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

In Mexico the family Of a dead dueIist
can claim support from the person who shot
A Caribou, Ne. church society set the
admission to q chicken pie supper given re-
Gently at cent for each inch OF waist meas
ure.
The largest sewing machine in the world
is said to be in operation in Leeds. It
weighs $3.50 pounds and sews cotton belt
ing
The lighthouse at Corunna, Spain, iss be-
leved to be the Oldest one now in use. 1t
was erected during the reign of Trajan, and
rebuilt in 1884,
Among the birds the swan lives to be the
Oldest in extreme cases reaching three nun
dred years. The falcon has been known to
live over 162 years.
Tobacco was discovered in San Domingo
in 1882; in Yucatan by the Spaniards in 1920.
1t was introduced into France in 1860 and
into England in 1855.
A custom peculiar to Buddhists is that of
wandering about the country with hammer
and chisel and carving holy symbols upon
rocks by the wayside.
Besides the rinderpest South Africas
worst plague consists in the myriads of
graSshoppers, which are sometimes so dense
that they stop railway trains.
'Hail Columbia" was written in 1898 by
Joseph Hopkinson Q770-1S42), vice president
of the American Philosophical Society, and
president of the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts.
Liz Jdpdu6SG dOQFeSS 1elI6IS the reverse
of what we do, writing the country first,
the state or province next, and then the
city, the street and number and the name
last of all.
Having no Jail at Jerome, A. T., the
police handcuff the arms of the prisoners
around telegraph poles The lawbreakers
can stand, sit or lie down, but can't escape
hugging the pole.
The Persians in SIS b. c. invented trans
parent glass varnish. which they laid over
sculptured rocks to prevent them from
weathering. The coating has lasted to our
day., while the rocks beneath are honey
combed.
BY different nations every day in the week
IS set apart for public worship-Sunday by
Tuesday by the Persians, Wednesday by the
Egyptians, Friday by the Turks and Satur-
day by the Hebrews
La Revue Graphique Belge says that be-
the paper mills of Holland they have
pressed into service the haulm or stalks of
the potato plants, which can be bought of
the farmers for 80 cents a ton.
Soap has been in use for three thousand
years and 81 twice mentioned in the Bible.
few years ago soap boilers shop was
discovered in Pompei The soap found in
the shop had not lost all it's efficacy al
though it had been buried ], 800 years.
The Arabs have a curious characteristic
IN common with horses and other animals
They prefer stagnant water, however bad
in smell and appearance, to the most limpid
running water, which, they assert, generally
contains disagreeable medicinal properties.
Great Britain takes 350OOO,C00 pounds of
rice year. or nine pounds to each person
The United States requires but four pounds
per capita, Spain five, Italy fourteen; but
Japan takes no less than 800 pounds per
person a year, and the average of India
In the Chinese morgue one of the strange
sights is a number of life-sze dolls which
are burned to accompany the corpses as
their servants to the next world. They are
doubtless relic of the time when human
beings We're thus burned as companions of
the deceased.
The Swedish mile is the longest mile in
the world. A traveller in Sweden, when
told that he is only about a mile from a
desired point, had better hire a horse, for
the distance he will have to walk, if he
chose in his ignorance to adopt that mode
of travel, is exactly II, eco yards.
Jane Batson is going to sue the city of
New York for damages in the loss of her
luxurious growth of gray hair, which was
cut off short when she was sent to prison
for three months as disorderly person.
She says the cutting was not only unusual,
but illegal because she was not twelve
months prisoner.
No one can travel among the Arabs with
out being struck by the Importance attached
to the water supply. Where rich English
hospital or decorating q church an Arab
can think Of no other channel for his char
ity than the construction of a fountain
which will assure him the blessings of all
future generations.
The smallest cemetery in the world
which only measures twenty-five and a half
feet by fourteen feet-is situated in the
tweed manufacturing town of Galashiels,
in Scotland. The place is surrounded by a
wall seven feet high, with doorway at the
west corner, which has been barricaded to
keep the children out. The cemetery has
long been closed as a burial ground.
The woman who is said to possess the
longest head of hair in the world is Mer-
cedes Lopez, q Mexican. Her height is
five feet and when she stands erect her hair
trails on the ground four feet eight inches.
The hair is so thick that she can completely
hide herself in it. She has it cut very fire.
quently, as it grows so quickly, enabling her
to sell large tresses to hair dealers every
month.
The safeguard on which the Bank of Eng
land relies to thwart the efforts of counter
feiters is the quality of its paper, which is
made in the bank factory of a superior
quality Of linen rags and with water mark
that counterfeiters never have been able to
initiate so as to deceive expert handlers of
notes Otherwise the Bank of England note
is very plain, the engraving having none of
that elaborate detail which characterizes
the notes of American banks.