The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-12-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

many openings in the earth, which are
called elbow holes'' and ''cold caves"
from which issues cold blast of air.
local theory is that the temperatures
of these places is reduced by the enor-
nous deposits of ammonia caused by
the presence of bats.
In 1865 United States court of
claims was organized, the court being
directed to hear and determine claims
against the United States and report
the cases and facts to congress, with the
opinion of the court thereon. In 1868
the court of claims was authorized to
render final judgments, with right of
appeal to the supreme court.
The rage for the antique which
makes it profitable for the purveyor to
this taste to visit daily score of junk
shops has extended even to warming
pans The utensils when made of cop
per fetch from two to four dollars
| apiece, and are hung up against the
wall by their purchasers along with
other bric-a-brac, though they have
practical use as corn-poppers, which the
collectors probably ignore
Tho first piano made by the late
Jonas Chickering was sold to James II.
Bingham, June 23 1928. The factory
then consisted of two rooms in fremont
street in small building which stood
where the Probate court building now
is. The piano then sold for s275 Since
that time it has been twice sold, and
was recently purchased from the last
proprietor by Mr.. George H. Chickering,
Il 70 1>a ~,
as memento.
On June Z, 171G, resolution of in.
dependence was introduced into the
Continental congress by Richard Henry
Lee, of Virginia, and referred to COM
mittee consisting of John Adams,
Thomas jefferson, Benjamin Franklin,
Roger Sherman and r. r. Livingston.
The Declaration of Independence was
drawn by Jefferson. aud on the 4th of
July was promulgated, the delegations
being generally instructed to that end
by the colonies.
Interesting photographic oddities
now and then meet the eye upon the
outskirts of New York. ''Fryed"
chicken is advertised in staring black
letters at basket picnic grounds
on the heights above Fort Lee. A
resort near Fort George announces
genuine Rhode Island clam-bakes for
parties made here to order" On a
tight closed shanty near by someone
has painted in letters that betray an
unskilled hand: ''Danger powder dina
melt"
-Dr. Susan Janeway Caltman, of Ger.
a,t< Do I. IL
ton of cats, which she values at five
thousand dollars. 1t includes twenty
two cats, among them silver-blue cat
from the Isle of Skye, a 'feather-tailed'
Turkish cat, q show-white Persian,
black Norwegian cat with light blue
eyes, white Maltese, Manx or tail.
less cat, Japanese fishing wildcat
and several other rarities. The kittens
are sold in New York and the proceeds
devoted to charitable purposes.
One of the most significant curios
in New York is a copper globe in the
Lenox library. 1t is only four and a
half inches in diameter, but it is be-.
lieved to be the earliest globe to lay
down the new discoveries by Columbus
1t dates back to the first decade of the
sixteenth century. The little it shows
OF this hemisphere is mostly wrong and
the few names would be recognized
only by experts in matters geographic
al, but the globe is rightly esteemed
one of the chief treasures of a rare col
| lection.
"A cave exceeding in size the cele-
brated Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and
situated in the Ozark mountains, near
| Galena, Mo-, has recently been ex-
plored for distanS 3 of several
miles Bones of both ent and pre-
historic animals have Been found, in
cluding the hyena and cave bear Flint
arrow-heads have been picked up on the
| floor, but no human bones or other
relics of man. A few animals of the
usual forms found in caves are still liv-
ing there, including a newt, bleached
by the absence of sunlight from many
| previous genera tions.
| February 81, 1857, congress called
upon the states to send delegates to a
convention at Philadelphia for the pur-
pose of revising the articles of confeder-
alton to render the federal constitution
| adequate to the eXigencies of the gov
ernment and the preservation of the
union. The convention met in Nav,
George Washington being president.
Among the most eminent members were
Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamil-
ton, James Madison, Edmund Rand olph,
George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John
Rutledge, G. G.. Pinkney, Rufus King,
| Roger Sherman. Rhode Island was not
present by delegates.
George William Curtis made very
happy response to the praises of friends
at dinner given at the Tavern club of
Boston some years since upon his birth
day. DR.. Holmes, Mr. Lowell and Pres
ident Norton had all said their say and
said it well, when Mr. Curtis was called
upon to respond. BY way of illustrat-
ing his own case he told the story of an
oriental prince and his mentor. Prince
and mentor walked abroad one day, the
latter carrying in his hand jar, which
he presently uncorked. From the open