handle and
drop lid, which conceals a galvanized iron
coal box. which slips in and out of the box
easily 1t is really an attractive piece of
furniture for a room.