Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

| $4,000, 600.
There are $4,000 brass bands in this coun
try, with 100000 performers.
The rails in the United states would go
around the earth twelve times
A large oak tree known to be 14O years old
| has been felled at Flint, Mich.
| The deepest hole ever bored into the earth
| is the aresicn well at Pots dam, which is ., 500
feet deep
Lake Maitland, Orange county, Fla, has
| cornet band composed Of thirteen young Ia
dies and two gentlemen
Sixty thousand people are out Of work in
the city of Berlin. Ninety thousand are out
| of work in the east end Of London alone.
The deepest ocean in the world is the Pa
| cific. Near the Ladrone islands depth of
4,475 fathoms, or over five miles, was found.
The number of telephones now undcrrental
| by the Bell telephone company is 47S,725, an
increase of 3S,SS5 over the same time last
year
Mary Eddy, colored, of Cincinnati has sued
bookbinder to recover her family bible,
which she claims she placed with him to be
| rebound.
But one letter is duplicated in the follow
ing sentence, which contains all the letters
of the alphabet: quiz Jack; thy frowns
vex G. d. Plumb"
A Chicago man, who for i've years had
| slept with revolver under his pillow as Il
| protection against burglars, found it was not
| loaded in all that time.
South Carolina seems to have fondness
pess for the old soldiers of the rebellion.
| Over one hundred eX-confederate soldiers are
| in the legislature OF that state.
| A ieweller says that it is a rare thing for
| him to sell a gold watch chain. Everybody
buys the plated article nowadays, even those
| people who are well able to afford the solid.
Caesar Hornbeck, colored, who died at
Montgomery, N Y, last week, was known
| to be over one hundred years old. He claimed
| to be aDOnt hundred and five VolrS of
| age.
Animals are kept on the roofs of the houses
In Lima, Peru, andit frequently happens that
a COW passes her whole life on roof, being
taken there as calf and brought down finally
as fresh beef.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has just invented
two more admirable -"pseudopathy
and ''pseudotherapy," one signifying the
quack science of disease and the other the
| quack method of healing.
A sweet potato weighing twenty.sevcn
| pounds, raised at WaXahachie, Tex and u
lobster weighing twenty pounds, raised out
of deep water off Atlanticville, L. l., are tho
latest champion heavyweight edibes.
Different classes of substances have been
found to affect the organs of taste in the fol-
lowing order: Btters, acids, saline sub
stances, sweets and alkalies. The taste
nerves are nearly 1000 times as sensitive to
| quinlne as to sngar
The strength of spider silk is incredible
Size for size 1t is considerably stronger than
a bar of steel. An ordinary spiders thread
Is capable of bearing weighto of three grains,
while steel thread of the same thickness
would support less than two.
M. l.. Levi near Newtonville, Ind, had
an apple tree which bore three crops in one
season. This led to news paper comment,
paragraph fell under the eye of Mrs. Lou
Clifford Of McCordsville, his sister, whom he
had not seen nor heard Of for thirty years,
and they were reunited.
The Oran was Ori pjn ally i'm portpI In this
country years ago by the mis- sion fathers,
who brought the seeds from Spain. They
were planted about the old missions, the
fruit being used for domestic purposes, and
the crop beng simply suitable or large
enough for these purposes.
1t is said that college journalism originated
at Dartmouth in 1900, Daniel Webster being
editor of the paper. There are now 1870 col
in England. The four dailies are the Cornell
Daily Sun, Daily Crimson, Yale News and
the University OF Michigan Daily.
A negress named Caroline jenkins, living
near Houston Tex, is veritabe Samson.
Four police officers went to arrest her, when
she took them one by one, threw them out of
the house and locked the doors upon them.
She can break half-inch rope with ease by
stretching it from hand to hand.
1t is not always the coal oil or gasoline
stove that burns to death. Mrs. George
Redpath opened stove door at Marengo, H.,
with an apron which caught fire and burned
her so badly that she died in few hours In
attempting to put the fire out ner husband
burned the ends of his fingers off.
Mr.. trd Mrs. w. Strong of Ottawa.
Kan, had arranged to celebrate the fifty first
anniversary Of their marriage recently, and
relatives were present from various parts of
the state to participate In the festivities. In
| the morning Mr.. Strong died and in the
afternoon Mrs. Strong passed away.
The greatest meat eaters in the world are
the people of America, whose average con
sumption is li5 pounds per annum The
English come next with an average of a little
over 10 pounds. The French eat only half
as much meat as the English aud the people
OF Germany, Austria and Italy still less.
In the mayors court at Anthony, Fla, n
few days ago a lad for violation of an ord-
nance was fined 81. The court granted the
boys mother the privilege of paying the fine
or whipping the lad in open court. She ac-
cepted the latter and the mayor had to check
her to prevent an unmerciful whipping
Spectacles were invented just 600 years
ago. The use of glass to aid the sight of de-
tective eyes is, however, much older Nero
looked through u concave glass IN watch
ing the gladiatoria games and many
other historical men of his day were de-
pendent on similar devices for lcngthening
their sight
Following is a scientific description of
} what happens when you light fire: The
| phos phorous on n match Is raised by friction
TO a temperature Of 1899 farenhet, at which
1t ignites. 1t raises the temperature of the
sulphur if itbe sulphur match 5O0-, when
the sulphur begins to burn. The sulphur
} raiser the heat TO S0Oo, when the wood taxes
} up the work and produces temperature of
} 1900 at which tho coal ignites
Mr.. James Fairfield, who is the author of
"The Coney Island Waltz" 'Sunset Beyond
the Missouri" "Omaha Exposition Waltz"
has just finished new musical composition
entitled Governor Boyd's Inaugural March, =
shortly to be issued by Oliver Ditson com.
pany. Critics who have heard the march de-
clare it is the authors best work and written
in his happiest vein.
"Noah's Ark" the new play which is to
follow the season OF the pantomine of "Babes
IN the Wood" at Nibo's, New York, late in
February, is not at all descriptive OF the days
of the flood, but deals with life in the big
city. Noah in this case, being a pawn
broker, and the "Arkn the title by which his
loan bureau is known,
The Tooth performance of"The Last Wordn
was reached at Days last night, and the
comedy will have achieved one of the
| hac Of oil tha al honea hn