, 1883-04-26
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS,

ONE oyster may lay as many as 2, ,000,-
OOO eggs year.
A BLOW from the leg OF an ostrich
will break mans leg.
A WOLF, like o tiger, having once
eaten man, prefers him to all else for
dinner, and if he attacks o man it is
proof that he has already dined of one
or had hydrophobia.
/ The sea cucumber, one OF the curious
! jelly bodies that inhabit the ocean, can
/ practically efface himself when in danger
by squeezing the water out of his body
and forcing himself into q narrow crack
so narrow rs not to be visible to the
naked eye. He can throw out nearly
whole of his inside, and yetlive and grow
it again.
ACCORDING to writer in Nature, the
small migratory birds that ore unable to
perform the fight of $50 miles across the
Mediterranean sea are carried across on
the backs OF cranes. In the autumn
many tiocks of cranes may he seen COM
ing from the north, with the first cold
blast from that quarter, flying low, and
uttcrlng IL peculiar cry, as ii of alarm,
os they circle over the cultivated plains.
Little birds of every species NAV be
seen flying up to them, while the twit-
tellng songs of those artety comfortably
settled upon their bac,Is may be dis
tinctly heard. But for this kind pro-
Vlsion OF nature, numerous varieties of
small birds would become extinct in
northern countries, as the cold winters
wouldkill them.
BANK OF ENGLAND notes are made
from pure white linen cuttings-never
from rags that have been worn. So
carefully IS the paper prepared that even
the number OF dips into the pulp made
by each Individual workman is regis
tered ON dial by machinery, and the
sheets are carefully counted and booked
to each person through whose hands
they pass. The printing is done by q
most curious process within the bank
building. There is an elaborate ar
iungement tor securing that no note
shal be exactly like any other in exist
cnce; consequently there never has been
a duplicate bank uote except by forgery.
The stock OF paid notes for seven years
is said to amount to $4,000, 600, and TO
I'LL 10000 boxes, which, if placed side
Wy side, would cover over three miles in
extent.
In England the north side of church.
| yard IL objected to as place of burial.
The old ecclesiastical reason is this
Ihe cast is Gods side, where His
throne is ert the west is mans side, the
Gallce of the Gentiles; the south is the
SIDE Of the angels and Of the Spirits
made just, where the sun shines in its
strangth. The north is the devils side,
where Satan and his legion lurk TO catch
Ihe unw,ry." Some churches have still
=, "devli's door" III the mouth wall, which
was cpeued at baptisms snd commun-
.ous to ier he devil ont. Miles Ever
dale, in his " Praying for the Dead"
a. ID. 10 -, says: "As they die, so shall
they ARISE; it ia faith III the Lord, to.
wa!dthesuuih. and shall arise
IN glory; ii in unbllief, to-
ward the moth, then are they past all
hope"
The disproportion Of the costs of o
lawsuit to the damages obtained was
| probably never Greater than i'll case
argued by William II. Seward in 1913.
A newspaper addressed to Il Miss FELTON,
WAS received at the Syracuse postofice.
The pu,m muster refused to deliver the
| puper without lett"rp pJstnge, because the
initials of tte sender were Gn the wrap
per. Ihe lady sud i'll Justices court
ior the value Of the paper, and WIS
awarded g ceurs damages. The Post
master appealed, and the case was car
riud successiv ly to the Court OF Com
mon Pleas, the Supreme Court Of the
State, the Court Of Appeals and the
United States Supreme Court, each af-
hrming the Original decision, When the
case enteled the last tribunal 5l3G,00 in
costs had been added to the cents dam.
| ages.