The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-06-05
T He M ONITOR.
Items of Interest.

Owl, with sauerkraut stuffng, Is eS-
teemed a great luxury by the Indians OF
Nevada.
The first article ever extensively ad-
vertised was "Rowlaud's Maccassar Oil.
Then DAY & Martins Backing"
Prof. Brinton advises patients with
stiffened shoulders to bore twenty holes
q inches deep ina soft plank daily.
The expression, "alittle bird told me, ;"
comes from Ecelesiastes X, 20: For a
bird of the air shall carry the voice, and
that which hath wings shall tell the mat
ter"
FL Mahdi, the prophet, sleeps during
the day and transaets business at night
Justlike the newspaper man, except that
the newspaper man does not sleep during
the day.
The Philadelphia Clinical Record says
that 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
tlifles range in price from 10 to 1000
francs.
In the island of San Domingo there is
a remarkable salt mountain, a mass of
.u-.A,l1.,o ,olL ,,o..N- Fo,, ,,;1o, LONE
estimated to contain 50, 337, 600 tons, and
said to be so clear that type can be read
through a block a foot thick.
Havana ladies have adopted the South
American marmoset as a 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 important
personages. A character III the Lord
Mayors show i'll london in 1864 is des-
cribed as "habited ike a grave citizen
gold girdle, and gloves hung thereon,
rings on his fingers, and a seal ring on
his thumb
The earliest record we have of nations
trading with each other occurs in the
Book of Genesis. when Joseph's brethren
sold him to a aravau of Ishmaelites
who were carrying spices, balm and
myrrh into Egypt. The balm was from
Gilead and the myrrh from Arabia.
Thus is of great antiquity.
The custom of dotting the face with
black patches of different patterns, was
introduced into England and France
from Arabia, AID was at its height DUR
ing the seign 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 or
paper and cloth together. This may be
made much stronger by the addition of q
small quantity of glue. Starch is also
much used for mounting where clear
work is required. y little white glue
added to the starch strengthens it. A
little gum-tragacanth in the paste or
starch also strengthens and makes clean
work. The sheets should be pressed if
flat 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 H.
lustrations is said to be causing a rise in
the cost, and we may expect soon to have
n substitute which the engravers will
delounce as the invention of the sons of
Belial,
When a Chinese boy is one month old
his head is shaved and a bladder is
drawn over it, and as his head grows the
bladder bursts and the cue sprouts forth.
The first shave is made the occasion of a
magnificent banquet and the guests are
expected to make the host q handsome
present in coin for the newly shaven
baby, with which a bank account is
started to his credit. This is the most
pleasant feature of the affair for the
baby, as the razor always pulls and he
cAnnot take part in the feast.
Lincoln reached the age of twenty-one
years without trade or profession or
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 a stump speech on
improving the Sangamon River. He
was employed subsequently to take a