The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-05
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Items Of Interest.

Handmade envelopes cost OIlglualy
five cents each The envelope making
machine now turns them out SO that a
thousand are sold for thirty cents
Atlanta, Ga, is already known as the
city of churches, and deserves her
name She has twenty six Methodist
churches alone Blu. now she wants a
tabernacle.
Cryolite, a mineral which is of great
yalne In the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone Park.
Heretofore it has been obtained only in
Greenland.
BY Russian imperial order. the de-
native and foreign, to libraries and public
reading rooms is strictly prohibited, as
well as of eight Ru-hian newspapers
Tie rarefed air Of the mountains by
which tie mining town of Leadville,
Col, is surrounded cannot be breathed
by cats Feline pets taken there incon-
tiueDtIy go into succession of fits which
terminate in death.
The fish known as Lafayette" and
somewhat resembling a porgy, has APP
peared this season in vast numbers. 1t
derives its name from the fact that it
first appeard the year that the French
General visited this country.
Partisan marchione 50 has taken ser
vice in a Marseilles hospital as nurse
for the cholera victims; she is pretty and
young, dresses in plain Calico and has
been very useful. She is fulfilling vow
made during the illness OF one of her
children.
The New Jersey courts have just de-
cided that land under water preemp.ed
for oyster planting may be taken and
used by any third party whenever the
preempter fails to plant the young she'll
fish. This decision overrules practice
Of thirty years standing.
Strong carbolic acid is a powerful
poison when externally applied A man
recently, while carrying a pound of it in
bottle in his pocket, broke the glass.
The acid ran over the surface of one
leg. He experienced little pain. but
died two hours after the accident The
acid paralyzed his nerves.
Ten aud fifteen YEN old girls, who are
great singers at their work, earn twelve
cents for a day s work OF seventeen hours
in the silk factories OF Italy by frugal
system Ct cooperation they cxpend only
one l:alf their daily tic ,me, and SO
manage to lay up money in the savings
banks against a rainy day
Some one has discovered thai john
Smith in Latin is Johannas Smithius in
Italian, Giovanni Smith; Spanish,
Juan Smithas; Dutch, Hans Schmidt;
French, Jean Smeets; Greek. Ion
Skmitton Russian, Jouloff Skmitti-
wcisk; Chenese, Jlhan Shmmit; lee
landic, Jaime Smithson; Welch, Hhon
Schmidt; Mexican, Johll tSmitli.
The Chinese have what is termed a
kite festival on the ninth day of the ninth
moon. Sometimes the kites resemble
serpents thirty feet long at other times a
group of hawks lowering around cen
tie, all being suspended by n single
strong cord, but each kite moved by q
separate line. Sometimes the kites are
cast adrift under the belief that they will
carry away with them all impending dis
asters.
Rolled gold is male by casting an in
got Of brass, and while this is still hot
pouring upon it a thin layer of gold
alloy. The ingot when cold is forced be-
Il : III,
bon is produced, of which the proportion
of gold and brass is the same as OF the
ingot. The percentage of gold is re-
duced as low as two and three per cent.
This rolled gold is used i'll making cheap
bracelets and watch chains, and costs
from one to ten years.
The evening before Daniel Webster
died his physician repeated to him the
words, Thy rod and Thy staff they
comfort me, and Webster replied as if
in sympathy, but too weak to complete
the sentence, Thy rod and Thy staff
the fact-the fact - want. Here the
matter rested as at first reported A
Bostonian now gives what lie declares is
the true account as it came to him very
directly. Webster asked whether he was
likely to live till morning. DR.. Jeffreys,
not willing to give positive answer. re-
peated from the twenty-third Psalm.
Webster saw the evasion and il a clear
and rather severe tone said: Thy
rod and Thy staa-the fact, the fact
want" He desired an answer.
There is at present in certain city in
Italy an aged woman Of humble origin,
who possesses marvellous powers of
clairvoyance. She has been consulted
by persons of high social standing, and
on more than one occasion by royalty
itself She has no power of mesmeriz-
ing Others being simply medium. Her
visitor places his hand in hers, when she
Immediately becomes clairvoyante, and
in this state acc, cately describes his state
of health and business, frequently max
ing startling revelations In the event of
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