The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


The amount of strength exer.
cised in an ordinary hand-shake is
eleven pounds@
The luftiest mountain lis Mount
Everest, or Guarisauker, of the Him.
alaya range, having an elevation ol
29.002 feet above the sea level. &
"A Georgia lover, when refused by
his adored, whipped out a razor and
sliced off one of her ears. After this
little evidence of affection she con-
cluded she would have him.
Here is a new field open for the
Industry OF woman. A lady in Min
neapolis makes good living by teach
ing whist, and a lady at Camos, Idaho
Territory, is practical shoemaker
More sheep and lambs are killed
in New York than in any other city in
the world, over two million head being
slaughtered annually, and, with the
increasing demand for mutton and
lamb, the chances are that she will
continue to hold first place for some
time to come.
A man in Lonvale, Ga, drove a
piece OF steelfling into his eyeball and
surgeon spent some time in vain en-
deavOrs to extract it. Finally he
brought a powerful electromagnetic to
his aid, by means of which the Of
fensive particle was at once removed.
Itwaszover quarter of an inch long
and its entire length had been i'm
bedded in the eyeball.
popular young Kansas City
woman committed suicide because she
fancied herself too homely to live. Her
age was twenty-six. A few years ago
she became imbued with a crushing
sense of her LONELINESS and refused
several offers of marriage because, as
she said, she could not infict herself
upon any man. The peculiar phase of
the matter is that she was far from
being. homely. and was well to do in
her own right. sEt sSSaEE5a
Twenty years ago, Mr.. Jackson,
of Kentucky, by some hocus-pocus.
made his partner NTallaferro lose a
good bit of money. Then the two sep
arated, and in the course of time Talla-
ferro died. Very lately his wife re-
ceived from jackson the full amount
OF her husbands loss with legal inter-
est thereon along with the statement
that the wicked partner had gone to
Australia, and grown and fourished
to equal its famous gum trees. but
could not rest easy until he had re-
stored what was lost by reason of him.
The question as to what a "veg-
etarian'' actually is having arisen in q
discussion of .vegetarianism in London,
an expert gives the following defini-
ton: "a. vegetarian is one who, for.
any reason, abstains from all foods and
food adjuncts which are obtained only
by the destruction Or loss of animal
life. e. the flesh of animals Cfish,
flesh and flowI, and the products of
such flesh dripping, gravy, lard, suet,
animal and fish oils. etc. }, and who
may use, at his or her option, such an
imal products alone as are yielded by
the animal kingdom without loss Of
life. e., milk and its products, eggs,
honey, tc.,-in addition to the food
products of the vegetable and mineral
kingdOms."a a3.i9o3t i.iaf,i 'l.f ~+''1.'tif
The block system as it is now
termed in railroad parlance; is simply
the division of a railway into certain
numbers of what are called telegraph
districts, the distance between hich
is determined by the amount of traffic,
and each block station has signaling
instruments by which the signal man
communicates with the box at each
side of him. Now when a train enters
any block a semaphore signal is
lowered, and no train is allowed to-
follow until the one in front has:
reached the end of the block, when
the signal is raised and at the same
time lowered for the block ahead, ETC.,
The block system in use in Europe and
In this country generally employ
mechanical devices for lowering and
raising the outdoor signal, but these.
it is thought will eventually be re-
placed by automatic devices.