Daily Republican., 1886-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

al Ilknart, lnd., farmer dug into
large mound on his farm and found III
skeleton OF twenty-five bodies that ha
been buried face downward, and tb
skulls of all had been crushed in at th
back.
| A Partisan sneak thiet's pickpocke,
book was lately exhumed at fair 1,
pages contained all the promising FIX
lures OF the approaching season, weo
dlngs, funerals, bazaars. milliner
openings and other events profitable t
the perfesh,
The housewives of Norway max
their common flat bread largely of tn,
powdered branches of the young pine
not so much to save flour as TO secur
a light loaf The bark proves to b,
not only innutritious but actually in.
FURIOUS, land is now being denounced b,
medical men.
Until very lately only one COW o
the first edition of"The Pilgrims Pro
gress" was known, but recently tw,
copies more have been picked I'D il
London at sixpence each. One wa,
Immediately sold to the British museum
tor R65, and the other to q London
publisher for R25.
A blast furnace and rolling mill have
been erected lately in Bogota. The
machinery was bought in the United
States. and it cost the owners as muck
to carry this machinery from the head
OF navigation, 900 miles up the Mag
dalena, as the purchase money and the
ocean freight combined.
A new and rather curious applica-
ton OF the steam whistle has been
made at the Jacksonville OH } Insti-
tuition for the Deaf and Dumb A
whistle four feet in length and twelve
inches in diameter has been placed on
the pinnacle of the boiler house and is
used as signal to awaken the inmates
OF the institution, etc, who, although
they cannot hear, are made sensible of
Its various signals by the vibration it
gives to the buildings.
The splendid frescoes of the Pan
theon, which have occupied the lead
ing artists of France something like ten
years, are already showing signs of
injury damp. AS long as regular ser
vices were held in the Pantheon the
constant influx of fresh air and the
warmth generated by the congrega-
ton kept the interior tolerably dry
Now their influences are Withdrawn.
steps must be taken to preserve the
frescoes.
A story with just suggestion of
Romulus and Remus in it comes from
Toulouse, where a working woman
was in the habit of leaving her baby
under tree guarded by faithful dog
AS days passed she thought the babyis
appetite failed, but still it thrived
One day she found the dog standing
over the infant and calmly sucking it,
The mother thought the arrangement
a good one, and it has gone on, the
baby doing well under the treatment
The first fire insurance company inI
America was the philadelphia Con-
relationship" organized in 1853.
This grew out Of system of under
writing through brokers, which began
at least as early as 1921. 1t was not
until 1893 that the first marine insur.
ance company, as such, was organized
the Insurance Company of North
America, also of Philadelphia, which
has just published history of the be-
ginnings of underwriting in America.
The bees working tools comprise a
variety equal to that of the mechanic.
The feet of the common working bee
exhibit the combination OF basket, a :
brush, and pair of pincers. The /
brush, the hairs of which are arranged |
in symmetrical rows, is only to be seen
with a microscope. With this brush
Of fairy delicacy the bee brushes his
velvet robe to remove the pollen dust
with which it becomes loaded while
sucking up the nectar. Another arti-
lie, followed like a spoon, receives all
he gleanings the insect carries to the
hive.
According to French paper the
Count de Lesseps was foretold by an
'ncient Egyptian oracle. 1t saws:
'Herodotus relates that when Neco,
King Of Egypt, undertook the work of
hitting the waters of the Mediterra-
lean and Red Seas, by means of a
anal, 100000 men persisted in the
york. He then caused the work to be
topped and consulted an oracle, re-
Giving the reply, "A barbarian will
nish thy work. The gentleman
Who agitated upon that bit of history !
opted upon a sheet of paper the para
raph from Herodotus and carried It'll !.
de Lesseps, who, having read it,
box bis pen and appended, THE bar =
arian prophesied by the oracle-F. de =
'esseps"" ~
The farms of America equal the en- !
re territory of the United Kingdom, n
rance, Belgium, Germany, Austria, II
hungary and Portugal. The corn h
elds, equal the extent of England, a
cotland and Belgium; while the grain n
elds generally would no doubt overlap +
pain. The cotton fields cover an
rea larger than Holland and twice as
'rge as Belgium. The rice fields, =,
lgar and tobacco plantations would H.
$50 form kingdoms of no insignificant a
re, and such is the stage of advance v
lent reached by American agricul- t,
lrists that it is estimated that one lp
Irmer like Mr.. Dalrymple, with a ID
ED of wheat covering a hundred Il
luare miles, can raise as much grain u
18th 400 farm servants as 5000 peas y
at proprietors in France. IL
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