Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-07-22
SELECT SETTINGS.

There are said to be 10000 kinds of
butterflies.
A gorilla is so rare in captivity that
one brings $4,000.
A North Carolina woman only learned
to write after she had passed the age Of
eighty-two.
No chemical black ink has yet been
made which will write black Immediately
on exposure.
Patsy Sears, of Howard County, Ind,
aged 1O0 years, has been church men,
Der hundred years.
Except in cooking their scanty meals
the poor Italians seldom have a fire even
in the severest winter weather.
A gentleman in Fort Smith, Ark, has
hanged eighty persons sentenced to
death by the United States court.
Cornell University has opened diary
school, where cheese and butter making
breeds and feeding are the subject for
study.
The agricultural society OF Paris ic ex-
perimenting in the making of artificial
! clouds to preserve plants from the effects
of frost.
Wax came into use for candles in the
twelfth century, and wax candles were
esteemed a luxury in 1900, being but
| little used.
1t would take forty years for all the
water in the great lakes to pour over Nj
agara at the rate Of one million cubic
| feet a second.
A West Philadelphia clergyman re-
Gently received an envelope containing
an old fashioned copper penny as his fee
for performing a wedding ceremony.
Some of the African tribes pull their
| fingers till the joints "crack" as form
of salutation, and one tribe has the curl
GUS fashion of showing friendship by
standing back to back.
The bones of Jumbo, Barnum's big
elephant, that was killed a few years ago
at st. Thomas, Canada, weighed even
| 24O0 pounds. The total weight of the
| body, bones and all, was six tons.
The law of evolution works in Ian
guages as we'll as in other things. Twen-
ty thousand words have been added to
the English language in the department
of biology alone since Da1win'5 discover
les.
A double bodied lamb has made its
appearance in Pilot Knob, Ind, and is
owned by Alexander Richtie. Its head
and neck are perfect; but attached to the
head are two perfect bodies, which have
two sets Of legs.
The chemical inks of the present are
of too recent invention to determine
whether they will last, but it is quite
probable that most of them will be as
legible at the end of fifty or seventy-fve
years as they are to-day.
G. BONNER, Professor of Botany at
the Paris Sorbonne, disputes the preva-
lent notion that the mistletoe is injurious
to the apple or other tree On which it
grows. He maintains not only that this
is not the case, but that it is actually
beneficial to its host.
Not until the tenth day is the Zuni
child put into the cradle. The baby's
arms are placed by its sides, and it is so
strapped in its cradle that it cannot move
hand. These cradles have hood
shaped tops, and over the whole thick
coverings are placed, and it i wonder
the child does not smother.
In England IN the reign of Edward
w, 1881, riders on post-horses went
stages of the distance of twenty miles
from each other, in order to procure the
king the earliest intelligence Of che
events that passed in the course OF the
war that had arisen with the Scots, and
Richard III. improved the system of
couriers in 1883.
A cat born in Germany with only two
legs (the hinder pair is healthy, and
goes about easily, the body in the nor
NAL condition. When startled or watch
ing anything, it raises itself to the atti-
tude of a kangaroo, using its tail as
support. 1t has twice borne kittens, in
both cases two, one of which had four
and the other only two feet.