The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

OU1 VI 1dE UhU1NAh1.
Ohio collects over 100000 in licenses
from TO- 139 saloons.
Our sun. at the distance of Arcturus.
would be invisible to us.
midas area is a little more than one-half
that of the United States.
The only sightless salamanders ever seen
were thrown from an artesian well in Texas.
The New York postoffice receives $500 let
tiers day which are known to be misdi-
rected.
If men We're relatively as strong as
beetles they Could juggle with weights OF
several tons.
companies OF the United States are estab-
fishing factories in Canada.
The London Lancet says that there is no
reason for believing that smoking tobacco in
a rational way is productive of HARM"
Four-fifths Of the people of the Southern
States live on farms but not one-third Of
the land is being titled says Hoke Smith.
BY dfssOlvfng a little gelatin In milk the
milk can be carried in solid blocks, and
would gain rather than lose nutrient value
Native feelings in India have been hurt
by the new rupee because the King APP
pears on it without his crown. To be bare
headed Is repugnant to the Oriental.
The South African colonies and islands
owned by Germany have no local legislature
or even crown councils. Each is ruled as an
Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, now
In his eighty-ninth year. will be allowed by
the government authorities to attend the
Indian congress in New York next summer.
OF the 100000 people in England more
than half live on an income of less than So
a week, and the earnings Of 100000 OF this
number do not exceed Sc a week for the
family.
The 927 New Jersey corporations, having
$2SS,OOOON capital, recently dissolved for
NM nf toy SAINT hut
twenty-four OF the companies incorporated
in that State.
The Pentateuch, written In Samaritan
characters on gazelle parchment, and dated
in the year 1l6 Of Mahomet, or A. d. 1885,
was lately discovered in Syria. 1t is the old
est biblical manuscript known.
A Baltimore man claims to have the origi-
nal death warrant Of Charles of England.
1t is written on thin parchment, but has
the misfortune to be dated Jan. "a, 164S,
while Charles was not beheaded until Jan.
30. 1919.
The italian government has just erected a
fortress on the great Chaberton summit, OPP
posite BriancOn, for the defense Of the
Simplon tunnel. This fort is 1O, 600 feet high
and is believed to be the most elevated for
titled point in the world.
The first effort to make steel by using
electrical heat was that by Siemons. in 1879.
He designed for this purpose an electric arc
lamp furnace. in which the arc was formed
between coal and the metal contained in a
crucible Of graphite as electrodes.
Originally the common or domestic goat
was a native Of the highlands Of Asia. Nat
uralists generally regard 1t as having de-
scended from an animal found in the eau
casus mountains and the hill country OF
Persia, called in the Persian language the
pesang.
A railroad fifty miles long is to be con-
structed in southeast Missouri this spring.
1t runs through district which is dis
tinctively the home of the watermelon.
Enough melons are said to be produced
there to keep one railway busy during the
season In hauling them.
The Mormons first-best state is pure
communism like that taught by Christ.
Their second-best state is one based upon a
far-reaching recognition of common needs,
involving a generous provision for all pub
lie purposes, and also for all classes in the
community requiring help. especially the
aged.
There are in New York three life insur-
ance institutions, two of them mutual as
sociations and one an incorporated organi-
cation, whose financial operations practi-
cally match those of the United States
treasury. They possess resources in the way
of cash or quick assets almost equal to
those upon which the secretary Of the treas
ury may rely.
The postmaster at Eloise, Fla, being
short I cent in his cash at his last settle
ment, made up the deficiency out of his own
pocket; but in checking his accounts the
auditor for the Postof1ce Department found
had been overpaid to the extent of cent.
Thereupon the department sent the post
master draft for 1 cent, which he has
just received.
The dream Of Cecil Rhodes is realized in
America before the funds left by him have
made it possible in Oxford. The workshop
university in the great electric manufactur-
ing works at Schenectady, N Y, has among
its students-all college graduates-young
men from England, Scotland, France, Ger
many, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden Den
mark, Holland, Spain, Italy. Russia, Brazil,
Mexico Canada, Siam and japan. Nearly
all the leading engineering schools of the
world are represented there.
Arsenic, the dreaded poison that Professor
Armand Gautier, of Paris, asserts is essen
tial to life, proves to be disseminated in the
primitive rocks from which sea water de-
rives its store The minute quantity taken
in the food becomes localized in the skin
and it's appendages the thyroid and man.
mary glands, the brain and the bones, and
it Is stated to be the exciting ferment of
the functions of sensation and reproduction
just as phosphorus is the exciting element
of the functions of cellular nutrition.