The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There is now small steamer on the Dead
sea.
The Sea of Galilee is thirteen miles long
and six broad.
There is a Buddhist temple in Paris,
where there are about three hundred follow.
erS of that religion.
Half the ships in the world are British.
The best of them can be converted into
ships of war in fOrty-eight hours.
The term filthy lucre' originated in Scot
land, and referred in the first place to the
well-worn one-pound notes of that country.
Japanese children write better with the
left hand, while with the right hand they
can turn out 10 per cent. more work in a
given time.
In London a paving stone which weighed
500 pounds and which was wedged in on all
sides by other stones was lifted up by
mushroom
There are three varieties of the dog that
never bark-the Australian dog, the Egyp-
ton shepherd dog and the 'lionheaded' dog
of Thibet.
Asparagus is so plentiful on the Russian
steppes that the cattle eat it like grass. The
seeds are sometimes dried and used as a
substitute for coffee.
Ropes that will not sink when thrown
into the water are proving very useful. They
are made Of a core composed of pieces of
cork, covered with cotton
John Hooper, a man with a mania for
tombsttones stole eighteen Of them from
them for bric-a-brac at his home.
In Iceland men and women are in every
respect political equals. The nation, which
representatives elected by men and women
together.
Most Chinese mandarins pass the whole
of their lives without taking a single yard
of exercise. Under no circumstances what
ever Is mandarin ever seen on foot in his
own jurisdiction.
The Siamese believe that it Requires seven
days for the human soul to journey between
ceasingly for seven days after the death of
q friend or relative.
Calico print works use 10000, 600 dozen eggs
per year, wine CHARTERS use 100000 Dozen
the photographers and other industries use
many millions and these demands increase
more rapidly than table demands.
Seven miles an hour is the camers best
pace, nor can it maintain this rate over two
hours. Its usual speed is about five miles
an hour-a slow, lounging pace, beyond
which 1T is dangerous to urge them.
Two New York women are the highest
paid choir singers in the world; they receive
respectively, 81, 500 and $1,000 a year. The
men in the choir of Westminster Abbey re-
ceive salaries ranging from 800 to $500.
The original home of leprosy is Asia, and
it t1ourishes there more than in any other
part of the globe. China is a hotbed of
leprosy; in Japan it prevails extensively,
while in India it is known that there are
at least some 10000 lepers.
Some of the Indians of the United States
are among the richest farmers in the world
instance, consisting Of only 1,729 persons,
including children, is $442,044, or $256.24 for
each man, woman and child.
Wheat is now grown farther north than
Mackenzie river two hundred miles farther
north than Sitka, Alaska, splendid wheat
crop was grown last season in the fields be-
longing to the Roman Catholic mission
Rev. p. F. Jernegan. formerly of Boston,
who figured so prominently in the scheme
for extracting gold from sea water, and
who departed for Europe with over 100000
belonging to stockholders of the Electrolytic
Marine Salts Company, has sent back to the
United States the sum of $4,000 for the bene-
fit Of his dupes.
According to prophecy, the volume of
rain is annually increasing in Palestine.
Since 1860 the number of inches that has
fallen each year on an average is as fol-
lows: From 5000, 2O.932 inches; from 1876
50, BAD inches; from $4,000, 1925 inches,
and from 1S90-9S, 1861 inches. (See Deut.
xxx, 80 Joel ii, 1924; Zech. X, ID
The Standard OIL Company has ten active
gas wells at lola, Kan, one of which pro-
duces 10 O00, 600 cubic feet Of gas daily. The
average depth Of the wells is 800 feet, and
the total supply of gas is said to be enough
New York. 1t cost $4,000 to sink these ten
wells and eight others which have since
ceased TO produce.
Cats make the most careful toilet of any
class of animals. The lion and the tiger
wash themselves in exactly the same manner
as the cat, wetting the dark, India-rubber-
passing it over the face and behind the ears.
The foot is thus at the same time a face
sponge and brush, and the rough tongue
combs the rest Of the body.
The Menominee Indians, in northeastern
Wisconsin, are as successful as anybody in
their lumber operations. By the sale of
pine loga in years past 1900 men, women and
children have a tribal fund which aggre-
gates about 81. 900 900 and is still growing.
The tribe expends about $4,000 year in
logging operations, and clears $50,000 to $780,
coo yearly, which is added to the fund
report from Clinch county Georgia
shows that the negroes there are becoming
independent so far as intoxicating beyer-
ages are concerned. Sweet potatoes are
cooked about half done and then mashed
up and allowed TO ferment. A very strong
drink is said to be made in this way, and
the negroes get on very unsatisfactory
DRINKS whenever they want to do so on
this potato wine. This is said to be one OF
the secrets behind the big potato crop which
is planted every year.