Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There is ice in the Stevens mine Oh
Mount Mcclellan, Cal, computed 10 De
eighty thousand years old
A mathematician has calculated
that the dead are in the minority aitei
all, such is the rapid growth OF human
population.
The Quakers, who are believed &c
have mum bered 100 900 about two cen,
turtles ago, now have scarcely 15,OO'
members in tn 5 country.
A company of gentlemen in Ne"
York the other day had the pleasure OF
listening to speech, through phon"
praph. from Mr. Gladstone himself
"A law has been passed by the Ohio
Leg stature authorizing township trus'
tees to deduct S. from the road tax OF
any property owner who erects on ms
own land and supplies properly pubic
watering trough.
in 1910 a master mason OF Proyi'
dence, r. l., stamped his initials on
copper cent and put il 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 1t.
Zone of the periodic dirges OF the
denudiac" is the expressive phrase when
the Mississippi Valley Lumberman APP
niles to a pred ction made by somebody,
for the hundredth time, that IN twenty
five years the whole country will have
been denuded of its 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 or
removed to a place of deposit, and small
houses are burned.
Recent investigate has shown that
the people of Great Britain swallow
over $500, 900 pills daily, or one pill a
week for every person in the popula-
ton The pill consumption for one
year would weigh 178 tons, and would
fill SO freight cars, which it would take
two powerful locomotives to pull
Placed in row the p lis would reach
nearly $500 miles, or from Liver fool to
New York and back again.
"A singular case Of mind blindness"
recently occurred, tho Subject being a
man of eighty who had complained for
a month of inability to find his way
about, to tell his own posi- ton in a room
and to recognize objects, although his
perception of light was scarcely i'm
paired Although he could not recog-
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 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
D. whom, after a hard days work, he
sold a quarter of the gift The next
morning the postman brought the bar
rel of spruce gum, and it was about two
inches Iail.
-Kellar, the magician, saw trick at
Calcutta which, he confesses, baffled
him. He was in a 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 a censor, from which
exuded sickly, sweetish smoke, filling
the entire room. The fakirs then be-
gan a 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 fow-
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
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