The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Horse meat sells in Paris for from 10 to
20 cents pound. Prime cuts fetch 20 cents
The negro race embraces about one-tenth
of the worlds population, forty-five million
persons.
No picture is hung on the walls of the
Louvre. in Paris, until the artist has been
dead ten years.
A hundred years ago the Hawaiian islands
We're said TO have had 100000 native popu-
lation; now 5000 is a high estimate.
A given acreage of wheat will feed at
least ten times as many people as the same
acreage employed in growing mutton.
Minnesota and South Dakota are the only
two States in the Union that have half OF
their population made up of foreign-born
residents.
If all the lands suitable for cultivation
of sugar cane were utilized in Cuba the
island could produce enough sugar for the
entire western hemisphere.
Cold spells in Florida are not a novelty.
In 1875 the St. Johns river was frozen one
fourth Of its width, and there was skating
on some of the lakes in 1858.
A lot of Bourbon county: Kentucky, cat
tie went into tobacco barn for shelter
during the last snow, and twenty OF them
died from eating the tobacco.
The public entrance doors of the great
building of the Bank of England are so fine
ly balanced that a clerk, by pressing knob
under his desk, can close them instantly.
The healthiest spot in the world seems TO
be little hamlet in France named Aumone
five of whom are eighty years old. and one
is over 100.
In one small township in North Carolina.
Southern Pines. four million pounds of fruit
We're shipped to Northern markets in 1898.
1t was all raised by Northern invalidS living
there for their health.
A Chicago syndicate owns a ranch in
Texas which contains 5000 square miles. Its
herds of cattle aggregate 10000 head, be-
sides 1,5C0 horses, and the calf crop branded
In 1897 exceeded 81 COO.
The finest furs in all Russia are laid
aside as tribute and become the property Of
the crown. So highly are these furs es-
teemed that no person below certain rank
is allowed to wear them.
Only once in their history nation have
the SpaniardS achieved a naval victory.
That was at the battle of Lepanto, in 1511,
when, with the aid of Venetians and &C.
nOeSe they annihilated the Turkish fleet.
The latest census of England gives the
list of female teachers as 13O,0o0-three times
as many as male teachers. About 5000
women are engaged in the postal service,
4500 in printing offices and 4.721 in mines.
Some Egyptian boats, made of cedar,
probably in use 4.500 years ago. have been
found buried near the banks of the Nile and
furnish an interesting proof Of the power of
that wood TO withstand the ravages of time.
Hawks have been seen to follow in the
wake or moving railway train, TO swoop
down on small birds that were suddenly
disturbed and frightened by the noise, and
therefore for the moment were off their
guard.
A well-known professor says that over a
large area of Central Russia the magnetic
needle does not point north or south. 1t is
In one part DETECTED to the west. and at
another part to the east. and at one place it
points due east and west
August Schmidt. of Wolgast in Pom
erania, now 10o years of age, is believed to
be the last survivor of the Prussian war of
liberation of 1Sl3-15. Kaiser Wilhelm sent
him photograph of the old Emperor and
telegram of congratulation on his BIRTH
day.
Scotland seems a strange place to find a
statue of Abraham Lincoln, and yet there
Is one there II adorns monument erected
In the old Cation burying ground, Edin-
burgh, to the memory of the Scottish-Amer-
leans who fought in the American civil
war.
In ancient times the sleeps foot was
synonymous with wealth and prosperity.
The fleece was golden as well as the foot of
its bearer. The British farmers call the sheep
the rent-payer. and their agricultural meth
DDS and systems are based on the keeping
of sheep.
From the earliest times down to the in
vention of the mechanical fan in the last
century grain was winnowed by being thrown
into the air by means of wooden shovels, so
that the wind, blowing across the threshing
floor might blow the chaff away. These
shovels are the fans mentioned in the
Bible.
A soldier of the regular army may vote if
he is stationed at his old home or within
such distance of it that he go there to
register and vote. He doesn't lose his old
residence by enlisting nor does he acquire
a residence by being stationed at a place.
If he can get to his old home on election
day he may vote.
A German scientist states that mustaches
among women are commoner at the present
time than they used to be. He has observed
that in Constantinople and Madrid one
woman out of every ten has distinct mus
tache, while in Philadelphia quite per cent.
of the ladies bear unmiStakable signs of
down upon their upper lips.
At Cape Grisnez, on the French coast of
the British channel, a new lighthouse has
been erected The light is 10000 candle
power at ordinary times, but of three mill
lion candle power in thick weather, and can
be seen forty-eight miles off clear
night. 1t sends five successive white flashes
instead of the three white, followed by a
red, of the old light.