St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-10
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION.

/ language was History OF IrOy,"
which appeared in the latter part of the
year 1474.
/ The ancients believed Delphi to be
situated in the exact center of the land
surface of the world. AnthOn's Clas-
steal Dictionary, in article "DeIphi,'
/ says: 1.-The ancients claimed that the
| Temple of Delphi stood OH the naval of
the universe"
+ "In "Ekklesiazousai." v. 1869. Aris-
tophanes gives polysylIabic word
which contains seventy-seyen Syllables
and 1863 letters! Brewer. In his Dc
tionary of Phrase and Fable, omit
twenty-nlne letters from the word.
The measles bacillus has been discov-
cred at last, and it is said to be an odd
ity even in the bacill line. He averages
one two-thousandth of an inch IN length
and is studded all over with little
Spikelets which stand out as thickly
upon his body as do the hairs on cater
pillar.
The largest town clock in the world
is OH the tower of the Glasgow Univer-
sitv at Glasgow. Scotland. The hammer
weighs 120 pounds. the pendulum 800
pounds, and the whole clock about ton
and half.
The greatest degree of natural cold
Fahrenheit; mixture of carbon. bisul-
phide and nitrous acid will run the
same thermometers down to what would
be equal to 220 degrees below zero.
During the reign of Henry V III. of
England II 400 persons were executed.
The like has never been known in the
history of the world before or since. and
yet Englishmen atfectiOnately refer to
that monster as "Bluff" and "Jovial
King Hal"
Miles Darden. who was living in the
state of Tennessee III 1857, was the larg-
est man known to history. Clad in thin
summer clothes he weighed 1.037 Zone
thousand and thirty-seven) pounds.
The oldest of the Dutch journals has
passed its two hundred and twenty-siXth
issued To his subscribers copies of the
first number of that journal as it ap-
peared on Jan. 8, 1856. 1t is said that
the earlier copies of this paper were
carefully consulted by Macaulay i'll pre-
pairing his celebrated history.
Few of the fruit-eating public are
aware of the source of supply Of what
are called Malaga, or white grapes.
From little village in Spain called
Almeria, situated directly on the Med
iterranean sea, about $50 miles east of
Gibraltar, are shipped annually, from
Aug. 25 to Nov. l, between 100000 and
100000 barrels of grapes.
Norfolk has crop which is worth
millions of dollars annually-peanuts.
The street-cornei Italian who empties a
pint in your Overcoat pockets, and the
Partisan fruit merchant who weighs
you out quarter of a kilogram of the
homely nuts. get them from here, for
this is the only peanut market in the
world. Smyrna has its figs, Barbary its
dates, Bordeaux its grapes and Norfolk
It's peanuts.
. Caviare, which is made from the eggs
OF the sturgeon, is an important article
of expectation for many cities of Russia |
and Astrakhan, and principally Tagan-
rok, The annual amount is estimated
at 10000 pOuds Zone poud is thirty-five
pounds). The greater part goes to Tur-
key. Greece. Italy and Germany, very |
little to England, and still less to |
the mouth of the Volga.
A woman residing near Thorn Creek, /
WASH, sowed the seed from one head |
of barley four years ago. She harvested |
the crop with a pair of shears and |
sowed the amount received the next |
year, again harvesting it with her |
shears. The third crop her father cut |
with a grass scythe, getting enough bar |
ley from this crop to SOW forty acres |
last spring, which averaged forty BUSH |
els to the acre when threShed, making |
a total yield of 1,600 bushels from one |
head of barley in four years.
Not long ago, while gentleman was
out hunting he found four young foxes. |
Three he took home with him alive and |
gave them to cat that had recently had |
n af Iii I'm, aat
them very kindly. She also adopted
mouse which she will not allow to get |
out of her sight. 1t is remarkable |
sight to witness the cat lying in her bed |
with one kitten, three Young foxes and |
a mouse. as happy as though she was |
the real mother of them all. L
An interesting discovery has been /
made in deep railway cutting at An |
dresy, near Paris, France, where the |
wOrkmen ran upon huge Merovingian |
cemetery of the sixteenth century. AS |
many as 600 tombs have already been |
uncovered, yielding hitherto unheard |
of mass of carved sarcOphagi, knives, |
spears, vases, ornaments and pottery or |
unique shapes and styles of decoration. |
It's recalled now that the tiny hamlet |
of Andresy, in the generation succeed
ing the introduction of Christianity, was |
an important missionary center.
An English journal has been compil
ing some stories, almost incredable, |
that illustrates the tremendous power |
exerted by waves. 1t says that on the |
shores of the Shetland islands it is not |
at all unusual for gneisS powders |
weighing upward of three tons to be |
moved 800 feet in a single night. At |
Bishops Rock, England, an iron col
umn twenty-eight feet long and weigh
ing 6,OOO pounds-part of lighthouse
being erected OH the rock, and which
had been chained by means of eyebolts
to two heavy powders - was moved
twenty feet in one night and deposited
upon a projecting rock eleven feet and
ten inches higher than its original pO-