The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-01-18
Useful and Curions

Tie famous Silver Islet niue on the
north shore Of Lake Superior continues
to lie as productive as ever. 1t has been
vo keI now over year, and has yielded
overa million Of dollars. The com pany are
able to take out 100000 worth of ore a
month at a cost of only SO 900 Ohio has
found supply fuel in natural gas Wells
have been sunk at Painesvlle and other
places, which furnish constant supply
in quantities sufficient to light and heat
whole town, and Obtainable at very slight
cost "A firm near Union Square, New
York, received $3.50 for the use of their
three second story windows by party
Who wished to view the reception of tie
Granl Duke.-It is said that men and
hoys Invariably run the heels of their
boots and shoes over outwardly, while wo
n.en and girls always run theirs over in
wardly livery one has heard the word
C0rat used in reference to the purity Of
gold, hut not every one knows just what
Is meant by it. If gold is twenty -four
carats Goe-as it never is in use-it is
pure. if it is twenty two carats fne it
has two parts of alloy to twenty-five of
gold-and SO on. Cold that has but a
slight alloy is too soft to wear we'll, and
eighteen carat gold is as pure as is de
sirable to have it for watches, rings, and
such use.-ln the interior Of Sweden
families in many cases bake bread but
twice year. 1t is made into large round
cakes about foot and half in diameter
and au inch and half in thickness
These are strung On flies of sticks sus
pended from the ceilings Of the cottages.
and are often so hard that they must be
brckeU with a hammer-It is cited as
an instance showing the readiness with
which human bones disappear, that the
Dutch government 10 1853 drained Of
the Harlem Lake, On which there had
been many shipwrecks and uaval battles.
and where thousands had found a watery
graTe. The canals and trenches dug to
a considerable depth through the rescued
land must have had an aggregate length
of thousands of miles, and yet not single
human bone was exhumed from first to
last. Some weapons and few coins, and
one or two wrecked vessels, alone reward
ed the anti quaries who watched the opera
tons with the hope of a rich harvest
In such large in as the Fifth Avenue
Hotel no food is allowed to 90 to waste. |
That LETT on the plates is taken TO the |
sorting room." The untouched portions
are sent into the kitchen TO be warmed
over for the servants table The rem
naDts are collected aud sold to dealer who
arranges them and sells them to poor peo
pie, who come into his shop to buy ten
cents or fifteen cents worth at time
The very "dish water" is collected into
vat, and the oil on the top is skinned of
and saved.--When Germany makes
war on Russia she will not ruu her loco
motive and railway supply trains Up to
the gates of st. Peterburg as she did UP
TO the lines around Paris. 10 the exten
sive system of railways that he is now
building, the Gar uses a different guage
from any adjoining country The Vas
EAR College girls are supplied with their
iavorite griddle cakes from griddle eight
feet by ten, on which 500 can be cooked
at once.-The old Babylonans were
not troubled with the quarrels of allopaths
and hom@paths, having DO physicians OF
any sort When any one was taken sick
he was carried to the Forum and those
Who passed by were asked if they knew
what the disease was; if they knew any
'ne who had ever had it, aud if so I'll
hey knew how he was cured Fish {
re better as well as healthier food if they
ire Killed as soon as they are taken from
be water, instead of being left to die :
atural-or unnatural-death That is
be way the Hollanders do, and no peo |
Ie set finer fish before travellers tha '
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