The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Bremen took 1000 of the n,5OO,0Oo bales
of cotton raised in the United States last
year.
In 1s4s England conquered and annexed
the Orange Free State, and evacuated 1t six
years later.
Australians gold production In the last
half century has amounted to considerably
more than 24O0000O00
Windmills, though only now becoming
popular for pumping water, were known in
Europe as far back as HOS.
The Methodist Church Extension Society
has furnished aid to build churches at the
rate of two a day for several years.
In Chinese cities streets are never built
straight, from superstitious fear that pro-
cessions of evil spirits might otherwise en-
ter and remain.
of New York to offer prizes for the cult.
walton and improvement Of uninviting sec.
tons Of the city.
Temperance has been promoted in the
substituting coffee, tea and cocoa for in
toxicating drinks.
There have been more than $500 suicides
In this country during the last twelve
months, which breaks the record for this or
any other country.
The southern part of Africa is of volcanic
origin and the land in the neighborhood Of
Kimberley is. SO sulphurous that even ants
cannot exist in 1t.
In Bolivia salt is sold in cubes about the
size of building bricks used in the United
states, being pressed into shape when
damp and allowed TO harden.
There can be very little doubt that the
potter's wheel, or potters lathe, it Is
also termed, represents to-day the most an
cient form of machine tool known.
On April T. 1895 star shower, during
which several aerolites fell, was witnessed
in England. This was considered a sign of
Gods anger with William IFS mode of life.
America sells nearly three times as much
as she buys; Germany buys over 10000 600
worth more year than she sells; while Great
Britain. last year, actually bought twice as
much she sold.
Statistics show that there are $4,000 wom-
en- in the United States employed In cotton
mills, 10, 200 in the carpet industry 800 in
hosiery and knitting mills $500 in the
wooden mills. Sc0 in the manufacture Of
tobacco and cigars.
The average Boer farmhouse is q low
stone building, with corrugated iron roof.
with ''stoop" along the front that takes
the place of our porch. 1t, too is built of
stones and covered with clay packed and
worn hard and smooth.
The heaviest rainfalls so far observed
with scientific accuracy occur in India. At
Cherrapunji. in the Khasi hills, in Assam,
the mean annual precipitation is 80 feet 6
inches; at Debundja, SO feet 10 inches, and
at Bibundi, "a feet inches.
1t will require 5000 enumerators to take
the census of the United States in June
next, for it must be completed by the first
week of July. That means that about 75.-
10000 people must be recorded in thirty
A few days ago a Kansas City man who
had proclaimed himself an infidel for twen-
ty-five years died and left a curious will In
1t, his fortune of $4,000. with the exception
of $4,000. was given TO religious and chari-
table organizations. No explanation was
made.
Under the Belgian law unmarried men
over twenty-five have one vote married
men and widowers with families have two
votes and priests and other persons of po-
stion and education have three votes Sc.
we're penalties are imposed on those who
fail to vote.
One of the most curious dresses ever made
was probably that worn by a lady at a ball
at Baltimore. il being nearly covered with
postage stamps. The stamps. thirty thou
foundation and represented the postage of
every civilized country.
The London poor suffer terribly from
overcrowding. According TO the Sanitary
Record, $50 persons lived in 4057 tene-
ments with one room in the parish OF ST
Mary's, Newington; 4o.1s4 persons in 1870
two-roomed tenements, and l3742 persons in
!. 753 three-roomed tenements.
Moths fly against the candle flame be-
cause their eyes can bear only small
amount of light. When. therefore they
come within the light OF a candle their
sight Is overpowered and their vision con-
fused, and as they cannot distinguish OBJ
jects they pursue the light itself and fly
against the flame.
A shaft which has just been completed
for the Boston Elevated Railway Is q feet
10 inches long and the diameter of the fly
mails, "a inches: the diameter Of the crank