The Grenada gazette., 1888-05-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.

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"A whale eighty-four feet long,
weighing twelve tons. tail eighteen
feet broad, speed twelve miles an hour,
develops 145 horse power.
-Woburn, Mass, is town Of twelve
thousand inhabitants, and its only in.
dustry is the manufacture of leather,
which is carried on to a large extent.
-Pattison Jolly, the Oldest printer
in the world, died recently al Dublin,
Ireland. He was one hundred and -four
years old, and printed the first sheet Of
the Edinburg Journal, more than sew
enty years ago.
Experiments have shown that the
skin Of white person transplanted on
the skin of a negro becomes black as
the skin of the negro, and that black
skin inoculated on whites loses its pig.
ment and becomes white.
Fifty years ago, when any thing
was good, reliable and sound, 1t was
said, ut is as good as Spanish milled
dollar" But the glory of that dollar
has departed and the comparison no
longer has any significance.
An ingenious moonshiner in Ken.
tucky concealed his still in cave in
such manner as to allow the smoke
to escape through hollow tree. In
this way he eluded the vigilance of the
revenue officers for over year.
California big trees will have to
take a second place as botanical giants
now that the ocean has undertaken to
beat the land in the size of its products.
Captain John Stone, of the ship Clever,
picked up a sea weed on the Atlantic
near the equator that was 1,50O feet
long,
A mortgage for 800, 100000 re.
Gently filed in the office of the register
and recorder of Lycoming County by
the Reading Railroad Company, is a
pondcrous document. 1t contains $780,.
600 words, and it is estimated that il
will take one man about three months
to record it.
A citizen of Orlando, Fla, has a
dog that accompanies him everywhere.
even to church. One Sunday his owner
concluded to break the canine of his
church-going habits and ordered him
home. The dog retreated until his
master was out of sight, then proumpt-
ly turned back, entered another church
and remained until the service was
over.
Some of the people of Georgia
actually believe that alligators swallow
pine knots to stay their stomachs dur
ing their long winter sleep. This led
Mr. W. B Bland to dig an alligator
out of the mud, kill it, and dissect it
He found absolutely nothing in the
stomach and intestines Of the animal
and not only that, but found that the
intestines were very small and hard,
not larger than pipe stems and almos,
as brittle.
In collection of articles damaged
by lightning in an electrical exhibition
is the clothing of man which wa;
literally torn from his body during 8
storm of June s, 1873. The man, who
was m agricultural laherer, was stand.
ing under q tree at the time of the oc
currence. The lightning flash, after
ripping his smock-frock from end tc
end, severed his leathern CATERS, tore
the trousers into shreds, and finally
split up each boot from ankle to toe
The man was not killed.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the
total number of horses which the lead
ing countries of the world can throw
into the field of battle is: Russia. 81
0,000; America, $500, 900; Argentine
Republic, 1000, 900; Austria, $500, 900
Germany, $780, 900; France, $500, 900
and 800, 900 mules; England, 2,790, 900
Canada, 1924, 900; Spain, $50, 900, and
2,S00,0O0 mules; Italy, 100000; Bel
GUM, 1888, 900; Denmark, $4,000; Aus
tralia, 3O1, 900; Holland, 125,000; ant
Portugal, $4,000, and 0,000 mules.
Written language has always beer
very mysterious thing to the savage'
when they first become aware of it
cyistance Sir John T,ubhock In
writing of the savages of South Amer
lea, says that on one occasion nativ'
was sent by missionary to y frient
with note and four loaves of bread
The native ate one on the way, ant
was amazed to find that the note dis
covered his theft. On the next occa
sion that he was sent with four he sa
on the note while eating one Of them
Rev. Mr.. Ewing, the returnet
missionary from India, relates that the
natives of that country make occasion
al pilgrimagcs to, and worship, a phe
nomcnon situated in the interior. II
India it's regarded as burning mount
ain by the foreigners, but Mr.. Ewin!
says that since he has come to western
Pennsylvania and seen the natural ga
wells here, he is of the opinion tina
natural gas is also what these Hindoo
worshipin that far-away place. fiji
the genuine article, people need no
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