The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-10-28
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The weight of an averare male adult
is 140 pounds.
The New Zealand method of court
ship is hv touching noses.
New \ ork has society that sends
ice free to all who make application.
Dice games for 500 throw are salu
to he common on the streets OF Butte,
Montana.
About two-thirds of a pint of air is
inhaled at each breath IN ordinary res
piration.
A tree full of birds was struck by
lightning at OwensbOro, KY, ana 35O
of them killed.
The women prisoners in the Louis
Vile, tKy.) wOTkhOuse are compelled 10
labor in the stone quaTTies.
The Druids gathered their sacred
mistletOe with gold knife when the
moon was six days old.
Wood has been preserved 1900 years
in Egvptian tOmbS, where 1t has Dten
exposed only to dry air.
The tunnel under the English Chan-
mel at the present rate OF working Will
be completed in five years.
In ancient Elrutia each new month
was ushered i'm by a dav OF merry-mak-
inc in homo. e a tuIelary dlety.
The skin contains more than two mil
lion openings which are the outlets tor
an equal number of sweat glands
The sense of smell in ants 10 highIy
developed Huber discovered that they
trace each other IN search of food.
A Connecticut woman has given her
son a large comforter made of hair cut
from her own head during ten years.
In Bengal it is an aSceTtalned Iact
that British regiment of 1.OOO men
dissnlves entirely away in eleven years
The warm baths. so valued 10y the
Romans. once fell into diSrapute De
cause August us had been cured 10y coid
ones.
The inhabitants of the island of Mas
have one name for blue, violet and
black. and another for yellow ana
orange.
Skull worship IS carried on in some
islands Of the Pacific ocean. The skuiFS
of celebrated men are deposited IN the
temples.
Saint Hilarious ate only fifteen hgs
and six ounces of barley per dleln-
Saint Paul. the Hermit. lived l79 years
en- dates.
SILK damasks are VOW made by past
ing thin silk tissue on cotton lndia
luJiti 'iloSoi \ NNA ~ f'NNAS
a cement
There are two maple trees at Plaln-
field. Vt. which for thiTty-SwO feet grow
separate hut at tital point unite ana
form one perfect tree.
\ man breatheS about eighteen times
a minute. and uses three thousand cubic
feet. or about three hundred and seven
ty-fVp hOgShpddS Of air per hour.
4 cripple. travelling on his hands and
knees. has undertaken tourney to
Texas. starting from Montreal. He
seems confident OF his ability 10 per
fOrm his task.
Every adult man has !. 400 square feet
of lEngs or. rather. the mucous MEM
brane lining the air-eell of his lungs,
if spread upon n smooth. plain surface,
would cover an extent of 400 square
feet
There is a theater in Berlin which
gives performances at half-pasr six in
the morning during pleasant summer
davs The price of admission IS low
and 1000 to 5000 persons are often
present at these representations.
\ Brazilian paper speaks of a negro
who died there recently aged l3U. ana
of several other persons who reached re-
maTkable ages, and attributes this longe-
vity principally to the fact that the men
and women referred to were vegetdr-
ianS.
England has a mourning reform as
sOciatiOn. 1t was started in 1870 by
three women, and it now numbers 40U
members. Il proposes to DO away with
fixed Gust OmS OF rules of mourning, be-
youd black band around the arm 9r Z
black scarf. and to leave TO the most in
I,. Of Flr-rrl4f nfaTI
habits and STYLES 0F dress in time of be
reavement as well as in seasons of pleas
uTe
The solitary wasps sting their victims
in such a manner as to pierce the gang.
| liza. and thus. without killing them, al
most deprive them Of all power Oi
movement One SPECIES Of SpheX. which
preys on large 9raSShoppeT. after hav.
/ ing almost paralyZed her victim IN the
usual manner. throws it on its back
( bends he head so as to extend the ar
! ticulaIOrS Of the neck. and hen. seiZinQ
( the membrane between the head and
I the body. with their jaws. brushes the
CHngliOn-a marvellous instinct
The shortest Of mankind are the
( BuShmaT and related tribes in Snut
/ Africa with an average height not ex-
/ reediHg four feet six inches. The talleSt
/ race of men is less than one-fourth high
er than the shortest. fact which seem;
/ surprising to those not used to meas
/ urement. In general, the stature o
the women Of any race may be taken a;
! about one-siXteenth less than that of th'
I men. Thus man of five feet eight
inches and woman of five feet fnu1
. inches look an ordinary well-matcheC
couple.