Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-23
SINGUlIARIIIES

A Chinaman has just harvested q crop
Of excellent ginger on MERGED river, Cali.
furuis.
Master Warner, Of Atlantic. Iowa, is not
yet faur years old, bu: he weighs 400
pounds.
Jumbo is the largest elephant in the civ
ilised world. The measurement of his
ears when outspread is fifteen feet, and he
can reach upward twenty.six feet with his
trunk
The soar.bark tree of c lie is on trial in
San Franci.co, and 30 far promises well.
The imported bark is preferred to animal
soap by the Mexican population and in
woo'en milla, on account of its superior
cleansing quality.
Washington has o cannibal in the form
OF u mnlatto nurse girl, whose chief ne slight
is to bury her teeth in the tender flesh of
the infants intrusted to her care. Sne has
bsen given a chance TO gnaw the bars Of
the jsii for twenty dsyF.
A curious double piae tree IL growing
neor the line of Green and Jackson coun
ties, Mississippi. Two diaiinct trunks,
about twenty feet apart, rise from the
ground and unite thirty feet above, form.
ing one solid trunk, round and symmetri.
cal.
Mr.. Joseph Baker, Of Lancaster, Pa,
has o tomato that measures IL inches in
circumference, .! inches in diameter, and
weighs 1t pounds. Fonr tomat es very
nearly ~ large as this sue Lave grown on
...e same stalk, and the united weight 81
the five is 10t pounds. They are ct the
Paterson variety.
The Sutro Tunnel, now completed, dis.
charees 80, 900, 600 gallons of hot water
daily from Comstock mines. This water
has a temperature of 1876 Q and Is convey
ed through q closed pine fume to prevent
the escape of vapor. After o passage Of
fsur miles through the 6rst tunnel It loses
20 of hat, a second tunnrl, 100 {. et
lonP ana an open waterway = mile and a
half long, conduct the water to Carfon
river Along its cOurte are hot water baths
ami ~lRundries, and q plsn is on foot tn con-
duet the hot y alter through lipes under
ground, to be made available for purposes
OF irrigation and for supply ing artificial
heat u hot-houses.
A new Nehuchadrs.zsr Is confined in
the Jail at Doyles own, Pa, He is a large,
powerful German tramp. When the
turnkey took him a diunor of bread, meat
and soup b threw il in theHiver's face with
a curse, and said, ''Th6ts no dinner;
bring me something tit to eat-bring mt
some grass" When it was. ai,c lvered that
he would eat nothing the tailor thought he
needed exercise and let him out into the
Jail yard. When he saw sone grass row
ing there feustsred an exclaa alton Of de.
light, fell on his knees and began u eat
the grass by the HANDFUL. This with
milk forms his only food. He says that
the Lord commanded him to eat grlss,
He says grace before and after e 5ery nlsaI
aDd prays frequently in a strange way.
The "stIuging { 20" of Que. nslsnd is
luxurious shrub, pleasing TO the eye but
dangerous 10 the touch. IL grows from
two or three inches 10 ten or fifteen feet il
hight, and emits a disagreeable odor
s Iys a traveller: Sometimes vhile shoot
ing turkeys in the scrubs, l have entirely
| forgotten the s~tinging.tree till l was wan
, ed of its close proximity by its smell, auC
/, have often found myself Ia a little fores
! Of them. | was only once stung and thn.
vCrs lightly. Its effects are curious; i
leaves no marx, but the pain is madden
10y; and for month"; aiterward the pal
; Shen touched is / nder in rainy weather
os when il gets wet in wash g, etc.
: have seen a man who treats ordina y pain
lightly roll on the ground in agony at5e
} beiug stuDg, and | have known a horse 81
| Complete Y mad after getting into a & og'
. Of the tree that he ru he'd oper- monthe'
at every one who approached him and ha,
, 10 be hot. Dogs. whea stuug, will RUS
about whining p~iteously, biting piece
5 from the all cted part.