The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-05-27
BITS OF INFORMATION.

There are 230 900 singers in the choirs
Of the Church of England.
South America has race of cats which
do not know how to meow.
Horseradish applied to the temples is
said to be an excellent neuralgia rem.
cdy.
The first house built in San Francisco
was erected in 1886, by Jacob Primer
Lees.
Hands can DO softened fit for society
with equal parts of rose water and gly.
cerine.
One Of the smallest coins in size in the
world is the new cuatroreal gold piece OF
Guatemala.
III the sun were hollow air ball, II
would take 1881 900 globes the size Of
the earth to fill it.
Yellow and "mastic" (whitey. .brown)
are recommended as the best colors to
Use to favor the eyes.
Here is an English physicians recipe
for healthy children. "Plenty Of milk,
plenty OF sleep, and plenty of flannel"
1t has been proved by instanteous pho.
times has its four feet of the ground at
once.
The entire population of the world
could he provided for in the United States,
allowing each person one aud half acres
of land.
The shoe factories OF America use one
million kangaroo skins yearly. Austral.
ians have begun to raise and herd kan.
garoos rs they would sheep.
An effort is being made to build up
big India rubber industry in Mexico, and
n company has been organized to plant
100, 900 rubber trees in the State OF Sin
aloa.
In Belgium no person is allowed to
vote unless he is a taxpayer to the
amount Of forty francs year. This law
makes the voters only twenty-five out Of
every thousand Of population.
Potatoes were first brought into Ger.
many in 17l0, into Russia in 1863, and
into Scotland about the time of the Amer.
lean Revolution. The man that planted
the first field in Scotland died in 1850.
1t is stated that Paris firm o; glass
blowers has produced some porous glass
to be used for window panes. The pores
are too fine to permit of draught, but
cause a pleasant and healthy ventilation
n n room.
A bank note is issued by national
bank, and is not n legal tender. A treas
ury note is issued directly by the treas
ury, and is a legal tender. The green
backs of war days and the silver bullion
currency Of 1890 are treasury notes
Granite is the lowest rock in the earth's
1t shows no evidence of animal or vege.
table life. 1t is from two to ten times as
thick as the united thickness OF all the
other rocks. 1t is the parent rock from
which all other rocks have been directly
or indirectly derived.
The officers and sailors OF the navy get
seven million five hundred thousand dol.
army ten million dollars. Uncle Sam
spends hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars for horses for his cavalry and artil-
lery, and pays his retired army officers
million and a half of good round dollars.
Many watches make five beats per sec.
ond, 300 each minute, $4,000 every hour,
or 432 900 per day. Thus 1t will be seen
that half dozen turns Of the key oncc
day, taking up but few seconds OF
time. stores up n modicum Of power in
the spring which is cut up into nearly
1 100000 OF beats. II we multiply the
daily beats by S65t, the number Of days
in n year. we find that the watch ticks
157, 7SS,0 900 while the earth is making ono
annual trip around the sun.
Professor McCook. of Hartford, finds
in his investigation of the tramp nuisance
that of 1895 cases coming under his no.
tice fifty-six per cent were American
born. while but about ten per cent were
unable to read or write. OF 1914 tramps,
Ass, says the professor, claimed to be strict.
ly temperate in their use of alcoholic
drinks. while thirty Of them boldly de-
clared themselves as total abstainers. II
is more likely that the only really tenn.
perate ones Of the 1900 and odd were tho
thirty who never touched drop"