The Morning herald., 1877-11-23
THE HERALD !
.a1on. Delawa:e Nov. "a 1s77'
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ha Richmond, Va, Jail has q Japanese
live long It is necessary to live slowly.
Suro.
ast year England imported over &c..
900 worth Of eggs.
alters which are warmly sealed are often
dly opened.-Rieh's'.
The Greek Church tolerates neither
caus nor women's voices.
Among the Russians no woman can enter
sanctuary of the priests without desc
stug the building.
Utah Is said to have produced three.
tr,rths of the supply Of refined lead in this
cuutry last year. '-....
The cypress tree lives to be 5000 years
NJ takes root easily, and Tice can't predict
hurricane which can have the least effect
uit.
The number Of miners killed in the an
tbracite coal regions of Pennsylvania in
1s76 was 228, and the number of wounded
1852.
Until recently human as well as animal
homes were used in French sugar refneries
in fact the former were as lately as 1858 sent
from Algeria, to France.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five post
Offices in the whole country, and up to
1887 the rates of postage were twenty five
cents for letter sent over four hundred
miles.
The dark condition of Salem in 1892,
when witches were burned and sound sense
was reversed, may be seen in the name it.
self reversed, which makes the Greek
"melas" f..
An Illinois machinist has invented, and
seeks to patent, an apparatus for inficting
capital punishment. It is a gallows, with
powerful springs instead Of weights, and
is calculated to break the neck of the
hanged man with certainty and celebrity.
Every man stamps his value on himself.
The price we challenge for ourselves is
given us. There does not live on earth a
man, be his station what it may, that I de-
spse myself, compared with him. Man is
made great or little by his own will
&hiulT. ...s
Agassiz says that in certain Amazonian
tribes on the wedding day, and while the
festivities are in progress, the bridegroom's
hands are tied up in paper bag with fire
ants. If he bears this torture smilingly
and unmoved, he is considered fit for the
trials of matrimony.
watch that saved the life of E. W.
Leavenvorth, a student at the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute, who was shot at
Pa, is on exhibition at Troy.
The fattened bullet is imbedded in one
case, the works are thoroughly demoralized
and an aperture forced through the oppo-
site case.
Electricity has been applied to novel
use in the East Indies. A platinum wire
with the poles of q battery is
stretched around tree, and, becoming red
not, is gently see-sawed until it burns its
way through. It is thought that tree can |
be cut down without any waste of timber in |
about fifteen minutes, that would require two
hours to fell in the ordinary way.
A correspondent of the Lakefeld Nevs, a
'aper published in Canada, has discovered
remedy for the obtrusivs potato bug. He
ays that during visit to Peterson, Ontario,
le found thousands of dead bugs in the gar
len Of q friend, and learned upon inquiry
hat flower plant known as the Petunia
lad poisoned them. He therefore suggests
hat Petunia seed be planted among the
otatoes next season.
The monster 1OO-ton cannon have been
ecently so improved that the italian gov
rnment intends to try some new ones,
'hich 1t has ordered from the English
with charge Of 470 pounds
+ powder and projectile weighing $3.50
ounds. or lite more than ton. The
letanurgists are busy making a composite
late, in which steel and iron are combined, |
,r the purpose Of resisting, when used