The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There is ice in the Stevens mine On
Mount Mcclellan, Cal, computed to be
eighty thousand years old.
"A mathematician has calculated
that the dead are in the minority, afte,
all, such is the rapid growth of human
population.
The Quakers, who are believed to
have numbered 1O0 600 about two cen
turtles ago, now have scarcely Is, O0C
members in tn country.
"A company of gentlemen in New
York the other day had the pleasure OF
listening to speech, through phono
graph, from Mr.. Gladstone himself.
"A law has been passed by the Ohio
Legislature authorizing township trus
tees to deduct So from the road tax OF
any property owner who erects on MS
own land and supplies properly public
watering trough.
In 1910 master mason of Provi-
dence r. l., stamped his initials on
copper cent and put it in circulation. In
taking some change the other day he
found his coin. After fifty years OF
wandering it had returned, and he would
not take hundreds of dollars for it.
Tone of the periodic dirges of the
denudiac" is the expressive phrase which
the Mississippi Valley Lum herman ap-
plies to pred ction made by somebody.
for the hundredth time, that in twenty
five years the whole country will have
been denuded of it's forests, and timbe.
will be thing of the past.
The natives of Hayti, according to
DR.. R. p. Crandall, fear pulmonary con.
sumption more than yellow fever OF
smallpox, and believe it to be both con-
tagious and infectious. All property
from consumptive's death-chamber-
even jewels and money-is destroyed OF
removed to a place of deposit, and small
houses are burned.
Recent investigat has shown that
the people of Great Britain swallow
over 5, 800, 000 pills daily or one pill
week for every person in the popula-
ton. The pill consumption for one
year would weigh 17S tons, and would
fill sc freight cars, which it would take
two powerful locomotives to pull.
Placed in a row the p lis would reach
nearly $500 miles, or from Liver ,ool to
New York and back again.
"A singular case of mind blindness"
recently occurred, tha Subject being a
man of eighty who had complained for
a month of inablllty TO find his way
about to tell his own position in a room,
and to recognize objects, although his
perception of light was scarcely i'm
A h.
nize objects by looking at them, he at
once perceived and named them by
means Of tactile or auditory impressions
from them.
"A Boston man has friend who
wrote him that he had forwarded a bar
rel of spruce gum to his address as a
gift This generosity completely over
powered the Boston man. He knew he
could never dispose of a barrel of spruce
gum unaided in his whole lifetime; so
he fastened to search out some dealer
= whom, after a hard days work, he
sold quarter Of the gift. The next
morning the postman brought the bar
rel of spruce gum and it was about two
inches tall.
-Kellar, the magician, saw trick at
Calcutta which, he confesses, baffied
him. He was in long, vacant room
with four friends, and they were allowed
to examine it thoroughly There were
four fakirs present The party took
seats on bench midway of the room.
The fakirs lighted censor, from which
exuded sicky, sweetish smoke, filing
the entire room. The fakirs then be-
gan wild, whirling dance, all the
while chanting and beating tom-toms
when suddenly the dancers appeared to
increase in number until full dozen
were dancing and whirling about
These then decreased until but one
dancer remained. an old man with flow
ing beard. What became of the other
dancers Kellar could not tell, though
he tried by another search of the room
to discover the secret