The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-04
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Women sailors are employed in Denmark
Norway and Finland, and they are. often
found to be most excellent and delightful
mariners.
The lighthouse at Corunna, Spain, Is be-
lieved to be the oldest one now in use. IL
was erected during the reign of Trajan and
rebuilt in 1854.
In Liberia there is but little use for clocks
and watches, for all the year round the sur
rises at in the morning, is vertical al
noon, and sets at in the evening
Partisan BARRIERS are legally compelled to
wash their hands after attending a custo-
mer and before waiting on another. They
must use, also, only nickel-plated combs.
The cost of the worlds wars since the
CTimean war has o been $l2:2 aS $4,000: OF OF
every man, woman and child on the globe.
In the agricultural parts of ireland s2.2;
a week is the highest wages paid TO a
laborer in regular work. On the coast OF
Dungloe women can earn $3.50 week cur
ing fish.
Horses have a great dislike to camels.
There are many similar antipathieS in the
animal world, between elephants and rhi-
noceroses, for instances, and peccaries and
bears
Eight hundred Japanese workmen are now
employed in track work on railways In
Washington and oregon, and they are said
to give better and more constant service
than white labor.
Throughout France there were in 1880
drink shops TO the number of $50. S63, while
to-day the number is just 5oo,o0o-that is to
say, half shop for every fifty inhabitants,
leaving children out of the question.
There are, approximately, 10000 Indians
In the United States, and the larger num-
Der of them maintain such tribal organ
iZations as exempt them from the operation
Of the ordinary laws of the country
A German professor, in giving his expe-
rience as an explorer in the wilds Of Africa,
says that the best protection against lions
is an umbrella, as the beasts are especially
suddenly
them.
A Denver (Col) church organization,
which is without building TO worship in,
the one it occupied having burned, has
leased a gold mine and will run ii for the
money that is in IL until enough of profit
is made to erect new building.
AT an auction sale of the effects of the
late Hermann, the magician. two pairs of
silk stockings, said TO have belonged once
to the Empress Carlotta of Mexico. were
sold for 50. An expert who was present at
the sale said the stockings probably cost
$50 pair.
are working up plan 10 buy 500 acres of
land al Point Pleasant, o., and convert 1t
into national park in honor of Gen. L. s.
Grant. Point Pleasant is the birthplace
of the great soldier. David Murphy. of Cler-
mont county, conceived the plan.
The free lecture undertaking was started
In New York ten years ago on appro-
priation of $4,000, and during that season
1S6 lectures were given in six schoolhouses
TO a total attendance of 22.14s. During the
season just ended 1850 lectures were deliv-
cred in forty-five centers 10 a total attend
ance of $4,000.
The old stories of the monks high feast
ing are now said to be libels. Invoices of
the stores in their storehouses exist to-day.
and all the food was of the plainest kind
quantities OF herring and stock fish Ca sort
OF cod sent from Ireland). bacon. salt beef
pease meal-always coarse stuff for pud-
dings-rye and lard.
The British navy has control of no less
than sixty-two docks for its ships, of which
sixty-one are of stone and one is of wood.
All OF the wooden docks with which the
United States ~ provided are In need OF
extensive repairs, and Ii is only a question
of time when these wooden structures must
be replaced with stone.
Following the example Of the uinister
OF education In Russia. the minister OK edu-
cation Of Saxony has issued decree that
girls and young ladies attending the public
schools shall not wear corsets or stays. In
Dresden and other large cities girls Of