Daily Republican., 1886-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In some parts of Mexico preciou.
woods are so plentiful that the native,
build pig-styes of rosewood logs.
On a card in Philadelphia street
car is a great truth thus succinctly
stated advertising is a great dea
like making love to a widow-it cam
be overdonc."
Over two thousand women are com
positors in Paris, and are giving the
male printers good deal of trouble,
because of low-priced labor. Boob
work is going to Paris on this account
A physician in Laurens County, s.
c., claims to have found 12-year .old
boy whose back bone is prolonged into
tail eight inches long, covered with
a thick growth of hair. The boy cal
wag the tail.
A resident of Flint, Mich, has a bust
OF Lincoln, composed of redeemed
greenbacks, originally worth $500
which were macerated by the govern
ment, after which the pulp was pressed
and moulded to form the likeness.
A robin that made persistent efforts
to get into housein Erie, Pa. through
an upper window, frightened the in
mate badly, because within Law a
woman very Ill, and they were certain
that the unusual actions OF the bird
were harbinger of death.
Consumptive patients are advised by
a pupil of Liebig, in the Apotheke
Verein, to live in rooms where one or
two drachms of sulphur are melted on
hot stove. The first ten days bring
increasing cough and irritation, then
these cease, and the patient improves
rapidly.
A practice called a ''peascod wed
ding" was formerly common mode
Of divination in love affairs. The cook,
when Smelling green peas, would, if
she CHANGED to find 2 pod having nine,
lay it on the Intel of the kitchen door,
and the first man who entered was
supposed to be her future husband.
An Atlanta cow fell into deep well
on Sunday, and her owner was unable
to hoist her out, so he brought many
loads OF shavings from a neighboring
planning mill and dumped them into
the well. As fast as they fell the cow
trampled them under her feet, and thus
she came to the surface and walked
away.
An Italian professor wishing to find
out whether the miasm of malaria
existed in the dew and soil, expert
mented on himself by having infusions
of dew and Soil collected from I'M
healthful places injected under his
skin. He experienced no evil results.
He and his friends made fifty-two SINH
lar experiments without harm.
A western naturalist has concluded
that owls are either without memory
or that they do not mind going about
with owl traps fastened to their legs.
lie set trap to catch an owl, and it |
mysteriously disappeared. He set a |
heavier trap, and caught in it an OWL
which had the first trap attached to-
one of its legs. The phrase stupid
IS an owl" seems a fitting reflection
Upon bird which would set about
making collection of old traps in!
such a manner as this.
A strange custom in the Valois,
is to make cheese when
child is born, which is left untouched
Turing his lifetime, and is often cutI
INTO the first time at his funeral feast.
4 rich man stores up wine as we'll as
,heese for his own funeral, and whenI
hat event takes place a goblet of this
dead wine" as it is called, is placed i,
m the coffin, the mourners approach.
AXE the goblet in their hands, touchl
he coffin with it, and drink the conf
ents to further meeting with their
departed friend. II
OF the more than four hundred spell
les OF trees found in the United States
here are said to be sixteen species
whose perfectly dry wood will sink in |
water. The heaviest of these is theIl
lack ironwood of southern Florida. |
which is more than thirty per cent. II
eavier than water. OF the others.
he best known are the lignumyiteI
nd mangrove; another is small oak,
)und in the mountains of western !
'exas, southern New Mexico andIs
lrizona, and westward to the Colo-ll
ado desert, at an elevation of 5000 to
0,000 feet.
Coolie is term applied by Euro.
'eans to laborerers in the East Indies, In
lima and Japan. 1t has become IA Is
liliar chiefly in restricted sense, de- G
citing those Eastern laborers imported Y
u work upon tropical plantations, #
ther under contract for q term of
ears, as in case Of the British colo HI
les; or by force and fraud, as in the n
ase of Cuba and Peru. The term is q
OF commonly applied to the free Chi +
csc in the United States and Austria
q. Coolies, in the restricted sense
the term, may be divided into twoI.
asses, viz: Those from India and .
lose from China. =