The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Hope (Me.) physician has lived
for eighty years on strict bread-and-
milk diet, never having occasion to try
his own prescriptions.
"A farmer of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County, Cal, pulled beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and fifty-four pounds 1t was seven
feet long.
About A. D. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves, and two hundred
years after they were multiplied by
printing. The Chinese furnish books to
each other for next to nothing.
1t is well-known that whales can
remain long time under water, but
exact data as to the time have been
els DR.. Kuckenthal, of Jena, recently
observed that harpooned white whale
continued under water forty-tive min
utes
Recent observations of the waters
Of Great Salt lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the lake
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered fact
from the abundance of animal exist
ences.
The testimony of medical experts
has lately been discredited in England
by reason of the diametrical views taken
by distinguished physicians and sur
geons when testifying in murder trials.
1t is said that zone point only is de-
termined by this evidence, and that is
that the physicians have no clearly de-
fined and fixed scientific basis on which
to found their opinions"
In Bowling Green, KY, there is q
very sagacious dog. The other morning
. horse was left standing hitched to a
buggy, and while its owner was in an
adjacent place of business the animal
took fright and ran away. He was 60
ing at breakneck speed, when the dog
saw him, Jumped the fence, headed the
horse, grabbed the line in his mouth
and held him fast until the owner Of
the beast came up and relieved him.
1t is little singular, with all our
mutual benefit societies, that mutual
dowry society was never established.
Imagine the effect upon the matrimonial
market of thousand young women de-
voting ten cents week, fixed per-
centage to be given to those who are
married within the year. The anxious
and aimless could not then become a
drug in the market. Something of this
kind is in vogue in Europe, where it is
stipulated that beneficiary must have
been member of the society for five
years before reaping a dot.
In Algeria every girl born of native
parents is tattooed on her fore
head between the eyebrows and
Just at the root of the nose with a
cross formed of several straight lines
of small stars running close to-
gether. These tattoo marks are dark
blue color. Algerian women are also
considerably tattooed on the backs of
their hands, their forearms and chests,
as well as on their shoulders, their
wrists being especially adorned with
drawings representing bracelets and
flowers strung together AS rule,
women are the operators, and it is prin-
cipally on children between the ages of
seven and eight that they have to ex-
ercise their art They use sometimes a
needle, but more frequently Barbary
fg-tree thorn. They employ kohl as a
coloring substance. 1t is kind of fine
powder made from sulphur of anthony,
which is also in great request by the
Algerian women for the purpose of face
painting