The Dawson journal., 1884-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Vassar girls consume 2,4Oo pap-
cakes at one breakfast.

Every street IN the business part
OF Chicago is to be laid with granite.
1t is said that King Cstewayos re-
mains have been carried off bv his
enemies and burned.
A butler id an English family has
not been able to recover bis wao.s
IN lawsuit because he had refused
to shave off his beard, though it was
proved that he was unable TO shaw.
himself, and the nearest barber was
eight miles off.
a German scientist has drawn at
tentlon to the fact that the Sutlei.
one OF the great streams of British
India, il probably the swiftest large
river IN the world, having descent
OF $4,000 feet in a hundred and
eighty miles, an average of about
nlty-seren feet per mile.
A mulatto girl, with remarkably
pretty but peculiar face. was engaged
by shrewd Western Snowman. He
had tooth extracted from each
side of her mouth, and inserted a
pair OF long tusks, covered her ears
with false ones like beasts, bleach,
ed and tangled her abundant hair,
and instructed her to utter an unin-
telligible jargon. Thus she was
transformed into a valuable curiosi-
ty. and her wages of SIS week did
not satisfy her. On the arliyal If
the show III indianapolis she attemp
ted to quit it, AMI row resulted in
an exposure OF the fraud.
"A mo,iel of naval canal boat has
been placsi on exhibition by a Clsv-
land inventor. The boat is to he
propelled hy screw, 20 geared tLa
it can be made 10 turn by horses OF
mules travelling in a circle in thaI
stable IN the boat. The inventor
claims that abundant power can be
had III this manner, aud that large
saving can be effected, particularly
In river towing oils, ana by the
reduction of help; that it would be
cheaper than the present metno of
towing, even though no better time
were made; but he is confident that
four or five miles an hour can be ac-
complished.
1t has been found necessary, in
consequence of the serious depreda-
tons of relic hunters upon Burial
Hill, in Plymouth, N. H., to encase a
number Of the older gravestones
with galvanized iron, showing only
the Inscriptions upon the faces of
the tablets. The stone at Edward
Gays grave, 1851, was thus protect
ed last year and this spring. Among
others, those Of Thomas CLARK, 1897,
William Grove, 1854, Elder Thomas
Cushman, William and Joseph Brad
ford, sons Of Governor Bradford.
have been covered. No stone with
date previous to 100 is now expos
ed to the attacks of vandal visitors.
There are in the Maryland Build
ing at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore
two flying foxes, often wrongly styl-
ell vampires. They really have
nothing in common with those dread
ed animals They are strictly vege-
tarians, not living on any kind of
animal food, except, perhaps, noe
tnral insects. The different species
Of flying foxes, of which there are a
great number, are natives of the
tropical portions of Africa, Asia aud
Australia, and are not found like the
vampires in South America. The
flying fox is large bat, spreading
3 to 4 feet, usually q black color,
with brown or yellow back. They
are social in their habits, and inn
menss numbers IT hem frequent Ger
tain groves of tall Trees in such
numbers as to make their resting
places very offensive. Such places
are much more readily discerncd by
the nose than the eye The pecuIia'
position during sleep hides th@Jr
form so we'll thai they are only DIS
covered by accident. Wbea as.asr
they are suspended by one OF t4af
hiud legs, while their wings .ee
wrapped around taem like alawl.
The wings are :" wrapped aS t"
leave a snail passage for breathing,
and the ears are s. placed as /"
catch every soanI. Soon after dusk
they leave their sleeping quarters
singly, but in steady stream. They