Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-25
CURI0sITIEs.

A buffalo cow in Colorado Springs
Is domesticated and gives milk and
calves.
The deepest hole in the world is
an artesian well at Pottsdam, Mo-,
which goes down $500 feet.
A large frog, whose age is placed
i'm round numbers at 1000 years,
was recently found ten feet below
the surface at Sodus, n. Y. He
jumped away quite lively as soo as
he could remem Der how he used to
do it.
Charles Strivens, of Fesno City,
California, has a pig, some three
weeks old, which has a horn about
n and a half inches in length, pro-
truding from the center of its fore
head. Thepig is i'm every other re-
spect perfectly formed.
A treasure trove was discovered
i'm a very singular manner at old
Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, a short
time since. A boyfound a gold dol.
lar on an ant hill i'm the old commits
-ary building. The following day
three dollars more were foundin the
same place. They had evidently
been brought upby the ants. Search
vas made, and a small wooden box.
badly decayed, containing $50 gold
dollars, was found about a foot be-
low the surface.
A French medical journal has
made an astounding statement in
reference to Mile. Croizette, who
acts the leading character i'm the
"SphinX" at Paris. 1t asserts that
she pOisOns herself every evening in
the nOH famous dying scene. The
portion she swallows is actually
poisonous, and as a consequence,
the commissions and spasms which
follow are genuine. This is the
statement, and it further tells us
that Immediately the drop-scene
falls the fair actress takes an anti
dote and RECEIVERS i'm about an hour.
Mr.. P. J.. Moore, of Centerville,
Idaho, has a curiosity called the
"loating stone" This anomalous
creation Is about five-eighths of an
inch through its greatest longitude
nal diameter, by less than half an
inch through its greatest transverse
diameter; is i'm shape a slightly fiat
tened, OblOng sphere, scoOped in
one side, near the small end, i'm such
manner as TO form an edge, which
cuts glass as readily as a diamond.
The stone Is Of a grayish white
color, is partially translucent, rough
on the surface, and floats on the
water with the bouyancy of a cork.
A short time ago parties prospect
ing for coal near IOnia, Neb., some
twenty miles up the Missouri river
from Sioux City, Iowa, discovered
smoke or steam issuing from one of
the bluffs on the river. Investiga-
tons were commenced, and have
been continued at intervals since,
and 1t has become the absorbing
toric of interest i'm that region. The
different parties have penetrated
through the dirt and clay, and some
distance into the rock, the steam
and heat continuing to increase as
they descended, compelling the
abandonment of the work several
times. The last prospeotors state
that noises We're heard as of lime
stone breaking when i'm a burning
kiln. Investigation continues, but
as yet no satisfactory solution has
been reached, though there are
many surmises as to the cause.
On the 10Th of July last, Mr..
Michael Collins, while engaged in
digging potatoes on the farm of T.
TAFT, Esq, captured a number of
potato bugs ard put them i'm an
empty bottle, closing the bottle to
prevent their escape. He placed
the bottle by a post on the ground,
making the remark that he "would
ascertain how long the CRITTERS
would live, anyhow" The sum-
mel passed away and the winter
followed, bringing no thought of
the in%carcerated bugs. Last week,
in passing, Mr.. Collins picked up
the bottle. 1t contained the intact
though mOtiOnless forms of the pO-
tatO-top d~estroyers. In the caprice
Of the moment he took the bottle to
the house, and held it over the fire.
Immense was his astonishment on
~perceiving the bugs take to them
selves legs and walk. I'm a few min
utes the interior of the bottle was a
writhing mass of Coloradoes. Eight
months without food, exposed to the
extremes of summer and winter,
and still living. This statement is
fully vOuched for, and shows whats
foe the farmers and potatoes have to
contend against.-Joliet (Ill.) Sem
tinel.