Daily Republican., 1885-10-01
ITEMS OF INrEREsT.

ITEMS OF INTERE9T.
The newspapers Of the world have
just been reckoned up 1t about $1,000,
thus giving one to every 20, 900 inhabi-
tants.
Notwithstanding all that has been
written about Persia, Minister BENJAMIN
dec lares that ignorance concerning 1t ID
30 general that no correct map of the
land has been made.
Isinglass Ii a sort of gslatine, pre-
pared from the swim. bladder Of the
sturgeon, and Of other fish. 1t Is used
In crockery and confectionery, also as
q size for delicate fabrics. and for otLer
purposes.
Artificial honey imported into En-.
gland from this country has been found,
on analysis, to be made of wheat or
corn starch treated with oxalic acid.
The fraud cannot be detected by the
taste.
Joaquin Miller tells how he and Brete
Harte stood at the tomb OF Dickens.
" His left hand sought mine in silence, "
says Miller. in describing the moment
GUS occasion "his eyes filled with
tears. We had never been friends be-
FORE"
These small and quiet asylums that
are found In the country for insane
patients, whose families are able to pay
for special care, are said to be often
owned by city physicians with practice
extensive enough TO provide the In
mates.
A tourist in New Mexico writes that
he started back in horror on irst seeing
one of those black. eyed beauties whom
he had heard described rs characteristic
OF the native people. She was ginger.
colored. hard featured, barefooted, half
naked and very untidy, and she proved
70 be . type, too.
The bellies of Saratoga have a substi-
tute for kissing, and 1t consists in rub
bling cheeks. The maidens meet. The
nose Of one Is slid back about to the
ear OF the other, and the conjupctive
cheeks, held hard, are slowly rubbed
together until they part at the corners
of the mouths.
A naval cadet when at sea receives q
salary OF $3.50 a year. On shore duty
he receives $500. Senior lieutenants At
SEA receive g., 400 annually for the first
Ave years, and 81, 600 after ward. Jun Tor
grade lieutenants receive 81, 300 and
q, 900, according to the length Of ser
vice in the same way.
When the chief engineer of the iii.
nois Central Railroad was lying out
the line and wanted melifluous lame
for a station, he would shuttle q pack Of
cards each inscribed with q letter, until
itself-as Tolono, Onarga, Aledo, Diona,
NokOma, and 30 on.
A veteran italian sea captain, who
had haAn limo np N Mudi N ~
for sixty years, ran into an English
steamer while bringing his own
steamer into Leghorn the other day.
The accident affected his spirits to such
an extent that he took ohloroform and
morphine and died on the following
morning.
The Superintendent Of the Elmira
Refornatory says that drunkenness can
be traced In the ancestry of more than
q third of the convicts sent there that
only one in four OF their parents has
received q common school education
and that, as nearly as can be ascer'
tained the home influence in half the
cases has been distinctly vicious.
In Delaware and Maryland there are
vast swamps where the single business
IL extensively carried on, the shingles
being made from logs taken from the
submerged land aud beneath the sur
face. One of the swamps in Delaware
extends over twenty FIVE square miles
and hardly house in Sussex county
but what is shingled from the ancien
deposit.
A savings bank in Portland, Oregon
has twenty dollar gold piece which
was taken from the stomach Of slaught
cred COW, and found TO be worth S16 20
The milling is worn off the edge, which
Ia smooth and rounded, hut the design
upon the sides remain visible. The dat,
of the coin is 1870, but how long tn,
COW has been digesting the 1915 no on,
can tell.
A Western jeweler has invented a
novel timepiece in the shape Of stee
wire stretched across his show window
on which stuffed canary hops from
left 10 right, indicating as 1t goes the
hours of the day by pointing with its
beak at dial stretched beneath the
wire, and having the figures from one
to twenty-four. When it reaches the
latter figure, IL glides across the window
to one again. There is no mechanis n
that can be seen, 1t all being inside tn.
bird. The inventor says he was three
y ears In studying 1t out.
In the city Of Mexico it is almost thu
| universal custom OF the principal bank
ers and merchants to have their bust
ness offices on the ground floor Of thei
residences. The offices thus partake O
the cleanliness, order and beauty of tn
adjoining courts, and have rarely evel
q sign to designate them rs places G
business. The Anglo Saxon appears t
be unique in his within Of putting hi
Office and his home at opposite ends O
the town, which necessitates the grad ia
destruction and e.euilding Of the resi-
dental region as 1t Is encroached upo
by growing demands OF commerce.