The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Sugar exists not only in the cane. beet
root and maple, but in the sap Of Isl other
plants and trees.
Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the
Great, noted the growth of the sugar cane
in India, d. G. 325.
The largest inland sea is the AIediter-
ranean, $4,000 square miles, more than
three times the size of Texas.
Modern inks date from 1898, at which
time researches of DR.. Lewis and Riban-
court in the chemistry of ink began.
The first and last guns fired in the Amer
lean civil war are to be seen in the govern
ment building at the Buffalo Exposition.
Potatoes form the worlds greatest single
crop, 1000 million bushels being produced
annually, equal in bulk to the entire wheat
and corn crop.
bronze cents were coined last year-a
larger number than was produced during
any previous twelvemonth.
In the Mountain of the Monks. on the
coast of Macedonia, there are twenty mon
asteries. The place is sacred to the male
sex, and no woman is allowed to cross its
borders.
Twenty years ago 20 per cent. of the
road were discharged yearly for drinking.
Now only about 1 per cent. yearly are SO
dismissed.
One bank in FL Reno made $4,000 by
the recent land lottery. and then the news
papers gave the notice quicker than the
bank could.
The Detroit river is the outlet Of the
greatest bodies OF fresh water in the world,
aggregating $1,000 square miles OF lake sur
face. which in turn drain $4,000 square
miles of land.
Suckers in the holds of big vessels shovel
$50 TO $50 degrees. They work at it, day
after day. and often year after year, with
out visible harm.
School savings banks are increasing rap
W I'm n he 81
year the system was in practice in 732
schools of 80 cities in Is States. During
$3.50, 229.
The old worlds most cslamitous fire was
that which took place in London in 1866,
which destroyed 1900 buildings. laid 400
streets waste and rendered 10000 people
homeless. the loss of life being loo and
that of property destroyed AO,OOO,OO0.
The river Euphrates flowed through the
city Of Babylon, and on each side OF its
banks the walls Of the city were carried up
TO a height as great as at any other point,
so that even during a siege the city was
as formidably defended on the river as on
the land side
What is alleged to be the best equipped
textile school in the world will be opened
in Mississippi in September, where the
textile industry Will be taught IN an ITS
branches A mechanical college IS also
to be opened at Raleigh. y. g, oct. ] and
$4,000 worth OF textile machinery is being
installed
dom for 1890 show that during the year the
number of passengers carried, exclusive Of
seaso ticket holders, was 1l42Z16.6S6 an
increase of abQut thirty-fve and a half
millions over 1899. The amount OF goods
conveyed shows an increase of over thir-
teen and half million tons
How far the Siberian Railway IS from
completion appears from the fact that one
still needs thirty days TO cover the distance
from Paris 10 NladivOstock. whereas only
twenty. would be required II the railway
were. finished Lake and river steamers
dn winter sleighs) are still needed TO I'LL
out the gaps.
one would think that the identity OF the
architect of such a superby designed build
ing as the Cologne Cathedral could not
possibly be lost TO the world. But II Is.
The cathedral took centuries 70 build, and
many architects have modelled parts OF II
according 10 their own ideas. The result
Is the most beautiful cathedral in the
world.
No trees grow anywhere on the coast
OF western OF northern Alaska. and yet
these shores for thousands OF miles and
the islands OF Bering sea are strewn with
immense quantities Of driftwood. in place,