Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two million barrels of salt are an
nually exported from Michigan.
THE flesh of the manatus OF sea COW
is used for food and resembles beef.
THE fruit exports of America have in
creased hundredfold in five years.
IT has been calculated that a single
cat will devour twenty mice in one day.
IT Is estimated that a quarter of a
billion pounds of tea are used every
year.
In Liverpool, the only public eleva-
tors are those IN the grain docks at
Liverpool.
GALLANrs of the Court of Louis XIV.
pulverized diamonds, to prove their Law
lsh magnifcence.
The animals of the opposite sides OF
the Pacific Ocean are entirely unlike,
no species being common to both sides.
XANTHUs, the historian, says that a
man killed by a dragon will be restored
to life by an herb which he calls balm.
THE Ojibways pulled down the house
IN which any one had died, and chose
another place to live in as far off as pos
stole.
IL Great Britain there are three sheep
on every four acres of cultivated land; in
the United States there is but one sheep
on thirty -four acres.
OK THE Laramie Plains of the Rocky
Mountains there are, at an elevation of
5000 to 1000 feet, fresh and abundant
pastures, often well watered.
INSECTS are proportionately stronger
IL, E., I
load fourteen times greater than his
body; bee twenty times; an ant thirty
times.
SPIDERS have been seen as small as q
grain of sand, and these spin thread so
fine that it takes four thousand of them
put together to equal in size single
Gair.
PUAIIcE dust, elected from volcanoes,
sometimes floats out upon the ocean and
makes so thick an accumulation that
boats find it difficult to force their way
through it.
THE digestive process of n mosquitoes
stomach is so slowly performed that
when the insect has dined on human
being it continues forty-eight hours to
exhibit blood corpuscles.
"L'EMP1RE TsARs," NJ. ANToIE
LEROY BEAUDTEU, says that the weight
of woman's brain in Slavonic races is
greater than that of a mau's, while
among the Germanic people the brain
weight of the sexes is equal.
GENERAL patent laws have been lately
passed and promulgated in Turkey and
Liberia, in which countries inventors
may now, for the first time, secure their
new inventions. The Turkish patent
law is subs antially a copy Of the French
and German systems.
The simple decoction Of onion peel is
said to produce upon glove leather an
orange-yellow superior in lustre to any
other. It is also said to be suitable for
mixing With light bark shades, especially
willow bark, and as yellow for nodulat-
ing browns. The onion dye is said TO
fix itself readily, even upon feathers
which resist colors, and colors them well
and evenly.
The horse is capable of exerting
stress of only sjxty-seven per cent. Of his
own weight in his daily work. The OK
about seventy the mule seventy-fve
the ass eighty; the goat can draw more
than his own weight; the lion has been
known to drag slain OK a considerable
distance. A fox gallops away with the
largest goose at rapid pace. Monkeys
are wonderfully strong for their size. A
turtle has been known to move with q
man standing on his back SIX times its
weight.