Morris tribune., 1884-12-31

so,ne fashionable institution OF learn
mo instead of working for their daily
bread.
A sorrowing widow pledged herself
not 20 marry again till the grass was
rreen ON her hus stands grave, and was
found by the sexton three months later
planting some grass seed on the mound
and fastening its termination with
daily applications from watering can,
that no time might be lost in freeing
her from her unlucky promise.
An English paper says that 'during
the first introduction of cholera into
St. Petersburg in 1882 highly-respect-
able firm of iron founders, employing
900 men, informed them that all those
who would not take o teaspoontul OF
charcoal on entering the works in the
morning must leave their employ.
What was the consequenceP They did
not lose q single man, while myriads
were dying around them
The old question whether q smoker
can tell with his eyes shut If cigar is
LIGHTED or not is revived by a state
ment in the London Graphic that there
are scarcely any smokers among the
blind. Soldiers and sailors who lose
their sight in action sometimes continue
to smoke for little while, but, as q
rule. thew soon give up the habit. They
saw it gives them no pleasure when
thew cannot see the smoke; and that
they cannot taste smoke unless they
see it.
An English printers circular candid
" acknowledges that job printing in
this country is superior to that done in
England, and attempts to account for
it on the grounds of the great compe-
tition which exists there among the
printers. 1t claims that work is taken
at such ruinously low figures that the
English printers can not afford 10 de-
vote the time necessary to produce the
neat and artistic effects now so prevail
ent among the American printers.
The production of oil from sunfower
seed has become an industry OF con-
siderable Importance in Russia. 1t is
expressed on the spot, and the product
is largely employed in the adulteration
of olive oil; the purified oil is consid-
cred quite equal to olive and almond
oil for table use. The most important
industrial applications of the oil are
for wooden dressing, lighting and can
die and soap making. it being regard
ed, for the last-named purpose. as SUI
perior to most other oils. The Russian
article is Of pale yellow color.
Ezekiel Eads, an old man who died
in Green county. N. Y, recently, was
born without ears. Moreover, he had
no apertures where those very neces-
sary organs should exist. He was
able, however, to gather sound through
his mouth, and could hear conversation
that was carried on in an ordinary
tone. His hair was black at birth, but
was interspersed with oddly-shaped
gray spots, some of them resembling
diminutive human hands and ears
These singular markings never chang.
ed, and his black hair never turned
gray.
The old custom of bottling tears is
still continued in Persia. 1t must be
very old, as it is alluded to in the
Psalms of David. AS the mourners
are sitting around Weeping, the master
of ceremonies presents each one with
| piece VI COGtOu, WILL WAISA ho WAPSo Va
his tears. This cotton is afterwards
squeezed into q bottle, and the tears
are preserved as powerful and effica
cious remedy for reviving q dying maj
after every other means have failed.
1t is also employed as a charm agains
evil influences. The practice was once
universal, as is evidenced by the teal
bottles found in almost every ancien
tomb.
Since DR.. Labardi operated on thu
head of the murderer Campi, DR.
Brown Sequard has undertaken a SINH
lar experiment with dog. He wished
to see whether, after q violent death il
q healthy state, consciousness in dot
could be restored. He therefore be
headed dog that was familiar Will
his voice, and another dog having be
forehand been prepared for the trans
fusion of it's blood into the arteries o
the dead dogs head. No sooner di'
he inject the blood than the head be
come animated, the eyes opened, an,
on the name of the dog being called
an attempt at response was made by
significant look. This is interestin.
and it is revolving.