The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-30
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Mexico had fifty-five Presidents since 1921.
OF these. sixteen have died violent deaths.
The latest estimates of tie population of
England and Wales is 3 900 900, the women
being in a majority of $4,000.
1t is stated that 80 per cent of the common
contagious diseases are carried from house
TO house by the domestic pets IF tile world.
During the year ended June So 1885, the
mines of Illinois produced 100000 tons OF
coal. They could have produced Al ,o00, 900
tons.
1t took three men twelve hours to fell
tree in one of the new lumber camps opened
up near Madison. W. Va. The tree was
eight feet through.
In nearly every street in Japanese cities
Is public oven, where, for a small fee,
housewives may have the dinners and sup
pers cooked for them.
Last year. silver, with a market value of
SlJ0,0O0OO was added TO the worlds stock.
There is nearly four times as much silver in
use as forty years ago.
Collins in Russia are never covered with
black. If the deceased is a child. pink is
used: IL 4 woman, crimson, though for
widow they use brown.
A lion hunter. who has made study of
that animals peculiaritieS says that all
lions are lefthanded. When one strikes
forcible blow it always uses its left paw.
Receipts of the Suez canal from ship dues
for the first quarter of 1899 were, in Ameri
can values 81, 693 900, against 81 235 900 in the
same period last year and $3.72S,5o0 in 1897.
Norwegian legislators propose that girls
who do not know how to knit, sew wash
and cook shall be refused permission to
marry. Daughters of wealthy men are rot
to be exempted.
Statistics published in Montreal show that
twenty thousand people have left the prov
ince of Quebec for the States this year.
Most of the emigcants have gone to manu-
featuring centers.
Potato bread is used by the natives of
Thuringia to feed their horses, especially
when they are worked hard in very cold
weather. The animals thrive on it, and
their health and strength are excellent.
With a population of 100000. London har-
bors every day 10000 strangers. Some may
remain week, some a month. but all the
year around there is an average of 10000
visitors who are within the metropolitan
boundaries.
The reason that it has been and is sup
posed that thunderstorms sour milk is be-
cause the condition of the air-sultry, close,
damp and warm-are most favorable to the
growth of bacteria, which is the cause of
the souring.
An Englishman has designed tent which
has series of ribs similar to those used on
umbrellas, the ribs being of flexible ma
terial and hinged to a block at the center of
the top, allowing them to be folded UP in
small compass.
Returning soldiers who have. served be-
yond the seas are sporting their foreign
service stripes proudly. This stripe, as new
to our army as foreign service is TO our his
tory. is narrow bar of red worn low down
on each sleeve.
An Assyrian tablet in the cellar of the
British Museum has on it representation
of the hanging gardens of Babylon accord
ing to Herr Bruno Meissner. If he is right
this is the first testimony to their existence
found among the cuneiform inscriptions.
1t is alleged that the death penalty is
rarely enforced in Germany, Austria, Dem
mark or Sweden. In New York eleven out
of twelve murderers escape without any
punishment and in the United States only
one murderer in fifty suffers capital pun
ishment.
1t is estimated that England's stock of
coal will last two hundred years longer, and
North Americas six hundred years. 1t is not
likely, however that these supplies will ever
be needed, as ii is probable that before
many decades have passed power will be
gained in other ways.
A white tiger was shot lately in the
Dibrugarh district of Assam. according TO
long and in the prime of life. The Calcutta
taxldermist who prepared the skin states
that IN eighteen years ne had neither seen
nor heard of such thing as a white tiger.
The viceroy of India describes as a new
land Of promise the millions of acres in the
Punjab, irrigated by the $500 miles of ca
nas OF the se Gh @beb
lation of India has been increasing Of late
years should cause the land to be taken up
quickly.
writer in the Arena for April contends
that the death penalty has been a failure
in this country, basing this conclusion on
the increase or h0mlcldeS. Inc flgureS CIV
| en- are somewhat startling. In 1880 there
| were only 1920 homicides in the United
States, but in fifteen years the number went
! up to 1880.
AT a recent election in Hays City, Kan,
| a ticket composed of boys was run against
| the old men, and the boys won. Fred Half
| fainter, the mayor, is barely twenty-one,
| and only one of the councilmen is older than
| twenty-three. Haffamier was born on the
| town site Two of the councilmen Were
| privates in the Twenty-first Kansas.
Among the small islands which came into
| the possession of the United States with
| Porto Rico is the barren peak of rocks
which the Spaniards called La Mona" On
this island tradition says the old buccaneers
deposited their great treasures. In 1880 an
American company was formed to seek the
hidden riches. No jewels were found, how
ever though the deposits of guano made
the venture financial success.
While fishing off Carlingford lough on
the Irish coast, the trawler Bournemouth,
OF Milford Haven, dredged up in the net
bundle of papers, sealed and tied with red
tape and perfectly intact. The skipper
brought them to port and handed them to
gentleman who found that they purpoted
to be will In favor of a Miss Mary Mac
Donald, and that they had reference to es-
tates in Ireland valued at el1,OcO