The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-09
THE MONITOR
items of Interest.

by reason OF " transition disease, ana Oh
that account are not healthy food.
It is estimated that Ii, 1000 mules are
sold i'll Atlanta every year, at a cost in
round numbers of about 81, 900, coo.
The French Legion Of Honor includes
sixteen women, Of whom eight are nuns.
Rosa Bonheur is the only one generally
known.
\ scientific wag at q Newport lawn
party put salt on the carhons of the
~elec.ric lights. The effect was to d~iscoIor
the faces OF guests.
A stroke of lightning split open a hol
low tree, at Shasta, Cal, revealing a
skeleton aud clearing up a murder mys
terry.
In New York et4.e ftty-threa post
masters get less than SO each a lelr,
the pay being fixed according 70 business
done.
Counterfeiting tie paper money Of
other countries is made punishable by
an Act which has passed both Houses OF
Congress.
Statistics show TINT there IS less crime
in the United States in proportion to the
population than i'll any other country in
the world.
Cases of metallic poisoning have been
traced to cheap silyer-platesl pitchers.
When the lining is broken or worn. gal
vanic action is set up and the base metal
rapidly oxidized.
At ~Pernambuco a snake Of the boa
class is largely employed to drive ra.s
ont OF houses. It cos.s fifty cents 20 a
dllar, aud requires only a saucer u
milk once or twice a week.
In the San Emidio Mountain range a
very fine variety of asbestos has been
discovered. 1t is of 4 greenish east aud,
when crumbled, shows long tibres like
soft wood. The mine IS said to be ex-
tensive.
Underground telegraph conduits be-
come dangerous when struck by light
ming. A heavy current Is suddenly
started that in several instances has de-
stroyed switch boards and injured by
saunders in the operating room.
There are 25, 900 children of school age
in this city, says the Philadelphia Press,
who are debarred from the privileges of
the public schools because there is not
room enough for them. There are 1000
more pupils now in the schools than the
law allows.
Large numbers of dried and smoked
lizards are imported by the Chinese
physicians. They are used in cases OF
consumption and anemia with consid-
cradle success. Their virtue seems to lie
in a large amount of heterogeneous and
phosphate they contain.
The old question of a speedier means
of official killing than the blade or the
moose is again being discussed in Eng
land. The Lancet not only thinks that
decapitation does not cause instant
death, and that hanging is torturingly
slow, but that neither prlssic acid nor
electricity would he quick enough in
fatal effect.
Loco, the Western weed, acts upon
horses and cattle inst as alcohol does on
man. They lose all appetite for normal
food, become apparently intoxicated at
times, and finally die from a disease
strangely like delirium tremens. From
the vica comes the California expression,
cas- bad as a locoed horse
A relic of the war in Georgia is the o.
eye daisy, which farmers declare was
first brought there in the hay used to
feed Sherman's horses. 1t is, they say,
worse than original sin, and they would
be glad to bestow every bit Of the wood
upon the aesthetic Northern young wo-
men who are so fond of it.
Pyramids of instruction" so called,
nave been erected at Weimar. Munich
and other German towns. The faces
show the elevation of the place, the diff
ference of local time from that of the
chief cities Of the world, the population
and a variety of statistical information,
while there are also exposed to public
view a clock, thermometer, barometer
and windyane.
1t is not generally known that there is
q stone, called the centre rock, in the
rotunda of the capitol, at Raleigh, n. c.,
upon which, if a man squarely stands,
his words become inarticulate to those
about him. This is upon the authority
of the Raleigh Netos, which adds that
several gentlemen in experimenting re-
Gently with this peculiar stone, all ex-
perienced its curious effect.
The English post-office department is
far ahead Of ours in ONE respects. The
postal savings bank established in 1861
has received in penny and six penny
contributions something like $500, 000,-
600. This department also effects life in
surances and annuities. BY paying a
penny a 6eek between the ages of fifteen
and sixty a person is entitled to an an
nuity of 81 after reaching the latter
age. Such small savings and small
nrofts wo1ld be despised in his country,