Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An Indianapolis lumber dealer
says that the inhalation of the odor Of
pine lumber is the reason why lumber
yard horses are so healthy.
"A pious old lady at Toronto de-
votes the profits accruing from the
sale of all the eggs laid by her hens
on Sunday to the missionary cause
"A very old pear tree is now stand
ing in Richmond. Me. Its exact age
Is not known. but its identity can be
traced back for one hundred and fifty
years 1t still produces fruit
"A Cadmus. Mich, farmer fed q
flock of swine several gallons of cider
which was not soft The hogs went
on a glorious old drunk for three DAYS.
and few of them passed peacefully
away, never realizing what had
touched them
A miner of Hassayampa district,
Cal, found a bee tree some time since,
| cut it down one afternoon. went next
day to get the honey. and found that
three bears-two old ones and cub
| had been there and taken every thin
bleful of the sweet stuff.
Prof Hazen, stationed at the Mt
Washington signal station. has made
4 new and careful computation Of the
height of the mountain and finds that
| it has a height of 6. 800 feet above
mean low tide This is seven feet
| higher than previous measurements
| made il.
An English explorer has discov-
| cred a river which opens route for
| ordinary steamers into the Zambesi
delta and the Lake Nyassa districts.
The discovery is of great Importance
to the development of trade in Central
Africa. 1t is called the Chinde river
and is forty-6ve miles south of the
| Quaqua river, on which Quillimane
now stands.
| "A Congo warriors outfit which
has just been received by the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington from
Lieutenant Taunt. United States COM
mercial agent in the Congo State. con-
sists of a bamboo shield six feet long
and one wide. spear four feet long, q
knife that looks like a pruning knife
| and bow with bamboo strings and
two iron-tipped arrows.
The Chinese have barbarous way
Of taking CLAIMS. which often grow to
enormous size in the Western Pacific
Ocean, some weighing twenty pounds
per clam, not including the shell,
which sometimes weighs over 200
pounds. The Chinese fishermen watch
for these clans in clear-shallow water.
IS they paddle along shore in fiat
bottom boats. and when they see one
with shell open they ram a sharp
pointed stake into the creatures body
and lift it into the boat.
There is a stone elephant in Inyo
County, Cal. The rock that has taken
the form of an elephant is dark gray
granite that is almost the color of the
skin of an elephant The first travel
ers in California. it is said. on catch
ing sight of it. thought that they had
found a petrified mastodon. A Piute
Indian. on being asked If he had ever
seen the ''stone elephant" replied.
"Yash; me see him many year go.
Long time Injun no sabe him; now see
him all same in big show up Virginny
City"
Legend tells US of the lost inven-
| ton of '.malleable glass" Tiberius
is said to have discouraged genius
who found the secret by beheading
him. fearing the innovation would re-
duce the value of gold. 1t is also re-
corded that Cardinal Richelieu was
presented with a bust of malleable
glass by chemist. who purposely let
it fall into fragments. and mended it
before his eyes with a hammer. The
inventor was promptly rewarded by
perpetual imprisonment. lest his in
genuity should ruin the vested
interests" of French manufacturers.
Only one city in the world has
ever undertaken by legal supervision
to put every house under positive and
absolute sanitary control. and that
city is Buenos Ayres. The purpose is
within three years to have this &C
complished. By no other means can
city be rendered safe for residence,
and in no other way can the law that
city residence rapidly degenrates the
population be reversed. The matter
of sanitation can not in any phase of
it be left to individuals: it must be a
public provision, rigidly enforced.
Now that two-ninths of all our people
live in cities. the subject is one that
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