The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The Yang-Tse plain supports a population
OF la, 0W, coo.
The animal that first succumbs to ex-
treme cold is the horse.
1t is a noteworthy fact tina in the State
of Utah there is not one Irish Mormon.
Ii Paris fine human hair of fashionable
color is sold for as much as $3.50 a pound by
dealers.
The farms Of Kansas yield this year
over S160 to every man, woman and child in
the State.
If all the money in the world were
divided equally each person would get
about $50.
The golden eagle has great strength. 1t
lifts and carries off with ease a weight Of
eighty pounds.
Russian law allows a man to marry only
four times, and he must marry before
eighty or not at all.
The constant labor of four persons for
an entire year is required to produce a
cashmere shawl of the best quality.
The Tennessee convict coal mine is a
paying institution. The profits in the last
six months will amount to more than
S1Oo. 900.
Kansas has a potato field forty miles
long. This years harvest from 1t will come
close to 1000 carloads. An average crop is
200 bushels an acre.
Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Eu-
rope, and one of the largest in the world,
is 1O,05O feet high and 80 miles in curcum-
ference at its base.
The difference between the tallest and
shortest races in the world is one foot four
and one-half inches, and the average height
is five feet five inches.
The Chinese have been wearing silk for
$500 years. Cotton came very early from
China, in the heavy textile which we call
nankeen, after the Chinese city, Nan-Kin.
The large German d~ockyards are kept
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being expressed that it will soon be neces-
sary to have merchant vessels built abroad.
Ants can stand extremes of heat and
cold. Forty-eight hours exposure to frost
will not kill them, and one sort has been
observed to build its nest in chinks in a
blacksmith's forge.
In the course of a case in Liverpool it was
stated that millions Of eggs are annually
imported from Russia to Belfast, and then
sent over to England and Scotland. and
sold as Irish eggs!"
An English expert declares that he knows
of at least 600 counterfeits of the old mas
tiers which are now hanging in the private
galleries of the United States, and all Of
which were originally purchased in Europe
at very high prices.
Ever since the thirteenth century Egypt
has had but one hospital for the insane.
The number of patients in it has risen
from 500 to 500. and it has been called IAN
abomination to the human race"
1t is not widely known that Queen Vic
toria rules over more Mohammedans than
the Sultan of Turkey. over more Hebrews
than there are in Palestine, and over more
negroes than any other sovereign who Is
not a native of Africa.
No comet, so far as is known, has ever
come in contact with the earth or min
gled it's surface with our atmosphere. The
nearest approach ever observed was the
comet of l770. which approached to within
1,4O0, 600 miles of our planet.
Stockport. England. boasts the largest
Sunday school in the world, nearly 5000
children being on the roll Of the institution.
The recent annual procession was a gil
gantic affair, old scholars travelling long
distances to join in the walk.
The ostrich has long been laughed at for
pushing his head into a bush when hunted.
1t is really far the wisest thing the bird
could do. for its long neck is by far the
most easily seen part OF it. It's body
plumage harmonizes perfectly with the
desert sand
The number of stars distinctly visible
without the aid OF a glass is put by Gould
at 5,33S. Professor Newcomb says their
number is near 7.647. These are UP to the
| sixth magnitude. Professor Newcomb es-
Inmates the number up to the las magni-
tude at 2OO. 900, 00-
People in the country who are annoyed
by dies should remember that clusters OF
the red clover. III hung In the room and