The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-21
Items of Interest.

TENED great luxury by the Indians OF
Nevada
The first article ever extensively ad-
vertised was Rowland's Maccassar Oil y
Then DAY & Martins Backing"
Prof. Brinton advises patients with
stiffened shoulders to bore twenty holes
q inches deep in soft plank daily.
The expression, "alittle bird told me, -
comes from Ecclesiastes X, 20: For a
bird of the air shall carry the voice, and
that which hath wings shall tell the mat
ter"
Ell Mahdi the prophet, sleeps during
the day and transact5 business at night
just like the newspaper man, except that
the newspaper man does not sleep during
the day.
The Philadelphia Clinical Record says
th3t three women and one man have visi-
ted DIR. Pancoast for the purpose OF hay
ing their great toes cut off, in order to
make their feet smaller
Fashion now requires the Partisan
dandy to wear an ornamented cane. On
or near the head should be an eye glass,
a watch, or a cigarette holder. These
trifes range in price from 10 to 1000
francs.
In the island of San Domingo there is
remarkable salt mountain, mass of
crystalline salt nearly four miles long,
estimated to contain 50, 337, 600 tons, and
said to be so clear that type can be read
| through block foot thick.
Havana ladies have adopted the South
| American marmoset as n companion and
household pet The little animal should
be worn on the wrist or shoulder or else
inside the bosom of the dress. At night
he sleeps on the pillow of his mistress
The battlefield at Pittsburgh Landing
continues to be a mine OF wealth for the
Virginians, who still gather iron and
lead from it. One junk dealer shipped
over three thousand pounds of old bull.
lets last year A shell found, recently,
exploded after being buried for twenty.
one years.
Thumb rings were generally broad gold
rings worn on the thumb by importan
personages. A character in the Lord
Mayors show i'll London in 1864 is des.
ribbed as "habited like grave citizen
gold girdle, and gloves hung thereon,
rings on his fingers, and seal ring on
his thumb"
The earliest rec lrd we have of nations
IA ing with each other occurs in the
Book of Genesis, when Josephs brethren
old him to a caravan of Ishmaelitee
Who were carrying spices, balm and
myrrh into Egypt. The balm was from
aiilead and the myrrh from Arabia.
Thus commerce is OF great antiquity.
The custom of dotting the face with
black patches of different patterns, was
introduced into England and France
from Arabia, and WAS at its height dur.
ing the reign Of Charles l., of England
The ladies, old and young, covered their
faces with black spots shaped like suns,
moons, stars, hearts, crosses and lozen.
ges.
Flour paste is much used by book.
binders for fastening sheets of paper OF
paper and cloth together. This may be
MAIZE much stronger by the addition of 9
small quantity of glue. Starch is also
much used for mounting where cleai
work is required. a little white glue
added to the starch strengthens it. A
little gum-tragacanth in the paste O,
starch also strengthens and makes clean
work The sheets should be pressed il
fiat work is required.
The box tree, from sections of whose
trunk the blocks for engravers are made,
is found in marketable quantities on the
shores of the Mediterranean. 1t grows
very slowly and seldom reaches more
than twenty feet in hight, and the pieces
in commerce are seldom more than five
inches in diameter The increase of il.
lustrations is said to be causing a rise in
the cost, and we may expect soon to have
a substitute which the engravers will
denounce as the invention of the sons oil
Beiial.
When Chinese boy is one month old
his head is shaved and bladder is
drawn over it, and as his head grows the
bladder bursts aud the cue sprouts forth.
The first shave is made the occasion of q
magnificent banquet and the guests are
expected to make the host handsome
present in coin for the newly shaven
baby, with which a bank account is
STATED to his credit This is the most
pleasant feature of the affair for the
baby, as the razor always pulls and he
cmnot take part in the feast.
Lincoln reached the age of twenty-one
years without trade or profession OF
manual skill of any kind He had earned
mere laborer's pay at chopping wood,
running river boats and doing odd jobs
around farms. He had helped split rails
enough to fence in the new Illinois
homestead, and began what was to be a
career by making stump speech on
improving the Sangamon River. He
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