The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Silk dresses were worn in China 4.5O(
years ago.
No military parade or drill, except in case
of war. riot: invasion or instruction is law
full on election day in New York
A chameleon, when blindfolded, loses the
power to change it's hues. and the entire
body remains of a uniform color.
Common laborers in Spain get from 80 to
40 cents day in the larger towns and from
20 to 80 cents in the rural districts.
There are now in the United States about
10000 miles of street railways, Of which
800 miles are still operated by horses.
1t was only one hundred years ago that
we began exporting cotton in quantities
adequate to the demands Of England.
In 1890 the population of Arizona was
placed at $3.50, and this year 1t is given as
10, PIP, an increase of 1919 per cent. in the
decade.
The regular army of the United States
on Jan. /, 1904, consisted of 3,2S7 men; on
Jan. 1, 1914, of S,573 men, and Jan. l.
1861, of 16, 422.
The Hebrew population of London has
more than doubled during the last twenty
years. 1t is now estimated at between
100000 and 10000.
Cannon are known to have been used a
thousand years before Crecy. A five-hun-
dred-year-old magazine rifle has recently
been unearthed at Nuremberg.
CalicOes were imported from India before
the looms were set working largely in Man
chester laws and armies destroyed the In
dian calico trade.
A few of the larger public libraries in the
country have added music to their circu-
lation departments. aad with marked sue
cess. The idea is spreading now to the
libraries In the smaller cities.
In the United States there is one church
for every 3S7 people. Boston has one for
every 1,0O0 Minneapolis one for every 1.054
in the United States every Sunday.
Arrangements have been made for the
settlement OF $50 Russian families near the
new town of Ladysmith, Chippewa county,
Wisconsin. The immigrants will come from
the vicinity of Odessa, in southern Russia.
In 1S45 the postage on a letter from New
York to Wisconsin was % cents. People
wrote long letters in those days in a fine
ccpper-plate hand thin paper-to get
the worth Of their money-but they wrote
seldom.
There are about $500 miles of railroad in
Russia, of which 1850 miles are operated
by the imperial government. Pension funds
are maintained for the employees of these
roads. These funds amount to something
like SO, 000, 600.
There is a common country saying that "a
bee was never caught in a shower" When
rain Is impending bees do not go far afield,
but ply their labor in the immediate neigh
borhood of their hives.
A New York woman has unique manner
OF making a living. She goes from house to
house of the fashionables of New York,
and directly under the eye of her customers
cleans the family jewels. She carries all
her implements for cleaning in a little hand
satchel and thus almost unincumbered goes
her rounds.
At the birth of Japanese baby a tree Is
planted that must remain untouched until
the marriage day of the child. When the
nuptial hour arrives the tree is cut down.
and the wood is transformed into furniture
which is considered by the young people
as the most beautiful Of all the ornaments
OF the house.
The telescope. so far from being. as Il
generally averred. the outcome OF the ia
nous experiment Of Calico. was known
at least three hundred years before his
time: while the microscope certainly dates
from the early part Of the ninth century
although greatly improved In the sixteenth
by Jansen and others.
When pins were first invented In the four.
feenfh century the maker was allowed e
] sell them On the 1st and d OF January only