The Columbus journal., 1885-06-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Sc entist> hnii seventeen d;e.iu:t
theories rs Ia ;le c,u,e, II earthquakes.
-Rc:,ant sta, sites show that there
are ii.a:!, :. -; lonrn:s females Than
males in Gre, i;r, i, u.
-O:angrc CT. ia. tea =: .: 4 iour-
legged clicAen wii.i, Walsh. around
Is lively q. ar. ut.i :. m.niSer ri the
fcai,irrrd tribS..
The yOu rest IlHmbar OF the New
York Cotton E~.c.anys. is = lad aged
fiftecn and -. oldest q veteran Of
.ighty-!wo Ac..rs. The two are great
friehds.-N. J.. Sua.
'-frotrac,ei drought and extensive
irrigat Ou in the ncighhorGood have re-
duced !Tulare Lake. in Californ;a, from
. length OF fOr;y-!wo mile. aud breadth
of twrnty-two miles to a length of
twenty-five M les and a with Of. four
teen miles.-S0H & FaUriSc0 Tall.
The popularity Of a worker in Ger
man-silver spoons at Wall.ngfOrd.
Conn.,, is the color Of his hair. Years
of labor in the t. mining n bufhng
room of a spOoa factory dyes the hair
of the operative a pale green. which it
takes years to change.-Earttord Post.
The Cuban c,,sarmakers in New
York employ a"rcader." usually q GU
ban patriot and refugee, who visits the
shops every day and spends from three
to four hours t-aus!at.ng from Ameri-
can papers. The meu pay twenty-five
cents a week each to support him.-N.
Z. Times.
The JGcv:c Medical Journal. refer
ring to q recent writer WHO asserts that
Maine lumbermen are free from dys-
pepia because they are in the habit of
using chewing gum. says that ..if he
would add to his suggestion Of chewing
gum that Of becoming \ lNmberman
the remedy would be very effeo6ve."
IN an article On .'Inebriety Among
Railroad Engineers" in the PhiladeE
phia Meiicai and Surgical Reporter it
is stated that these men are exception
ally temperate. The nerve and brain
exhaustion attendant upon their Oecu-
patton is so great. however, that zine
briefly among them is very precipitate
aud fatal"
Since Mrs. P%artingtOn mistOOk the
brakeman's call of '.MattapOisett" as .
reflection upon the inhabitants Is \
mity-pOOr set, the name IF the town has
been spelled thirty-onc different waysO on
mail matter set thither. some of the
methods showing a great deal Of in
geniousness in misspelling.-~ COL
Ony Msn,rial.
A French stat!>tician has discov-
cred that up to the present. $50 En-
perOrs and Kings have governed 81 nA-
tons. Out of this number $40 have
been driven from their thrones, Ga have
abdicated, - have committed suicide.
II have become insane. l,kb fell in bat
tie, l23 we're captured. 81 died martyrs,
Isl have been aSSassinated and 1OS have
been condemned to death and executed
according to law.
A solution of eighty grammes of
chloride of lime. eighty Of b.carbOnate
Of soda and twenty oi common salt in
three liters Of distilled water is excel
lent for cleaning dull gold. The sOlu-
ton must be- kept in well-clOsed bottles.
The article to b. c!raled is allowed to
remain 4 short time in the solution.
which should be heated only when the
dirt u very obstinate. 1t is then taken
ont and washed thoroughly and finally
dried in sawd,st. -ChicayO Journal.
-Manufacturers of good mosaic A.
sert that they have found by expert
ments that hard maple on end is from
four to five times as durable rs marble
and equally as durable As the hardest
baked tile. 1t is reported that two end
xunnN a. - .ynr 1.,l IN, sb. IS,
public building in Chicago about fifteen
months ago, and that the floors are in
as good condition As when first laid.
although each elevator carries from
n thousand to thousand people daily.
-Chicago Merdid.
A lOvc-letter two hundred and
fifty years old. written by James
Chalmer (One ri the Charles /. judSes)
to Lady Ursula Fairfax. whom he after
ward married. Is in possession Of
William p. Hopkins. Ut Lawrence.
Mass. The letter. vi whose anthem
ITCHY no doubt can. it is stated. bs
raised. is still in perfect condition. 1t
is dated ''Lon., Is Nov. 1858" and is
addressed: To his entirely loved and
highly hOnOre,i Mistrr>-c M stres Ursula
Fairfaq. !h:in,ieism!a ledger.
1t is said that The transportation Of
n word wa the foundation Of Dan
icl (3ark's great fortune. He had
bought 1920 Square tOises Of land in
that part Of NV Orleans that after
ward became lis comm -rciul center.
In the engroIs;ng OF tn. deed the H.
go square tOisrs' VA G~arrleisly made
to read Il .92U tOi>es SQUARE and in
creased the value of xln.UW to $2O,-
OOO. OOO. Mr.. Clark took advantage If
the error. and the law of New Orleans
vas pOwerlsss to prevent him.. y.
Mail.
Out on the Burlington 4 Missouri
River Railroad. Nebraska. they i'm
ported = passenger brakeman from
Boston. There is a heap Of Boston tai
eEt ON the Is. 4 NJ. but this young
man was refined until about one
hundred and twenty proof. He
ran on the Beatrice branch. which ev-
erybOdy in N-braSSa knows is called
rhyme with '.th- mattress" And
when this new MAJ looked in at the ear
door and shouted: ..isay-ah-treet-
chez! Bay-ah t~rrct-chee.. the entire
community ross. NJ a. one man and
piled on him b. thousands. Thanks
to the severity Oi the weather. his re-
mains reached Trcuon: street in =
state OF -xcelluEt preServAtiOn.-BrOOk-
Ign Enq'e.