Griggs courier., 1890-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A benton HAruv. man has muSket
which used to kill Frenchmen 200 years
ago. and powder flask older BY CEN
tury.
1t is estimated that the amount Of
gold in the world is about 613 cubic
yards, and it would ut in aroom twenty
four feet each way, if in a solid cube.
I'm London. recently, large collie
dog saved girls life by seizing her
dress and swinging her aside just as she
was about being run down by horse.
Tho craze for passing floral tributes
over the footlights to stage favorites
seems to have reached its height at Bos-
ton recently. A minstrel performer re-
ceived a life-size floral image OF himself
seated in chair and playing the banjo.
Some writer has said that the aver.
age number Of hairs on the human scalp
varies from 10000 to 120,0 A single
hair can support weight of two ounces,
and is so elastic that it may be stretched
to one-third Of its entire length and
then regain its former size and con.
dition.
"A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago, where father, Jacob
Lanfield, was arrested for not taking
out a theatrical license for little thea
ter which his children ran in the cellar,
charging five pins admission. He was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by q
policeman.
The old lighthouse which stands at
the entrance of New Haven harbor has
been abandoned by the Government and
orders have already been received for
its destruction. 1t has been familia,
landmark for many years and was {.
favcrite visiting place for New Haven
people.
-Flounders replenish the ocean at q
very rapid rate In a season one founder
produces many millions of eggs, scatter.
ing them broadcast through the water.
The sole produces 1000, 600 eggs, plaice
not less than 10000 900, while a turbot
has been credited with the deposition
of 1900, 0C0 or $4,000, 600 eggs.
MIR. Smallfry-"My dear, don't you
think this would be good time for your
mother to go on nice long visit to her
friends in the East? The rates are SO
low now. you know" Mrs. Smallfry-
Eyes, but you know the low rates are
only offered for round trip" Mr..
Smallfry-"Ah-hum-that's differ.
ent. America.
The sea serpent has been rather
late in appearing this year, but he has
been seen, with back covered with q
hard she'll of dark brown. with stripes
few shades lighter. giving it much
the look of the lights and shades on a
corrugated iron surface. As usual, as
much as the observers desired to see
the monster. they got away as fast as
possible.
"A beech tree cut on the farm of
William Wilkinson, at Shelton, near
Middletown, Mass, disclosed near the
hard white wood coro the big letters 81.
L." on q densely black background.
They were cut forty years ago by John
Leland, sailor, and, curiously enough,
had stamped themselves all the way
from the heart of the tree to the bark.
Though they had been overgrown by
thirty-seven rings of wood fibre, it is
easy to read 81. l." on the outside bark.
"A new ''cure" has been invented in
Germany, which may be adopted as a
greater novelty than the mind cure or
the faith cure. Its basis is the harden
ing of the human organism, which has
been disastrously enfeebled by civiliza-
ton. The patients initiate the noble
savage or the gypsy, and the system in
cludes going barefoot as one part of the
cure. One German parish contains l. 400
patients.
The longest parts, male and female,
in the Shakespearan drama are Hamlet,
with 1859 lines, and Rosalind, with 749
lines. OF course, in acting, they are cut
great deal, but even then they are, in
the odious but expressive phrase of the
boards, "fat.'' This accounts, to a GER
tain extent, for the professional fond
ness for appearing as "Hamlet" and
"Rosalind." Othello must be rather !
thorn in the side of the ''stars," for he
has only sSs lines, while Iago has LII
"A French military surgeon has been
making researches on wind instruments
which has been used by phthisical
bandsmen, and warns musicians of the
Importance Of disinfection. He recon-
mends that instruments should be filled
with five per cent. solution of carbolic
acid, or. in the case of metallic instru-
ments. that they should he dipped into
boiling water. These precautions are
of the utmost importance when phthisic-
al persons have used the instruments;
for it was found in such cases that
liquids used to wash them out presented
a virulencc similar to that of a pure
culture of tuberculosis.
Miss Amanda Anderson. of Georgia.
is sixty years of age and has never
travelled more than mile and half
from the spot where she was born.
Though there is railroad within three
miles of her house she has never seen
it. She has never seen a brick house,
and has seen painted house only once.
Though her nearest neighbor lives
within three hundred yards of her she
has never seen his house except once in
her lifetime. She has never been in.
side of church or listened to sermon
or prayer. and her ideas Of religion are
extremely vague. She is, nevertheless
an intelligent woman, with no eccen-
tricity except that indicated in the
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