Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-05
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

About seven centuries before the
christian era Southern Italy was so
thickly set with Grecian cities as to be
known as Magma Grecia.
There is u creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga, which is SO highly
impregnated with lime that it will
take the hair off q horses legs in pass
ing through it.
The silver ore of the Nevada mines
is 80 intimately associated with lead
that nearly one-half of the miners who
handle it become afflicted sooner or
later with wrist drop, palsy, or half
paralysis.
Mr. Edward Atkinson says 1t would
require 100000 persons, using the
spinning wheel and hand loom Of less
than a century ago, to make the Gotten
cloth used by our people, which is now
manufactured by 100000.
Among the Chinese no relics are
more valuable than the boots that have
been worn by magistrate. If he re-
signs and leaves the city crowd ac-
companies him to the gates, where his
boots are drawn off with great ceremo-
ny, to be preserved in the hall of
justice.
A Tennessee doctor has q curious
Indian relic. 1t is a ring, made of
pure silver nicely engraved and weighs
twenty-three pennyweights, and, con-
sidering the primitive tools with
which the Indians must have worked,
the engraving is said to be remarkably
well done. The general design.
although smaller in circumference,
resembles in a marked degree the
bracelets most in favor with the socie-
ty bellies of to-day.
The slaughter of plow OK is pro-
hibited by law in China, and a viola
tion of the law is punished by two
months Imprisonment and 100 blows
Of the heavy bamboo; except in cases
where the offender is the owner of the
animal, when the Imprisonment is one
month and the number of blows
eighty. Mandarins who fail to take
notice of such offences are also pun
ished. The OK is thus honored above
other beasts because he is annually
offered to Confucius; and because of
his services TO man in blowing and the
entire dependence of the husbandman
on him, man should refrain from
doing him harm.
1t is related in DR.. Foofs Health
MoRthly that Paul Bert saw at
Geneva curious specimen of humani-
ty that would be worth fortune to a
Bowery museum or travelling show.
1t was child five years old, or some
what more than one child, for it had
two heads, two chests and four arms,
but only one abdomen and ono pair of
legs, the fusion Of the two bodies into
one occurring at about the waist.
Each head has control of the leg on its
own side. The two faces are much
alike, and tho two intellects already
understand several languages. The
food which one takes does not satisfy
the hunger of the other, and they eat
and sleep alternately. One has had a
fever without the other being ILL.,
A New York restaurateur being
asked why it Is considered so difficult
to eat two or even one quail day for
thirty days, replied, Because the
human stomach is an intelligent and
sensitive member of society If you
were to feed it every day for thirty
days on a pound or two of sawdust,
you would not wonder if it rebelled,
would you? No. Well, quail and the
white meat of all birds is very much
like sawdust. It's dry; it's indigesti-
BILE. 1t lies there on the stomach, and
of course the stomach doesn't like it,
and when you want TO add more to it
the stomach is very apt to rebel and
make you sick. You may try to coax
that important functionary with bribes
of pepsin and that sort of thing, but
there is a limit to even that. So you
see why quail won't do for steady
diet"