The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-15
Items of Interest

Boston University.
Fifty-seven American women writers
were born III Maine
A New Albany firm gives every TWEEN
teth customer the amount OF his pur-
chase. The plan takes well
In Chicago no less than thirty profes-
sioaal fortune-tellers ond clairyoyantsare
sucking the substance from the supersti-
tious-
The number OF female physicians at
present practicing in Russia amounts to
$40, of whom there are no fewer than 100
in st Petersburg itself
The discovery of platinum in a vein is
q rare occurrence, but Mr.. ]. A. Pond re-
ports that he has found it in octahedral
CRYSTALS in q quart vein in the Thames
gold district in New Zealand
What is known as the "Taxanome
Company" of Hamburg has started yshi-
cles provided with an apparatus which,
BY the turning OF the wheels, marks the
exact distance run.
The Japanese are the largest eaters OF
fish in the world Fish, indeed, is the
staple food of the nation. To boil fish is
to take away the best part OF its flavor
and in Japan there are as many varieties
of fish cooking as there are different
kinds of fish.
A kansas girl was caught in male at
tire, and, as she refused to pay fine OF
SO, Justice sent her TO prison for ten
days. As there was no worse intention
in her conduct than to play prank, and
the State has no law against what she
did her rich father has sued for dam
ages
California farmers are making war on
squirrels with q machine by which, it Is
claimed. two men can destroy thousands
of these creatures III a day. 1t consists
of an iron box in which TO burn straw,
with pump to force the smoke into the
intermost recesses of the holes.
Camels utterly wild may be seen on
the desert lands at the head OF the Gulf
of California, where they find congen-
ial home and multiply steadily. These
are q remnant of a herd which many
years ago was imported by the Govern
ment to act as be-sts of burden for the
army in New Mexico and Arizona
After canvassing Southern gentleman
nos the poor white trash very tlier-
oughly upon the merits of the Blair bill,
that, as rule, Southern men are ready
and anxious to give the negro all possible
opportunities
A tourist In Montana travelled eight
days and nine nights III the direction IN
Dictated by a finger board. which read.
six miles to Miles City" before he
reached that place. Then he learned
that the sign had been carried off by IN
dams, and stuck up where he saw it
A remarkable case of change Of color
is exciting the medical men of Santa Bar
bara, Cal -Four years ago man named
Pima was of very dark complexion. White
blotches began to appear on his skin,
and now he is as white as any uaan, save
on part Of his face and hands
Texas forty years ago was practically
desert and the handful of settlers lived
entirely on game. To-day there are more
than 100000 cattle, sheep, horses
mules and swine in the State, and the
cotton crop last year was worth more
than the cotton crop of the entire United
States in 1913.
Think of book 81 pounds in weight.
s inches thick, and 81 by 81 inches in sur
face dimensions A ponderous ledger of
these proportions has just been turned
out of the Government bindery for the
use of the United States Sub-Treasurer
at New York The kind of machinery by
which it is opened and its leaves turned
over is not mentioned
Oliver Wendell Holmes recalls the fact
that sixty years ago three little Boston
boys might have been seen in patchwork
costumes of melolramatic heroes per-
forming in garnet theatre before an au-
dience of young acquaintance As he
remembers them they had remarkable APP
titude for acting. But they did not stick
to the stage, for they grew up to be Wen
dell Phillips Thomas G. Appleton and
John Lothrop Motley.
Cincinnati is superstitiously interested
in the case OF woman who falling asleep
in railroad train, dreamed wildly that
her child at home had been seriously
hurt. Size was SO deeply impressed by
the vision that, on arriving in the city,
she drove directly to physicians Office
and carried him hastily to her residence,
where the youngster was found to have
been thrown from swing at precisely
the time that the mother had dreamed
The story is told Enthusiastically by the
persons concerned
Mrs Stratton. better known as Mrs.
Tom Thumb, the widow of the dwarf, Is
quite sensitive as to her size, and will
only receive the most necessary help from
others on that account For example,
when she enters a railway train or street
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