Daily Republican., 1886-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Georgia woman, 70 years old, ha,
never eaten mouthful of meat of any
kind.
A North Carolina editor puts on his
free list every woman in the State who
becomes the mother of twin boys.
In Holland, the church doors are
locked during the sermon, so thai
nobody can interrupt by going in OF
out.
1t is suggested that ball dresses NAV
be rendered safe from flre by acciden,
by impregnation with a 25 per cent.
solution OF tungstate of soda, which
Einjures neither fabric nor color.
When they have funeral in Lead
vile they end it with dance, and
when they have dance they kill two
or three men, and of course the re-
mains demand funerals; so it's hard to
see why an undertaken shouldn't pros
per in Leadville.
The Garden Of Eden, now called
Gournah, is forty miles northeast Of
Busreh, in Turkish Arabia, at the con
fluence of the Tigris and Euphrates
The country is destitute of vegetation
with the exception of date palms,
which are quite luxuriant.
A Nebraska man has settled the
question of how prairie dogs obtain the
water they drink. He says they dig
their own wells, each village having
enc with a concealed opening. He
knows of one such well 200 feet deep.
having circular staircase leading
down to the water.
Cuttings OF roses, heliotropes, etc
will grow better il taken off at the
junction of the old and new wood. and
should be cut off just below q joint or
bud, as the roots start from that point,
and if a bud is not left near or close to
the base, the cutting is liable to decay
in the soil.
A balky horse in Philadelphia the
other day was proof against all ordi-
nary methods of persuasion, and lit
tie man smoking a big pipe came
along. Just as soon as the man had
emptied the burning tobacco and hot
ashes from his pipe into the horses
ear, the horse went tearing up the
street as If he ne~er intended to stop
again.
Italy has an annual average of eight
murders to every 100, 900 inhabitants,
against nine In Spsin and Hungary,
two In Austria, one In France and Bel
GUM. and only 0.5 ia Great Britain
In crimes against public morality the
rate Of average for Italy is four, while
that of Germany is thirteen-the high
est figures on the list.
The book on which all the kings of
England, from Henry l. to Edward
vi, took the coronation oath is in a
private library in England. 1t is a
manuscript of the four Evangelists,
written on vellum. The original bind
ing, in perfect state of preservation,
consists of two oaken boards an inch
thick, fastened together with stout
thongs of leather.
A fireman employed by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, whose ca |
pacity for drinking enormous auanti-
ties of cold water made him famous
along the line, has died after short
illness, ascribed to his inordinate alb
sorption. 1t is said that he often drank
two quarts without taking the vessel |
from his lips, and he had been known
to drink as much as eight gallons of
water in one day.
A leading physician says that a
patient who is lying dying of exhaus-
ton is generally dying Of starvation.
We give him beef tea. calf's-foot ielly.
settler and milk-tbat is, small !
quantity of the sugar of milk and some |
fat; but the jelly is the poorest sort of
food and the beef tea is mere stimu-
liant. The popular belief that beef tea
contains ''the very strength of the
meat" is terrible error--it has no
food value.
II will surprise some people to learn
hat the sagebrush lands of Idaho,
naturally the very emblem of sterility
and desolation, can be readily con-
Verted into fruit farms whereon apples, X
peaches. apricots, prunes, grapes,
lectarines. and all the small fruits are
produced in the greatest profusion and
If a quality unsurpassed. 1t is de- :
Jared that the Boise, Wciser, Fayette :
md other Idaho valleys cannot be ex-
,elled by any region east of California
or the production of fruit. c
An ingenious calculator has beenl
citing down the progression of the
,and, and finds that it travels as fast,
+ not as far as the foot. A rapid PEN
nan writes thirty five words minute,
md in doing so-what with curves andl
urns of the pen necessitated by every,
word, not to mention crossing his "t's"
draws his pen through sixteen feet
VI space. In forty minutes his pen
ravels furlong. Thus many persons
Who do not walk on all tours progress
wv miles q year with their hands, or
ather, with one hand.
Neither in China nor Japan need
,ou look for beauty of architecture in
he sense generally implied by that
erm. Their temples are, one and all.
4 the same type, which is simply that
4 the one-storied Indian bungaloo.
With its veranda and heavy roof:I
eVerthless some OF the larger temples
ave a certain solemnity and wealth
f rich color. In the Honam templeI
he interest centers in three colossal
lit figures which represents the three
inddhas, on either side of whom are
anged number of statues All theI
linor adjuncts of lantern, draperiesl
nd temple furnishings are handsome
nd harmonious