Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-26
SINGULARITIES

A flock Of not less than q thousand peli.
cans passed over Charles City, H., the
other day. One was shot that measured
two feet across the wings.
An electric light about the size OF o
small beau has been constructed and used
successfully in illuminating interior Dor.
lions of the human body.
The surface Of an a~erolite which fell In
Q field near Brescia, Italy, on the 18th OF
March, was smoking hot, emitted . sui.
phurous smell and was covered with Q
greenish black crust, full of small holes.
A man on Cow Greek. Tuolumne county,
CAL, Is making money %irunning Q skunk
ranch. The animals secretion, so often
sivs to tho Caacasisn nostrils, Is highly
priced by Chinese as . medicine, and they
pay . large price for IL.
As tho steamship I. y. Harris lay In the
mouth Of the Brszos river, not far from
Galveston, during 4 recent fog, an unusu,
ally large wildcat clAmbered up over the
side, having hoated down the river on
some drift The boys lassoed and Gag dit,
Miss Fannie Mills, Of Sandusky. Ohio,
is not an overly big woman, but she has g
great foot on her. One of her shoes, now
OF exhibition in q museum, Is seventeen
inches long, seven inches wide, eighteen
inches around the ankle and twenty-five
inches around the heel.
The maidstone, or calculus, 10 found Ii
tho psunch OF o deer or cow. 1t IL claimed
by those who have faith in the maidstone
that IL adheres to the wound until 1t be.
comes charged with poison, when 1t drop.
of. 1t Ia then soaked in milk, and the APP.
plication is renewed. 1t Is estimated that
n person In twenty takes the disease
| QnynA naNrp.afaa - nrankAH anVnA IAa.
There 10 . record of . dog that was bit.
ten by thirty mad dogs and outlived them
all.
An ostrich farm exists In Egypt, nSa,
Cairo. 1t extends from what Is known q,
prises several acres Of land surrounded by
high mud walls. OF this farm the greater
part is desert, the loose, pebbly sand being
necessary to the health and efficiency OF
the ostrich. About 100 birds are at pres.
ent living On the farm. Fifteen OF them
are female and twelvel are male adults,
all the others are above one year Of age.
though not yet old enough to lay. Further
st atistici about those birds are that twelve
OF the adulta are now engaged In laying
and that three are engaged in hatchIng-
one being upon twenty-one eggs, one upon
fourteen, and n upon eleven.
The average weight OF 2O,OC0 men and
women weighed at Boston in 1854 was:
Men, 14lh pounds; women, 124b pounds.
AT the recent Cincinnati Industrial expo
sition. the department of scientific and
educational appliances detailed y clerk to
record the weights of western men and
women. The number weighed was %, 1l5,
and the total weight was 8, 072, 800 pounds.
The men weighed number 7,467, weighing
| l1SO 10S hounda The Uomen waioha1
numbered l+,66S, weighing 1922. l9S
pounds. The average weight Of each man
was 15i OF. The average weight was $50 81.
The average weight of l4l nen from Ohio
was l57 SS; the average weight Of l79 wo.
men wAs 1873 20. The average weight of
124 men from Southern Indiana and Hi
nois was 1853 so pounds; the average weight
of 1913 women was 1885, The average
weight Of ia men from Kentucky was
15s. 32 pounds; the average weight Of 1888
! women was 1873. 70.