The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

cattleman says that all cows lie down
on tnelr Ieft side, and never on their right,
unless the left is Injured.
1t Is said that almost every steamer from
the Hawaiian islands that arrives on the
racine coast brings hundreds of japanese
laborers.
Vienna dentist reports having made
considerable success with artificial teeth
made of paper treated by a process of his
own invention.
The premium of 1000 marks offered by
Germany for the proof of trichinosis from
eating American pork has stood for two
years without claimant.
There are some 1900 Cinnamon in Cuba.
ana since the island became independent
there IL no law to prevent their going there
from China or elsewhere.
Driving steam motor car at Providence,
X l., George G. Cannon covered a mile in
65A seconds and Ave miles in minutes 5A
seconds, both being worlds records
Wages of the working people of the
United Kingdom. according TO official sta
tistics showed decrease OF 81, 1900 600 last
year compared with the preceding year.
Asbestos towels are among the curiosties
OF the Day. When dirty IL is only necessary
TO throw them into a red-hot fire and after
a few minutes draw them out fresh and
clean.
1t is stated that the Chinese population
or to-day numbers about 42S0o0,0o0 of souls,
including s,5o0,0O0 in Manchuria. 25s0,0OO in
Mongolia, $4,000 in Tibet and 600 in
Chinese Turkestan
Two churches in Neodesha, Mo-. have
offered their bells for sale. The rest of
the churches have none. The church trus-
tees and the pastors agree that the bells
are an unnecessary annoyance.
To settle once for all the frequent dis
putes with customers regarding the vary
ing size OF eggs, Stockholm merchants pro-
pose TO effect all future sales on the basis
OF actual weight instead of per score.
Thomas A. Smith, former assemblyman
of Freeport, l.. l., several days ago found
a turtle which, when he was a school boy.
he marked with his initials and the year
1896 The inscription was easily de-
ciphered.
Charles A. Lockard and John o. Nye,
TWO white men of Syracuse, n. Y, have
been adopted as members of the Seneca
tribe of Indians. Two other whites, Uriah
and Palmer Cummings, have become chiefs
and controlling spirits in the Seneca ma
ton.
When Kansas was first organized as a
Territory in 1854 its area included part of
the present State of Colorado, extending
as lar west as the crest of the Rocky
mountains. Denver, Leadville, Pueblo and
COLORADO Springs are now located on form
er Kansas soil.
Prof Burt q. Wilder is president, has re-
ceived more than one hundred requests of
the brains of highly educated people as the
result of the circulation of a unique form of
will and testament" which he drew up
and asked them to sign.
The principal routes taken by migratory
birds, as registered in books of natural his
tory, show wonderful geographical in
stinct on the part Of the feathered bipeds,
as they take, for the most part, the seas
and oceans at their narrowest and the
river valleys. at their longest.
The one poem most often translated into
every language of the civilized and lun-
civilized world was written by a woman
The Ode to Aphrodite," by Sappho.
Shakspeare's works have but borne the
test of three centuries. Sappho's have
stood through twenty-five centuries.
The latest craze in Paris is the wearing
or lighted lantern as a personal orna-
ment. The fashion originated with a spec
ulative manufacturer. whose 'petites lam
at the fair at Neuilly. The lantern is very
small and neat, and made in a Gothic form
after an ancient model.
Polish nobleman and his wife, being
r pTonsnt II, up for some political offense: ar
heads shaved, according to the Russian
custom In some trials. Next day all the
Poles at the place, both men and women.
performed the same operation on their own
heads as mark of sympathy.
Every spring and fall large numbers of
birds are killed by the Washington monu-
ment. The city of Washington seems to be
migratory birds in the flight between the
North and South, and twice year thou
sands of feathered songsters meet their
death by flying against the tall marble
shaft in the night.
Among the recent Patent Office grants
is a patent for combination tent and gar
ment for soldiers use. 1t is designed for
service In the tropics or wherever they may
experience the downpours of a rainy sea-
son, and cape-like shield is made for
each soldier by the folding of half a tent
Two. of these pieces put together make a
comfortable shelter of sufficient size to
accommodate two men,
s. o. McCurdy of Sunbury, Pa, has been
in the railway mail service for twenty
years, and In that time has travelled 767 OS4
miles, something like thirty-two journeys
around the world In the one wreck which
the veteran mail clerk has been through
his life was saved by a mail sack which he
had in his hand. He was thrown from his
car and would have gone under the wheels
of the locomotive If the sack had not
blocked his way.