The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-14
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

AS a rule tears do not accompany a
baby's cries until it Is three months old.
Twenty-Five million dollars have been in
vested in Missouri mines since last Janu-
airy.
The black jaguar Of Central America
will attack any man by night or day whom
he finds lying down.
1t Is a Christmas custom in Atlanta to
release all prisoners charged with offenses
against city ordinances.
In Madagascar silk is the only fabric
used in the manufacture of clothing. It
is cheaper than linen in Ireland.
London is twelve miles broad one way
and seventeen the other, and every year
sees about twenty miles of new streets
added to it.
Up to 1852 the 18th of March was the
beginning of the legal year. though the
1st of January was universally recognized
as New Years day.
The woman's branch of the Church of
England Temperance Society will provide
reformatory, available for all England, for
women inebriates. to cost $4,000.
The Island of Tutuila, of the Samoan
group, which comes under American SOW
ereignty by the partition treaty, has about
5000 inhabitants of the Polynesian race.
In German cities merchants are not al
lowed to put up ''seiaing OUT signs unless
they are honest. In Mayence fine of 500
marks is inflicted for every transgression
of this law.
In a suit to recover the price of bicycle
sold on the installment plan, an Albany
On. W court has decided that a bicycle is
not necessity to girl under age working
out as a domestic.
Steam railway passenger rates in India
average 236 cents per mile first class, liz
second class and only 0.3 for third class.
That is incomparably cheaper than charges
| In the United States.
The great lakes have become great
artery of our richest commercial blood.
One-third of the population of the United
States is dependent on these lakes for its
export and import trade
| In Amsterdam two thousand diamond
cutters have been laid off on account of
| the exhaustion Of stocks of diamonds. 1t
| is said there that by March the price of
diamonds will be doubled.
1t is observed by travellers in Siberia that
the effect of constant cold is practically the
same as the effect of constant heat. The
| people develop Discrimination to work. and
| become strangers to ambition of any de-
scription.
Thirty thousand fruit trees. compris-
ing the entire orcharos of d. G. and G.
| NJ. Bacon, in Mitchell county. Georgia, will
| be burned by order of State Entomologist
/ Scott owing to ravages Of the San
Jose scale.
| American locomotives are used on the
Bombay Barcola & Central India Rail-
| way. The extent to which American loco
motives are being used abroad does not
| fail to awaken voices Of anguish among the
| foreign press.
| Science has lately made 1t possible to OBJ
| tain good wine from the apple, which has
| always been devoted TO sparkling cider.
Experts have been deceived in sherry, ma
deira and sauterne which came from apple
| juice instead of grapes,
| 1t is curious to notice that wood tar is
prepared just as 1t was in the fourth CEN
| fury B. c. A bank is chosen and a hole
| dug, into which the wood is placed. COW
| cred with turf. A fire Is lighted under
meath and the tar slowly drips into the
barrels placed to receive 1t.
| A detective agency has recently investi-
| gated the use of electricity for breaking
| the vaults OF banks and safes. The report
states that there has never been a sue
cessful burglary of a bank vault or safe
| by electricity, and that there is no neces-
sity for alarm on this score.
within the next five years Missouri will
startle the world. prophesIes State Geolo-
| gist Gallagher In q recent interview. with
| the great amount Of lead. xinc. copper.
nickel, cobalt and coal mined In the State.