Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-15

lis, Mo-, with his employers funds, has re-
turned and restored $4,000, saying that h
would sooner go to the penitentiary than live
In the Dominion.
Mr.. John w. Muir ay, Of Sumter county
has q little daughter II years old, whose heao
is quite gray now, In all probability II will
be snow white by the time she is Is, as sh,
continues to turn gray.
L.. ID. Porter, of Pleasant Dale, Seward
county, Neb., has an apple tree just one year
old with q grsft that has one very nice apple
on it. The apple is just 2 feet 3 inches from
the ground, The variety is Cooper's early
white.
1t Is q curious fact that wasps' nests otter
take fire, ss is supposed from the chemical
action of tho wax Of which the nest is com,
posed. Many of the fires of unknown origin
in haystacks and farm buildings may thus be
accounted for.
The Cherokee nation must be extraordinar
lily honest, as they have no laws for the col
lection of debts, II will be a long time be-
fore the Caucasian race can raise the standard
of commercial honor SO high that such q law
will be unnecessary.
Fortified human eyeballs are the nobbiest
things in the way of watch charms at Lima,
Peru. They are relics OF the times of the
Incas, the process of preservation having
been lost and being undiscoverAble TO modern
science. The eyes are yellow and hold light
like an opal,
DE- One of the queerest sheets OF water in
Maine is called Shows Ocean. 1t is q little
pond in Orrington, near Bangor, aud its pc
culiarity is that, although situated away up
among some hills on the banks of the Penob-
scot, it rises and falls az regular as does the
river.
Ten pairs of English sparrows were let
loose in Adelaide, South Australia, o few
years ago, and now they have probably
1000, 600, not spread over the colony, but
crowded into the settled districts, for they
feed almost entirely on the fruit and grain
produced by cultivation,
Mr.. Gladstone is the owner of what is
probably the longest pencil ever made. A
manufactured at Keswick has sent to him q
walking stick SO inches long made of cedar,
and forming a large pencil, with a led nearly
half an inch square running through it. The
curious pencil has a solid silver band bearing
an inscription In verse.
The fist remairs of a man ever found in q
fossil condition were recently discovered near
the city of Mexico. The scientists find it
impossible to name the geological age of the
remains. and it is not likely that those who
wish to amplify the antiquity of the human
race will be gratitied. The cases of the skull
of Calveras and the bones found at Natchez
forbid any positive assumption as to the re.
cent discovery.
The tinkle of o bell put on a buzzard before
the war, in Jones county, Ca, was heard
there recently, and the buzzard identified as
the one they belled. These birds live to be
very old, their exemption from the usual Ian
gers being, says q Georgia paper, partly be
cause in most southern states it is a mIsde-
meauor to kill them, and partly because the
negroes believe bad luck follows the killing of
them,
Two men have discovered in a cave near
Victoria, b. c., what seems Co be the upper
part of the body of a petriied giant. The
material is of the hardest kind of granite,
with rims of quartz running through it. The
face is almost perfect. The eyes and nose
have fallen in and the ears are gone, leeving
holes. The ribs can be seen and counted in
the stone. The arms are broken off below the
and the legs at the thighs. Several
parts are perfect aud show the body to be
that of a largely developed man about ten
feet high. At the places where the legs and
are broken off there is a cylindrical
substance of darker color than the ex-
ternal part. which is supposed to represent
the bono. This remarkable stone curiosity
will probably be sent to the Smithsonian In.
titute for exhibition.