The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS.


Cleveland, having acquired such n heavy
coating of smoke and SCOT as to render
1T unsightly, was recently scrubbed, but
with the effect of making it look worse
than ever. The black came off the
high lights" and the smudgc is deep.
ened in the shadows
Several people in Louisville, con-
snmptives and persons of delicate con-
situations, daily visit the slaughter
houses of that city to drink the warm
blood of recently slain cattle. They
believe that it is invigorating and cx-
hilarating. At first the blood is nause-
Gus, but Il liking for it is soon acquired
half pint is the usual drink. but there
are some persons who readily imbibe q
quart within half an hour.
The duty of employers in the ease
OF 4 sick workman was tried instruct
lively i'll Il London city court. tailor
engaged man for Il month He was
attacked with rheumatism and obliged
TO stay away three days When he came
back his place had been filled. lie sued
for wages, and the Judge found for him,
saying that when an employer engages
man he must take the risk of the lat
ter being incapacitated by sickness
-lIop-growing is one of the remuncr-
ativc industries i'll the state of Washing
ton. The yield per acre is something
astonishing. TO obtain $50 pounds on
an acre of ground is considered a fine
yield among the op-growcrs on this
side of the Rocky Mountains and in En-
gland and Germany: but an acre of
ground in Oregon or Washington will
yield 600 pounds. In 1890, 30. 900 bales
of hops, equal to O. 600, 900 pounds, were
sold in Washington.
-Timid farmers in the neighborhood
of Gcnesec. Idaho. are apprchensivc lest
their farms may sink into subtcranc-
an lake. a man was recently digging
we'll, and when he had gone down
sixteen feet water gushed out. filling
the we'll and flooding the surface of the
ground Finally it settled back to the
carth's level y local paper says that
peculiar sightless fish were brought TO
the surface in the overflow, indicating
the existence of an underground lake.
The fragments of a fine marble
statue of the best period of Greel. art
have been found in the Tiber cmbanls-
mcnt excavations The head is of cx-
traordinary beauty and we'll preserved
So far as the fragments have been put
together, the sculptor Montevcrdc and
the painter Morclli pronounce the
statue to he chief d'nuvre of Greek
art. 1t will shortly be exhibited to the
public in the new museum in the Bath
of Dioclctian, where other important
objects lately found in the cmbanllment
works are preserved.
No vegetable has undergone
greater development in the last genera
ton than the tomato. Persons who still
esteem themselves young we'll remem-
Der the time when the only tomato to
be seen were the small round or oval
ones called love apples and deemed in.
edible. They seem to have been appro.
priated for table use first in this coun.
try, for an old European traveller tells
how he astonished his fellow diners at
continental table d'hotc by eating the
tomatoes placed on the table purely as
garniturc
A clinometer is an instrument for
measuring the rolling of a vessel at sea,
and it is usually in the cabin compan-
ionway. When it indicates fifty-five
degrees any one can easily understand
that something unusual has happened.
The clinometer in the steamship Elsie
marked roll to that extent on the
latest voyage from Funchal to Balti-
more. Near bermuda she was struck
by hurricane that shifted several
times and made n heavy, confused sea. !
During the most violent rolling Il glass
dccantcr on the cabin table was turned
bottom up, emptied. and cracked from
the base up without having been rolled
off.
"A few days ago two girls, both
handy with Il rope or gun, were riding
along the highway in Rocky Canon,
when unexpectedly they met bear,
says the Wilbur Register. They did
not faint or even offer to run. On the
contrary. they drew straws to see which
would get the first hug. They had often
heard of the hugging qualities of a bear
but had never had an opportunity of
testing the truth OF the statement.
During the controversy, however the
bear took q tumble" and climbed q
friendly tree. OF course the girls could
not condcsccnd to climb tree, SO one
of them rode several miles after a rifle,
and in few minutes after her return
the bear was lying on the ground dead
TRUE INDEPENDENCE.