The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The highest church steepIe in the world
Is that OF the Cathedral OF Antwerp. 40
feet
Missouri win have the largest Demo.
cratic delegation In the next Congress OF
any State in the Union
Thirty million persons left Europe dur
ing the century just closing 10 seek their
fortunes in other lands
Oats have had their ups and downs.
They were sold for their weight in gold
dust to early settlers in Brazil In the
Klondike region they bring 50 TO $40
bushel.
The Russian government intends sending
an agent to the United States TO study
homestead Iegfslation with the view of its
partial application TO the peasant COM
munities.
The abandoned" farms of Massachu-
sets are fast being taken up. Three years
State. A recent enumeration shows there
are now but 126.
An American trust company expects to
open fits doors before long in the City OF
Mexico, and the first American stock ex-
change in the republic began business the
middle of october.
Stockholm Sweden, has 10000 telephone
stations, averaging one for each householo
Those who have no apparatus OF their OWL
LAY only 21z cents for a message within
radius of fifty miles.
There is a photographer in New York who
has adopted as a speciality that phase or
his business which most picture makers
detest-the. making OF babies pictures. he
takes no pictures OF grown people.
There is a peculiar community, known
as the Lords Farm" near Hackensack,
n. J. For the first time In the history OF
the community its voters TINS year regis
Siamese mothers often entrust their chill
dren TO elephants. who are most careful
OF their little charges. If danger threatens
an elephant will gently lift the child with
it's trunk on to its back out Of harms way
During the unprecedented rainfall at Cal
cutta in the third week Of September
twelve people were killed and 1S2 brick
houses besides 400 huts fell to pieces. The
rainfall in one week was forty-fve inches.
A Berlin physician has written an ar
ticle on the dangers resulting from what
are considered insignificant wounds. For
instance, of thirteen injuries TO the thump
permanent disability follows in 90 per cent
Massachusetts has now only four towns
I'm which there is no public library and they
are very small ones, being Marlborough,
Gay Head Lakeville and Norwell. 1t Is
doubtful if any other community OF 2SoV,OVo
inhabitants can equal that.
Political buttons cannot be worn in Can
ada during the heat of a campaign. This
Is due to clause in the Dominion fran
chise act, which says that no person shall
exhibit any sign of his political faith after
The Illinois Central, the Louisville &
Nashville and the Queen & Crescent rail-
roads report that they have taken over
two thousand Italians to New Orleans to
work on the Louisiana sugar plantations
The Italians came mainly from st. Louis
and were secured by the payment of large
premiums.
The old home of Stonewall Jackson, in
Lexington. Va, is now tenement house,
and the dwelling which once sheltered one
family comfortably now swarms with a
large number of families crowded in un-
comfortably. The famous Sunday school
in which General Jackson taught negroes
is still fiourishing.
There are to-day 5000 fashionable lap
dogs in the city of Paris. They have al
most much attention after they are
dead as during their comfortable lives.
The dogs owner pays 10 francs year
to the city during his life. If it becomes
sick it is taken to a special clinic for the
treatment and housing of dogs in poor
health.
When a marriage takes place in China
the wedding party enters the temple and
lights a quantity of fireworks, including a
number of crackers. This is supposed to
wake the Great joss" from his sleep The
priest repeats the service at express speed,
the bride and bridegroom take two little
glasses of wine, and are then declared man
and wife.
Christmas trees are already being cut
down in Washington county, Maine, and
amount to four hundred carloads, with
three hundred punches to q car Each
bunch consists of from two to six trees.
The trees sent to New York and Bos-
ton, where they will retail for about ten
times as much as they are worth on board
the cars in Maine.
A resident of Plymouth, Mass, Dr. Isaac
L. Wood, has couple of apples from an
orchard at Kamloops, British Columbia,
just the ordinary fruit of that region. One
of them measures fifteen and three-quar-
ter inches In circumference and weighs
twenty-three ounces, and the other is near
ly as large. DR.. Wood saw at the agri-
cultural fair at Kamloops an apple which
weighed twenty-nine ounces.
Guam is far from being a healthful place.
There has been recently continuous cpl
demic Of grip and typhoid fever. Over one
half OF the American command are said
ten of the cases have been traced to drink
ing lemonades and other nonintoxicants
made by using natural water from pools
ease germs.
The first deed conveying property to the
proprietor OF Pennsylvania, William Penn.
is written in old Dutch and is now pre-
served in the City Hall in Philadelphia
The property was what is now known as
Lemon Hill, including the mansion and the
Schuylkill river front, where the old Fair
mount water works was locat ted. There
Penn kept his barge and some rowboats,
the barge carrying admiraPs pennanr
IT is said that there is only one man in
Philadelphia who can now read this deed