The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-22
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Blood flows through the bones of very
young children almost as freely as through
the veins.
The greatest depth to which a ship has
been anchored is 1900 fathoms-considerabI
more than two miles.
Mexican school children are allowed to
smoke during lesson time, provided they
have attained certain standard of excel
lency
1t is remarkable fact that as rule the
sewing done by male tailOrs is neater, finer
and more uniform than that done by
women.
The Church. of England is supported by
income from investments, endowments and
by voluntary contributions. The total reve-
nue. of the church is about $35, 0000 600.
In Denmark it is the law that all drunken
persons shall be taken to their homes in
carriages provided at the expense of the
publican who sold them the last glass.
Whenever the human eye is threatened
with injury, the eyelids close involuntarily
If man had to think before shutting his
eyes on such occasions he would be too slow
to save his eye.
In this country placing the thumb to the
nose and extending the fingers is a sign of
derision. Among certain hill tribes in India
1t is the most expressive manner Of showing
respect.
is buried in a $4,000 coffin. 1t was deco
rated with silk, gold and precious stones,
and was the most costly coffin ever con-
structed in the Straits Settlement.
~ DIleH county, Iowa, is Dragging its
high morality The grand jury for the sec
ond time has adjourned without finding a
single Indictment and the court calendar
does not now contain a single criminal case
Of any kind
There are so many languages spoken in
the provinces of Austria Hungary that in
terpreters are employed in the various par
lla1nents to interpret the speeches of the
delegates and make them Ineligible to all
the members.
There are no large cemeteries in China
Every family has its own graveyard as
spacious as possible, and thus a large part
of the best land is given up to the dead,
the worship of whom is the first principle
in Chinese religion
The directors of the poor of Northumber-
land county, Pennsylvania, have decided to
abolish salaried physicians in the various
alstrlcts OF the county, and hereafter pay
outside the almshouse
In France and Italy chestnuts are made
into bread by the mountain peasantry After.
the nuts have been blanched they are dried
and ground. From this flour a sweet heavy
fiat cake is made 1t resembles the oaten
cakes so popular among Scotch peasants
In London there is d lady Miss Penman,
who has control over more than geo con-
ductorS IN the employ of the London Tram
ways Company, limited. She is the only
woman in England who occupies the posi-
ton of superintendent of tramway con-
ductorS.
The Chinese are perhaps the most lightly
taxed people in the world. In China ali the
land belongs to the state, and a triaing
sum per acre-neVer altered through long
centuries-is paid as rent. This is the only
tax in the country, and it amounts to about
Is Cd per head yearly.
The Inhabitants of the Andaman islands
are said to be the smallest race of peOpIe
IN the world. The average height of full
grown Andaman is less than four feet and
the anthropological experts who recently
visited them found but few that weighed
over SeVenty-fVe pounds.
Norway has a law dealing with cremation
According to the act, every person over fif-
teen years of age can be cremated after
death If he or she has made a declaration
IN the presence OF two witnesses. For those
under fifteen a declaration on the part of
the parents is necessary.
There is now In Bangkok a Chinese Budd-
hist priest who claims to have sat in a cave
in Adams peak. Ceylon with his two legs
crossed for six years, during which time he
spoke to no one and subsisted on half an
inch of a blade of grass daily. Even in
liar
A man can be married in Melbourne
cheaper than in any other part of the
world Ministers advertise in the papers
against each other. One minister offers to
combine together loving couples for los Cd,
another for Is Cd, and so on down to Is Cd.
In some cases wedding breakfasts and rings
are supplied.
Liquor selling is prohibited in the restau-
rants of the Senate and House at Washing
ton, but the Wine and Spirit Gazette, of
New York informs the public that while
the rule is pretty well enforced in the Senate
restaurant, the House restaurant does
large business in liquors, the password for
strangers therein being sherry"
Egbert Davidson, a prominent citizen of
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, is on
trial in the Federal Court on unique
charge A mail carrier had been stealing
his melons. He had stopped the carrier in
the road and whipped him. The carrier
missed the mail connection, and Davidson
is being tried for delaying the mails"