The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.


The height OF the rock OF Gibraltar n
about 1.4S7 feet.
The dragon fly should not be killed Itn
business Is 10 kill mosquitoes.
Not one drop OF intoxicating liquor is al.
lowed to be sold at any or the military
camps of Canada.
Projectiles for modern big and rapid-hro
guns require about half their weight in
powder to fire them.
Some of the condcrs shot in the Andes
mountains have spread or wing from fif-
teen feet TO twenty feet.
A prisoner about to be executed in Francs
does not know the day. He is informed
just fifteen minutes before the ak falls.
statement that two-thirds of the trained
nurses actively engaged acquire and die OF
tuberculosis.
Grasshoppers have become great plague
In Spain, invading even the cities. In AUS
tria 5000 soldiers were ordered to assist in
destroying them.
A vacant church in Philadelphia which
has the names of one hundred Candidate
under consideration.
There are parts Of Spain where the hat
is unknown except in pictures. The men.
when they need a covering. tie up theie
heads and the women use flowers.
In Hebrew marriages the woman II
always placed to the right OF her mate.
With every other nation OF the world her
place IN the ceremony Is TO the left.
British Columbia contains the largest cons
pact timber area in the world. 1t includes
Douglas pine, cedar, spruce and Alaska
pine, worth many millions OF dollars.
1t Is a somewhat curious fact. universally
noted by travellers, that lions, tigers ana
other fierce canivora are too weak in lung
power to run more than half a mile.
Charcoal is the greatest Italian fuel, Ma
piles alone consuming 10000 tons OF wood
charcoal at cost OF from SIG to so per ton.
the national consumption being 10000 tons.
The. report of the Russian Department.
the total number OF persons banished to
Siberia has been @.066. OF whom ss4 were
women.
1t is said that there Is a small lake near
a volcano in Southern California which
contains liquid as black as ink, not at all
resembling water. This liquid dyes cotton
cloth permanently black.
Fitting work for women is scarce in Cuba
Cooking and washing is monopolized by
men. American employment of women In
the Havana postofice has been received
with disapproval by the men.
DR.. Laborde, q French physician. IN q
brochure on the subject, declares that I'M
less measures are taken at once to prevent
will become habitual drunkards.
The territory Of Oklahoma has an acreage
In wheat equal to two-thirds OF the area
planted to that crop IN the United Kingdom
of Great Britain, aud sometime will have
a greater wheat area than all CT England
has
Recent archaeological researches havs
modern japanese inmigrated about two
centuries q. c. from Western Asia to Ja-
pan, gradually crowding out the aboriginal
Amos.
Bighty-four per cent. of the entire Stats
of Idaho is still public land. amounting to
more than 100000 acres. OF this area It
logical survey that 100000 can be irrigated
successfully.
Switzerland breaks the record In regard
to cases of insanity. With a population on
a little over 100000, there were at the close
of 1857, in the twenty state asylums, 6,164
patients, OF whom 3,262 were males. against
2S02 females.
The commissioners In charge of the Colo
RADIO gold exhibit at the Paris exposition
have decided to send a solid gold nugget
miniature of Pixies Peak OF 100000 value
tons. VIII weigh A'' '''' anu '
A FIJI grown lion win tip the scale at 500
the record for an African lion. His bone n
solid and heavy as ivory. The tiger runs
the lion very close Bengal tiger killed
two years ago by an English officer scaled
$50 pounds.
A six-pound cannon ball was recently
plowed UP the farm OF c. c. Bell. at
Manchester. VT. and is supposed to be 2
Revolutionary relic the troops OF
General John Stark encamped In that VIC
Unity a short time previous to the battle OK
Bennington.
DR.. Goidschneider. OF the University or
Vienna, says that In ninety-nine out %
one hundred case of illness the presence
of light in the sick room alleviates the
suffering Of the patient. He says also that
IL children prefer a light In their sleeping
room they should have II.
Married men. according TO a German In
vestigator. live longer than bachelors, and
less likely TO become insane Another
argument for matrimony Is found I'm tho
fact that there are thirty-eight criminals
among every 1000 bachelors, while among
married ren the ratio Is only eighteen per
1000
In Tasmania the trade I'm axes and saws
has been almost entirely monopolized by
Americans. II Is now the intention TO carry
on international competitions between teams
OF axmen and sawyers. using British ana
American tools, with the object or provinR
which country manufactures the best inn
piements.
Women who wear imported switches may
be interested In strange discovery made
at Antwerp In that city bale of human
hair. weighing 1s2 pounds, WAS stolen from
a railroad station. II was afferward learned
that the hair had been clipped from the
heads OF iqSetics and conyictS In public
aSylums and prisous>