The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-04
CLTPPINGs FOR THE CURIOUS.

The cataract OF Niagara Tecedes a
yard a year.
lish statutes in 1888
Bone shavings are used for case-hard-
ening small articles of steel
Tie numbers of air cells in the lungs
of grown man are 600 600, 600.
TIE earliest account of diving bell
in Europe is a. Nuremburg. 1904.
The Emperor JustiBian introduced the
silk worm into Europe from China.
A hen will lay upward Of 40 eggs per
annum. and bear one or two broodS.
Cloves have been brought into the
European market foT more than 1000
years.
At the beginning Of the present cea-
turv he English laws made 100 crimes
punishable 10y death.
Nearly as many rrams Of paper. in The
United States. are made into collars as
are used to write upon.
An ape produces an exact octave OF
musical sound. ascending and decend-
/ ing the scales by tones and half-tones.
The zone of the camel is said TO eE-
tend from Northern Africa for 800
miles TO China. a camel's average load
1 is 200 pounds.
ST. Macarius. having one day killed a
gnat that stung him, lived six months IN
a swamp, exposed TO the bite of every
I insect, as penance.
/ The thermal properties Of the baths
at Carlsbad were first made known hv
! the bowling of one of Charles ". S
/ hounds which had fallen in.
Musk sheep. found in the Arctic re-
/ gions. are said to have whine some
/ what like the snortiUg of a walrus. en-
| tirely unlike the beating of a sheep.
{ Franklin. who died in 1870. was
/ grandson of a man born in the sixteenth
! century, in the reign OF Elizabeth.
! Three generations, thus extending over
! two centuries.
When Mrs Samuel Slater. of Paw
! tucket. r. l.. was spinning some cotton
i into yarn about 100 years ago. she eX-
! perimented 10 see if it cOuldn t be made
/ into thread.. and II was 20 this thought
/ of hers that the world is indebted for
/ cotton thread.
IN the treeless steppes of TartaTy and
/ the pampas of South America the in
habitanJs make up for want of otheTfuel
by barning the bones of cattle. II is
! generally considered that the bones of
an OK viii produce enouge heat by which
TO cook its flesh.
a peculiar phenomenon occurred in
! August on a mountain of RheniSh Prus-
Sid. HI Llit SlNtt VI INT ID f4illt-llAAE lbfl
a pit Of about a hundred square yards
( in area suddenly opened, emitting a
! great volume Of flame and enguihng a
( house and its inmates. 1t is believed
that the cause of the catastrophe was
I the ignition Of gas rising from a petrO-
leum vein in the depthsof the NOUN
[ tain.
The wild dogs of India run 0y nose,
and. having made themselves acquaiut-
ell with Sambur or other deer in the val
ley on jheel OF the jungle. they separar
and lie in wait at the different passes
from the CHAT. cr0uchiug on the higl
ground above the paths taken b. the
deer. One or TWO OF the PACK then Q,
round and rise the SambuT. which IuSh
Is up hill by one of the many paths
The dog which lies in waiting spring
al his victim and fixes to his throat, aul
the others soon run into them.
The curious custom Of preserving th'
teaIs shed at funeral Is still carried Ou
in Persia as in Olden times. The tear
are bottled in the following manner
As the mOuruers are sitting around AN,
weeping the master of ceremonies pre-
sents each with piece of cotton wool
with which he wipes oil his tears. IhI
cotton Is a.ferward squeezed into bot
tie. and the tears are preserved as
/ powerful and efiicaciOus remedy tOT re-
viying q diving man after every Othe
means have failed. 1t Is also employe,
as a CuaTm against evil influence