The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Oh the DAY OF nIet
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
According to the School Review only l.51
per cent. of the pupils in American high
schools are boys.
Pennsylvania has more national banks
within it's borders than any other state.
The number is 1885, New York has 3z1.
The greatest height ever reached in a
balloon was 26 ICE feet. Two of the three
aeronauts who made this ascent were suf-
located.
Last year over 1000 British and 37S Ger
man ships passed through the Suez canal.
The American flag was seen there on only
twenty-five vessels.
Yale men who are working their way
through college have become professional
pallbearers to earn money. They receive
81 for each funeral.
Cigarette smoking is not allowed on the
exposition grounds in Paris. Violators of
the prohibitive order will be arrested and
subjected to heavy fines.
The Illinois State University will estab
lish chair of household science. and has
chosen Miss Isabel Bevier, of Lake Erie
College, gainesville, o., to I'LL IT.
The strongest sentiment of the Turk is
his reverence for his mother. He always
stands in her presence until invited to sit
down, compliment he pays to no. one else.
Norwegian legislators propose that girls
who do not know how to knit. sew, wash
and cook should be refused permission to
marry. Daughters of wealthy men are not
to be excepted.
The prime of life in a man of regular
habits and sound constitution is from
thirty to fifty-five years of age. OF woman
from twenty-four or twenty-five to about
forty years of age.
Fish skins are being used for leather.
The Esquimaux Of Alaska made shirts and
boots of salmon hide and Jackets from cod
fish. Frog skins are said to make excellent
bindings for books.
After lying in the Dead Letter ONCE for
thirty-seven years a letter has been re-
turned to a Smith Center (Kan.) man with
the memoranda that his brother cannot be
found at the address.
A person in robust health walks with
HIS toes pointed to the front, while one
with his health on the wane gradually
turns his toes to the side, and a bend is
perceptible at the knees.
1t is said at the War Department that
for every vacancy in either the military or
Naval Acadamey which the President has
the power of filling by appointment there
are one hundred applications.
According to decision of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, If one annoys dog
while the animal is eating and gets bitten
as a consequence the victim Is guilty of
contributory negligence and cannot recover
damages.
Balloons are used for drying linen in
Paris laundries. Bamboo frames are at
| tached to a captive balloon and the clothes
are attached to them. The balloon makes
| six ascents daily to a height OF about one
| hundred feet.
OF Scandinavians-that is. natives of Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark-we have 933, 249
| They have a decided tendency to go into
| communities of their own kind. and we find
| that of these 709.351 are in the north GEN.
| trail division Of the country.
A curious ceremony .took place recently
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baby eight months old was married to a
man twenty-eight years of age. The father
| of the bride gave the bridegroom sum Of
money for marrying his daughter
Roumania would appear to be the most
| illiterate country in Europe. The last CEN
| sus shows that in population OF nearly
| six millions nearly four millions can neither
| read nor write, and that only little over
| million have any education at all.
To keep horse in a dark stable is cruel
| to the animal and dangerous to its owner
| The retina becomes deadened and more or
| less useless, and after a time the sight is
| seriously impaired. The horse starts and
SHES at objects it sees imperfectly.
| Fishermen in Holland kill all fish as soon
| as they landed, while French fisher
men, on the contrary allow them to die OF
suffocation The Dutch custom is the right
one, because fish that are promptly Killed
The seaport town of Great Yarmouth, on
| the eastern coast of England contains
| street that is perhaps the narrowest built
| up street in the world. 1t is known as
kitty Witches Row." and measurement
gives it's greatest width as fifty-six inches.
The capital invested by insurance compa-
MES I'm Russia amounts to sos, 100000 The
number OF persons insured in 1899 was q, ia,
| the insurance amounting to $35,5O0,0 900. OF
the above amount $50, 355 was received
| by American insurance companies; the bal
ance by Russian.
Celery is a native of Great Britain 1t
grows luxuriantly In bitches and brooks,
| but like the others, wild celery is nasty
| even poisonous. We owe the delicious eat
| able celery TO q French prisoner OF war.
Field Marshal Tallard, whom Marlborough
beat at Blenheim in 1704.
In a small lot of literary curiosities re-
| Gently offered for sale in London was the
following printed notice, which used TO be
exhibited on the walls of the Drury Lane
Coffee House about 1922: 1T is particularly
requested by the company that those who
are learning to spell will ask for yester-
days paper"
In Naples there exists a race of cats
which live in the churches. They are kept
| and fed by the authorities on purpose to
| catch the mice which infest all old build
ings there The animals may often be seen
walking about among the congregation or
| sitting gravely before the altar during time
of mass.
At the battle of Modder river it was
stated that the Beers fired no fewer than
/ 200. 900 bullets, killing seventy-two and
| younding 396 men. Thus of every 2,137 bull
| lets 2136 failed to find a billet"-a fact
which is eloquent rather of the Beers
| prodigality of ammunition than or his ac-
| curacy of aim.