Passaic City record., 1891-10-03
CURIOUS FACTS.
London has n, car tracks.

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Blondes ge. seasick much more easily
| than brunettes.
The frigate Philadelphia was de-
stroyed by Decatur OF February Is,
1904.
The Columbian River is 80 clear at low
water that salmon fishing can only be
successfully conducted at night.
1t is noticed that some of the "docked"
horses at Newport, r. l., now wear ar
tifcial tails to 'savert prejudice"
It is said to be popularity Of the
Chinese that they prefer stale to fresh
! eggs. They can never poach them, how
! ever.
Turbot is supposed to be the most
prolific fish. One of twenty EIGHT
pounds weight contained Ia, 1000, 900
eggs.
In Africa elephants tongue and liver
are deemed great luxuries, and small
wars often arise for possession of de-
parted Jumbo.
Trains on the Brooklyn bridge make
faster time (by two miles an hour) than
did the first railway train that ran be-
tween New York and Albany.
The greater number of successive vio-
tories in wa4 in one day we're those in
Mexico of General Scott, who had five,
and General Taylor, who had three.
The Quadruple Delivery Machine Com
pany, just being foated in England,
| offers for two cents your weight, box
of sweets and an insurance policy. The
latter, which is for S125, lasts twenty
one days.
/ The bugs that can elude the active
! turkey must be very animated creatures.
! A farmer near Garden City, Kan, at.
tackled column of grasshoppers with
seventy turkeys, and was soon master OF
the situation.
I A tree near Manistee, Mich, thirty
six feet in circumference, twelve feet in
diameter and IT'S feet high, will be
blasted with dynamite. as there is no
saw that will cut it, and no mill that
can cut it In boards.
School gardens, of which there are
more than 5000 in Austria, are being
laid in different parts of Germany. Their
object is to give methodical instruction
in the cultivation of fruit trees to be
used in the teaching of botany.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of $4,000 square
miles. It is all meadow land, and is
filed with lakes, ponds and canals.
/ Altogether it is as large as the States OF
New York and Pennsylvania combined.
A woman is responsible for the idea of
giving cakes of soap as souvenirs At
one Of the cheap baths in New York,
each one who is willing to invest five
cents gets the use of tub and towel.
] On going away, the renovated one is pre-
, sented with cake of soap.
/, A pony mare, believed to be about
! thirty years of age, dropped foal re-
Gently on the farm of Mr.. Nicol, of
Blackbog, in the Fyoie district of Aber-
deenshire, Scotland. So far as known
this is the first foal ever borne by this
aged dam. Both parent and offspring
are doing we'll.
A valuable bird dog owned by Grass
Valley (Cal.) man was recently shown a
| parrot. He Immediately "pointed, "
when polly marched up in front of him
and said, tsYou're rascal" The terri
fed dog turned tail and ran away, and
is ruined for hunting, as he now cannot
be induced to ''point at any kind of
bird.
| An ingenious portrait has just been
completed of President Carnot. The
head is composed of his biography, writ
| ten in minute letters and 80 shaded as
to form an excellent likeness; fragments
! of his various orations make the coat and
shirt front. while the presidential mes
sage may be read on the corden OF the
Legion of Honor.
| The Louvre possesses. magnificent
mosaic, discovered in the plains of Tyr
by M. Ernst Renan, the famous scholar,
| during his tour in Phenicia. The mo-
sale was originally the pavement of
church dedicated to St. Christopher. 1t
! is beautiful specimen of its kind and
valuable addition to the Louvre. Its
| great size hindered it for some time from
finding place in the museum. But at
| length it was placed in the Molten gal
lery, where it now occupies public at
tention.
The silk waist of Mollie 6tark's we'd
ding dress, now owned by Mary E.
] Blanchard of Peacham, was taken to
Bennington. VT, for exhibition during
the celebration. The dress is remark
ably well preserved, but has, perhaps,
changed In color from white to tan or
straw hue. An ear jewel, once worn by
the venerable Motley, accompanied the
waist. The dress, except that the
sleeves were too long, was good tit for
Mollie Stark Childs, the eight year old
daughter Of A. P. -Ghilds-