The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-05-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

The silkworm's thread is is, 900 OF
an inch thick, that of the common
garden spider about 1-30, 900 of an inch.
Pictures on ancient Egyptian
tombs prove that the common bellows
was known in the time of Tothmes
I'LL, 149O B. c.
"A size in a coat is an inch; in un.
derwear the same; in socks, an inch; in
collar, half-inch; in trousers, one
inch and in a hat one-eighth of an
inch.
There is a whirlpool in the Santa
Fe river three miles northwest of High
Springs, Fla, into which 1000 feet OF
line has been lowered without finding
bottom.
"A French officer has devised rifle
that will throw stream of vitriol for
distance of over two Thousand feet,
to be used against savages when they
attempt rushes.
The total amount reported appro.
pr1ated by foreign nations and colonies
for their representation at the exposi.
tlon, SO far as heard from, is SIS, 951,
o53. Quite a number of those which
have decided to participate have not
made appropriations
The Fans are the only people in
equatorial Africa who have a currency,
and they are strong monometallists.
The money is of iron. wrought into
pieces resembling rusty hairpins with
fiat heads. They are put up in bundles
OF ten, and one hundred bundles is the
market price OF wife.
"A French physician is authority
for the statement that the regular
tramp of marching soldiers is much
more harmful to brain and body than
the less regular walk of the ordinary
pedestrian. According to the scientist
walking ten miles in line is as exhaust.
i've as walking twenty at go-as-you.
please gait.
Formerly sites for furnaces were
often selected with view to material
being brought to the tops of the fur
naces without any expenditure OF
power; nowadays the sites are chosen
so as to admit of ready removal of the
iron and Stag in large quantities with.
in a limited time, plenty of room and
good drainage
In Norfolk county. Va, few days
ago Cornelius Wood fred at another
negro named Henry Adams at close
range with pistol The ball struck a
bottle of whisky in his pocket, passed
through it an1 struck quarter of a
dollar and glanced off. Wood, seeing
the whisky running down the mans
leg, thought he had killed him and
made his escape.
The Russian government has adopt.
ed very liberal policy towards the
exposition. Information has been re.
ceived at headquarters that the minis.
ter of finance, with the approval of the
emperor, has decided to pay all freight
charges OIL Russian exhibits for the
fair, to insure the exhibits and to dec.
crate the Russian section. The impe.
rial porcelain factory is making ware
of special designs to be shown at the
fair.
In Geneva county, Ala, Jury by
its verdict settled the value of kisses.
A young fellow named William Hor.
ton was indicted for assault and bat
terry on Miss Sallie Jones. The testi.
mony of the young woman was that
Horton had kissed her against her will.
Horton testified that the kiss wa, with
Miss Sallie's free will and consent and
that he had kissed her one hundred and
fifty times before. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty and assessed fine
of one hundred and fifty dollars.
There is an interesting collection
of cats in the cellars of cold storage
warehouse on Front street, Philadel.
phia. The temperature of these cellars
varies from 12 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
and the rats and mice were so destruct.
i've that three years ago 12 cats were
caught and placed in them. At frs,
they had to be closely confined, bu,
they soon adapted themselves to their
new conditions of cold and darkness.
and now seldom venture into the liobt
and warmer air. When brought up
they at once attempt to return to their
cold quarters. Five of the original 10
remain. Their hair has grown verv
thick and remains without change
through the year Two litters of kit.
tens have been born in successive wears.
all having very thick hair. The room
where they were found was at a tenn.
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