Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-27
GIEANINGS.
For half a century no Cabinet officer
has reached the Presidency.

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Statistics show that clergymen live
about two years longer than lawyers.
1t is estimated that the forests of
Scotland yield 10000 deer annually.
The Arab compels his horse to feed
| from the ground in order to maintain
the curve of the backbone.
The latest rumor regarding the earth
is that it will be one huge globe of ice
in 5000, 600 years from date.
The longest continuous fiber known
is that of silk An ordinary cocoon of
well-fed silkworn will often reel 1000
yards.
Queen Victoria's private fortune is
only SSO.OO0.O0o. 1t is believed it will
suffice to pay the debts of the Prince OF
Wales.
with a pen of gold dipped in the
oil of gladness the way the Nebras-
ka editor introduced his New Year S
editorial.
Senator Sewell. of New Jersey, is
said to use more ink in signing his
name than any man in that branch of
the Congress.
Billingsgate, the great market
through which London buys her prin-
cipai fish supply, delivers monthly an
average of IL. 900 tons.
The coolest weather ever experienced
in the Northwest was at Fort Benton,
in 1880, when the thermometer marked
SO degrees below zero.
A novel ground for divorce is offered
by an Indiana husband, who counts up
eighty-one times when his wife has
scalded him with hot tea.
Chinese exports of tea to Great Bri-
tain last year fell off II. 600, 600 pounds.
and to the United States 100000
pounds, as compared with 1888.
At the Calcutta exhibition the second
prize for butter was awarded to a fine
sample of American oleomargarine
Some one spoiled good joke and the
judges reconsidered the award.
Not high-toned, but human-the
quiet satisfaction with which the in
dustrious editor beholds his ruthless
contemporaries stealing his glaring er-
rors along with his valuable facts
Tennessee has 10000 square miles of
timber land which is as yet practically
untouched; a tract larger by 1.500
square miles than Massachusetts. Rhode
Island and Connecticut put together.
Statistics published by the Ohio Di-
vorce Reform League show that over
two thousand divorces are now granted
annually in that State. This is an in
crease of 2S3 per cent in nineteen
years.
The City of Mexico has five railroads.
a splendid street ear system, telegraph
wires to all the world, telephone ser
vice with 200 subscribers, six daily
newspapers, electric lights and the best
bath houses in America.
The British drink bill for 1885 foots
up 1928, ,3S6,375. The quantity aggre-
gates 1852. 142. .15S gallons. This would
make lake mile long and a mile
wide, with depth of thirty-five feet, or
sufficient to float men-ofwar.
The London NeWs has advices to the
effect that the American Government
has advanced claims to land in the Fiji
Islands, in behalf of its subjects who
settled there before the annexation of
the territory by this British.
London mail carriers now call at
private residences for parcels, the same
as do express messengers in this coun-
try. A scarlet card is furnished by the
postal authorities. which, when display
ed in the window. insures a call from
the postman.
A mechanical curiosity has just been
completed by shoemaker in Utica,
\. Y, consisting of two houses, each
six feet square, and containing wooden
figures working at trades. There are
nearly 200 of these figures, and the
motive power is a small three-hOrse
power engine.
Deodorized crude petroleum as an
ingredient in soaps opens up anew field
for that commodity. and at the same
time reduces the cost of soap manufact-
ure at least one-half. At least, so
claims the inventor of this deodorizing
and converting process.
A pamphlet has lately been published
in London advocating the fining OF
people who have more than three chill
dren. There is no question but that
the theories advanced by Mrs. Besant
have gradually taken very strong
hold on the people of England.
When a Thibetan lover parts from
his sweetheart, after calling upon her,
he twirls his cap over his head, bows IN
reverence, and then puts out his tongue
to its full length. the latter performance
having the same affectionate significance
as the parting kiss between lovers OF
other countries.
A Aproperly developed, full-grown man
weighing 154 pounds ought, according
to Professor Huxley, to consume daily
5000 grains of lean beefsteak, 5000
grains of bread, 1000 grains of milk,
5000 grains of potatoes, 600 grains OF
butter and 22.900 grains of water.
Outside of 1000 or 5000 German and
Frenchmen who brought communistic
theories with them from Europe, the
New York Sun does not believe that
there are 800 Communists in New York,
and in the Union as whole the num-
ber is insignificantly small in compari-
son with the total body of workers.
In Dakota town a curiosity in the
shape OF a chicken heart was, from its
large and peculiar size, opened for ex-
animation, and in the center of the
heart was found grain of wheat or
rice, with sprouts shooting out from
the small white grain, which, of course,
caused the enlarged, odd-looking heart.
The marble trade of San Francisco is
worth S4,OOO,000 annually, one-fourth
of which sum has heretofore been paid
to the Carrara Quarry, of Italy. With
the new San Francisco company ope-
rating in the Alaska quarries. the city
hopes to purchase hereafter its entire
supply from its own citizens, and at the
same time to get a marble Of equal
beauty as heretofore.
Alf Prater. of Gainesville, Ga, has
constructed a model of the Brooklyn
bridge. 1t is four feet wide, thirty feet
long. and weighs $50 pounds. Three
bundra and fifty fipures are kept moy-