The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-19
our OF THE ORDINARY.

A polite Chinaman considers it breach
of etiquette to wear spectacles in company.
England is the only one Of the great Eu-
ropean states IN which Il career and fair
treatment are open to a Hebrew.
There are 5000 members of the Epworth
League in Canada, and they have UNDER
taken the support of twenty-One missions
aries.
For every son born into the family Of
Turkish subject. military tax, amounting
be paid.
Nine-tenths of the finest tea raised in
China is sold and consumed in Russia. Most
OF the next best grade finds a market in
Great Britain.
The utilization of grain elevator waste for
sheep and cattle food has given rise to a
new industry in the Northwest. The waste
brings 81 a ton.
Excepting grape wine the oldest alcoholic
beverage known to man is sake. a rice wine.
1t has been used By the Japanese for over
two thousand years
Nearly all Russian leather is tanned with
birch bark. This gives it the peculiar pleas
ant odor which is so admired and at the
same time protects it from insects
Rarely indeed is a wealthy Turk seen at
MS Vile dinner table He usually dimes in
part OF the house remote from that occu-
pied by his connubial partner or partners.
THE thin red line was formed by the
Ntnety-second Highlanders at Inkerman
Kinglakes Invasion of the Crimea" de-
scribes it, kinglake was the first 10 use the
expression.
The Southern Confederacy was never
recognized as a sovereign power: it's bel
llgerency was recognized by Great Britain.
France. Spain, Germany and about every
maritime power except Russia.
When the President OF the United States
sits at dinner table, even as the host, and
there are ladies present. he is always
served first as with all other rulers. 1t is
an old custom observed in all countries.
In France, when convict is sentenced to
death Of eve
cutiOn is not named in his presence, and he
knows not when he is To be led forth until
within fifteen minutes of the fatal moment.
The Canadian government, in order to
nave the movements of its artillery made
quick and effective, has mounted many cam
non on sleds so that they may be swiftly
drawn over the snowy wastes of the coun-
try.
A resident of Moran. KAN has placed
in the local paper an advertisement in
which he challenges anybody to meet him
in debate and contest his claim that every
body, except the Baptists are doomed to
hell"
Fifty walnut trees in Cass county. Mich
igan, were recently sold for $4,000 cash.
These trees have now been felled, and will
be shipped to English buyers. The largest
tree was seven feet in diameter at its base,
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At a ball given in a small country town
In ireland. for which the tickets were not
transferable, the inscription on the tickets
ran as follows: Admit this gentleman to
ball in assembly room; tickets Is sd each.
No gentleman admitted unless he comes
himself
1t is a rule at the well-known banking
house of Coutts & Co., London, that none
of the bank clerks wear mustaches. 1t has
long been considered q point of business
etiquette that all the gentlemen employed
at the bank should wear frock coats during
business hours.
John DAILY, the dynamiter, now mayor OF
Limerick at the first meeting Of the Munich
cease he should be obliged to call in the
enemies of the people," that is to say, the
police. This has raised laugh that has gone
all over the United Kingdom.
The outward signs on the houses where
some one has died in North Holland are
original in the extreme When the dead
person was a Protestant a long black man
tie, such as the undertaken wears when he
goes to the grave, is hung in the middle of
the front door. In the case OF Roman
Catholic a tall black cross is placed on the
doorstep.
Postmaster futile, of Carthage Mo-. has
just received from the federal government
a draft of $S.Z6 in payment of a debt that
has been running since the civil war, but OF
which futile knew nothing. 1t appears
that in settling with Captain futile for his
services as soldier one days pay was
overlooked, and also an allowance for CLOTH
ing. 1t took Uncle Sam thirty-four years TO
discover the error.
Mississippi planter named Mangrum
has been experimenting with monkeys as
cotton pickers, and during the entire fall
of 1898 he had ten of these animals working
in his fields. They were taught to perform
the work by a New York animal trainer.
and Mr.. Mangum is so well pleased with
the results that during the coming season
he expects to put 120 monkeys at work on
his plantation.
Kansas City has adopted trademark.
Hereafter it will appear on all manufac-
tured goods sent out from that city The
design was selected by the directors of the
Manufacturers Association from seventy
eight which were submitted 1t consists OF
a map of the United States, with Kansas
City represented by a star in the exact
center. Above the star hovers an eagle with
outspread wings.