Passaic City record., 1891-09-05
CURIOUS FACTS.

The Alps stand in six different States
A sewing machine works twelve
times as fast as the hand.
A sunflower in season will produces
IL, 600 seeds, while poppy bears 32,'
600.
The amount of gold in the world
would fit in room twenty-four feet each
way.
A rose cultivated in Philadelphia
hothouse measures seventeen inches IN
width.
Covent Garden in London has been
in the possession OF the Bedford family
for 300 years.
It is claimed that a four-year old boy
in Forsyth County, Ca, can read any
piece of music st sight.
Telephones are put in the houses of
Stockholm, Sweden, at the rate of 81. rs
year each. For each call, however,
there is charge of 25 cents extra.
A novelty at the Botanic Garden in
Washington is plant whose leaf bears
a remarkably well executed caricature Of
the Duke of Wellington; all done in the
veining.
A Cheviot eve in Dumfries, Scotland,
gave birth to five lambs in May. Three
other ewes in the flock have dropped
trlplets, which makes fourteen lambs to
four ewes.
When the Japanese hitch a horse In
the street, they do so by tying his four
legs together. Hitching posts are never
used in Japan or Corea, except by
foreigners.
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate of $4,000, 900 per acre, some In
London for what would net $5, 900, 900
per acre. and some in New York for q
sum equal to $4,000
The City Troop, of Philadelphia, pos
sesses what is believed to be the only
Continental flag in existence. The old
flag is preserved between two pieces of
glass to keep it from falling to pieces.
The Importance of microbes to tho
growth of plants has been practically
demonstrated by M. Laurent, of France,
who obtained only one-fourth as much
buckwheat from sterilized mold as he
did from soil swarming with bacteria.
There is a cone of FURNISHED tin,
twenty inches in height and twelve in
diameter, on the top OF Mount Katahdin,
placed there by the Appalachin Club, of
Bangor, Me. 1t denotes the distance
from which the summit OF the peak may
be seen.
In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears
and nostrils are set exactly on the same
plane. This enables the animal to sink
its body entirely below the surface of
the water and yet be able to perceive
the approach of foes by hearing, sight
and scent.
DR.. A. Il. Crawford raised a musk
melon in his garden in South Abbeville,
Ga, this season that measured three feet
in length and was correspondingly large
in circumference. The flavor of the
melon was excellent, rivaling the can
telope in this respect.
A citizen of Chestnut Ridge, Penn,
owns a tame crow that is remarkably in
telligent. Last summer he split the
birds tongue aud taught him to talk.
The crow delights in calling the COWS,
and will laugh immoderately when he
succeeds in fooling the dog and cat.
The hide of the former Cincinnati ele-
phant, Old Chief, which was shot last
February, has been stuffed, and with the
mounted skeleton of the brute has been
housed in a special building at the Gin
cinnati Geological Gardens. The hide
weighed HOO pounds, and it has been
stuffed with oakum.
The oldest church in Europe is said
by some who are discussing the question
to be St. Martins, Canterbury. England,
which was built as church before the
end of the fourth century. st. Mary.
in the Castle, Dover, was built about
this time, but for nearly two hundred
years it was used as garrison fuel
depot.
Boiling to death was once legal pun
ishment, though not frequently used.
It was the sentence for POISONING. and
coming. Drowning was also common.
The latter was used in Anglo-Saxon
times for theft, and it was instituted by
Richard the Lion Hearted as the punish
ment for any soldier who killed fellow
crusader journeying to Palestine. This
was discontinued about the beginning OF
the seventeenth century.
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