St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-06
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION.

During the past year LOST destructive
fires have been caused by illuminants
lighted with matches. while electricity
has only caused 81 CONGREGATIONS.
So light is the SPIDERS web that
pound weight of it will reach areu nd
the world and then leave enough to-
reach from New York to San Francisco.
An ingenious Belgian has patented a
simple arrangement by which two
blocks of cOrks can be securely clamped
into an ordinary horseshoe. The cork.
it is claimed, lasts as long as the shoe
itself, and renders slipping on greasy OF
frosty pavemellts impossible.
The floating island i'm Satawga Lake,
near the town of Whiting ham, Vt, is
justly regarded as one of the greatest
curiosities in the Eastern States. 1t
contains about 100 acres uf fertile land,
and is sometimes found in one quarter
of the lake and then again in another.
An Astoria, S. F., fisherman has
tame seasHer, which follows his boat as
a dog trOts behind its master. He
broug.., up a baby sea hon in net one
day during the fishing season, and the
helpless little creature bleeted SO plain
lively that he took it ashore and cared
for it.
If the eyes are tired and inhamed from
loss of sleep. by sitting up late or long
travel, apply in the morning soft white
linen, dripping with hot water-as hot
as you can bear it-laying the cloth
upon the lids. You will feel the eyes
strong and free from pain and distress
in haitian hour.
Pythagoras thought the heavenly
bodies to be separated by intervals cor
responding to the harmonic lengths of
strings, wherefore he and his followers
held that the movement of the spheres
gave rise to pleasing sound called the
harmony of the spheres. He taught
this, and also that the first sounds per-
celved by the human ear were the music
OF the spheres
A correspondent writes to an aericul-
turai journal that during the removal of
some old railroad ties OIL the line of the
Windsor q Annapolis railroad in Novia
Scotia, a large garter snake with young
was discovered. Immediately on being
attacked she opened her mouth aud the
young snakes took refuge therein. The
mother was then killed, and thirty-six
young ones taken from her stomach.
The London county council have
passed this resolution: 'tThat all con-
tractors be compelled to sign declara-
ton that they pay the trade union rate
of wages, and observe the hours of
labor and conditions recognized by the
London trades unions, and that the
hOars and wages be inserted in and form
part the contract by way of schedule,
and that penalties be enforced for any
breach OF agreement"
The French appropriations for 1898
will be 45,000,0 900 francs for the army
ard 2S0,000.000 francs for the navy.
Ninety-eight new vessels are in course
of construction, of which eight IRON
clads are 10 be finished next year.
Twenty-One new cruisers will be
launched by 1896. Sxty-two torpedo
boats are to be built, and the Bank of
France has LAT, 100000 francs IN its
its vaults; more than any other En-
rOpean nation.
Although insect life generally exists
at few inc hes below the surface, yet
many insects whose eggs are of tende
consistence deposit them deep in the
earth, out. of the reach of frost. The
nest of the humble bee is sometimes at
a considerable depth below the surface.
In places where the soil is light and
friable the nest has been found at so
great depth from the surface that a
perpendicular shaft five feet in length
has been required before it could be
reached. The nests of some ants are
situated three or four feet from the
surface, While the larva of the tiger
beetle lives in perpendicular burrows
usually about foot in depth.