Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-22
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is less blood in cold-blooded than
in warm-blooded animals. The larger the
animal the greater is the proportion of
blood to the body Man has about gal
lon and half of blood, equal to one-thir-
teenth of his weight.
The japanese Government has lately
sent fine pair of bronze vases, with rich
inlaid decoration in gold and silver to
Vassar College, in appreciation of the ed
ucation furnished to two female students,
Yamatawa Satematsee and Nagai Shige.
A manuscript of Charles V, in an an
tique leather case, delighted the biblio
philes of Paris, and was considered a bar
gain at $1,000. 1t turns out to be a fraud,
but the workmanship is SO clever that at
an auction sale it brought 5000 as Il curl
osity.
4 correspondent Of the Scientific AMER
icdu says that for the want of cheap,
practical process of fire-proofng wood,
100000 900 worth of property is de,
stroyed every year in the United States
He thinks it disgrace that such process
has not been invented.
BY a most careful series of levels run by
the Cnitei States Coast Survey, from
Sandy Hook and the mouth Of the Miss
issippi river to st. Louis, it has been dem
onstrated that the Atlantic Ocean, at the
aforementioned point, is forty inches lower
than the Gulf of Mexico.
In the Province of Viatka, Russia, there
are produced annually 100000 pounds
liof tar, 100000 pounds of pitch, and
2,l60,000 pounds of turpentine oil. 1t is
stated that the annual product of birch oil
amounts to 144000,000 pounds 100000
poods), an indication that the demand for
it is now great.
The civilized and Christian world is fast
| learning the great lesson that difference of
nation does not imply necessarily hostility,
and that all contact need not be war The
! whole world is becoming a common field
for intellect to act in. Energy of mind,
genius, power, wheresover it exists, may
speak out in any tongue, and the world
will hear it. Daniel Webster.
| There are four miles of tunneling under
Hallett's Reef, near He'll Gate, and along
the sides and roof of this tunnel are not less
than 100000 two and three-inch holes
drilled in the rock 1t will require $3.50 900
worth of explosives to fill these holes, and
in about 4 year from now the spark will be
struck and the greatest artificial earthquake
on record will follow New York Truth.
The little brother came quietly into the
parlor where Mr.. Featherly was making
an evening call and after looking eagerly
around, remarked to his sister: Aunt
Jane is mistaken" "What is it?" his
sister asked pleasantly, patting the dear
little fellow on the head, while Featherly
gazed at the two in wrapt admiration. q
don't see any cap" he replied, g but Aunt
Jane just said that you We're in the parior
setting your cap for Mr. Featheriy."
Jean Paul Richter, the distinguished
author, was halted once at the gate of a
small town in Germany, and was asked to
give an account of himself "What is
your name ?" asked the gatekeeper. "Rich-
ter" 'What do you follow a am an
author" ''An author what is that ~
That means make books" 20 YES,
understand. What new-tangled names
they have for everything nowadays. We
call a man who makes books bookbinder."
One of the uses to which il is proposed
to put the locomotive electric headlight,
We are informed by the President of a rail
road, is to have a second illumination placed
on the rear of the engineers cab throwing
flood Of light over the train, and 50 ar
ranged that it can be turned to the right or
left and I've made to illuminate the station
grounds when the train is ut a stand still
This will be grand improvement, which
the travelling public will thoroughly APP
preciate.
A Partisan once remarked to Longfel0w
that there was one American word that he
never could understand, or find in the die
tionarv. "What is it ?' inquired the poet
"Thateldo,' was the reply. Il neve,
heard of the word said Longfellow Pres
emily servant came in to replenish the
fire. After putting on little fuel, Long
fellow remarked to him, THAT viii do .
Haw exclaimed the Frenchman, " that
Is the very word which has troubled me.
Il Every Other Saturday.
Steel castings are fast coming into Use
everywhere The iron fouudrieS of Eng
land are complaining loudly of the rage
which exists there at the present time tol
7 steel castings, and the consequently falling
of of their trade. Wherever strength and
, trustworthiness are needed, steel casting:
, are slowly but surely BUSTING iron ones
T The number of steel foundries is rapidly
increasing in England, and the consequent
, competition still weakens prices. Many
, iron founders would fam make steel cast
ings also, if they could. But there seem,
little general prospect OF substitution al
present, 50 trying have been the recent
lean years. Scientific Press.