The Irish standard., 1890-04-05
TIE IRISH STANDARD :lsATURDAY. 4PRII Il:
PARTlcuLA Arr. u INTERESTING.

PARTICULAR INTERESTING.
THE off1oesof coroner Is Of early date
lin England, being mentioned 81 4 char
ter OF "a. %. g25.
..PoGUL KHAkAs. II or & seeool dinners,' il
what t5o native servants II Isritish
Indis cal ;,icnics. 5.$
A SIT Of false teeth exploded Ia :
Newport dentists Office the other day,
smash ing things in the Office.
BABIES born with teeth are becoming
numerous in Ohio. A New Lisbon
mother has = babe which had two front
teeth before it was day o:d.
THK length Of North America is noar-
" 5000 !ai.es, its greatest bread til about
5000 milcs, its area about ne-sixth OF
the land -surfacs of the glohe. ga III
For keeping IN slavery since the war
black servant who was too ignorant to
read or communicate with others ct
her race, the fsmjly OF the late Joseph
Hickman, OF Cooper County, Mo-, will
pay $1,000, which sum the court deems
equal to the wages the servant would
have been able to earn during the past
twenty-hv years.
THE most valuable Of all the precious
stones and those which rank the highest
as Jewels are the ruby, sapphire. dia--
mond and emerald. The diamond is
generally considered the mostsyaluab1e,
but this is an error, as pure ruby and
sapphire Of the same size would be
worth much more. Opal, aquamarine,
zirccn, tourmaline and garnet follow in
the order named. xs
ACCORDING to the best statistical au-
thority, the consumption of sugar in the
world is 5000, 900 tons a year, of which
! the United States consumes 1900, 600
tons and Great Britain 100000 tons.
This is quantity about equal to the
best sugar production of Europe-that
! is, as much or nearly as much beet
sugar as cane sugar is produced in the
world.
| NEARLY thirty years ago locomotive
on the Erie railway exploded her boiler
near the depot at Almond, Allegheny
County, N. Y, killing two men and in
juring another quite severely. Last
week a mill-race at that place was
cleaned out, and in it was found the bell
belonging to the unfortunate locomotive,
which must have been hurled a distance
of forty rods.
FISH charms have been met with
among many nations. The fish called
the bullhead is used by some OF the
Russian peasants as charm against
fever. Many kinds OF fish havo two
hard bones just within the sides of the
head; and one species, the maigre, has
these bones larger in proportion than
most others. These two bones, called
collie stAnes, are regarded to possess
medicinal virtues. They were mounted
| in gold and hung round the neck.
| The London Mcney-Order Office was
set on foot by three entsrprising post
Office clerks in 1892, who hired premises
outside the post-of1ice, the firm being
known as Stow e. Company. From this
small beginning-the main idea at first
being to afford facilities for the trans
mission of small sums--has arisen that
system under which it is now posi- BILE
for the Chinese living in New Zealand
country by way Of London. 81
! In is told in one of the English papers
that a woman who had SO many dia-
monds she hardly knew what to do with
| them had her unset stones fastened to
the 1stitching of her evening gloves.
The result of her ingenuity is that
ieweled gloves may now be bought in
the London shops. It seems that they
are set in gold and follow the three
|
so set that they may be transferred from
one glove to another. The cost Of a
pair OF jeweled gloves is forty guineas.