The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-08
CHIPS AND SHAvD1GS.

There are 10000 brewers and
distillers pursuing their calling III
tbs country.
We e it stated that the area
OF the city of New Orleans is forty
square miles.
The Crimean war cost both sides
$50, 900 human lives, and S3,315,-
0GO, 600 in gold.
Galveston Texas has IA beach
twenty-five miles in length-the
longest in the world.
Minnesota has lately bought
and distributed among her rivers
10000 young trout.
The following enormous figures
represent the present debt OF Eng
land, So, $50, 0O0, 900.
-s'There are but two fine things
in the world" said Malherbe, the
poet, "women and roses
-Victoria's life has been attemp-
ted four times by assassination since
she assembled the throne.
In New Jersey, when they
want to praise a man, they say he
has such a mean looking face, that
a fy wouldn't alight on 1T.
Little Johnny Poisel, who used
to mend shoes in a 10-foot shop IN
Martinsburg, Va, is now Rev. DIR.
Poisel, chaplain to Congress.
The Naturalization of the
double-jointed stove pipe is heard
in the land ; and the Recording
Angel has his hands full, says the
Philadelphia Press.
There is a wild plant growing
in California called the soap plant,
which produces a ball of natural
soap inside It's stem, superior to the
common soap of the manufacturers.
There are about seven million
pores in the body of a man of ordi-
nary size. If they were joined to-
gether lengthwise, a tube would be
formed twenty-eight miles IN
length!
In the city of Paris an organ
lied band of men, called, Guardian
Angels, make a good living by es-
corting drunken individuals to their
homes. If this is not a curious oc-
occupation, what is?
What we commonly call a fall
ing star is believed by the Arabs to
be a dart launched by the Almighty
at an evil genius, and they exclaim
on seeing it: "May God transfix the
cacmy of tho faithr
The ancients had a superstitious
reverence for the figure seven, and
called 1T the number of perfection,
because it contained three and four,
the triangle and the square by which
all things are guaged.
"A. NJ. Saunders, residing near
Parkersburg, O., is absolutely sleep
less, not having slumberei for sew
eral years. Physicians are exam
ming him and testing his very
peculiar case. He is conscientious
l. opposed to exhibiting himself,
except to physicians in private.
=" Vassar College consumes
3,OO0pounds of beef a week."-Bos-
ton Globe. "And yet the girls
don't complain of too much kline
Wash. Union OF course
not, why should they?-when most
Of the fair demoiselles have had the
care of a couple of pet calves from
early infancy.
Not long since a curiosity was
brought up from the bottom of the
artesian we'll in Livingston, Ala
bama. At a distance of $50 feet
below the surface, and over 800 feet
in the rock, an egg was found, COM
pletely petrified, and perfect in.
shape, save where the auger had
defaced it a little.
A Phlladelphlan OF patient and
plodding turn of mind has accom-
plished the wonderful feat of writ
ing on two postal cards the entire
Book of Esther, the entire book of
Jonah and the 21st Psalm. On
the surface Of these cards he has
managed to place, in clear, we'll
formed letters, although almost
microscopic in ~Sze, no less than
VIA words, composed of 29,392
letters.