Daily Republican., 1886-06-24
ITEMS OF Int liz EST.

There are 347 female blacksmiths in
England, all of whom actually swing
heavy hammers and do mems work.
By very careful test it has been
found that the strength of a bushman' s
forearm compares with that of an
English:nan of the same weight as 81
to IS.
1t is thought that d dozen shots
from the new German bomb, charged
with dynamite shells, would destroy
the strongest fortifications in the
world,
Paper from seaweed is growing
industry OF France. 1t is SO transpar.
ent that it has been used in the place
of glass for windows. Making paper
from seaweed is said to be flourish
ing art in Japan.
Between New York and the Gulf OF
Mexico there are only four natural
entrances to harbors where the depth
at mean low water is over sixteen
feet, while the largest ships draw
from 26 to 2S]5 feet.
A Montana suicide evidently be-
lleved in the Indian superstition that
his dog would bear him company in
the next world. So before drowning
himself he tied. a heavy stone to his
dogs neck and threw him into the
lake.
In her wars with Turkey between
1867 and 1774, Russia did not employ
privateers. In the 1Sthcentury priva-
teering had become an organized
piracy, and almost every treaty at
tempted, but in vain, to restrain it.
The Lamia were believed to be
malignant spirits of the female sex,
who wandered about DIT night in the
guise of old hays, sucking the blood
and devouring the flesh of human
beings, more especially young chill
dren. This supposition originated in
Egypt, whence it was adopted into
Greece and Italy.
The so-called fairy rings in old Eng
fish pastures, little circles OF brighter
green, within which it was supposed
the fairies danced by night, are now
known to result from the out-spreadinl
propagation Of particular mushroom
the fairy-ringed fungus by which the
ground is MANFRED fo- D richer follow
ing vegetation.
1t is stated that French surgeons
have succeeded in replacing glass eyei
with the front part OF a rabbits eye
The coat is stitched fast to the ball OF 8
sightless human eye, and made to adj
her, so that it causes no further trou-
BILE and looks as well rs the natural
eye. 1t is, of course, Bightless, but il
is far less bother than Il glass one.
A French physician asserts that he
has discovered a soporifc whose effects
can be exactly limited tb the time re-
quired. This WILL he says, enable
travellers to sleep comfortably and con.
tidently during long journey. He
measures his dose by miles. Thus you
can take fifty mile dote before start
ing on a railway jour ney, and open
your eyes, pleasantly refreshed, at your
proper station.
The weeping willow says the Gar
den, seems to have had romantic his
tory. The first scion was sent from
Smyrny in box OF figs to Alexander
Pope. General Clinton brought 9
shoot from Pope's tree tpAmerica in the
time OF the Revolution, which, passing
into the hands of John Parke Gusts
was planted on his estate in Virginia
thus becoming the progenitor OF the
weeping willow in Am erica.
A cancerous affection of the nose ha,
been known to follow too tree use o
clumsy salt bottles. The combination
of chemical salts, cologne spirits an(
other perfume or stimulants used il
these slug-like bottles, acts upon thu
metallic trimmings of the bottles an(
create substance that affects the most
and nostrils in manner that canAo
fail to impair their beauty and interfere
with their future comfort and enjoy
ment.
There is a salt deposit in Lincoln
County. Nevada, two miles long, half
annie wide and of unknown depth
though in places it is shown to be &C
feet thick. 1t has been traced min,
miles on the surface. 1t is of old for
lllhtlOi1 SONClC4 III SOlllC IliuICo ny va
saltic rock and volcanic tuba. There
is another great deposit of rock salt ii
Churchill County, andthe great Hum
boldt salt field is some fifteen mile,
long by six wide. Soda, borax an(
other valuable minerals also exist il
large quantities near these localities.
A natural iron-paint mine of mex
haustible quantity has been discovered
in the town of Epson, n. II. The de
post begins at the very grass root, ant
is fifteen to eighteen feet deep Their
is large and valuabledeposit OF ochr
OF various colors, from beautiful
crimson to gray, by the side OF tn,
Southern Railroad, two and one hal
miles north of Somerset, Ky. Tn
New Hampshire paint is said to be q
good as Italian sienna. Perhaps tha
of Pulaski County, Ky, is also. Tn
former requires no gri hiding on work
ing over.
Beef is never seen on Chimes
table, oxen and COWS capable OF work
Ing the plough being accounted toe
valuable to the farmer 10 be consigned
to the butcher. Very severe penaltle
are attached to the slaughter of thes'
animals. The punishment for the frs
offence is a hundred strokes with
bamboo, and then two months in tn
wooden cellar. Should love of beef o
desire of gain induce a repetition q
the crime, second judicial tlogging /