The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The first iron nails made in this country
Were hammered into shape at Cumberland,
r. l., in 17G.
Hoopeston, H., pays it's mayor 50 cents a
year and its councilmen q cents a year
each. 1t has never had a saloon.
Night schools established a year ago In
Honolulu to teach English to Hawaiians
have been abolished because of non-attend-
ance.
A curious custom prevails in Korea If a
man meets his wife in the street he ignores
her presence and passes her as If she were
stranger.
The long tails of the Shah of Persia's
horses are dyed crimson for six inches at
their tips-a jealousy guarded privilege Of
the ruler and his sons.
Few bank notes are so simple in design
as those printed for the Bank Of England
and yet each one of them costs about a
half penny to produce.
A seven-story building in Chicago has
Just been raised with jacks .twenty-one and
one-half feet without cracking a pane of
glass or injuring a wall.
The gold-bearing area of the United
States is but little over five times the area
of New York State, while that Of Siberia is
over eighteen times as great.
In twenty-five years the gold product of
the United States has increased from Sat-
declined from $S7,0OO,OOO to $3S,OO0, 900.
Rosewood is so called. not because It is
red, but because, when freshly cut, it emits
the fragrance of roses. 1t is of only moder-
ate weight, a cubic foot weighing ass
pounds.
Cardinal Merchant spoke ia languages
and dialects, fifty OF them with such ease
and fluency that he was sometimes mis-
taken for a native of the lands where they
were used.
1t is said that automobiles have so cheap
ened the cost OF harvesting grain in the
immense California fields that wheat can
be raised there at less actual cost than in
the Argentine Republic.
Collectors Of butterflies in America will
be interested to know that there are per-
excellent living by selling artificial butter
flies. This is new industry.
In 1870 women were for the first time in
troduced In the postal service Of England.
In 1871 there were 1000 thus employed, and
to-day there are in the British isles about
g, 900 postmistresses and clerks.
The twenty leading hotels of London rep
resent a capital of something like seven
they accommodate about 400 guests every
night, and find employment for 4,5OO serv-
ants.
The umbrella and parasol were used by
the Eastern nations many years before the
Christian era. The Oldest chinaware shows
pictures of ladies and mandarins shaded
by parasols Of patterns similar to those
now in use.
The first spelling book printed in this
country was entitled 1.-The American Spell
ing Book" by Noah Webster. 1t was is
sued in 17S3, and for considerably more than
half a century was the standard work used
in all American schools.
The sugar cane OF China is said by botan-
lists 10 be an entirely distinct species from
that OF India, and this fact is supposed to
indicate that the development Of sugar cane
was carried on independently by two differ
ent nations at the same time.
The Lapps. people of northern Europe
never wash. They abhor water. and from
infancy to age their clothing is never
changed except when it is worn out They
wear the same garments, made of reindeer
skin with the hair next to the flesh day
and night winter and summer.
Before the coming of the whites to Amer
lea the Mississippi river was known by
different name every few miles of its
course Each tribe that dwelt along its
banks gave IL name and more than thirty
OF these local designations are preserved in
the narratives Of the early travellers.
There are more newspapers published in
Iowa in proportion to the population. than
in any other State IN the Union. Massa-
chusetts. so long at the head of the list
will have 10 give the first place to the
Hawkeye State, for, in proportion TO its
population. Iowa has more than twice as
many newspaper publications as Massachu-
sets n~S --~~v more than large number
Of other states. -.