Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-20
Items of Interest.

There is London craze" against ar
senic in Oarpet-dyes.
Kite-Aying is sport with the grown poo
pie Of Southern Asia
The Egyptians made glass and colored 1t
beautifully 5000 years before Christ.
1t is estimated that seventy years and ST.
OO0, 900 viii be required to complete the e1-
cavations at Pompeii.
Ira Curtis, an oysterman, of New Haven,
has taken more than sixty drowning per-
sons from the water.
A man in st. Helena, Cal. makes living
by the manufacture of fishing lines from
the fibres OF the century plant
Gold is found in fifty-six counties IN
Georgia silver in three copper in thirteen,
iron in forty-three and diamonds in twenty
six.
A Chester Valley young lady is the owner
Of several Gala lilies, the roots Of which
were procured for her grandfather
from the banks OF the Nile.
The new gambling law for Arizona re-
quires each house where gaming is carried
on to pay quarterly license of $500, one
half TO go to the school-fund.
man in Naugatuck, CT, has invented
new india rubber shoe, called the Zephyr"
which weighs less than two ounces, and
can be carried in a lady's pocket.
An Ohio woman, before drowning her
self in shallow trough, strapped her head
down in the water, for fear that her cour-
age might fail her when she began TO
smother.
The power Of plants to force their way
Though a resisting medium Is very remark
able. A writer IL a foreign journal asserts
that he has known a dandelion to grow
through two inches Of asphalt which had
been spread over it.
From bank in the sand Newfoundland
dog belonging to Boston man takes PEN
nies and goes to bakers daily aud buys
warm rolls for his breakfast The neigh
bors give him pennies, which he buries III
place scooped out under the s.oop.
A farmer a, Rochester, No, told his wife
,ha, $500, which they had saved by many
years Of industry and economy, had been
stolen. He WAS mistaken, for within an
hour he found the treasure whore lac had
ml2laid il but the wife had already died OF
heart disease in consequence Of the shock.
A gentleman from Berlin put up at
hotel in Paris and wrote home, giving his
address. He then went to look at the city,
and. having walked himself weary. forgot
the street and number where his trunk had
been left, He ;elegraphed home to Berlin,
and within half an hour learned the number
Of his hotel
The electric light, which was expert
mentally placed in the Ininan line steamer
City of Berlin, has given such general sa:is-
faction TO all classes Of passenger that /, has
been permanently adopted for lighting the
saloon, sieerage and eDgine-room of that
vessel, and will soon be supplied to the other
vessels of that line.
Ii is said that a Norwegian boianist who
explored Greenland in 1870 discovered
species Of slge which grew in and among
the clefts Of ice, and which By It's internal
heat rot,ed the ice away. 1t is pronounced
70 DC a dangerous enemy to the ice, even
when in blocks many thousands OF feet in
thickness and miles in extent.
The anglers theory that fish does not
suffer much physical pain from hook In
It's cills. or mental agony either, for that
matter, is supported by the recen, expert
ence of u Strtford Conn fisherman. A
large trout tore two hooks in quick succession
from the line and was finally pulled up on
the third, with the first two in his stomach
Matthew Mckay, Of Oswego, \. Y, had
been bothered at finding his clock stopped
mornings. He had it examined, but the re-
pairer could find nothing wrong. He watch
ed. and discovered the family cat TO be the
cause of the mischief Attracted by the
ticking Of the clock, she climbed up TO the
shelf. pulled open the door, and paved the
hands around the dial till it stopped.
A firm in Calcutta has in its possession the
butterfly in brilliants which once formed
part Of the Spanish crown jewels, and cost
f2o. 600. The ex-Queen isabella took it
with her to France and il was lately sold
with many of her other jewels at Paris
| The two stones pendant from the head and
tail of the butterfly are remarkable for their
size and brilliancy, and the whole is q rare
specimen Of the jewelers. art.
A curious fact in natural history is no.
iced OF the depot in Williamsport, Pa,
where two sparrows have built their nest
and are rearing their young inside the gong
which announces the departure Of trains.
The gong is about eighteen inches in diam
eter, and when struck by its hammer has
deafening sound, but Notwithstanding its
racket and the roar and rattle Of engines and
cars, the birds are unmoved, the male, IN
deed, being frequently observed sitting upon
the iron knoeker itself while it is striking.
When mans wife comes in, and sees
him, razor in hand, and with his face all
lather, and asks him, ''Are you shaving?"
it's q provoking thing in him to answer,