Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-02-12
Items of Interest,

I A Paris company has submitted to the
Pope plans for lighting up the dome of
ST. Peters at Easter ceremonies with
electric burners.
Near Danbury stands white oak troc
that is thought to be 200 years old 1t is
moro than 100 feet high, and the circum-
ference at the first limb is 10 feet.
Italy has to keep 8, S03 persons under
sentence OF ponal servitude for life.
Prison expenses are 2,O0O,0o o year
moro than those for education.
A recent estimate, made by means of q
very intricate testing apparatus, places
the rate at which m electric dot travels
over telegraph wire at 10000 miles
per second.
A clean and perfect copy Of John Bun.
yan's Pilgrims PROCESS 1878, has just
been added to the British Muesum lib.
rary. Only three other copies are known,
and but two of these are perfect
The wife OF the jailer, at Oconta, Wis,
was left on guard and armed for the day
with pistol, which her son doubted she
had the courage to discharge. He made
q test by putting ON o prisoners costume
and whooping ut her.
There is little of interest now to be
found in Elbn, Napoleon's island prison.
All the relics of his stay there were long
since carried away, and the place has
sunk into the insignifcance from which
his presence raised it temporarily. The
population is rather over 10000.
The fire engines in italian cities are
still the same little hand pumps used in
the beginning of the century not a
single steam fire engine exists on the
peninsula, owing to the rarity of fires,
but movement is now OH foot to intro
duce steam engines according to the
American style.
DR.. Spitzka says the popular delusion
that the human eye has an influence
over insane people similar to that claimed
for the same organ over wild animals, Is
one that is often ridiculed by the insane
themselves. He adds that whoever at
tcmpts to utilize the notion will recognize
its absurdity.
A dealer in cod-liver oil in marseilles
advertises chat his fish are canght in
safe and quiet harbor, where marine
monsters cannot enter to frighten them
into diseases of the liver. "They live
there, a" he says, So in peace and comfort
their l;Ters are healthy, and this is the
reason why my cod-liver oil is the best"
That the cars upon the rails of certain
railroads creep has been o matter for COM
plant which every one has heard It
will be greater news to many to know
that the rails on sleepers creep. too, in
the direction of greater traffic. On the
St Louis bridge proper the rails have
been known to creep 26O feet in one year,
AID on the bridge approach 400 feet.
Tt is said that the sand used in tho
manufacture of mirrors is now used by
Paris company to make white bricks and
blocks, said not to be injured by frosts,
rain, etc, and to be very light, the
specific gravity being only Lee 10 1.SJ OF
clay briiel-s. The sans. is first strongly
pressed by hydrnulic power, and then
baked in ovens OF q very high tempera-
ture. The bricks ire almost pure silica.
sold Moses" is the name of what is
thought to be the largest tree in the
world. 1t stands in q grove near Tule
River, in California Although the top
is broken of, it is 240 feet high and 10 feet
in diameter OF the broken part The
hollow of the trunk will hold 100 per-
sons, and is hung with scenes of Cali
fornia. is carpeted and fitted up like a
drawing room. with table, chairs, and
pianoforte.
1t has been discovered by experiments
with dogs placed under the influence OF
morphia even to coma, that the hypo-
dermic injection of solution of theme,
the active principle of tea. is an almost
instantaneous antidote, neutraIizing the
effect of the narcotic, and reyiving the
animal, after the action of the heart has
become imperceptible. Caffeine possesses
similar properties, but is less immediate
in its operation.
Fredericksburg, Virginia lays claim
to the distinction of being the burial
place of Edward Heldon, q contempo-
rary and one of the pall-bearers of the
immortal Shakespeare A red ss.ut,-
stone slab marked the grave in St
Georges churchyard until it was mis-.
placed by Burnside, who cut road
through the burial ground and removed
the stone to the Masonic cemetery,
where it now lies under locust tree.
It was in Fredericksburg that the
mother of Washington lived after she
became o widow and reared her family.