The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-10
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A German has invented gunpowdel
that water won't hurt.
To every 400-pound bale of cotton
there are 200 pounds of seed
oung salmon increase in weight from
! three to seven pounds in feur weeks
time.
a drum mandatory in Massachu-
setts, established in 1853, has converted
| during that time 30, 900 sheep skins into
/ drum heads.
The word daughter common to all
| Irdo- European languages, means milk
er. and bears witness to the early train
| ing of the cow
The length of the submarine cables in
| the whole world is estimated to be Ga
600 miles and their value to be S2O2.
100000. The length of all the wires in
the world would reach fortyeight times
around the earth.
According to the report of the COM
missioner of agriculture for 1870. the
larvB of large fly which frequents
Mono lake, in California. are dried and
pulveIized and mixed with acorn meal
and baked for bread, or with water and
boiled for soup.
Iceland was visited by a remarkable
sand storm last spring, which lasted for
two weeks, and during which the tenn
perature was intensely cold. The air
was filled with dry, fine sand to such an
extent that 1t was impossible to see more
than short distance, and the run was
rarely visible.
Glass-staining ard glass-fower MANN
facture IS a very extensive branch of the
Austrian glass industry. 1t it now so
developed that petroleum flame gives
some /, $40 yards of glass thread every
minute, that are woven not ONLY for
glass cloths, etc., but also for watch
chains, brushes, etc.
When the army of Suvaroy retreated
from Elm in 1899 the march of the men
loosened the snow OF the Alps so that
ayalanches descended upon them and
3OO mule drivers and their animals were
buried under one of these immense snow
slldeS. Only 1900 of the 20. 600 who
left Elm made the march in safety.
The balloon Reliance made a singular
light from the Alexandra palace. Lon
don, recently. 1t rose gradually to a
height OF 1,5O0 feet, drifting in a north
eTly direction, then, when ballast had
been thrown out, rose l, 500 feet more.
AT thai current carried It toward Lon
don, and through a thick mist it de-
scended at the end of an hour upon the
very place from which it had risen.
The smallest circular saw in practical
use Is a disk about the size of "A five cent
piece, being employed for cutting Sits
In gold pens. They are about as thick
as ordinary paper and make 400 revolu-
tlons per minute, this high speed keep
ing them rigid, notwithstanding their
extreme thinness.
The northernmOst place in the world
where rye and oats mature is at Kepgis
IN the Swedish province of Norbotten.
forty-nlne miles north Cf the polar cir
Gle, whereas the northernmost SPOT
where corn Is grown is at MuOniovara.
ninety eight miles to north of the circle.
The rye yields, it is stated, ninety-eight
per cent. and the oats about ninety.
A dentist in Philadelphia has for some
time successfully employed a simple
method of producing anesthesia before
removing troublesome teeth. He re-
quires the patient to practice during sew
eral minutes short and rapid respiration.
The first effect is to make the head feel
little full and confused, but soon the
sensibility is benumbed and the teeth
can be pulled with comparatively little
pain.-Dr. Foote'S Health Monthly.