Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-08-08
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talent of gold was $1a. soc

A talent of gold was $13, 500
A fingers breadth is equal TO one inch.
A cubit was nearly twenty-five inches.
The area Of New Orleans, La, is 2274
miles.
A Biblical shekel of silver was about
fifty cents.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
five-eighth inches.
Canaries fed with cayenne pepper ac-
quire ruddy plumage.
The first American library was founded
in Harvard College in 1888.
There are $4,000 different kinds of
postage stamps in the world.
Over 500 music leaf turner's have been
patented in the United States.
A petrifed bat was recently discovered
by railroad laborers in Arizona.
There are more farmers in the United
States than any other nation possesses.
More girl babies were born during
1863 and 1873 than in any ten years
since.
A walrus hide weighs forty pounds, is
one inch thick and as hard as an oak
plank.
The first newspaper printed in England
was the English Mercury, issued in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A cigarette carelessly thrown aside
caused the burning of 135 acres of wheat
in California few days ago.
Black ice cream is new Philadelphia
danny. 1t is colored by the addition of
charcoal and the juice of Turkish prunes.
The Mongolian pheasants introduced
into the State of Washington have in
creased largely, and are now thoroughly
acclimated.
At a depth of thirty-seven feet, at
Springport, Ind, a vein of water was
struck which gushes several feet above
the surface and is clear and cool.
During a storm in st. Louis, Mo-,
halstone fell that was measured at the
Signal Service station, and is said to have
been nine inches in circumference.
Judge Gunto, of Parry, Fla, has
camphor tree on his place. The cold
does not seem to injure it at all, and he
believes the trees can be successfully
raised.
A Frenchman has discovered how to
make silk straight from the mulberry leaf
without resorting to the silk worm. But
it is inferior in richness and gloss to the
present silk.
1t is said that from the summit of
Mount Blanc, Switzerland, one can see
the Tyrol, portions of France, Germany
and Austria, the Mediterranean and Italy
as far as the Apennines.
The luckiest tenderfoot in the Leadville
(Col.) mines was an Illinois farmer from
the back districts, who, after prospecting
in the mountains for three months
started home with bank account of
$500
A postage stamp was recently found
by Connecticut physician in the car of
little patient, and on its removal a severe
pam, from which the child had suffered
and which caused the visit to the doctor,
disappeared.
The finest Australian eucalyptus of its
age in California is probably one that
grows on Alameda Creek, about thirty
miles from San Francisco. Wick says
that it is seventeen years old from the
seed, and girths nine feet eight inches.
Among the immigrants landed at the
Barge Office in New York city the other
day was an Irishwomap SoycnJy years
old, whose face was adorned by long,
silky, curling mustache, two inches in
length. She was in America nearly for
ty years ago.
Isaiah Powers, of Curtis, Neb., has an
orchard of Russian mulberry trees that
are gifted with second btossoming.
The trees blossomed out nicely at their
proper season this year, but frost COM
pletely destroyed the blossoms, and then
the trees again bloomed.
The fastest time made by an American
train is calculated to be 107 miles in
ninety three minutes net Cor 107 miles in
ninety seven minutes, including four min
utes stoppage for wate) on the Canadian
division of the Michigan Central Rail-
road, st. Clair Junction to Windsor, No
vember 16, 1886, and of 69.3 miles an
hour.