Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-01-09
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw.
Shakespeare was the son of a wool
stapler.
All animals which chew the cud have
cloven feet.
Saw-mills are said to have been in use
at Augsberg, Germany, about 1882.
The largest and longest wire cable in
the world is in Glasgow tunnel, Scot
land.
Seven hundred million oranges are
exported every year from Europe to
America.
The magnolia perfume is initiated
without using the flower at all, which is
too large to macerate with success.
1t is calculated that in three years two
pairs of rabbits will have increased to
5000, 900, such is their extraordinary
fecundity.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Penn, has found his son by means of
wedding notice.
A curious accident occurred to mule
in Swainsboro, Ga. The animal fell
down in the stable and broke its neck
trying to get up.
1t is said that in the northern lakes of
England the loon has been taken forty
feet under water upon hooks baited for
the large lake trout.
The frog, owing to its peculiar struc-
ture, cannot breathe with its mouth
open; and if it were forcibly kept open,
the animal would die of suffocation.
In 1920 Italy was land of beggars.
The people were so poor that in city of
10000 inhabitants traveller was unable
to purchase pair of gloves, or, in one
of IL, 0G0, cake of soap.
A perfect opal, with movable drop in
the center, was found in California re-
Gently. An African at the Kimberly
(South Africa) diamond mines found
diamond of the same character in 1888.
l.. G. Gregory, a journeyman jeweler
in Coldwater, Mich, has built an engine
with boiler half an inch high, piston
with an eight-inch stroke and balance
wheel quarter inch in diameter. It
weighs four pennyweight.
In Tepe- Kermen, an ancient town in
Crimea, platina coin has been found
bearing the image of Antiochus of Syria,
who died b. G. 164. The coin is the
only one OF the kind known. to exist
and for this reason its value is inestim-
able.
The weight of one-cen. coin copper of
1876 was reduced by proclamation of
President Washington, under authority
conferred on him by Congress, March 8,
1895. son account of the increased
price of copper and the expense of coin
age"
There are probably 100, 100000 of
people in Europe to-day who do not eat
meat. more than once week, and the
number is not inconsiderable-it must
be reckoned in millions-who have that
privilege not oftener than once or twice
year.
The apes are limited to the hottest
parts of the two continents. 1t is the
same with parrots among birds; the
crocodile and tortoise among reptiles,
and with land crabs among the crustacea
all animals the most perfect in their
respective classes.
A forest ranger for the Quebec Govern
ment, who has been on an exploring trip
to the head waters of the Ottawa River,
discovered lake which on one side had
an outlet in tributary of the st. Law
renee River, and ON the other flowed into
river running toward Hudson's Bay.
Not a few of the phrases in use at this
day originated with Lyly, and are found
in his ''Euphues, a popular book pub
lishcd in 1880. Among them might be
mentioned "caught mapping" "a crooked
stick or none," "brown study" "catch-
ing birds by putting salt on their tails" /"
etc.