The Delta independent., 1891-01-13
WINGED MISSILES.

WINGED MISSILES.
AT Greenwich the moon has been o.
served with scarcely an intermissiop for
$50 years.
The principal of the public school At An
tioch, Fla, is A. B. Hendry, n lad of four-
teen years.
Little Phir' Sheridan is now 10 years
old. He is warrior in embryo and is
said to be the perfect counterpart of his
father.
Fire has been worshiped as q divinity.
The Platonists confounded it with the
heavens and considered it us the divine
intelligence
An Illuminated vellum fan will last for
centuries. Illuminated paints are body
water colors that preceded the discovery
Of oil paints.
1t is fortunate that not much artificial
heat is needed in Mexico. All over that
country the price of coal ranges from $40
to s1S per ton.
Sir Edwin Arnold is man of unbound
cd hospitality and gives hearty welcome
to any fellow countryman in his beautiful
japanese home.
NcW iuiCulueTy Is 10 lnV2Qe llo DrlCh-
yard and save labor. A machine has been
invented that will turn out 10000 bricks in
every ten hours.
Don't be old foSy about your time The
modern 'improvemcnt' is to drop the I'M
In the abbreviation a. IN. and p m., as for
example, a., 1880 p.
Wild animals still roam through the
woods of the East. A wild cat weighing
thirty-four pounds has just been killed in
the state Of New York.
Biddeford Pool, Me-, has been invaded
by troop of snowy owls from the Arctic
wilds. Thirty were captured last week
and sold in Boston for 81 each.
1t took ten men and boys to handle q
drove of 200 turkeys that Butcher Amos
Mace drove through the town of Chalfont,
Bucks county, Pa, few days ago
Senator Squire, from the state of Wash
ingtoL, is quite a wealthy man. He has an
income Of over $1,000. He is one of the
largest real estate owners in Seattle.
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The music room in Chief Justice Fuller's
Washington home is to be decorated by
Mrs. Ada J. Bergen, who it is said, is the
first American woman employed on mural
adornment.
A few, only few clubs are prosperous.
According to the new club-bools of the
Union League of New York the income of
that club for the last fiscal year was near
ly 5000
Some man who has noticed such things
says: Few eggs are strictly symmetrical
however nearly they may seem SO, ono
side bulging out, though very slightly,
more than the other.
Potatoes soaked in sulphuric acid become
very hard Most of the buttons on cloaks
and coats are made from potatoes after
they have been subjected to this sulphuric
acid hardening process.
1t is reported in Zanzibar that the sultan
of Vitu and his followers have destroyed
an English mission station on the Tana
river. Several native christians were
killed by the sultan's people
A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete security
against suffocaton from smoke; it permits
free breathing and, at the same time, ex-
cludes the smoke from the lungs.
Great preparations are being made for
the removal of the eighty-eight collins
from the Berlin cathedral. In this vault
the rulers and princes of Prussia have
been buried for centuries past
The bark Of the birch is impermeablc to
water. From the bark in Russia kind OF
footwear, or bark shoe, is made 1t IL
estimated that 25 million pairs are annual
ly worn by the Russian peasantry.
birds now known to exist considerably
lar
measures no more than eight and one half
inches, and the least two and three -eighths
inches.
In Chill weddings are not exactly gay
affairs. According to decree of the arch
bishop of Santiago all bridemads in Chill
must dress in black White gloves and
wells are permitted them, but no colors arc
allowed.
The man thief suspects his neighbors
and so bars up against them. The magpie,
as though sclf-conscio US that its own
thieving habits may be initiated by its
neighbors, surrounds its nest with hedge
of thorns.
The savage is like the civilized: he has
his weak points. Believing himself to bo
descended from, and therefore akin to- his
totem, the savage naturally treats it with
respect. II it is an animal, he will not, as
rule, kill or eat it.
The late President Grant once spoke OF
our western Cordilleras us the "strong
box" OF the nation. He realized the fact
which many people arc slow to recognize,
that the larger part of our resources IL
west OF tho Mississippi.
w. D. Howells' now novel is called "An
Imperative Duty" 1t will make Its first
appearance as q serial In one of the Harper
periodicals. A new work from Howells is
one Of tho events in the literary world to
be considered Of interest.
There has been placed on exhibition q,
the Libby Prison museum In Augusta, Ga,
among the relics OF President Andrew
Johnson, the old book in which he kept all
OF his accounts while in tho tailoring
business at Greenville, Tenn.
To fell large mahogany tree is one days
task for two men. On account OF the wide
spurs which project from tho trunk Mt its
base, scaffolds have TO be erected and the
tree cut off ubOyo the spurs which leaves