Morris tribune., 1885-12-02


nearly 1000 since 1880.
Cork cuttings are now used in max
ing bricks, which are said to be unin-
jured by heat and moisture
The average annual consumption of
coffee in the United States is twelve
pounds for each inhabitant.
The typical baby walks in forty-seven
weeks, kisses in twelve mouths, and
jumps in twenty-seven months.
Emperor William of Germany always
has chapter from the bible read to
him Immediately after dinner.
George w. Childs owns and keeps in
order a lot in Philadelphia cemetery
where poor printers may be buried.
The predictions OF the French
Weather Bureau were verified last year
in ninety cases out of every hundred.
The Austrian authorities nave estab-
lished offices where all patent medicines
intended to be offered for sale in the
country must be tested.
An English authority states that I'M
less swine fever is absolutely extermln-
| ated from the United Kingdom the dis
| ease will exterminatc the pigs.
Mohammedan citizens of London are
making arrangements to build mosque
| in that city. 1t will be the first and
| only editce of the kind in Europe out
side of the Sultan's dominion.
A Marechal Mel rose-tree of London,
though 20 years of age, produced this
season more than 5000 choice blooms.
| la 1882 more than $500 roses are re-
corded from this wonderful tree.
Minister Pendleton, whom the Berlin
papers call Gentleman George" has
taken q suite of apartments fronting
the Thiergarten, and is about to enrich
Berlin with another cosmopolitan salon.
| 1t is asserted that crows have twenty
seven distinct cries, calls, or utterances,
each readily distinguishable from the
others, and each having an unmistak-
able connection with certain class of
action.
The largest dock in the world is at
St. Johns, New Foundland. 1t is 600
feet long at the top, 55S feet long upon
the line of keel-blocking and 1872 feet
wide, and the drift over gate still 25
feet at high tide.
10 keep postage stamps in the pocket
or memorandum book without sticking,
a New Orleans postoffice clerk advises
people to rub the sticky side over the
hair two or three times. The oil of the
hair coats the mucilage and prevents it
from sticking.
Scientific men say that the curve is
given to a pitched ball by making it
revolve swiftly as it leaves the hand. If
the axis is perpendicular it will curve
in or out, according to the direction OF
the revolution; If horizontal it will
curve up or down.
The late Col. Fred Burnaby prided
himself on his descent from Edward l.,
and when reminded that that monarch
was tyrant would say: mo doubt.
But would rather be descended from
those who dared Cypress the people
than belong to the people who are cow
ardly enough to submit to oppression. "
A wealthy widower of Green Valley,
Sonoma county, CAL, between 20 and
80 years of age, recently offered a
neighbor $500 if he would find him a
wife. The bargain was concluded, a
young lady was brought out from the
east and was married to the aged
widower, and all hands seem satisfied.
There is a man in Americas, Ga, one
side of whose face is never damp with
perspiration. No matter how hot the
weather, nor how much the right side
of his face may sweat, there is never
drop on the left side, beginning at
the roots of his hair, extending to the
ear on the back and to the center of the
nose in front, and reaching to the lower
edge of the cheek bone.
Mr.. Ruskin's opinion as to a father
duty to his children is characteristic if
not agreeable. "The father" he says,
"should never provide for his children.
He should educate and maintain them
to the very best of his power till they
are of mature age" ''Then, when they
are strong enough, throw them out Of
the nest as the bird does" mo for
tune" should be cleft to them" The
'nest" should always be at their dis
posal, Gathers house open," adds Mr..
Ruskin, but nothing more"
A scientist claims that petroleum ap-
piled to wood renders it less liable to
take fire. He has tested this point by
experiment and found if there is any
difference between the two the oiled
wood is less liable to take fire, as there
is less of combustible fuzz to form on
the surface. The petroleum enters the
pores of the wood and renders it more
like cedar. Apply it freely with
coarse brush, and in few weeks, when
it has all soaked in and the surface be-
comes dry, the surface can be painted.
Petroleum is good protection against
the decay of out-buildings, fences, ETC.,
without the addition of paint.
| A Washington correspondent says of
Gen. Lew Wallace: He is an agreeable
man, quite as literary in his appearance
as military. He wears an English suit
of mixed goods. has good broad Shout
ders, and would appear to be a man of
about so. He told me that he had two
more novels in an advanced state, one
of them being tale of Constantinople
at the time of its capture by the Turks,
and the other, if l remember, is an
American book of domestic life among
us. His tale of Ben Hur paid him
So, 200 last year in royalties. Referring
to general compensations of literature
Gen. Wallace remarked; II think that
la responsible publishing-house has
stated that when an author gets $500
royalties on novel he was considered
to have written successful book
| The Rev. w. H. III. Murray, of
Adirondack and blackboard wagon cell
ebrity, and long the petted pastor of
the fashionable Park Street church, in
Boston, claims to have been where no
other white man ever was, and to have
sailed for days upon the vast fresh wa
ter sea, which, he says, is many times
bigger than Lake Superior, and yet is
not on any map or in the knowledge of
any other white men, save those who
have heard the Indian agents of the
Hudson Bay company tell marvellous
tales of its immensely, and the vast
wilderness in which it lies. Mr.. Muir
ray is keeping little oyster-house in