The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
Items of Interest.


''Parsifal"
Type-writing has been introduced II
the Chicago public schools in an expert
enced way. A class of twenty-five prac
Uses two hours week.
II is said that the brave men OF the
Massachusetts, militia greatly resemble
German soldiers. They wear spiked he'll
NETS and drink beer, and some OF the OIL
GERS use eyeglasses.
In the eighteenth century the growth
of population i'll Denmark was so small
rs to be scarcely noticeable During the
present century the population has in
cr,nsed from one million to nearly two
Skilled miners who have been directing
tho hydraulic mining operations in Cali
iornia are in demand in South Africa and
i;raz Their skill and experience III
pa: mining ensures them liberal
wages.
Contrary to precedent and expectation
the Car has appointed no Governor fol
his heir, but will himself act in that ca
pacity. Tho hours which his father gave
to reviewing regiments he gives to his
boys studies.
in the town of Pendleton, South Caro-.
lima, is n half shetland pony, thirty-seven
years OF age, which WAS presented by all
English nobleman to a citizen of Charles
t,n. The animal was originally black,
out its head has turned white from age.
Smoke and the increasing haze from
moisture i'll the atmosphere, which it
seems to enhance arc seriously interior
ing with scientific observations in Pitts
burgh, and il five moaths there has not
been one day sufficiently clear for delicate
observations.
The most successful counterfeit of the
dime is said to be made of glass mixed
with some base metal by process I'M
kaown to ordinary workers in metal and
glass. The counterfeit looks exactly like
the genuine ten cent piece, but on being
struck with o hammer it is crushed to
pieces.
A trick ballot-box i, described by the
Chicago Inter- Ocean, by means of which
the side that owns the inspectors at a
primary election is sure to win 1t is q
simple continuance. Appearing empty,
II spring is pressed, which throws up q
false bottom, thus allowing the indrop
ping ballots to mingle with those which
~ece stuffed into the box the night be-
fore
Since the death of Holloway, the pill
man Of London, and the publication of
facts about his advertising expenses, in
teresting facts about other great adver-
tisrrs are coming to light. A well known
firm of soap manufacturers are spending
from 5i50000 to S3O0,0 900 year. The
most profitable investment they ever
made is said to be Focardi's statue "You
DIRTY Boy, for the marble of which they
gave %, 500.
A Houston (Texas) doctor had mock
ing bird which lived in the garden.
Whenever he returned home the bird
would fly to tree in front of the door
step and sing for hours 1t appeared to
bo i'll an ecstacy of delight whenever the
doctor was at home The doctor died of
yellow fever, and after the funeral the
family opened the doctors room and
found the hooking bird lying at the head
Of the bed, dead
Many people who like to have a fac
displayed over their villas and business
places are guilty of the practice of never
taking it down. This is altogether
against flag etiquette. The colors should
be raised to meet the sun and lowered
when he disappears under the horizon
Besides, bunting soon rots when SO i'm
properly exposed and, moreover, to
leave flag out over night is declared by
the superstitious to be an invitation to
ill-luck.
The negroes at the South have the
habit of giving up Saturday afternoon to
pleasure. In the days of slavery the
lenient masters were accustomed to re-
ward the industrious field hands by let
ting them leave their work at noon on
bonetuuhJ W ~ nuutluB dul llSuluB,
much to the envy of those who belon ged
10 harder owners. Now that all are free
the half-holiday is always taken and bust
ness and worldly cares are forgotten.
The soft-shell or long neck clam attains
an enormous size in the bays of the Pa
ciic coast Some Puget Sound clans
weigh fifteen pounds, and show necks
three feet in length. These clans are
only accessible at very low tide, and each
requires three men to dig it out. This is
the largest edible clam known, and its
meat is excellent Among the South Pa
,iic islands CLANS have been found
which weigh five hundred pounds, but
these monsters are too tough to use as
food
A diver engaged in diving operations
of the coast opposite Gibraltar, under
Apes Hill. with the object of ascertaining
the whereabouts of recent wreck, has
discovered at the bottom from eighty to
,ne hundred large guns, mostly "a and
30 FOUNDERS and also two large anchors
They are supposed to have belonged to