Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-14
FACTS FOE TIE CURIOUS.

THERE is a weekly sale Of toads in
Paris which are brought in casks filed
with damp moss. One hundred good
toads are worth from sixty to soventy
sailliags. These are bong It for s::,,@t,a:,;.
N Peru, as soon as death ooc.lrs. aih-
cs are stcewn on the floor os tie r1cm
and the door fastened. Next morning
tho ashes ere carefully examined Tor
footprints and the soul o. the (l2a !! is
sai,! 10 have passed into the boy oG
whatever animal the imagination traces
IN The marks on the ashes.
One method used by the Angio-Sax-
oils Ior ascertaininG TIE intentions II
fate Was to take slips of wood from some
fGuit-bearing tree, mark them, and after
a solemn prayer shake them together
and throw them Ito q white garment
spread for the purpose. The number
OF marks lying uppermost decided the
greater or less degree Of fortune 10
come.
BANDS Of music are forbidden to plly
N nos. OF the large IRON bridges OF TIE
X II. This IS due to the well-kEovu
= - 2@non that q constant sUcccssio,I
- :lel waves, especially such as come
-. ;io playing Of good band. VII
, .-c.i:A she wire vibrations. At Er>5
IL v.hGations arc very slight. D:s-
-. .ii"rv,asa as Tie sound waves con.:u-
Minis Minis i'll the quartz mines balieva
tha. the rats-there are thousands Of
them il mines that are being worked
eel. tel when an earthquake or cave Ill
the walls of the mine is coming. They
claim that before anything of the kind
oo"'7,rs the rats will be seen trying -
crowd into the cages or buckets, as the
case may be, in which the ore is hois!eI
! to the surface. There is similar be-
, lief about the cockroaches, which are
said to crawl up the shaft before an acct
dent happens.
Il gravitation were to cease, and steel
wires we're used to hold the earth il iiaG
orbit, each wire being as large as the
heaviest telegraph wire (No. A., it would
requ re nine to each square inch OF tie
earth's surface, and the whole sUnwar;t
hemisphere Of our globe would have to
be covered rs thickly as blades OF grass
| upol, lawn. A man who on earth
wor;:>; =, eigh 250pounds would at the sun
weigh Yearly two tons, and be unable to
stir. 4 planet as far away as the near
est fixed star, which is more than 800
600 times more remote than the sun from
the earth, If not disturbed by any other
attractions, would still be governed ia
It's motion by the sun, though, ii NOV
ing, in circle, nearly 80, 900, 900 years
would be required for single revolt
ton.
TUE reindeer, which in. one way or
a'','Tiier manages to be almost the entire
,Hat Of the Lapps who have herds,
.-+ }'rEya, heavy animal, with remark
Independence of character. Ee
s., ,;pt accept shelter under cover, no
.!t:>. T how inciement the weather iaay
<ei5i,er will he eat any food that IS
.':,,-i'~'i him he prefers to seek his own
> .s.cn ,Ece, which consists principally
OF peculiar moss. and as this grows
very slowly, requiring about seven years
in which to reach maturity, the Lapp
must shift his home from time to time
to meet the necessities of his herd. In
f1id-winter the moss may be covered by
several feet of snow, but the deer digs
hole with his feet and disappears from
the surface, .burrowing his way through
the snow as he follows his nose from one
turf OF moss to another. The flesh OF
the reindeer is quite palatable and nu-
tritious, his skin makes very warm gar
nents as well as durable harness, and
cheese made of reindeer milk is very
rich. although the quantity Of milk
welded per day seems scarcely worth
tue taking, as it amounts to mere tea
cupfui.