Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-07
SELECT sIFTINGs.

Thar. ia a house in Connecticut town
an which there has been 500 mortgas'
for eighty-one years, and the all anu
terest on it has been regularly PAID
The absence of blood in the liver a.
the supposed property Of coward, ol aIa
mated saws DIR. Bucknill, in the oiu
theory of the circulation of the blood.
It was common practice for the . an.
Gent Romans to recline at iengtn VIM
reading and even writing, the tablet De-
inc placed against one knee, when was
raised up as a support for the purpose
A quaint phrase which a correspondent
~ the critic has found in Pennsylvania
and Virginia is ''gimber- lawed. D.1 Un
seeing portrait of George Eilot q rsnn
sylvania lady exclaimed; "How glmDei'
jawed she was"
A peculiar freak of nature IS presen. on.
in the result that attended the experiment
of stocking Lake Ontario with shad seven
Years AGO. Millions of them were
hatched, but they were dwarfs. None
of them grew to over seven lncnes ions
and they are not fit to cat.
IT, has been estimated that coca Is used
by 10. 900, 900 of the human race, petei
nut by 100. 600, 900, chiccory by Az, OOO, :
000. coffee by1OO, 900, 900; 300, OOO, OOU
est or smoke hashish, 800, 900, 900 use
opium, 500, 900, 900 use tea and all inc
known people of the earth are ADDICTED
to the use of tobacco.
In some of the houses of the rlch
among the ancient Romans there was q
small chapel or apartment where the
statues of the Lares, or guardian spirits
of the household, as well as other sanctl
fed or delfied personages, were wor.
shipped. In the houses of the majority oil
the people, however, the usual situation
for the images of the Lares was over OF
beside the hearth in the great nall, OF
atrium of the house.
The religious dances of the ancientA
consisted for the most part of slow and
stately movements around the altar, with
out any violence of gesture or attempt at
gymnastic dexterity, and more In the
nature of a ceremonial accompanied by
music than what is implied by our word
dance; consequently, among the Greeks
and Romans freedom citizens OF both
sexes and all ranks, even the highest,
took part in these exhibitions without
any disparagement to the gravity OF theli
characters or dignity of position.
Man is not the only animal that com
mits suicide. Herrings and other fish
have sought death by rushing ashore II
myriads; regiments of ants, by deliber
ately marching into streams; swarms o.
rats, by migrating into the face of thei
deadly foes, and even butterflies, by fly
ing in immense clouds straight out t;
sea. It would be interesting to learn thu
causes of the apparent wholesale anC
deliberate self-destruction. Is the act I
! purely conscious one, or are the creature
victims of disease-mental or physical
If Zulu girl or woman violates thu
laws of morality her parents take her to
preeipice and throw her and her chile
over. They sometimes tie their daughte
on the ground and break an ant-hill owe
her and leave her in the hot sun to di
of thirst and be eaten by the ants. Thi
is something fearful. The African ant
formidable insect With the power {
life and death in the hands of thes
savages, what horrible fortunes they d.
visei The death is so slow and the pal
so intense that it is said the unfortunat
victims die raving mad.